Single-player games like Gnomoria
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Gnomoria, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Stonehearth
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Rise to Ruins
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Towns
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
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Evil Genius
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomoria.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
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My Colony
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.
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Timber and Stone
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Timber and Stone is a procedural city building game set in a medieval fantasy world. With over one-hundred resources to gather and craft, Timber and Stone has the feel of a real time strategy game, but with much more depth and complexity.
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The Spatials
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gnomoria.
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
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DwarfCorp
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Build a colony of ruthless capitalist Dwarves in a strange fantasy land.
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Cast Out Colony
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Cast Out Colony combines roguelite and bullet-heaven action with robust town-building elements. Choose from various characters, fight hordes of foes, and grow your colony, which in return grows your stats, offering a unique twist on the survival genre.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Gnomoria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomoria.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.