Single-player games like Clockwork Empires
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Clockwork Empires, 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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Lethis - Path of Progress
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Gnomoria
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
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Folk Tale
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Folk Tale is a single-player fantasy village builder RPG game. Grow your village from nothing, recruit heroes, explore dungeons, battle bosses, and take home a big bag of sweet loot.
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Stonehearth
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Clockwork Empires.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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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Tropico 5
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Clockwork Empires.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Clockwork Empires.
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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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Clockwork Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Clockwork Empires.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.