Single-player games like DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine, 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 Things
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
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INCREMINER
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
Build an ever-growing colony of autonomous dwarves in an immense procedural world. Mine deeper, manage resources, unlock explosive weapons and industrial vehicles, and turn a tiny settlement into a screen-filling mining empire.
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T-Minus 30
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
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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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
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Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Single-player alternative to DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine.
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.