Single-player games like Monarchy
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Monarchy, 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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Castles on Clouds
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A Roguelike Tower Defense game set on a user controlled procedurally generated island. Select unique cards and relics that enhance your towers abilities, crafting powerful builds to defend against the growing hordes of enemies.
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No Heroes Here 2
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A group of non-adventurers is the last hope in defending the castle in this chaotic co-op tower defense game with roguelike features. With up to 4 players, your party must organize the castle, work as a team to craft ammo, and shoot at enemies to protect your kingdom!
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Dome Keeper
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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Goblins of Elderstone
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
This Goblin Tribe Simulator brings a challenging blend of chaos and creativity to the city-building genre. Build dwellings, manage your resources, defend your goblins, and grow your tribe, and please the Gods! Do you have what it takes to control the chaos and rule the unruly?
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Settlements Rising
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
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PlateUp!
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!
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Kingdom Eighties
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
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Song of Slavs
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
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KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.
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Dark Quest 2
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Dark Quest 2 is a turn based RPG where you control a party of heroes on your epic quest to defeat the evil sorcerer and his minions.
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Dark Quest 3
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A rogue-lite tabletop that mixes card based exploration with turn based combat. Create your party, draw adventure cards, roll dice and fight monsters to defeat the sorcerer and his magic.
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Dark Quest
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Dark Quest is a turn-based dungeon crawler where you command a party of heroes on an epic quest to defeat the dark sorcerer and his minions, and save the land from his dark magic.
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Story of a Gladiator
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Story of a Gladiator is an arena beat 'em up where you take the role of a man in search of his destiny. Fight against waves of enemies in the arena to earn coin and fame until you are strong enough to enter the colosseum and become champion.
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Dark Quest 4
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A turn based dungeon crawler where you create a party of heroes to go on epic quests.
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Blow it up
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Blow it up is a physics destruction game. Unlock new bombs, explore the world and go on an epic journey of destruction.
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Geometry Survivor
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Geometry Survivor is rogue-lite survival where you fight waves of enemies. Unlock innovative upgrades in the shop, acquire new ships and conquer the unforgiving grid world.
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Dominus Gladiatus
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build your Ludus. Train gladiators. Fight for glory. Dominus Gladiatus is a brutal gladiator management simulator where you recruit, train and equip gladiators before sending them into the arenas of ancient Rome.