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Single-player games like Village & Monsters

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Village & Monsters, 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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    Hexity — Steam game cover

    Hexity

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Build your city! Start with tents. Expand and improve life in your city. Explore new technologies and discover new buildings.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Floodland — Steam game cover

    Floodland

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Village & Monsters.

    A society survival game set in a world destroyed by climate change. Explore, scavenge and build a city to unite the clans. Conflicting cultures and limited resources mean you need to make tough choices; have you got what it takes to lead your people into a new era of humanity?

    2022StrategySimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Catizens — Steam game cover

    Catizens

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation17.77 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Autonauts vs Piratebots — Steam game cover

    Autonauts vs Piratebots

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Create, automate and defend an impenetrable base. Assemble and command a Bot army to combat an entire Piratebot invasion. Build, program and battle your way through five different zones.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Haven — Steam game cover

    The Last Haven

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oxygen — Steam game cover

    Oxygen

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    After the Collapse — Steam game cover

    After the Collapse

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Glory to the Robots! — Steam game cover

    Glory to the Robots!

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    A game in the genre of management strategy. Here you can build your own factory for the production of robots, and on another planet, and extract resources and test robots on other different planets.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    THE ABYSS — Steam game cover

    THE ABYSS

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    THE ABYSS is a 2D puzzle about descent, in order to pass the levels you need to score a certain number of points and choose the right ways to pass the level.

    2023AdventureCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hearth & Shadow — Steam game cover

    Hearth & Shadow

    Single-player alternative to Village & Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Village & Monsters.

    Hearth & Shadow - is a card-based strategy game where you develop your settlement and defend it from monster invasions. Try different combinations, unlock new buildings and outposts, or upgrade them, and monitor your settlement's and defenses to defeat the monsters and save your human settlement!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation1.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →