Single-player games like Stonehearth
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Stonehearth, 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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Castle Story
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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StarMade
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
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PixARK
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stonehearth.
Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Gnomoria
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Timber and Stone
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
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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Hammerting
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.
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KeeperRL
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stonehearth.
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.