Single-player games like Stonehearth
Below are 16 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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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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation 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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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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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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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stonehearth.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation 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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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation 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 Indie and Simulation 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.
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Valhalla Hills
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Lead your people. Survive the wilderness. Fight for honor. Reclaim your eternal reward. A brand new strategy game from the developers of Cultures and The Settlers II.
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Maia
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
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Planetbase
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stonehearth.
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
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Noble Fates
Single-player alternative to Stonehearth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Stonehearth.
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.