Single-player games like Plebs and Pillagers
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Plebs and Pillagers, 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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LakeSide
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plebs and Pillagers.
A cozy minimalist city builder. Build and manage a quiet town by the lake or expand it into a picturesque city state in this side-scrolling city builder featuring hybrid mechanics. Construct marvelous buildings, epic wonders and become the envy of the known world!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plebs and Pillagers.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Grim Realms
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plebs and Pillagers.
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Plebs and Pillagers.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
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Flotsam
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plebs and Pillagers.
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plebs and Pillagers.
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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Plebs and Pillagers.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Plebs and Pillagers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Plebs and Pillagers.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?