Single-player games like Farm for your Life
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Farm for your Life, 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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My Time at Portia
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farm for your Life.
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
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Farmer's Life
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farm for your Life.
🌾Unleash the Farmer within. 🚜 Dive into the rustic charm of rural living in "Farmer's Life," where you'll experience the joy and challenges of life on a vibrant farmstead. Plant, grow, and embrace a country living in a vast open world. You choose from diverse mechanics and endless possibilities.
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Ooblets
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farm for your Life.
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farm for your Life.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Farm Together
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Farm for your Life.
Grow your own farm all by yourself, or cooperate with your friends in this unique, relaxing farming experience!
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Farm Manager 2021
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farm for your Life.
Farm Manager 2021 is an indie game that lets you relax and immerse yourself in farm management. A casual but grounded builder game that combines management and farm maintenance in one package. Grow and expand your farm into a thriving estate or enjoy it as a delightful escape from everyday life.
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STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Farm for your Life.
Welcome to Olive Town, a peaceful community established by your trailblazing grandfather and his friends. Now that you've taken over his farm, it's your job to carry on his legacy. Plant crops, raise animals, build relationships, and get to know the residents of your new home!
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MR FARMBOY
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farm for your Life.
MR FARMBOY is a colony farming game with automation. Build your dream farm, grow crops, raise animals, attract villagers, and hire workers to automate everything.
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Farm for your Life.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farm for your Life.
Hungry? Take your restaurant from a one star abomination to a five star wonder in Cook, Serve, Delicious! Plan your menu, upgrade your equipment, and master challenges with easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay!
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Tavern Keeper 🍻
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farm for your Life.
From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!
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Carpe Lucem - Seize The Light VR
Single-player alternative to Farm for your Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Farm for your Life.
Carpe Lucem challenges and entertains players by transferring classical 2D puzzles into the virtual space. It creates a whole new way of interacting and playing mind teasing puzzle games and it made nobody sick in hundreds of demos at trade shows. VR equipment such as HTC Vive or Oculus required.