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Single-player games like Node Farm

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Node Farm, 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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    Farm & Feast — Steam game cover

    Farm & Feast

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Node Farm.

    Grow fresh ingredients and run your own little restaurant. Enjoy a peaceful day that stretches from field to table. Plan a fresh menu for a delightful day, keep your pantry stocked, and make your customers happy. Earn your own money and build your little world step by step.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VoltHaven — Steam game cover

    VoltHaven

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Build electric grid in small settlement. Advance from outdated generators to modern powerplants, use fossils and renewables. Accomodate growing customer base and weather changes. Farms or mines provide extra income. Map-free layout with drag-and-drop simplicity. Simulation based on european data.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MR FARMBOY — Steam game cover

    MR FARMBOY

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    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.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Assembly Planter — Steam game cover

    Assembly Planter

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    A farming / automation game, that allows you to progress from a poor hard-working farmer with just a few old tools to a lazy rich guy that watches his machines do the work for him while he tries to optimize production.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Farm for your Life — Steam game cover

    Farm for your Life

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Your community was taken down by a heavy storm which caused an apocalypse and unleashed the living dead. Together with the other survivors, it is your task to rebuild and to allow that sustainable life can still be assured. Cultivate your farm and manage your restaurant to provide food and deal with all the zombies.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Havendock — Steam game cover

    Havendock

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rusty's Retirement — Steam game cover

    Rusty's Retirement

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    A relaxing idle-farming simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen while you do other things.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mini Settlers — Steam game cover

    Mini Settlers

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Satisfactory — Steam game cover

    Satisfactory

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    shapez — Steam game cover

    shapez

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Big Pharma — Steam game cover

    Big Pharma

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sliding Swords — Steam game cover

    Sliding Swords

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Node Farm.

    A roguelite, dungeon crawler, where you move all objects at the same time, and the same types that touch - merge into one! Defeat enemies, level up, solve quests, unlock new things, upgrade your character, and cast powerful spells!

    2023IndieRPGCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Node Math — Steam game cover

    Node Math

    Single-player alternative to Node Farm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Node Farm.

    Node Math is a simple, idle-factory game about combining numbers with math operators, unlocking new stuff, and making money go brrr!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →