Single-player games like The King is Watching
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The King is Watching, 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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Dwarven Rampart
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
Raise massive armies and fight thousands of enemies. Dwarven Rampart is a fantasy roguelite strategy game where you build dwarven cities and fight massive fights. How long can you survive?
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Seven Nights of the Black Tide
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
Seven Nights of the Black Tide is a dark fantasy strategy game about survival and defense. Gather resources, assign survivors, repair walls, build defenses, and prepare by day. When night falls, hold back the Black Tide and protect your last stronghold through seven deadly nights.
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The Crab is Walking
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
From the makers of The King Is Watching comes a roguelite city builder where your capital sits atop giant creatures. Piece together your city, rain fury with your armies and crab your way across post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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Dawnkeep
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The King is Watching.
Raise a fallen keep by day, and hold it through the dark. Villagers with names and tempers fell timber and work the fields — then take up spears when night comes. A dark fantasy settlement-builder defense game.
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Towered
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
Defend the Nexus, run after run. Build under population limits, balance gold and mana, draft augments as you level, and spend gems on a permanent power-up tree in this pixel-art tower defense roguelite.
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Valdrax Beyond the Rift
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
Build a kingdom from nothing, forge your armies, and breach the rifts between worlds. Face endless enemies, recruit legendary creatures, and prepare for the ultimate battle against the Demon Lord. Every map is different. Every death is permanent.
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坍塌世界
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
"Collapsing World" is an innovative tower defense game blending deck-building and roguelike mechanics. Recruit unique companions, craft powerful skill decks, and tackle randomized stages. Deep strategy breaks the traditional TD mold—every run is a fresh challenge!
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Throneguard: Last Stand
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
Become the last guardian of the kingdom and defend the throne! Fight on the front lines with your sword, build barricades and towers between waves, and upgrade your hero. Throneguard: Last Stand is a 3D medieval action tower defense game.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The King is Watching.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The King is Watching.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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22 Racing Series | RTS-Racing
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The King is Watching.
22RS is the fastest physics-based racing game on Steam, while also pushing the boundaries of traditional racing design with it's competitive RTS mechanics. If you like racing really fast, challenging yourself and exploring new game designs - Then this could be the game for you.
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Module TD. Sci-Fi Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
This is Sci-fi Tower Defense created by gamers for gamers.
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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The King is Watching.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The King is Watching.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The King is Watching.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Save the Reactor
Single-player alternative to The King is Watching — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The King is Watching.
What if you happened to be in a control room of a nuclear reactor and something went wrong? Save the Reactor gives you the opportunity to fully experience these emotions! This simulator is great for those who like to challenge themselves and aren't afraid of difficulties!