Single-player games like RimWorld
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to RimWorld, 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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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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Blacksmith Master
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
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Norland
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RimWorld.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
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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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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7 Days to Die
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RimWorld.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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Fallout 4
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to RimWorld — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.