Single-player games like Gnomes
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Gnomes, 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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
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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From Glory To Goo
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
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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Rise to Ruins
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
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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Worms
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.
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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
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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Module TD. Sci-Fi Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gnomes.
This is Sci-fi Tower Defense created by gamers for gamers.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gnomes.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Gnomes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gnomes.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.