Single-player games like Isles & Tiles
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Isles & Tiles, 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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dotAGE
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isles & Tiles.
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
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Dawnmaker
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Isles & Tiles.
Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game, made by 2 strategy fans. It feels like playing a solo board game. Build luminous cities, optimize your deck and create powerful combinations between buildings and cards to bring life back to a dead world. Play the demo now!
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Cardboard Town
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isles & Tiles.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isles & Tiles.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Whiskerwood
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Isles & Tiles.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
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Blacksmith Master
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Isles & Tiles.
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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Pioneers of Pagonia
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Isles & Tiles.
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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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Isles & Tiles.
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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Governor of the West
Single-player alternative to Isles & Tiles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Isles & Tiles.
Governor of the West is a turn-based game of exploration, resource management, and outlaw placement set in the Old West. Choose a starting character, explore the West, recruit your gang, build up your town, and maybe -- if you play your cards right -- become the Governor!