Single-player games like Machinefall
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Machinefall, 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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Little Kingdom RTS
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
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After Long Night
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
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Final Outpost: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Here Comes The Swarm
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
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From Glory To Goo
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
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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Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.
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Ground of Aces
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
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Ski Park Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Designed as a classic tycoon game, Ski Park Tycoon is a ski resort simulation PC game that will put your strategic thinking skills and creativity to the test.
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Facteroids
Single-player alternative to Machinefall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Machinefall.
Facteroids is a 3D factory building game about asteroid mining in space. Prospect, mine and manage your production lines in a variety of scenarios and procedurally generated worlds across the entire Solar system.