Single-player games like KeeperRL
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to KeeperRL, 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 KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
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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War for the Overworld
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
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Dwelvers
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
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Underworld Overseer
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Build your dungeon, command demons, set traps, and slay invading adventurers with powerful spells.
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Ruinarch
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!
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Lord of Dwarves
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.
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MachiaVillain
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
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Necrosmith
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
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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Soulash
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Eat the villagers, murder bunnies, milk cows, or exterminate gods! Soulash is a traditional, turn-based roguelike where your goal is to consume the souls of the living, conquer the vast fantasy world and decide its fate.
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Rogue's Tale
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Rogue's Tale is a single player turn-based dungeon crawling game.
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Necesse
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with KeeperRL.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
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Evil Genius
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
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Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
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Heroes of Might & Magic V
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.