Single-player games like KeeperRL
Below are 13 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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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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Dungeons 3
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
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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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Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with KeeperRL.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
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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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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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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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Heroes Of Might And Magic III
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with KeeperRL.
This is the original version of the game from 1999. The pack includes the original Heroes of Might and Magic III and its two expansions: Armageddon's Blade and The Shadow of Death.
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Towns
Single-player alternative to KeeperRL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with KeeperRL.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?