Single-player games like The Fool's Apprentice
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Fool's Apprentice, 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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Fata Deum - The God Sim
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.
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Lethis - Path of Progress
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
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MachiaVillain
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
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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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Apollyon: River of Life
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Fool's Apprentice.
Choice-based RPG in a dark fantasy world. Apollyon is narrative-driven, and features occult magic, spirit summoning, a deep universe, playable characters, and story progression alone or in multiplayer!
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Skulltide
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Fool's Apprentice.
Skeletal mischief reigns as the Skulltide begins! Join the undead in co-op adventures as the skeleton of your dreams, or lead them yourself, and hunt down the necromancers who reanimated you. Build, throw, and enchant your bones... but try not to misplace them along the way!
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Blight Doctors
Single-player alternative to The Fool's Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Fool's Apprentice.
DISCOVER, DIAGNOSE, EXORCISE. You are a plague doctor paranormal investigator living in a rotten, gothic city at the end of an apocalypse. Banish ghosts, cure plagues, treat with monsters... all in co-op and proximity chat!