Single-player games like Hearthlands
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Hearthlands, 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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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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Going Medieval
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
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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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Gnomoria
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
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Space Haven
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Majesty 2
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
In the world of Majesty, you are the ruler of the kingdom Ardania. At your service are your loyal and somewhat obnoxious subordinates, who have their own minds about how things should be done. In fact, Majesty is the only game where your heroes decide on their own what should be done and when, leaving you to try to control them through...
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthlands.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon World™
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!
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Cultures - Northland
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hearthlands.
The Vikings are back! Get this RTS classic!
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Caesar™ 3
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hearthlands.
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Hearthlands.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Elsewhere
Single-player alternative to Hearthlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hearthlands.
A sandbox crafting adventure with quests, magic, automation, and exploration. Gather resources, build your base, unlock new technologies, and shape your own path through a world full of secrets and progression. Inspired by classic Minecraft modpacks with many new and unique features.