Single-player games like Crest - an indirect god sim
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Crest - an indirect god sim, 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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Ruinarch
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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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The Universim
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
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From Dust
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!
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Rise to Ruins
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
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Reus
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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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Deisim
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
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Majesty 2
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
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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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Populous™: The Beginning
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Crest - an indirect god sim.
In the third part of the Populous series, you control your shaman and the tribe of her followers in a difficult quest to conquer all 25 planets of a star system and ascend to godhood.
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Among Ripples
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Control a pond's ecosystem; experiment with what you can do and see what happens. Among Ripples is a meditative ecosystem management simulator; you add different creatures to the pond and see how they interact.