Single-player games like Crest - an indirect god sim
Below are 16 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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RECOG The First Wave
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
RECOG The Game is truly challenging and strategically entertaining. Build and defend your industry from an enemy who knows you more than you know yourself. Plan each step wisely, for all decisions you make directly impact what’s to come. Be prepared, for you are now entering THE RECOG!
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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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Rogue AI Simulator
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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, 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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The Sapling
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
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Global Farmer
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Farm the world in an immersive top-down management game that lets you choose your farm's location anywhere on the real-world map! Want to experience a rich strawberry harvest in the French countryside? Or challenge the hot sun in South America? The choice is yours!
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Beetle Uprising
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
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Reus 2
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Shape worlds with your godly titans. Make symbiotic ecosystems and inspire humanity with your creations. Their achievements unlock new possibilities. Make different planets for different human spirits, and fill the universe with life!
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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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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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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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Black & White
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crest - an indirect god sim.
"Black & White" is a dystopian visual novel + war chess game: black and white, sensibility and reason, freedom and order: follow your beliefs and join your camp.
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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.
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Among Ripples: Shallow Waters
Single-player alternative to Crest - an indirect god sim — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crest - an indirect god sim.
Among Ripples: Shallow Waters is an eco tycoon sim. Work with your team of scientists to build, repair and maintain the delicate ecosystem of your lakes. Experiment with flora and fauna - everything from vicious pikes to peaceful puddle ducks.