Single-player games like Idol Hands
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Idol Hands, 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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Reus
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
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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Deisim
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
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Nova Roma
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
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These Doomed Isles
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
Harvest cards to raise land from the sea, build settlements and rain fire upon invaders in this survival city-builder with roguelike deckbuilding mechanics. Choose from 4 gods with unique cards, playstyles and abilities to lead their civilisations to victory in strategic run-based gameplay!
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Doodle Empires
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
Doodle Empires is an alternate history sandbox game all about drawing your own nations with your own histories and stories in a variety of maps. Watch your world take shape and evolve over time, and decide which nations will rise and which nations will fall.
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From Dust
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Idol Hands.
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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PolyPine
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Idol Hands.
A forest simulator where you grow trees and create habitats for animals, plants and insects. Click on animals to make them poop, hunt, dig, cut and twerk! Start with a few basic seeds and attempt to grow a thriving ecosystem.
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Terra Firma 2
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
Shape breathtaking worlds in Terra Firma 2, a vast simulation where your creations evolve through the forces of nature. Sculpt the land, then watch as weather, erosion, and life itself transform your world into a dynamic, living ecosystem- right down to every plant and creature.
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Godus Wars
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Idol Hands.
Godus Wars mixes tactical Real Time Strategy gameplay with the mechanics of the God-Game genre.It’s fun, it’s simple and it’s brutal.
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Populous™
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Idol Hands.
Move mountains, part the seas, and lead mortal armies to victory in Populous. Take on the powers of a mighty deity and battle for supremacy against an enemy god, using thoughtful strategy to shape the isometric world and the fate of its people.
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Populous™: The Beginning
Single-player alternative to Idol Hands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Idol Hands.
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.