Single-player games like Evil Genius
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Evil Genius, 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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Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
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Dungeons 3
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
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MachiaVillain
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
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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Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
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War for the Overworld
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
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Startopia
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
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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KeeperRL
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
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Dwelvers
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
Dwelvers is a unique real-time strategy Dungeon Keeper-like with resource management, logistics, battles, magic spells, trading, crimes against humanity, labyrinths, and so much more. Are you able to eradicate the pesky humans once and for all? Of course you are. The Dark Mother wills it.
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Castle Doombad Classic
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
BE THE VILLAIN and slay any hero who dares enter your dark domain! Deck out your castle with traps and minions as the ultimate diabolical dungeon keeper in this strategy / TD puzzler. Includes the original Castle Doombad game, rebuilt and remastered, plus brand new content.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
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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Majesty 2
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
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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A Game of Dwarves
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
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Dungeons 2
Single-player alternative to Evil Genius — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Evil Genius.
The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.