Single-player games like Slimeward
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Slimeward, 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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Desktop Tribe
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
Build a cozy town right on your desktop! "Desktop Tribe" is a cozy desktop idle game. Place buildings along your screen's edge and watch tiny villagers bustle about. No tedious controls! Farm, gather, and craft during your work breaks. Pioneer the land, plan freely, and watch your town prosper!
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Crusaders Quest : Hero Town
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
Welcome to 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》! A little town inside your PC! Gather heroes and rebuild the town in 《Crusader Quest: Hero Town》, a desktop idle RPG that can be enjoyed even during work hours.
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Fab.exe
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
Turn an aging cleanroom into a thriving semiconductor fab. Follow every FOUP, break bottlenecks, protect yield and delivery, outthink rival factories, and grow from N28 to A10 across 32 handcrafted story missions.
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Fill Up The Hole
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
Turn trash into cash in a dystopian world! Fill Up The Hole is a short incremental game where you build a city, automate garbage production, and toss it into a magical hole for profit.
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Ember Folks
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
Expand your city, summon an army of workers, mine resources and heat a dying star to millions of degrees in this incremental adventure. Discover new upgrades and synergies, prestige to unlock new mechanics and watch numbers go up - a lot.
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CastleOn Scriptum
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Slimeward.
Build a castle and defend it from your enemies! Construct towers, place traps, train and command units in this historical, manuscript-themed mix of Tower Defense and classical Real Time Strategy.
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Minion Colony
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
A fantasy city builder where you build up your army of minions to take on monsters, bandits and even entire armies! Recruit a wide range of minions to help you gather resources, craft weapons and armor, and develop your colony into the stronghold it was always meant to be.
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CivDle
Single-player alternative to Slimeward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Slimeward.
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.