Single-player games like Dwarf Things
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dwarf Things, 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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Settletopia
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
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Gateworlds
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
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Arc of Icarus
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
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Icetwine
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Icetwine is an ice-age city builder where you combine raw materials to craft tools, weapons, machines, and structures. Build cozy huts, thriving farms, and tame dodos and mammoths. Defend your village from enemies and strike back to help your people survive and thrive.
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Union Of Rivals
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Build the railroad from East to West across an untamed frontier. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements blocking your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. The rails are coming. Build, trade, or break them.
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Gnomoria
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dwarf Things.
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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Machine Mind
Single-player alternative to Dwarf Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dwarf Things.
Machine Mind is an action game in a post-apocalyptic setting with elements of survival and RTS. You will fight, craft modules, build your transport, develop and protect your base. You can control other vehicles to automate operations. Discover all the secrets of the destroyed world!