Single-player games like Timber and Stone
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Timber and Stone, 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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Stonehearth
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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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Clanfolk
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Timber and Stone.
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
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Towns
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
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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SATUS
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
SATUS - global fantasy strategy, in which you can lead one of the 4 fractions: magicians, dwarfs, dark side, hell virus. Every fraction is unique. Capture all the enemies, arrange the end of the world, build a great empire!
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Abnormal Status ~Tattoo / Prohibited Books / Parasites~
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In the present day, the majority of the human race has become capable of using magic. The sudden rise of this power has not been met with adequate laws and regulations, and the world is rapidly becoming a wasteland as crimes and discrimination intensify.
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Rise to Ruins
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Timber and Stone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Timber and Stone.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.