Single-player games like Lord of Dwarves
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Lord of Dwarves, 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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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Autonauts
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
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Space Architect
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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The Crust
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Lord of Dwarves.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
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Towns
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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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Gnomoria
Single-player alternative to Lord of Dwarves — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Lord of Dwarves.
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.