Single-player games like Townsmen
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Townsmen, 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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Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
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Knights and Merchants
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
KNIGHTS and MERCHANTS recreates the era of the Middle Ages. Apart from the purely fictitious geography of our world, all game elements and scenes are based on the Anglo-Saxon period, 1200 A.D. And we haven't used imaginary elements like fabled creatures, either. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the Palace Guard.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Dawn of Discovery™
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
A unique and award-winning combination of construction, economy, discovery, diplomacy, and combat. Create your own nation with a unique blend of simulation and real-time strategy as you journey across the globe to explore, trade, and learn technologies to expand your empire and to make your own history. Meet the Orient!
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Let Them Trade
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Majesty 2
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
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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Craft The World
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
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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Allied Nations
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Allied Nations is an primarily online RPG/RTS akin to games such as Dwarf Fortress and the more modern RimWorld. You are able to easily manage units, wage war, build and roleplay. Through your own wit, might, or sheer luck can you survive this experience? Probably not but give it your best try!
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Sky Settlers
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Sky Settlers is a minimalistic city building card game in which you build on islands in the sky and encounter different events, disasters and much more. Use different cards, complete quests and unlock new tiles as you progress.
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The Settlers: New Allies
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Townsmen.
The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.
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Townsmen VR
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Townsmen.
Townsmen VR uses the exciting possibilities of virtual reality to further enhance the classic city building game with entirely new gameplay experiences and interactive mechanics. It combines elements of a God-game simulation and a classic building game with the interactive possibilities of VR.
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Clouds & Sheep 2
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Townsmen.
In this eagerly anticipated sequel of the game “Clouds & Sheep”, the cute sheep are finally on the loose again! Solve countless quests and fulfill your wooly friends’ needs.
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Aces of the Luftwaffe
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
YOU have to show what you’re made of as the war over Europe is in full swing. Fight waves of Axis planes and panzers until you hit the boss enemies – the ACES OF THE LUFTWAFFE.
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Devils & Demons
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Townsmen.
In a magic age, where dragons ruled and the world of Desola was at the height of its glory, a demonic portal opened its infernal abyss in the shadowlands. The realm was ravaged by Devils & Demons.
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Panzer Panic VR
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Townsmen.
Battle your friends in an action-packed tank VR multiplayer game!
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Stunt Kite Masters VR
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Townsmen.
Carve up the sky in the most realistic virtual reality kite experience ever!
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1943 Deadly Desert
Single-player alternative to Townsmen — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Townsmen.
North Africa 1943. Lead your forces to victory in the most intense WW2 battle!