Single-player games like The Five Monks
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Five Monks, 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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Bloodthrone: Eternal Reign
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
An immortal vampire lord's night begins. Hunt a living village where every victim is a choice — drain them for blood, or raise them as a soldier in your army. Manage your coven, endure the hunters' wrath, and reign across five ages.
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License To Clone
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
License To Clone is a challenging Open World Sandbox Survival RPG where you learn through survival. Explore a desert with a dynamic economy full of rogue factions. Experiment with powerful mutations. Tame creatures and extract powerful body parts to splice your DNA in your cloning lab.
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Forsaken: Year One
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
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Order: The New Dawn
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
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Gateworlds
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
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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Deep Rise
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
Colony management roguelite. After every combat, draft one of three cards to build your run. The surface world ended a thousand years ago. Now the road up is open. Build a colony, send your six survivors into the dark, and reach for the first dawn in a thousand years.
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Primage
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Five Monks.
As the leader of a Stone Age tribe, gather resources, develop your settlement and lead your people through the challenges of a world full of danger and mystery. Your survival skills, strategic planning and decision-making will be key in this battle for survival.
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Dungeon Settlers
Single-player alternative to The Five Monks — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Five Monks.
A colony sim based dungeon crawler where you manage your expedition to build a settlement in barren land, provide food and shelter for your people, lead them deep into the merciless dungeon, overcome challenging combat by your strategy.