Single-player games like Anvil and Alembic
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Anvil and Alembic, 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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Necromancer's Workshop
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
Necromancer’s Workshop is a fantasy tycoon game. Craft zombies, work the land. Build a cozy countryside business, worth waking the dead for.
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A Little Shop in Squirrel Town
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
You will become the shopkeeper of grocery shop in Squirrel Town to run your own shop, replenish your stock, sell, make a profit, kill monsters, manufacture outfits, engage in agriculture, angle, cook delicious food, feed monsters and save Monster Forest controlled by the evil crystal.
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Another Pint
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
Build and run your own medieval tavern in Another Pint, a systems-driven management game. Starting with little more than an abandoned shack, it is up to you to turn it into a thriving establishment. Grow your tavern, discover ingredients, and brew special drinks to keep your patrons coming back.
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四方行
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
a traveling merchant crosses the land — trading goods, winning trust. Bargain, craft, and appraise your way from the northern frontier to the southern seas, and forge your own legend on the road.
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Conqueror 940 AD
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Conqueror 940 AD, a casual turn-based medieval town-builder where your decisions matter. As an ousted prince, you stumble upon empty land to build a kingdom from. How you fare and what you do with your rising power is up to you. Build, research, plan, do battle, and maybe even fall in love.
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Earth of Oryn
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
A medieval kingdom-builder focused on meaningful decision-making and long-term strategy. Rule your lands, manage resources, plan your expansion, and guide your settlement from humble beginnings to a thriving realm as the seasons turn.
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Let Them Trade
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
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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SAELIG
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
SÆLIG is a game that blends together elements of simulation, strategy, RPG, and business management. Centred around the life of you and your family, you must try to survive and bring wealth and prosperity to your household.
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Hexhorde
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Anvil and Alembic.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
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The Ancient Caverns
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Anvil and Alembic.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
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Bagatto
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
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Bulwark Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
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Twigs and Firewood
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Anvil and Alembic.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
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Crownhold
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
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Verlicia Saga
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
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The Antler and Ale Inn
Single-player alternative to Anvil and Alembic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Anvil and Alembic.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.