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Single-player games like Academagia: The Making of Mages

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Academagia: The Making of Mages, 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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    InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards — Steam game cover

    InfiniteCorp: Cyberpunk Cards

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    The 2190 year. You are an employee of a corporation dealing in goods distribution and logistics in the “megatower” – the place where all local citizens live. Find yourself in the cyberpunk reality by playing InfiniteCorp, a decision-based strategy card game!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dreams Of Adventure — Steam game cover

    Dreams Of Adventure

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Dreams Of Adventure brings you in a world of medival fantasy where you chose how to play and impact the world around you. Will you help a person in need? Want them to pay you for help? Perhaps... you end their life and take the bellongings...? The choice is yours!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Surviving Magic Academy as a Demon Lord — Steam game cover

    Surviving Magic Academy as a Demon Lord

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Live your new academy life as a reborn Demon Lord. Study, join clubs, regain power, and graduate before the False Demon Lord attacks in this node-based incremental RPG.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dadi Kingdom — Steam game cover

    Dadi Kingdom

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    You are the king, and a king does not rule from behind a desk. Pass judgment by day, then ride out and swing the blade yourself. Your court lies to your face, your mages are useless and your priests are worse. Win the throne, father an heir and leave a dynasty before your time runs out.

    StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Steam game cover

    The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Floating life in Other-world — Steam game cover

    Floating life in Other-world

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Floating life in Other-world is a life simulation independent game based on magic . In the overhead world with the magic world as the background, experience how people from different backgrounds struggle to create their own stories in the turbulent world situation.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Medieval Ascendant — Steam game cover

    Medieval Ascendant

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    From a serf bound to the soil to the head of a noble house. Farm, trade, build an economic empire across five provinces, claim land through war, intrigue or wealth — and forge a dynasty that outlives you.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Reigns — Steam game cover

    Reigns

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

    2016IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Magical Diary: Horse Hall — Steam game cover

    Magical Diary: Horse Hall

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    You have been invited to attend a magical school. You can make new friends, learn spells, face exams, run for class office, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball.

    2012IndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Volcano Princess — Steam game cover

    Volcano Princess

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Long Live The Queen — Steam game cover

    Long Live The Queen

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum — Steam game cover

    1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    1931: Scheherazade at the Library of Pergamum is the latest story-driven RPG from Black Chicken Studios, inc., spinning tales of pulp adventure, exotic locations, occult horror, and romance that'll require well-honed skills.

    2015IndieSimulationRPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Princess Maker 5 — Steam game cover

    Princess Maker 5

    Single-player alternative to Academagia: The Making of Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Academagia: The Making of Mages.

    Discover magic in our world with Princess Maker 5! A lone princess needs your care in a realm where fantasy meets reality. Guide her growth and shape her destiny. Create unforgettable memories as you raise her.

    2018Simulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →