Single-player games like MachiaVillain
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to MachiaVillain, 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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Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
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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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Ruinarch
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Ruinarch is an evil god simulator and sandbox game where you mess with people’s lives for hilarious results! Make them vampires, werewolves or bard haters and cackle as the drama unfolds. Once you’re done, unleash a malicious buffet of spells and custom plagues to wipe them out and start anew!
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Hell Architect
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
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War for the Overworld
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
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KeeperRL
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
KeeperRL is a retro dungeon simulator with roguelike and RPG elements. Take the role of an evil keeper and build a formidable dungeon. Recruit sinister minions, equip and train them to explore the world and fight the forces of good.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
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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Evil Genius
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with MachiaVillain.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with MachiaVillain.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
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Freaking Meatbags
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.