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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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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Another Brick in The Mall
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MachiaVillain.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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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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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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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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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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STATIONflow
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with MachiaVillain.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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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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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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ONI : Road to be the Mightiest Oni
Single-player alternative to MachiaVillain — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Break your enemies' souls to reclaim your pride. On Kisejima, demon warrior Kuuta and his partner Kazemaru challenge these souls to a trial. All in order to defeat Momotaro, who is both human and evil monster… A tale of sky and wind as they embark upon an island quest.
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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.