Single-player games like Kingdoms and Castles
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Kingdoms and Castles, 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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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
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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Kingdoms Reborn
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Settlement Survival
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
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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Nova Roma
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Songs of Syx
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
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Anno 2070™
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdoms and Castles.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Kingdoms and Castles.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Villagers
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms and Castles — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms and Castles.
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!