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Single-player games like SAELIG

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to SAELIG, 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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    The Guild 3 — Steam game cover

    The Guild 3

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SAELIG.

    The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

    2022StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Noble Fates — Steam game cover

    Noble Fates

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAELIG.

    Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    KINGDOMS — Steam game cover

    KINGDOMS

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SAELIG.

    KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bellwright — Steam game cover

    Bellwright

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SAELIG.

    Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

    2024ActionStrategySimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Primitive Society Simulator — Steam game cover

    Primitive Society Simulator

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAELIG.

    A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Banished — Steam game cover

    Banished

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAELIG.

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Guild II Renaissance — Steam game cover

    The Guild II Renaissance

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SAELIG.

    For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

    2010StrategySimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Life is Feudal: Forest Village — Steam game cover

    Life is Feudal: Forest Village

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAELIG.

    LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Guild II — Steam game cover

    The Guild II

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SAELIG.

    The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!

    2010StrategySimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kenshi — Steam game cover

    Kenshi

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with SAELIG.

    A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stardew Valley — Steam game cover

    Stardew Valley

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SAELIG.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Мухосранск | Russian City Sim — Steam game cover

    Мухосранск | Russian City Sim

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with SAELIG.

    The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Guild Gold Edition — Steam game cover

    The Guild Gold Edition

    Single-player alternative to SAELIG — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SAELIG.

    It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.

    2014StrategySimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →