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Single-player games like Odd Realm

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Odd Realm, 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 — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

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

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dwarf Fortress — Steam game cover

    Dwarf Fortress

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

    Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation23.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rise to Ruins — Steam game cover

    Rise to Ruins

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

    A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    First Feudal — Steam game cover

    First Feudal

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

    Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sapiens — Steam game cover

    Sapiens

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

    Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

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

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ruinarch — Steam game cover

    Ruinarch

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

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation12.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    After the Collapse — Steam game cover

    After the Collapse

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

    ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hero's Hour — Steam game cover

    Hero's Hour

    Single-player alternative to Odd Realm — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Odd Realm.

    A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

    2022StrategyRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →