Single-player games like Hammerting
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Hammerting, 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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Per Aspera
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
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Survival Vacancy
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Moose Miners
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
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Illuminaria
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Command a swarm of intelligent robots in their quest to save the world. Mine resources, manage, and defend multiple bases. Go on expeditions, fight in auto-battles, research new technologies, and create your army of golems to bring back the light.
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Orebound
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
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Automation Empire
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
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Kubifaktorium
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hammerting.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Hammerting — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hammerting.
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.