Single-player games like Grim Nights
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Grim Nights, 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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Grim Realms
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
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Until We Die
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
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Rise to Ruins
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
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.
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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Grim Nights.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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Deep Among the Swarm
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Grim Nights.
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
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Break the Empire
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Fight your way to the capital and slay the emperor! Choose from a variety of characters with unique spells and skills! Featuring permadeath, interactable terrain, distinct builds, wild combos, and endless replayability.
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Hollow Island
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Grim Nights.
Shape your own destiny: Explore, dig for riches, fish, grow crops, cook food, brew and sell potions, expand your property, fight monsters, build camps and hoard your treasures!
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Mirklurk: Every Step Matters
Single-player alternative to Grim Nights — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You've been exiled to The Mirk - an unforgiving swampland where every step could be your last. You must constantly make choices: what paths to take, which tree to shelter under, what beasts to engage or avoid, what items to bring into the darkness of dungeons, and what treasures to leave behind.