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Single-player games like Make Your Kingdom

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Make Your Kingdom, 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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    New Home: Medieval Village — Steam game cover

    New Home: Medieval Village

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

    New Home Medieval Village is a zoning-based medieval themed city building game. Create zoning areas according to the demands of the villagers and meet the needs of the villagers. Keep them happy with your service buildings and attract wealthier villagers to your village.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulationDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Land of the Vikings — Steam game cover

    Land of the Vikings

    Single-player alternative to Make Your Kingdom — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Make Your Kingdom.

    Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

    2023Strategy25.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Foundation — Steam game cover

    Foundation

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

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Academia : School Simulator — Steam game cover

    Academia : School Simulator

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

    Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shelter Manager — Steam game cover

    Shelter Manager

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

    We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ratopia — Steam game cover

    Ratopia

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

    Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure22.00 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Northgard: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Northgard: Definitive Edition

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

    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!

    2018StrategyIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Endzone - A World Apart — Steam game cover

    Endzone - A World Apart

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

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition — Steam game cover

    SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

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

    SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

    2010StrategySimulation3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

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

    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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    Mashinky — Steam game cover

    Mashinky

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

    Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shieldwall — Steam game cover

    Shieldwall

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

    Shieldwall is a funny third-person tactical battle simulator with strategy elements. It allows you to feel like a squad leader right on the battlefield.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebirth of Island — Steam game cover

    Rebirth of Island

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

    Survive, adapt, and research in the New World, with its rules, dwellers, and their laws. Head the colonization of these locations and ensure the independence and security of your population.

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →