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Single-player games like Monster X Monster

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Monster X Monster, 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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    Yao-Guai Hunter — Steam game cover

    Yao-Guai Hunter

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

    Yao-Guai Hunter is a Wuxia roguelike deck-building game. In a world where Yao-Guai roam free, player battles with various evil beings, collecting cards and learn inner skills. Encountering various adventures in the martial world.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG16.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Active DBG: Brave's Rage — Steam game cover

    Active DBG: Brave's Rage

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

    Brave's Rage is a challenging roguelite deckbuilding game that features an ATB combat system. Players will have to think critically to build their decks and make strategic decisions in the nick of time. Create your dynamic duo from a total of 9 playable Braves and face 20 different challenge tiers!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie5.39 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overdungeon — Steam game cover

    Overdungeon

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

    A completely new style real-time card battle "Overdungeon" Overdungeon combines rogue-like, tower defense and card games. More than 100 cards are Attack, Animal, Building, Spell, Trap, etc..Build your creative and crazy deck!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie7.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Long Way Down — Steam game cover

    A Long Way Down

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

    A deck-building roguelite RPG set in a dark and tormented world. Assemble your party and use your cards to survive, fight and build your way through a dark maze of monsters orchestrated by an evil mastermind. Your choices will lead you to judgement.

    2020StrategyIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Roguebook — Steam game cover

    Roguebook

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

    Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Journey to the West — Steam game cover

    Journey to the West

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

    A challenging rogue-like deck building game about a legendary adventure in the Realm of Divinity. Lead your team, build your unique deck, gather powerful relics and consumables to confront legendary creatures and eventually discover the truth behind the omen of darkness.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deep Sky Derelicts — Steam game cover

    Deep Sky Derelicts

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

    Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.

    2018StrategyIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    Slay the Spire

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

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Darkest Dungeon® — Steam game cover

    Darkest Dungeon®

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

    Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

    2016StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →