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
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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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?