Single-player games like It Stares Back
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to It Stares Back, 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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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with It Stares Back.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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BANNERMEN
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with It Stares Back.
A singleplayer fast-paced classic RTS game in which you take on the role of a fallen lord on his journey back to become one of the mightiest in the medieval realm of Valtoria.
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Blackguards 2
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
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Stirring Abyss
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
Stirring Abyss is an indie tactical squad-based game with strong RPG elements in which you uncover the ancient mysteries of the depths depicted in the classic vein of Lovecraftian horror.
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WARTILE
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with It Stares Back.
Wartile is a cool-down based strategy game in which you control a warband of Viking figurines in a miniature universe inspired by Norse mythology. Unravel its secrets and rein the powers of the gods.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with It Stares Back.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with It Stares Back.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with It Stares Back.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Castle Battles
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with It Stares Back.
Castle Battles streamlines the mechanics of classic, top-down strategy to create a fast paced style of gameplay like no other. Expand your empire by building castles near bountiful resources, collect gold to amass outlandish armies, and swarm your enemies in 40 unique levels.
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The Dark
Single-player alternative to It Stares Back — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with It Stares Back.
You come round as your escape pod plummets into the inky waters of a distant flooded planet. Comms are down and power failing. You have no choice but to head out into.. the dark.