Single-player games like Ogre Tale
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Ogre Tale, 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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Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Classic
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds! Enjoy fast and frantic arcade-style beat 'em up gameplay with cute characters. Beat up hordes of weird enemies with awesome special attacks. Local co-op and PVP supported for up to 4 players!
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Shing!
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
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Absolum
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
Fight as the outcast heroes of Talamh in a fierce battle to retake magic from Sun King Azra’s grasp in Absolum, an original roguelite beat ‘em up by Dotemu.
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9 Monkeys of Shaolin
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
The true rebirth of iconic beat 'em up genre in vein of old-school video games! As a simple Chinese fisherman Wei Cheng you have to avenge the death of your friends and family slaughtered in a pirate raid at your peaceful village.
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Streets of Rage 4
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
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Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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Young Souls
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
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Jitsu Squad
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Ogre Tale.
Jitsu Squad is a Marvel vs Capcom inspired 4 player co-op TAG TEAM beat ‘em up with epic character transformations and fast paced combat.
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STEINS;GATE
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
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STEINS;GATE 0
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
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CHAOS;CHILD
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
From the creators of the critically acclaimed STEINS;GATE comes a sensational new visual novel: CHAOS;CHILD. Set in Shibuya in 2015, a group of high school students who survived an earthquake six years ago find themselves at the center of a new series of bizarre murders in the city.
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CHAOS;HEAD NOAH
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
CHAOS;HEAD NOAH is now available on Steam!
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STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fall in love with the lab members all over again in this sweet and slapstick romantic comedy!
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STEINS;GATE ELITE
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.
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STEINS;GATE: Linear Bounded Phenogram
Single-player alternative to Ogre Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A story for every lab member. Discover a new side of each STEINS;GATE character and get a glimpse of their inner thoughts through 10 new stories.