Single-player games like Roadwarden
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Roadwarden, 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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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Suzerain
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?
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Citizen Sleeper
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Roadwarden.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Roadwarden.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
Survive the mystery that awaits the JFS Gun-Dog in deep space in this retro visual novel / graphic adventure.
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Yes, Your Grace
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.
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Open Sorcery
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
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STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Roadwarden.
It is four thousand years before the Galactic Empire and hundreds of Jedi Knights have fallen in battle against the ruthless Sith. You are the last hope of the Jedi Order. Can you master the awesome power of the Force on your quest to save the Republic? Or will you fall to the lure of the dark side?
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King of Dragon Pass
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Roadwarden.
Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.
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Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway running through the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
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Tyranny
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Roadwarden.
Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.
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The Tavern
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
The Tavern is an experimental dark fantasy adventure trying to find a new side of role-playing. A mix of Visual Novels and RPGs, it is very interactive and allows you to explore your surroundings and make hundreds of minor and major choices.
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Tales From Windy Meadow - Legacy Edition
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roadwarden.
A slice-of-life interactive story about choosing your path and living in a community. Help three protagonists make the most important choices of their lives. A unique fantasy Visual Novel blending coziness and melancholy.
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Windy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale
Single-player alternative to Roadwarden — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Roadwarden.
Windy Meadow – A Roadwarden Tale is an interactive slice-of-life visual novel about choosing your own path. Help three protagonists make the most important choices of their lives. Featuring a multitude of hand-crafted characters and a richly detailed village set in the Roadwarden story world.