Single-player games like Stirring Abyss
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Stirring Abyss, 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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Hard West 2
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Stirring Abyss.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
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Rogue Waters
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Stirring Abyss.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
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Mechs and Muskets
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Mechs and Muskets is a 2D isometric tactical RPG set in an alternate Napoleonic era where mechs rule the battlefield. Customize your squad with unique mech parts and abilities, and lead them through turn-based strategic combat in a story-driven campaign
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stirring Abyss.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Regalia: Of Men And Monarchs is a tactical RPG set in a cheerful fantasy world full of weirdness and wonder. Assemble your party, go adventuring, manage your kingdom, make new friends, and defeat your opponents in challenging turn-based combat.
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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stirring Abyss.
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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Pathway
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
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Veterum
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Turn-based tactical strategy with a detailed combat system and interactive environment. Explore the open world, complete quests, search for rare artifacts. Lead the last army of the Order of the Gatekeepers and stop the coming chaos!
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X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stirring Abyss.
The war continues... X-COM: UFO Defense brought you to a galactic battlefield. X-COM: Terror from the Deep brings the alien terror into a totally new dimension.Seeking to take advantage of a weakened Earth, X-COM's deep space foes unexpectedly change strategy and launch a powerful second front against planet Earth.
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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Stirring Abyss.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Stirring Abyss.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Arcis Ultima
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Stirring Abyss.
Player finds himself in the war between human race and the invading creatures. You must train yourself, get the very best equipment, recall your past and help human efforts. Otherwise; as the time passes, you may find yourself in a hopeless situation.
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Gunbot Diplomacy
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive hordes of enemies in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from a wide variety of build-defining modules and wacky base bots for a new experience every run.
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Gunbot Diplomacy: Blast Off
Single-player alternative to Stirring Abyss — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Stirring Abyss.
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive the wasteland in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from tons of build-defining modules and wacky bots for a new experience every run. Prologue teaser build.