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Single-player games like Urtuk: The Desolation

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Urtuk: The Desolation, 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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    Land of Ruins — Steam game cover

    Land of Ruins

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    《Land of Ruins》 is a classic hex-grid turn-based strategy RPG, blending light Roguelike elements with open-world map exploration, while focusing on faction synergies and character progression. Randomly distributed resources and enemies in each run provide greater replayability.

    2026StrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Spell — Steam game cover

    The Last Spell

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deep Fringe — Steam game cover

    Deep Fringe

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Deep Fringe is a deep tactical RPG set in a biopunk post-apocalyptic wasteland. Lead powerful factions in turn-based brutal battles, leveraging the strategic use of an interactive environment. Modify or destroy terrain to achieve tactical supremacy. Craft legendary chapters with the level editor.

    2026StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Farabel — Steam game cover

    Farabel

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Farabel is a turn-based strategy game where you start at the end of the story. Develop your cleverness, your strategic prowess, and your inventive capabilities in order to survive!

    2016StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blackguards 2 — Steam game cover

    Blackguards 2

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    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!

    2015StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Invisible, Inc. — Steam game cover

    Invisible, Inc.

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crowntakers — Steam game cover

    Crowntakers

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fantasy General II — Steam game cover

    Fantasy General II

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    The fantasy wargaming classic is back! Lead powerful heroes and mighty armies into battle in this critically acclaimed turn-based strategy milestone. Level up and train your units and guide them through a gripping story campaign to decide the fate of a world on the brink of destruction.

    2019Strategy39.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    X-COM: UFO Defense — Steam game cover

    X-COM: UFO Defense

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.

    2008Strategy4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Darkest Dungeon® — Steam game cover

    Darkest Dungeon®

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    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?

    2016StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Battle Brothers — Steam game cover

    Battle Brothers

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.

    2017StrategySimulationRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gloomhaven — Steam game cover

    Gloomhaven

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.

    2021StrategyAdventureRPG34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mines and Magic — Steam game cover

    Mines and Magic

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Multiplayer tower defense auto battler with economy. Combine unique abilities of your units. Expand territory and build mines to get resources. Find a balance between economy and army. Use spells to help your army. Relaxing, but challenging singleplayer campaign is available.

    2024Strategy14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DIVINITY — Steam game cover

    DIVINITY

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A Mystery Puzzle game in First Person. You are a strange visitor in a family. Can you reveal their deepest desires and help them reach divinity?

    2022ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era — Steam game cover

    Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Urtuk: The Desolation.

    Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.

    2026StrategyRPGEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Maraka — Steam game cover

    Maraka

    Single-player alternative to Urtuk: The Desolation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Shoot magnets and send enemy flying! Push, pull, propel and shatter hordes of frenzied creatures with magnetic manipulation. Use environment as your weapon. Kill, collect and craft in this fast-paced action-roguelike game!

    2025Action8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →