Single-player games like Blackthorn Arena
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Blackthorn Arena, 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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Mordheim: City of the Damned
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blackthorn Arena.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
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Expeditions: Viking
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackthorn Arena.
Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackthorn Arena.
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?
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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blackthorn Arena.
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.
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MENACE
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Blackthorn Arena.
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blackthorn Arena.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackthorn Arena.
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.
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Blackthorn Arena.
Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.
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We Who Are About To Die
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackthorn Arena.
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
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Age of Reforging: The Freelands
Single-player alternative to Blackthorn Arena — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackthorn Arena.
Age of Reforging: The Freelands is a medieval high-freedom sandbox adventure CRPG. You'll be a reforger in the freelands chosen by the Goddess to embark on a medieval adventure tour at your own pace, gathering teammates, fighting for survival, and craft your unique legend!