Single-player games like Loop Hero
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Loop Hero, 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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Backpack Hero
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
- 2
Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Loop Hero.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
- 3
Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Tainted Grail: Conquest
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Loop Hero.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
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Griftlands
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Loop Hero.
Griftlands is a deck-building roguelite where you negotiate, fight, steal or otherwise persuade others to get your way. Every decision is important, be it the jobs you take, the friends you make, or the cards you collect.
- 6
Monster Train
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Loop Hero.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
- 7
Balatro
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
- 8
Cobalt Core
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Loop Hero.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
- 10
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Loop Hero.
A new adventure for Shiren and Koppa begins!
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Vault of the Void
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Loop Hero.
Vault of the Void is a fast-paced roguelike deckbuilder where the power is in your hands. Continuously customise your deck, crafting powerful combos and ingenious strategies. Upgrade your cards with Void Stones, infusing them with new abilities to help defeat the minions of The Void!
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Core Defense
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Loop Hero.
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!
- 14
Astronarch
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Loop Hero.
A fusion of roguelikes and auto-battlers like never before seen. Recruit a party of mysterious heroes, navigate deadly lands, collect an arsenal of magical items, and vanquish a new evil threatening the realm!
- 15
Hadean Tactics
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Loop Hero.
Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
- 16
Storybook Brawl
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Loop Hero.
Draft your favorite characters from story and myth in this 8-player autobattler! Over 40 different heroes to command. Will you side with the evil vampire, Snow Wight? Or team up with the good Princess Peep and her battle hardened sheep? Deep strategy meets enchanting fun in Storybook Brawl!
- 17
Please, Don’t Touch Anything
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Loop Hero.
A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.
- 18
Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D
Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Loop Hero.
Now with Vive Support! A cryptic, brain-racking, button-pushing non-linear puzzle game.