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Single-player games like Loop Hero

Below are 16 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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    Black Book — Steam game cover

    Black Book

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.

    “Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes of Eternal Quest — Steam game cover

    Heroes of Eternal Quest

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.

    Welcome to a never-ending adventure full of challenges. Gather resources, build all sorts of buildings, unlock mysterious cards, and lead a group of heroes destined for greatness. Explore the unknown, climb the Tower of Shards, and break free from a destiny we never chose.

    2024StrategyIndieRPG4.19 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Touhou: Dreamland of Infinity — Steam game cover

    Touhou: Dreamland of Infinity

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Loop Hero.

    "Help construct my dreamland, and you can take away an artifact of your choice from the dream..." To help Doremy Sweet, the Master of the Dreamland, use different Gensokyo girls and their magnificent projectiles to face the challenges of the endless challenges!

    2022StrategyEarly Access15.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings — Steam game cover

    Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Loop Hero.

    Train unique samurai, embark on missions, and play the cards dealt each run on an epic roguelite adventure in the Legend of the Five Rings universe. Each defeat opens new strategic skill tree options and more powerful cards to face the growing threat in the Shadowlands.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cultist Simulator — Steam game cover

    Cultist Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Loop Hero.

    Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

    2018IndieSimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tainted Grail: Conquest — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Inscryption — Steam game cover

    Inscryption

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aces & Adventures — Steam game cover

    Aces & Adventures

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Loop Hero.

    Aces & Adventures is a deckbuilding RPG with poker-powered combat. Craft your deck, combining poker hands with powerful ability cards. Journey through 13 fully-voiced campaigns to save the Life Tree, or tackle procedurally-generated runs in this strategic deckbuilder unlike any other.

    2023StrategyAdventureRPG1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire Survivors — Steam game cover

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024RPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    FTL: Faster Than Light — Steam game cover

    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.

    2012StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series — Steam game cover

    Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.

    2015AdventureDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vault of the Void — Steam game cover

    Vault of the Void

    Single-player alternative to Loop Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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!

    2022StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Please, Don’t Touch Anything — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →