Single-player games like ANCIENT EVIL
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to ANCIENT EVIL, 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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Dark Times
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ANCIENT EVIL.
Dark Times is a turn-based tactical RPG in the dark fantasy genre. Build a team of heroes, battle an army of skeletons and bosses, upgrade your characters, and plan fights to defeat the Lord of Darkness. Explore locations and an epic story.
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Magic and Elements
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Magic and Elements is a 2D arena shooter where you, as the greatest magician ever, wield the powers of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Defeat skilled opponents, collect spells, and conquer evil Bosses to showcase your mastery of the elements and become the ultimate champion.
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Espirito Delusion
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Embark on an adventure to explore the corrupted school, solve puzzles, and battle evil monsters in turn-based combat with the power of FAITH.
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Devil's Hunt
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
The war between Demons and Angels takes you to hell and back in Devil’s Hunt. Play as Desmond in this third-person action adventure game, as he discovers his demonic powers with the fate of the world hanging in the balance of the greatest conflict known to humankind.
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Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat. Playing as a Reaper of the twisted purgatorial afterlife, push your skills to the limit to destroy the hordes of demons and epic bosses to reach your destination.
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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
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Era of Miracles
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Era of Miracles is an amazing game world, you are a traveler, you have to go in search of adventure. You will find exciting quests, a civil war among the orcs, unique locations, a war of factions, complete freedom of action.
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Wintermoor Tactics Club
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
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Crazy Derby Racing
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ANCIENT EVIL.
Crazy Derby Racing is a destructive race in Low Poly style, get behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car, or a brand new sports car and show what you can do.
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Flyist
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You control a small plane. You need to fly over and under the rocks and collect stars of distinction along the way.
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Saving Animals
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Little raccoon friends are in trouble. Save the trapped animals.
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Easter Pairs
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ANCIENT EVIL.
A game in the classic "memory" genre. The images of eggs are laid out on the playing field, your task is to find paired ones.
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Go, Go Cowboy
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with ANCIENT EVIL.
Fast and hurricane Top-Down-Shooter where you act as a Sheriff in the Wild West and must quickly deal with all the bandits in the area, arm yourself with your trusty revolver and go on a dangerous journey!
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Hard Driver
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ANCIENT EVIL.
Incredibly beautiful and dynamic Side-Scroller, where you control a car that flew into the air with a super-cool driver must Dodge obstacles, flying past clouds, shooting off flying debris and collecting various Goodies on the way home!
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Hard Driver 2
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ANCIENT EVIL.
A new part of the hurricane runner, where you act as an unlucky driver who tries to get to his home, can you Dodge obstacles, jump over cliffs, collect coins and improve your car to help the driver in his difficult game of survival?
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Star Puzzle
Single-player alternative to ANCIENT EVIL — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ANCIENT EVIL.
A beautiful puzzle game in which you collect pieces into a whole picture, choosing between difficulty levels and dozens of levels, improving your skills, limited time and lives.