Single-player games like Card Shark
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Card Shark, 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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Pentiment
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Card Shark.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
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...
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a Narrative-Adventure game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
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Sultan's Game
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
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Griftlands
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Card Shark.
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.
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Sunshine Shuffle
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play cards with a group of adorable animal friends who robbed the largest bank on the Eastern Seaboard 12 years ago, and are willing to let you decorate their boat in return for not being executed by the mafia.
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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Immerse yourself in an enchanting narrative experience as Fortuna, a fortune-teller Witch condemned to exile on her asteroid home. Craft your own Tarot deck, regain your freedom, and shape the fate of the cosmic Witch society.
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Reigns
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.
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Reigns: Her Majesty
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Card Shark.
Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns.
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Reigns: Game of Thrones
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Reigns: Game of Thrones is the heir to the award-winning HBO® TV series Game of Thrones® and the smash-hit swipe ‘em up series Reigns from Nerial and Devolver Digital.
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The Crush House
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Card Shark.
Film and produce 1999's hottest reality TV show: The Crush House! Select a crush-worthy cast, satisfy voracious audiences and keep the show on air to uncover the sinister secrets behind this darkly comic thirst-person shooter.
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Reigns: Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Card Shark.
Swipe through military negotiations, marry to strengthen alliances and recruit soldiers to fight in turn-based card battles in this historical epic.
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Orwell's Animal Farm
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Card Shark.
Orwell’s Animal Farm is a text-based choice-driven narrative game where all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Immerse yourself in George Orwell's story of absolute power and corruption and follow the ups and downs of Animalism.
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Reigns: The Witcher
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Card Shark.
Adventure as Geralt through the ballads of Dandelion. Swipe right, swipe left, seek glory, find death! Will you hunt monsters, upset the locals, or run a hot bath? Compose an inspiring epic to claim immortality.
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Devouring Stars
Single-player alternative to Card Shark — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Card Shark.
What if you could unhook the stars and fight your battles with black holes? With its mix of adaptative unit combination, space resource harvesting as well as visual and audio refinement, Devouring Stars aspires to bring a different scope to the RTS genre.