Single-player games like Paths & Danger
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Paths & Danger, 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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Rogue Waters
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Paths & Danger.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
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Pathway
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
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The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.
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For The King
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
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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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Paths & Danger.
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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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Paths & Danger.
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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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Paths & Danger.
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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Z Dawn
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Paths & Danger.
Z Dawn is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of zombies, build and upgrade camp, face hundreds of thrilling events and much more!
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Expect The Unexpected
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
Expect The Unexpected is a roguelike, fast-paced, turn-based game with RPG elements. Interact with random generated maps in which you have to deal with hundreds of different events and situations. What will you be? What will you become?
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Dungeons of Hell
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Paths & Danger.
Enter the dungeons of hell, face many different demons in a tactical challenge. You play as a lone hero against hordes of demons, clear the dungeons to get more equipment and experience to unlock new and powerful abilities.
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Mutant Meltdown
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
Mutant Meltdown is a survival RPG that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in which you get to manage a group of survivors to fight for their life, level up their skills, help fight off different breeds of mutants, build and upgrade your camp, face hordes of mutants and much more!
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Jurassic Clans
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Paths & Danger.
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
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Commander: Modern War
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
Experience the thrill of a modern conflict between two factions, as you outsmart your opponents in an epic game of strategy and cunning. Take command of your ground, air, and naval units and lead them to victory in the most immersive turn-based battle simulation. The battlefield awaits.
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Interstellar Conquest
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
Take planets and assemble your fleet. The conquest of space is now, navigate through asteroid fields and hide in nebulas to outsmart your opponents. Experience the challenge of ion storms disrupting your ship's sensors and become the ultimate space fleet commander.
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Commander: World War II
Single-player alternative to Paths & Danger — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paths & Danger.
Commander: World War II is a turn-based tactical game where you lead either the Allies or the Axis to victory. Deploy infantry, tanks, planes, and naval units, capture locations, use the terrain, and counter specialized units in intense battles. Design your own maps and dominate the battlefield.