Single-player games like Rogue
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Rogue, 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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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Rogue.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rogue.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
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Zorbus
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Rogue.
Zorbus is a fantasy-themed, tile-based, turn-based, traditional roguelike game.
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Pixel Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rogue.
Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Rogue.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rogue.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Rift Wizard
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue.
Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.
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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Rogue.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
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NetHack: Legacy
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rogue.
NETHACK: LEGACY is a remastered version of the original NetHack, the deeply rich and complex fantasy D&D roguelike. Hack and slash your way through orcs, dragons, and cockatrices as you explore the perilous procedurally-generated dungeons seeking the Amulet of Yendor.
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ROGUE-FP
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue.
A blend of old school gameplay and new school controls. Experience a classically styled roguelike in a way you never have before!
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HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue.
Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.
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California Games (C64/DOS/Atari/Lynx/NES/SMS/Genesis)
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Ask anyone who considered themselves a true gamer in 1987 and the chances are they will fondly remember California Games. Now on Steam for the very first time, you too can enjoy six radical and awesome events: the half-pipe, roller skating, surfing, BMX, footbag and the flying disc.
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Impossible Mission II
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue.
Sequel to the equally-popular Impossible Mission, this classic 1980s action platformer sees you tasked with infiltrating a futuristic fortress, built to keep safe malicious mastermind Elvin Atombender. Now available on Steam for the first time, responsibility for saving the world rests with YOU!
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California Games II
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Originally launched in 1990 on the boundary-pushing 16-bit computers and consoles of the day, this bodacious sequel to the immensely popular California Games sees you competing in five awesome events: hang-gliding, jet-skiing, snowboarding, body-boarding and skateboarding!
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Temple of Apshai Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rogue.
In this classic dungeon crawler, hack and slash your way through over 500 rooms with dozens of terrifying monsters. A true 1980s fantasy game, experience the frustrations and triumphs of the tabletop gaming inspired combat. Temple of Apshai is waiting. Silently lurking. Patiently waiting. For you.
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The Games: Winter Edition
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Compete in seven Winter Games events in this DOS classic from 1988, created by masters of sports simulation Epyx. Hurtle down the slopes, over jumps, or across the ice, all in search of that elusive Gold medal.
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Battle Bugs
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue.
In this unconventional real-time strategy game, control a fearsome army of stink bugs, cockroaches, lightning bugs, ants and more in a miniature, pun-filled warzone! 56 battles with 22 types of Battle Bug await you!
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Jumpman (C64/MSDOS)
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Rogue.
Run, climb and jump from platform to platform to collect and disarm deadly bombs, but watch out! One single misstep will send you tumbling to the ground! With 30 different challenging levels to beat, experience the thrills and spills of one of the earliest platformers.
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Snow Strike
Single-player alternative to Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fly your F14-LBC "Rapier" on a series of air bound missions. Your task – to destroy the labs, bomb refineries, and stop the enemy convoys. But watch out for those enemies who are armed with heat and radar guided missiles!