Single-player games like Summoner Apprentice
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Summoner Apprentice, 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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Bulwark
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
Bulwark is a medieval-themed 2D pixel tower defense game with a dynamic block-based building system. Construct and fortify your castle, manage resources, and recruit troops to defend against waves of enemies. Build, strategize, and adapt in this unique blend of fortress construction and combat.
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希望之城 The City Of Hope
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
A light city-building game that combines elements of card games and tower defense, where players must survive daily enemy attacks and gradually grow their strength to ultimately defeat powerful invaders.
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Gladiator Guild Manager
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.
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Elements and build
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win
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Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Summoner Apprentice.
Deck-building, dungeon defense, and tactical gameplay combine in Dungeon Monarch! Recruit warriors and wizards, buff your heroes, and thrash your foes — summon your dungeon monarch to punish interlopers and defeat enemies to increase your dark powers!
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ShapeHero Factory
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
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Necroking
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
Necroking is a turn-based tactics roguelite with vast deckbuilding. You play as a Master of Necromancy. Build your skulls deck, raise skeletons and other scum to defeat settlements desecrated by life.
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Deck of Haunts
Single-player alternative to Summoner Apprentice — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Summoner Apprentice.
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.