Single-player games like Apollyon: River of Life
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Apollyon: River of Life, 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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Fabled Lands
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
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Two Die
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Apollyon: River of Life.
Two Die is a turn-based, tactical, roguelike RPG where every action is determined by the roll of two six sided dice. Battle enemies to upgrade your character and discover what hides in your lost memories.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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Eternally
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.
Command one of four Eternals, each broken by their own timeline, in a dark fantasy tactical RPG. Save your timeline. Reclaim who you used to be. Dice-based hex combat, 200+ skills, solo or with up to three friends.
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October Night Games
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.
Will you try to keep the world the way it is or fight for the changes? October Night Games is a digital board game where everyone is a cultist working for one of two different sides. Scour the town for cursed ingredients and make deals with inscrutable entities as something eldrich this way comes.
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Zold:out
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.
Zold:out is a semi-turn-based tactical RPG combined with deck building. You will use multiple weapons in one turn to challenge powerful enemies in a non-grid battlefield. Recruit clerks, forge weapons, and save the world with your strategy and creativity!
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Apollyon: River of Life.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
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Whispers of the Eyeless
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.
Become a cult leader and unleash divine power in this dark fantasy strategy RPG. You are the villain - you command disciples, outwit enemies in combat, and shape the fate of the fallen city as you awaken the Dead Gods — Wrath, Desire, and Madness.
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Cultist Simulator
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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BOOK OF HOURS
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
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Skulltide
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Apollyon: River of Life.
Skeletal mischief reigns as the Skulltide begins! Join the undead in co-op adventures as the skeleton of your dreams, or lead them yourself, and hunt down the necromancers who reanimated you. Build, throw, and enchant your bones... but try not to misplace them along the way!
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The Fool's Apprentice
Single-player alternative to Apollyon: River of Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Apollyon: River of Life.
A wizard academy management sim where you—an obviously benevolent professor—must manage & cast spells on your many apprentices so that they might study the right spells… and perhaps even survive the researching process. Some may die, but oh well, can’t save them all!