Single-player games like The Dead Await: Prologue
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Dead Await: Prologue, 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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The Dead Await
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Build your deck and try to survive in The Dead Await, a deck-building RPG set during a zombie apocalypse. As one of many survivors, set out across the desolate world, discover the truth about the outbreak, and rebuild human civilization - or die trying.
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Card Maker Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Create unique cards, increase your cards’ power, form teams, face strategic battles, and build legendary bloodlines. In Card Maker Simulator, every card has a story, rivalries, marriages, pets, and glory. A card creation game where you create your own legends!
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Guild of Three
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Guild of Three is a turn-based deckbuilding RPG where you command a party of three characters — each with their own deck. Combine different classes, pass Relay Cards between allies, and position your party across the front and back lines to create your own combat strategy.
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Jupiter Moons: Mecha🦾
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Choose your mech, customize your loadout, and build your perfect deck. Experiment with cards to find powerful combinations as you enjoy the tactical combat and deckbuilding in this roguelike adventure!
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Axial Disc 2
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
The long awaited sequel to Axial Disc 1!
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Necrocyte
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Necrocyte is a stylized open-world zombie survival game. In a world overrun by the Zombies, survival is your only goal. Explore, fight, and endure as you face relentless horrors in a brutal, unforgiving landscape. The infected are everywhere — they will hunt you down without mercy.
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Backpack Dungeon
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
A unique pixel-art backpack management roguelike. Your backpack isn't just storage—it's your combat core. Item placement, adjacency, and trigger mechanics determine your survival in the dungeon. A mental challenge of spatial planning and strategy.
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Nightpiercer
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Nightpiercer is a unique dice-driven, turn-based deckbuilder RPG. Collect materials and cards to forge powerful weapons and build a legendary team. Explore a despair-ridden Holy City, navigate unpredictable events, and confront nightmarish foes.
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Dead Ground
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Tower defense reimagined! Dead Ground is a procedurally generated tower defense game with rogue-like elements. Each playthrough will offer randomly generated guns, skills and augments. You'll have to travel, collect scrap, water, manage your inventory and upgrade your base to survive!
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Kontrakt
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.
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Danger Gazers
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.
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Dungeons of Clay
Single-player alternative to The Dead Await: Prologue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Dead Await: Prologue.
Explore the ever-changing dungeons in the surreal world made of clay. Unlock the hidden secrets, overcome the dangers, defeat dreadful creatures and reap the treasures to acquire almighty power.