Single-player games like Rogue Waters
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Rogue Waters, 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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Hard West 2
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Rogue Waters.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
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Pathway
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Rogue Waters.
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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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Waters.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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King Arthur: Knight's Tale
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Waters.
A unique hybrid between turn-based tactical games and traditional, character-centric RPGs. Knight's Tale is a modern retelling of a classic Arthurian mythology story filtered through the dark fantasy tropes, a twist on the traditional tales of chivalry.
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Rogue Waters.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Wildermyth
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Waters.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
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Tyrant's Blessing
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Rogue Waters.
Tyberia has been turned into a paradise by the Tyrant, free from war, suffering, and death - because nearly everyone has been turned into the undead. Take charge of the last living warriors in tactical, turn-based battles and drive the Dead Army into the sea!
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Inkbound
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Rogue Waters.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Rogue Waters.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waters.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waters.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Othercide
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waters.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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No Rest for the Wicked
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rogue Waters.
From Moon Studios, the award-winning creators of Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, comes No Rest for the Wicked, a unique, visceral Action RPG set in a hand-crafted world with Souls-like combat. Featuring co-op for up to four players.
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Wartales
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Rogue Waters.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
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Of Ash and Steel
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rogue Waters.
Of Ash and Steel is an immersive third-person open-world RPG created by a passionate team that values the essence of classic old-school RPGs and modern design. Explore the lands of a once-prosperous island, hone your combat skills, and survive in the unforgiving realm of the Kingdom of the Seven.
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Re-Legion
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Rogue Waters.
Become The Prophet in a world of the future without the future! Lead your Cult in this cyberpunk RTS in the fight against evil corporations and heretics. Choose your creed, convert citizens, create an army and take over the city!
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Nightmare Frontier
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rogue Waters.
Behold the first-ever Tactical Extraction Looter where you pit your courage and leadership against fears made manifest: the Dreadweavers. Lead a band of scavenger roughnecks into a devastated boom town of the alternative 1900s. Get in, face the monsters, grab what you can carry and get out. Alive.
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Deep Blue 3D Maze in Space
Single-player alternative to Rogue Waters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rogue Waters.
A multi-dimensional gaming experience beyond anything you’ve ever played before. Try to control the constantly rolling ball which moves in a three-dimensional maze, collect gravitons, open the portal and escape before the platform explodes. And most important beware of everything that is purple!