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Single-player games like Arx Fatalis

Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Arx Fatalis, 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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    Dungeons of the Amber Griffin — Steam game cover

    Dungeons of the Amber Griffin

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Play as a group of daredevils who explore the world of dark fantasy in search of fame, amber and gold. Experience the classic mechanics of the iconic ‘90s Dungeon Crawlers with a new twist. Solve the mystery of the ghost that haunted the ruins and discover a bestiary based on Kashubian beliefs.

    2027ActionIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Messiah of Might & Magic — Steam game cover

    Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.

    2006ActionRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Whatever It Takes — Steam game cover

    Whatever It Takes

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Whatever It Takes is a hardcore first-person Action RPG in a dark fantasy setting. As a fallen god, master elemental magic, absorb enemy powers, and engage in tactical duels. Use a harpoon for traversal and shape the Omnisphere’s fate through your choices. Reclaim your throne. Whatever it takes.

    2026ActionAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Imprisoned Hyperion — Steam game cover

    Imprisoned Hyperion

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Imprisoned hyperion is an imersive sim, first-person rpg. Explore the dark and dangerous dungeons of a world that has survived its end. Survive by finding safe resting places and cooking food. Help different creatures and learn the dark history of this world and your own.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A Short Quest — Steam game cover

    A Short Quest

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Explore a hand-crafted world, overcome brutally challenging combat, and restore order to a broken kingdom. Discover many unique weapons, tools, spells, and secrets in this short game inspired by old school action RPGs.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anima Keeper — Steam game cover

    Anima Keeper

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Time is always running out in Anima Keeper. Your main goal is to survive before the collapse comes. Marauders, mystical creatures, mutated monsters with deformed souls - they all want you dead. Do whatever it takes to gather treasures and hide in a shelter before the final wave of collapse.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Queen's Domain — Steam game cover

    Queen's Domain

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    A retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration. Embark on a quest to find your father who disappeared on the mysterious Isle of Neasied, where sinister forces gather, secrets hide everywhere, and the sleeping Queen has begun to stir…

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot — Steam game cover

    The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    A first-person action game, inspired by Dark Messiah, that provides various ways for defeating your foes, with weaponry, sorcery, stealth, or clever tactics like kicking them into deadly spikes.

    2026ActionRPG8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monomyth — Steam game cover

    Monomyth

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    MONOMYTH is an immersive, first-person dungeon-crawling RPG inspired by the genre's late classics. Embark on a journey through a vast and highly interactive game world as you unravel the mysteries hidden beneath the ancient fortress of Lysandria.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition — Steam game cover

    Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    System Shock — Steam game cover

    System Shock

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Underworld — Steam game cover

    Underworld

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Underworld is a classic old-school ARPG in a demonic environment. You must fight demonic skeletons, upgrade your inventory runes, and learn new abilities.

    2025ActionRPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mass Effect (2007) — Steam game cover

    Mass Effect (2007)

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

    2008ActionRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines — Steam game cover

    Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

    2007Action19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stonekeep — Steam game cover

    Stonekeep

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Arx Fatalis.

    Stonekeep is a first-person full-screen role-playing game. Immerse yourself as you journey through a detailed fantasy world of faeries, goblins, a giant dragon and undead skeletons.

    2017ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dishonored — Steam game cover

    Dishonored

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.

    2012ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dishonored 2 — Steam game cover

    Dishonored 2

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.

    2016Action29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prey — Steam game cover

    Prey

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

    2017ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DEATHLOOP — Steam game cover

    DEATHLOOP

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.

    2021Action59.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wolfenstein: Youngblood — Steam game cover

    Wolfenstein: Youngblood

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Wolfenstein: Youngblood is the first modern co-op Wolfenstein adventure. Team up with a friend or play solo as one of BJ Blazkowicz’s twin daughters and wield a powerful arsenal of new weapons, gadgets, and abilities to liberate Paris from the Nazis.

    2019Action19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dishonored — Steam game cover

    Dishonored

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.

    2012ActionSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ — Steam game cover

    Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™

    Single-player alternative to Arx Fatalis — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    From the award-winning developers at Arkane® Studios comes Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider, the next standalone adventure in the critically-acclaimed Dishonored® series.

    2017Action29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →