Single-player games like Nitro Kid
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Nitro Kid, 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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Roguebook
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
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Fights in Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nitro Kid.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
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Banners of Ruin
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nitro Kid.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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Death Roads: Tournament
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Combine deadly racing, deckbuilding, and roguelite style to get car battles unlike anything before! Choose a driver, car, weapons, and sponsors to overcome tactical encounters. Adapt to an ever-changing race to come out on top and earn entry into the last safe haven on the Divided States of America.
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Ultimate Hero
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Ultimate Hero is a rogue-lite deckbuilder with a twist of dice. Master and merge unique skills, counter enemies, and unleash devastating ultimates where they hurt the most! Challenge the finest martial artists in the realm, and defy the odds to claim the title of the Ultimate Hero.
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SpellRogue
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
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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ATONE: Heart of the Elder Tree
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nitro Kid.
ATONE is a Norse mythology-inspired, hand-drawn game that blends interactive storytelling and complex puzzles with a rhythm game combat system. Inherit the role of a young warrior named Estra as she journeys through Midgard to unveil the truth behind her father’s death.
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Echo Zero
Single-player alternative to Nitro Kid — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nitro Kid.
Descend into a dangerous, procedurally generated sci-fi underworld. Explore, gather resources, uncover powerful wargear and upgrades, rally your droids, build and defend your base, and battle a mysterious new species on the verge of breaching the surface, either alone or in co-op.