Single-player games like The Wratch's Den
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Wratch's Den, 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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Galactic Crew II
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Galactic Crew II is a roguelike space exploration game inspired by FTL and the classic XCOM games. Explore a hostile galaxy with your valorous crew from its center to the outer reaches of space, clawing your way up from a nobody to a galactic pioneer through colonization, commerce, and combat.
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The Monarch
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Will you be the savior to purify this land? The Monarch is a lane-defense game where you control a monarch, expand your kingdom, and defend against evil by strategically managing gold resources, recruiting diverse units, and exploring a world filled with mythical threats.
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Galactic Crew
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Galactic Crew II is a roguelike space exploration game inspired by FTL and the classic XCOM games. You and your valorous crew members will explore a galaxy with all its dangers and riches. Explore and colonize planets, customize your spaceship, raid underground dungeons, mine, trade and craft!
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Sheltered 2
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
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Mind Over Magic
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Wratch's Den.
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
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Beneath the Mountain
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
In Beneath the Mountain, you play as the King of a new Dwarven civilization seeking to find their fortune beneath the mountain. You dig your way through the mountain, encountering many dangerous foes along the way, all while defending your kingdom from periodic Orc invasions.
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Spellcaster University
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Wratch's Den.
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
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Time Break Chronicles
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Time Break Chronicles is a fusion of classic JRPGs and modern Roguelites, with a cast of 100 playable classes to find and unlock. Build your team, customize their abilities, and venture into a procedurally generated adventure through space-time and beyond!
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Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Wratch's Den.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
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Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Chess, but you replace your entire army with a royal shotgun. A unique strategy roguelike based on the timeless checkboard classic.
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MOONPONG: Tales of Epic Lunacy
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Psychedelic Roguelite Pong 'em up where you go to bring back the Moon. A crazy, addictive, and hilarious arcade-action game based on the granddad of all video games.
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Metavaxx
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Wratch's Den.
The world's first minesweeper shooter. Identify infected cells, peacefully clear your way around them... or shoot 'em down and face the consequences.
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Spectrum Forces
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Make up your squads out of 9 unique spaceships and go clear 3 planets from hordes of robots in not-so-classic horizontal shoot-em-up style!
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Scavenger of Dunomini
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Wratch's Den.
The world's first match-3 trash pile defender! Protect and manage your pile of garbage while recycling it into deadly defenses against thieving drones.
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Rush for the Ages
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Wratch's Den.
Remake history and race your opponents for a complete and glorious timeline in this lightning-fast card game.
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Ecstatic
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Wratch's Den.
Rave spider goes to the bullet-hell ball: shoot rockets out of your butt, dodge and destroy waves upon waves of drones, slow down time whenever you don't move.
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Pigments
Single-player alternative to The Wratch's Den — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Be a fruit locked in a room, dodge circular saws and paint as much of the level as you can.