Single-player games like Escape The Mad Empire
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Escape The Mad Empire, 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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Crawl Tactics
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Crawl Tactics combines classic turn-based tactics with roguelike progression. In Dungeon Mode, face challenging, ever-changing encounters as you explore procedurally generated maps. In Quest Mode, develop your village, train your mercenaries, and defend against growing enemy invasions.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Inkbound
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Escape The Mad Empire.
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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The Dungeon Beneath
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Escape The Mad Empire.
The Dungeon Beneath is a tactical rogue-like autobattler. Gather your party and descend into the dungeon, battling your way through room after room of nefarious enemies. Collect powerful artifacts and equipment to create an endless variety of strategies.
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Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
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Mortal Glory 2
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!
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Overfall
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Set sail in Overfall, a whimsical roguelike turn-based RPG of diplomacy and danger. Recruit unlikely heroes, forge alliances or crush your foes across ever-shifting seas to find a lost king. Every run is fresh with procedural worlds, permanent death, branching story encounters, and hand-drawn art.
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Aethermancer
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Monster Taming meets Roguelite. Become the Aethermancer and fight alongside mythical creatures. Explore the ever-changing Fractured Ruins, plan your moves in challenging turn-based battles, and watch your Monsters grow stronger from previous lives and defy death!
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Path of Exile
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!