Single-player games like Escape The Mad Empire
Below are 16 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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Two Die
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Two Die is a turn-based, tactical, roguelike RPG where every action is determined by the roll of two six sided dice. Battle enemies to upgrade your character and discover what hides in your lost memories.
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Darkest Dungeon® II
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
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Those Who Rule
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Join three fresh recruits caught in a web of betrayal as war looms over the land. Lead your band of heroes through tactical turn-based battles, master unique abilities, and forge powerful gear to turn the tide of battle. Will you unravel the conspiracy driving the conflict—or be consumed by it?
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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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Defend the Rook
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
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Heroes of Steel RPG
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.
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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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Rogue Fable IV
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
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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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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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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!
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Baldur's Gate 3
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
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守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
Single-player alternative to Escape The Mad Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.