Single-player games like Islands of the Caliph
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Islands of the Caliph, 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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Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Islands of the Caliph.
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s. Basically, it’s the kind of game I personally find missing nowadays. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous and without the need of endless grind to progress.
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The Quest
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Islands of the Caliph.
The Quest is a beautifully hand-drawn open world role playing game with old school grid-based movement, turn based combat and intricate quests. Explore a huge world, full of challenging mysteries and dangerous monsters!
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Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Islands of the Caliph.
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.
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Toward The Ice
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Islands of the Caliph.
Toward The Ice is a classic first-person party-based dungeon crawler RPG with grid-based movement and turn-based combat. Venture into the frozen north and help a fair princess rescue her idiot brother from Troll kidnappers.
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Sonucido: The Mage - A Dungeon Crawler by Daniel da Silva
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Islands of the Caliph.
Sonucido: The Mage is a grid-based, turn-based Dungeon Crawler RPG. Find the mage in the depths of Sonucido!
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Realms and Ruins: Abencor
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Islands of the Caliph.
Realms & Ruins: Abencor is a first-person, grid-based, open world, retro, pixel art dungeon crawler harkening back to the days of yore. Realms & Ruins takes inspiration from games like Wizardry and Might & Magic and other cRPG's of the 90's.
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Paper Sorcerer
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Islands of the Caliph.
Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.
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Vaporum
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Islands of the Caliph.
Vaporum is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Stranded in the middle of an ocean, in front of a gigantic tower, the hero has to find out what the place is, what happened there, and most importantly, who he is.
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Legend of Grimrock
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Islands of the Caliph.
Use the Dungeon Editor to build entirely new adventures and challenges for other players to solve.
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Wizardry 8
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Islands of the Caliph.
A New Wizardry for a New GenerationThe universe is in the throes of violent upheaval and change. Vast and mysterious forces are preparing for the final confrontation. A small group of heroes from distant lands must plunge into the heart of the maelstrom, to uncover long-forgotten secrets, and bring about a new era.
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Star Explorers
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Islands of the Caliph.
Planets, aliens, resources, upgrades, caves, mapping & documenting star systems ... seek a new home for the human race. An all-inclusive (admittedly janky) procedural space-sim made by solo developer Schmidt Workshops.
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Aberration Analyst
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Islands of the Caliph.
Work strange hours ... analyze incomplete and unreliable information ... save the world from monsters, and shut down their means of access in this experimental, point-and-click supernatural strategy simulator.
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Islands of the Caliph.
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a small scale, mechanics driven CRPG/Roguelike in a retro, monochromatic style, that takes place in the underworld of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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Anomalies
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Islands of the Caliph.
Are you looking for something completely different? An oddity? An enigma? Or perhaps .. an Anomaly? Anomalies may be a game, then again it may not. One user described it as "A million musical leeches, waiting to suck the serotonin from my brain." And that's just the beginning...
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Rocket Blasters
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Islands of the Caliph.
Rocket Blasters is a fast paced, action packed shoot-em-up set during the invasion of the Dread Pizza Armada. Its hand-drawn art gives it a unique style. Blowing stuff up has never been so fun!
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Paradox Vector
Single-player alternative to Islands of the Caliph — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Islands of the Caliph.
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-school vector graphics games of the early 1980's.