Single-player games like Below the Crown
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Below the Crown, 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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Pawns into the Dark
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
The worst may be standing right next to you. Lead four adventurers through a dungeon shrouded in darkness, uncovering one tile at a time in a turn-based tactical game of limited resources and uncertain threats.
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MEGACHESS
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
MEGACHESS is a roguelite dungeon crawler with chess elements. Blast through high-paced tactical battles, adapt your army against outnumbering foes, craft and combine your units to form MEGA-PIECES and obliterate the bosses.
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Zeitnot
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
Chess you already know, rules you don't. Pieces have HP and gear. Shop between fights, stack gambits, roll the dice if you're feeling stupid. Lose the trial, lose the run.
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Dice chess
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
A new-age chess game combined with math. Free to play with your bro offline, your friends or any players online.
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Board of the Kings: A Chess RPG
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
A tactical roguelike role-playing game based in the original thousand-year classic, Chess
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THROWN
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
Roll for survival. THROWN is a roguelike dicebuilder combining turn-based strategy and horror. Trapped in the basement, forced to play a twisted tabletop game against your kidnapper, grow your dice bag and piece together who you are, and why you're here.
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DEATHMATE
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
DEATHMATE is a chess-themed roguelike deckbuilder. Build an army of pieces, stack a deck full of moves, and battle your way across the map towards the Grim Reaper.
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Of Grit & Graves
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
A roguelite turn-based tactical RPG inspired by classic tabletop dungeon crawlers, where strategic thinking meets the thrill of the dice. Command your party in tense tactical grid combat across seven perilous realms to destroy the prismatic dragon and end the curse.
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Shotgun Knight
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Below the Crown.
Shotgun Knight is a hardcore precision platformer. You will embark on an impossible climb with nothing but yourself and a shotgun to propel yourself upwards while falling losing all your progress countless times.
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Duskers
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
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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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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A Virus Named TOM
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Below the Crown.
Hack your way through brain scrambling puzzles while maneuvering through a thumb cramping maze of enemies.
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Duskers 2.0
Single-player alternative to Below the Crown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Below the Crown.
What will you sacrifice to bring humanity back? Scavenge derelict spacecraft with your drones via a command-line interface, navigating past whatever is still alive in the dark, in order to save what little of humanity is left.