Single-player games like Darkest Dungeon® II
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Darkest Dungeon® II, 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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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
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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Dungeon Mercenaries
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Dungeon Mercenaries is an endless replayability RPG. Every time you wake up, it's a new start, procedurally generated map, randomly generated characters,explore the dungeon with different mercenaries, get reasure chests, gold coins, mercenaries, potions, food, and glory!
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The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.
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Heroes of Steel RPG
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
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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Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
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Golden Krone Hotel
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
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Monsters' Den: Book of Dread
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Enter the Monsters' Den, a place of endless adventure, battle and reward! Lead your party of four heroes through each level of the ever-changing dungeon, fighting in turn-based battles and hunting for that elusive rare loot. The web-game classic comes to Steam!
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Salt and Sanctuary
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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Grim Dawn
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
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Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
TORMENTUM is a dark Point & Click adventure game.The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by works of painters H.R. Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed.
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WORLD OF HORROR
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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Dishonored
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
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Dragon Age: Origins
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
When history tells the story of the Fifth Blight, what will be said about the hero who turned the tide against the darkspawn? Determine your legacy and fight for Thedas as a noble dwarf, an elf far from home, a mage apprentice, or a customized hero of your own design.