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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Othercide
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
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Tainted Grail: Conquest
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
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Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
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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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Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
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For The King
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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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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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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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.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Darkest Dungeon® II.
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