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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® — Steam game cover

    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?

    2016StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bizarre Watch — Steam game cover

    Bizarre Watch

    Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.

    Bizarre Watch is a challenging tactical roguelike RPG where you command a party of heroes and fight to save a city trapped in an endless gothic Nightmare. Cards shape each round, while each hero fights with their own abilities.

    StrategyIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dungeon Mercenaries — Steam game cover

    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!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Threaded Dungeons — Steam game cover

    Threaded Dungeons

    Single-player alternative to Darkest Dungeon® II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Darkest Dungeon® II.

    A world threaded in death. Can you cultivate a party of four that defies all odds? Make every action count in tactical turn-based combat. Choose your allegiances carefully. Scour dungeons in search of loot and secrets. Resist or acquiesce to tempting whispers in the darkness.

    2027StrategyIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes of Steel RPG — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Golden Krone Hotel — Steam game cover

    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.

    2017StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deep Sky Derelicts — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Salt and Sanctuary — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionIndieRPG17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grim Dawn — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tormentum - Dark Sorrow — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventureCasual4.79 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WORLD OF HORROR — Steam game cover

    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...

    2023IndieRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SUNLESS SEA — Steam game cover

    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.

    2015IndieAdventureRPG18.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dishonored — Steam game cover

    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.

    2012ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dragon Age: Origins — Steam game cover

    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.

    2009RPGDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →