Single-player games like Rune Teller
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Rune Teller, 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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Shadow Hold
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
Shadow Hold is a 2D coop action adventure rpg where you will fight spirits, the undead, and hell itself. Adventure through haunting and zany environments that blend the normal and ethereal while defending your party and eliminating the demonic threat.
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Life Souls
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
Life Souls is a cooperative roguelike for 1–6 players featuring dynamic arena combat, free-form skill combinations, epic bosses, and permanent progression.
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The Tale of Destiny Island
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
A soft whisper and a distant bell herald your arrival. Bear witness to your own rebirth and rewrite history. Explore a vibrant world in this pixel-art action RPG and defeat a host of enemies. Then you may just witness the ultimate ending.
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Soulframe
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rune Teller.
From the creators of Warframe emerges a new Fantasy Action RPG. Forge your legend with blade, bow, and magick as you lead the charge against a world-devouring corruption.
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Luminary
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
Luminary is a solo or co-op OpenZone Action RPG that creates a balanced experience for everyone. Using a unique world and character progression system, explore vast hand-crafted lands together, uncover hidden treasures, level up your town, and push back the darkness with light.
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DragonSword : Awakening
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rune Teller.
Explore the anime-style open world of the Continent of Orbis, brought to life with Unreal Engine 5! Recruit unique companions, unleash spectacular Status Ailment tag-team action, and embark on an epic journey to save the world from the threat of a Dragon reawakened after 60 years.
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Ashen
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Rune Teller.
Ashen is an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a place to call home.
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Legendary Tales
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
Legendary tales is a VR Action roleplaying game with up to 4 player co-op. Collect items, enhance your abilities and fight your way through an ever changing dungeon to make your own Legendary Tales.
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Nother: an indie souls-like
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Rune Teller.
Enter the dangerous open world of Nother.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Rune Teller.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Dragon's Dogma 2
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Rune Teller.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
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Legend of Zero
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Rune Teller.
This is the next installment of Legend of Cina, it's a bit more simple and hopefully you will like it.
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Breath of the Gods
Single-player alternative to Rune Teller — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Rune Teller.
Knowing the true potential of humanity, the True Gods are fighting to preserve humankind. The War will be settled by two Chosen Ones, both sons of Gods, brothers in blood, enemies in the battlefield.