Single-player games like Backpack Hero
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Backpack Hero, 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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Die in the Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but dice! Deal with enemies by combining powerful dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and risk it all hoping for a good roll on unexpected encounters.
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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Shogun Showdown
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Shogun Showdown is a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Backpack Hero.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
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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Peglin
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
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Banners of Ruin
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Backpack Hero.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
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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Dicey Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring "Reunion", a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
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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UnderMine
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backpack Hero.
An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.
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Hades
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Backpack Hero.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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Moon Watch
Single-player alternative to Backpack Hero — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Backpack Hero.
Bullet heaven, deckbuilding, and strategy – Moon Watch is a wild new mix from the creators of Backpack Hero! Master your tactics, not reflexes: stop time at will, craft a killer deck, stop the horde in their tracks!