Single-player games like Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate, 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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The Ouroboros King
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The Ouroboros King combines the strategic depth of chess with the build variety and replayability of roguelikes. Assemble a formidable army, discover powerful relics, and buy surprising gadgets to defeat the Coven.
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Pawnbarian
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Pawnbarian is a quick-playing, turn-based puzzle roguelike. Play cards to move your hero like a chess piece, and conquer challenging dungeons full of cunning monsters!
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For The King II
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
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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Drop Duchy
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
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One Step From Eden
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
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Nuclear Throne
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
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The Wratch's Den
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
A byte-sized Dungeon Keeping roguelike: dig out your lair, populate it with monsters and protect the Wratch from heroes come for easy prestige.
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MOONPONG: Tales of Epic Lunacy
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Psychedelic Roguelite Pong 'em up where you go to bring back the Moon. A crazy, addictive, and hilarious arcade-action game based on the granddad of all video games.
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Metavaxx
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The world's first minesweeper shooter. Identify infected cells, peacefully clear your way around them... or shoot 'em down and face the consequences.
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Spectrum Forces
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Make up your squads out of 9 unique spaceships and go clear 3 planets from hordes of robots in not-so-classic horizontal shoot-em-up style!
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Scavenger of Dunomini
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
The world's first match-3 trash pile defender! Protect and manage your pile of garbage while recycling it into deadly defenses against thieving drones.
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Rush for the Ages
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Remake history and race your opponents for a complete and glorious timeline in this lightning-fast card game.
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Ecstatic
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Rave spider goes to the bullet-hell ball: shoot rockets out of your butt, dodge and destroy waves upon waves of drones, slow down time whenever you don't move.
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Pigments
Single-player alternative to Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
Be a fruit locked in a room, dodge circular saws and paint as much of the level as you can.