Single-player games like Shogun Showdown
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Shogun Showdown, 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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StarVaders
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
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LONESTAR
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
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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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
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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Backpack Hero
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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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Cobalt Core
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
A sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder with a deep new single-axis spin on tactics games! Dodge missiles, line up your cannons, and blast 'em out of the sky... Then get to the bottom of these time loops, before it's too late!
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Fights in Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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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Knights in Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
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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Monster Train 2
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shogun Showdown.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Rift Wizard 2
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
Rift Wizard 2 is a tough as nails traditional roguelike wizard simulator. You play as an immortal amnesiac wizard who must journey through the cosmos to defeat his nemesis. Each run, you'll build a unique repertoire of spells, passive skills, and magical artifacts.
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The Land Beneath Us
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.
A fast-paced, turn-based rogue-lite dungeon crawler. Unleash skill combos, wield a variety of weapons and battle through the mythic Underworld of Annwn. Conquer the 7 Lords, collect Soul-Tech, and save The Creator. With real-time tactical decisions and endless replayability, runs are never the same!
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Shogun Showdown: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shogun Showdown.
Fight the army of the Shogun in this free version of Shogun Showdown, 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!