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Single-player games like Shogun Showdown

Below are 16 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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    LONESTAR — Steam game cover

    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!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wildfrost — Steam game cover

    Wildfrost

    Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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…

    2023StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles — Steam game cover

    Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

    Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.

    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.

    2023StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    StarVaders — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure17.49 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monster Train — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Backpack Hero — Steam game cover

    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!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon — Steam game cover

    Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon

    Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shogun Showdown.

    Three Kingdoms: The Blood Moon is a turn-based Roguelike card game where you assume the role of a Shu general. Explore dungeons, gather relics, and amass a collection of cards. In each round, you can assemble a unique combination of cards and treasures to defeat your enemies and rewrite history!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure2.42 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Spell — Steam game cover

    The Last Spell

    Single-player alternative to Shogun Showdown — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fights in Tight Spaces — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021ActionStrategy4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Knights in Tight Spaces — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025ActionStrategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cobalt Core — Steam game cover

    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!

    2023StrategyIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Balatro — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024StrategyIndieCasual11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monster Train 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2025StrategyIndie18.74 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Shogun Showdown: Prologue — Steam game cover

    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!

    2023StrategyRPGFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →