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Single-player games like Ruff Ghanor

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Ruff Ghanor, 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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    Indies' Lies — Steam game cover

    Indies' Lies

    Single-player alternative to Ruff Ghanor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ruff Ghanor.

    A roguelike deck-building game where you craft a deck, spark talents, discover runes, and assemble your team with partners' cards! Play unique stories for every character and explore a world caught in the clash of gods. New Puppeteer DLC just released!

    2023StrategyRPG4.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arcana of Paradise —The Tower— — Steam game cover

    Arcana of Paradise —The Tower—

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

    Choose from 20 children and perfect your deck as you battle against The Tower's bizarre inhabitants in real time! Time your guards, combo your attacks, charge up powerful magic, and collect legendary relics in your search for food, as you guide the children to the bottom!

    2023StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Power Chord — Steam game cover

    Power Chord

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

    Power Chord is a rock'n roguelite deck-building game. Assemble Earth's mightiest musicians, battle your way through legions of demons, discover new cards to enhance your instruments of destruction, and take back the city, one dive bar at a time.

    2023StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gods vs Horrors — Steam game cover

    Gods vs Horrors

    Single-player alternative to Ruff Ghanor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ruff Ghanor.

    A drafting roguelike focused on synergies and scaling, with short enjoyable runs. Recruit Gods from different mythologies, buff and upgrade them, arrange them in perfect formation, and fight cosmic Horrors in no-RNG autobattler combat to defend the Earth!

    2025StrategyCasual9.74 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arcanium: Rise of Akhan — Steam game cover

    Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

    Single-player alternative to Ruff Ghanor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ruff Ghanor.

    Arcanium is an Open-world, Strategy Card Adventure that merges Roguelite and Deckbuilding genres like never before. Control your party of three heroes, craft your deck, unlock a vast amount of cards and items and save the world of Arzu from corruption!

    2022StrategyAdventureRPG19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monster Train — Steam game cover

    Monster Train

    Single-player alternative to Ruff Ghanor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ruff Ghanor.

    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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    Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles — Steam game cover

    Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles

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

    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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    Roguebook — Steam game cover

    Roguebook

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

    Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    Slay the Spire

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

    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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    Balatro — Steam game cover

    Balatro

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

    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 →