Single-player games like Elin
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Elin, 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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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
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Stoneshard
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Wayward
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.
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Noita
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
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The Doors of Trithius
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
The Doors of Trithius is an open-world RPG roguelike. Engage in tactical turn-based combat in a living world of warring factions, wandering behemoths, and ancient magic. Level your skills, cook, craft, and explore dungeons. Will you follow the story, or let adventure be your guide?
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Soulash 2
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
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Disgaea PC
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Elin.
The hotheaded Laharl seeks to be the next big Overlord in the Netherworld...and will destroy anyone that gets in his way! With his devious vassal Etna and the angel trainee Flonne as his unlikely allies, he must battle his way to supremacy and retake the throne in this over-the-top RPG adventure!
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Elin.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Project Zomboid
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Elin.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Terraria
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Elin.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
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Creator of Another World
Single-player alternative to Elin — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Elin.
A roguelike RPG with a high degree of freedom. Explore the world full of adventures, interact with its inhabitants, marry, steal, do farming and fishing, blacksmithing and forging, mix potions, build towns without being tied to any goal!