Single-player games like Heretic's Fork
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Heretic's Fork, 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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HF: Probation
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Dear candidate, start your free probation period as manager of Hell! Punish sinners by using our deck-building system, constructing fiendish towers to manage underworld hordes. Good luck!
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Lost For Swords
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Lost For Swords is a Roguelike Deckbuilder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring. Make your way up the tower, equip weapons and armor, cast spells and scrolls, activate auras, collect loot and defeat monsters in tactical turn-based combat.
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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 Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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.
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
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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Zoeti
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Zoeti is a turn-based roguelite that features a deck of playing cards used to create card combos and activate skills in the heat of battle. Bolster your arsenal of skills through battles, discoverable upgrades, or aid from the locals which enhance your plays to overcome the evil plaguing your land.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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My Little Life
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
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My Little Spider
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Adopt a cute pet spider that lives anywhere on your desktop! Team up to discover unique bugs, decorate their web, and unlock adorable spider hats as you work or relax.
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Zapling Bygone
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Heretic's Fork.
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
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Heretic's Rapture
Single-player alternative to Heretic's Fork — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Heretic's Fork.
Build a tower out of tetris-like blocks to survive endless waves of demons. A tetris-like, tower-defence, deck-building, bullet-heaven.