Single-player games like Card Detective
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Card Detective, 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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Last Kids on Earth: Hit the Deck!
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Detective.
The Monster-Zombie Apocalypse means no homework, no parents, and no rules! Become zombie-fighting, monster-bashing heroes in this action-packed rogue-like strategy card game.
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Grave Profits
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Build the most game breaking party you can in this dungeon crawling roguelike auto-battler. Recruit, level up, arrange devastating card synergies, and descend into cursed dungeons alone or with a friend in online co-op
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Shadows Across The Sun
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
You are one of the last to fight back — a scavenger, a soldier, a changeling — surviving run after run across the wreckage orbiting the dying star. Each attempt takes you closer to the truth buried at its core.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Orb Devils
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Detective.
A short experimental deck building roguelike! Use Attack Cards on enemy intentions to weaken their attacks, Use Heal Cards on status effects to increase their effects! Play as a Demon bounty hunter looking for their Target in purgatory as you combine and use Orbs.
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Umblight
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Descend through the corrupted underworld in Umblight, a gearpunk roguelike deckbuilder about merging your cards together. Build a deck of shadow and light cards strong enough to survive, but is it enough to reach the bottom of the world?
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Salt Chapel
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Salt Chapel is a dark roguelite deckbuilder where your deck is your crew. Recruit strange sailors, inherit their cards and burdens, sail a haunted sea, and fight horrors in battles driven by unique Black Metal songs.
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.