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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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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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.
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Fight with love - deckbuilder datingsim
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Card Detective.
We combined card games, dating sim and roguelikes to create the most unique game about love and sex. Date your lover in turn based card combat, have sex in rhythm game boss battles and Fight with love!
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デュエホロ (DUEHOLO)
Single-player alternative to Card Detective — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Card Detective.
Rogue-like card RPG where you build your deck with cards of hololive members! Fight against holomem to strengthen your deck and defeat boss holomem!