Single-player games like Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Sword of the Stars: The Pit, 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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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
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Hack, Slash, Loot
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
A single-player turn-based dungeon crawler. Take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
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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Cogmind
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
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The Curse Of Yendor
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Kill monsters, get loot, solve puzzles, complete quests! A sword and sorcery adventure where your magic shapes the world. A classical rogue-like with a modern feel. "Your nemesis has found the Amulet of Yendor... Defeat him before he ascends to godhood!"
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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
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Golden Krone Hotel
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Golden Krone Hotel is a gothic horror roguelike. Fight vampires with sunlight or become a vampire yourself and sneak in the shadows. Combines classic turn-based combat with dynamic lighting, an innovative potion system, and fast paced gameplay.
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Terra Randoma
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Terra Randoma is a turn-based roguelike RPG in a procedurally generated open world. Travel a world full of curiousity and perilous dungeons. Develop your character however you want with skills, talent stones and randomized items while you discover an ancient secret.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Enter the Gungeon
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
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Jupiter Hell
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.
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Rogue Legacy 2
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
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The Pit: Infinity
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Enter a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains... a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka. Enter The Pit again for the first time, in this unique Roguelike / FPS hybrid!
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Hoards of Glory
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Hoards of Glory is a dice placement game for 1-4 players. Players take on the role of a Viking captain forced to follow through on his grand boasts! Developed as an answer for how to playtest a tabletop during a pandemic, Hoards of Glory grew into a video game in its own right!
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Planetary Control!
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
Invade strange worlds with alien armies! populate and shield your planets! Assassinate, Sabotage and Nuke your opponents! Collect victory points and achieve... PLANETARY CONTROL!
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit 2
Single-player alternative to Sword of the Stars: The Pit — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sword of the Stars: The Pit.
The Pit2 returns to the turn-based Roguelike roots of the indie classic and takes you to another alien facility filled with broken machines, warped creatures, and new surprises!