Single-player games like The Beginning
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Beginning, 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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Untamed Tactics
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
Untamed Tactics is a Tactical RPG set in world of colorful animals. Relive the legend of Greycoat’s escape into the untamed Wilds in a tale of lost honor and finding a new home as you fight, talk, and think your way through this beautifully illustrated adventure!
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Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
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Wildermyth
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
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Endless RPG - Untold Tales
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
Craft a party of diverse characters, each with customizable skills and looks. Explore a living world with dynamic day-night cycles, changing seasons, and diverse biomes. Embark on an epic journey where you shape your destiny as the director of your unique story.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Dark Deity 2
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
Verroa is a peaceful continent on the brink of war as the Asverellian Empire seeks to expand - at your homeland’s expense. Command unlikely heroes, fight challenging turn-based battles, and watch hardship forge iron into steel. Dark Deity is back, bigger and better than before!
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The Adventurers
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Beginning.
The Adventurers is a turn-based tactical RPG where every decision shapes your legacy. Lead your party of heroes in an open world filled with random events that affect your story. Survive a high fantasy landscape where your epic saga is waiting to be written.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Beginning.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Disgaea PC
Single-player alternative to The Beginning — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Beginning.
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!