Single-player games like The Abyss Within
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to The Abyss Within, 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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Banners of Ruin
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Abyss Within.
Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.
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Hadean Tactics
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
Hadean Tactics is a roguelike deckbuilding game fused with autobattler elements to create a unique strategy experience. Use your cards to influence the actions of your units and help your Hero defeat the Six Wings of Hell!
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DungeonTop
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
A rogue-like deck-building experience coupled with table top battles. Choose a hero and allegiance then dive deep into the dungeon, evolving your deck for survival. Each choice you make matters, even in between battles!
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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Abyss Within.
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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Monster Slayers
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Abyss Within.
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.
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Pyrene
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
Defeat hellish monsters and rebuild your home in Pyrene, a fast paced roguelike dungeon-crawler. Play with different heroes & spells, collect powerful relics to upgrade your deck while uncovering the mysteries behind your village’s destruction.
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
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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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
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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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
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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Trials of Fire
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
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Dream Quest
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Abyss Within.
Play cards! Kill monsters! Level Up! Dream Quest is a roguelike deckbuilding game inspired by the likes of Ascension, Magic: the Gathering, and Shandalar. Explore randomly generated levels as one of 13 classes in short, 30 minute, sessions.
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Erannorth Chronicles
Single-player alternative to The Abyss Within — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Abyss Within.
Erannorth Chronicles blends old-school card strategy with deep RPG progression in a vast sandbox world. With no fixed story, revel in unmatched freedom and limitless character customization.