Single-player games like Blackguards
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Blackguards, 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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Blackguards 2
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime. - Includes bonus content: Soundtrack, digital Art Book and Strategy Guide Book!
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Eador. Masters of the Broken World
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.
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Blightstone
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
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Crown Wars: The Black Prince
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Blackguards.
The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.
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Wintermoor Tactics Club
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
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King's Bounty II
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Blackguards.
Legend returns! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Blackguards.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Heroes of Might & Magic V
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blackguards.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
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Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
A legend reborn as Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny returns!Developed by Austrian developer Crafty Studios, Realms of Arkania – Blade of Destiny is a faithful remake of the 1992 original, adored by a generation of Role Players and one of the most successful RPG’s of the 1990’s.
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Deponia
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
In Deponia, the world has degenerated into a vast garbage dump, in which the crotchety Rufus ekes out his sorry existence.
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.
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Deponia: The Complete Journey
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Blackguards.
Junk, junk and even more junk. Life on the trash-planet Deponia is anything but a walk in the park. No surprise that Rufus had enough of that and hatches one ludicrous plan after the other to escape this bleak place.
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Deponia Doomsday
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
Can you change Deponia's fate? Do you have what it takes to change Rufus' past, present and future without accidently destroying the whole planet? Fight time itself in this action-packed, platypus-tastic and insanely hilarious story.
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The Night of the Rabbit
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
Lose yourself in a tale of magic and wonder, where anything is possible and where nothing is quite as it seems: join young Jerry and follow a peculiar white rabbit to the wondrous realm of Mousewood, a land where critters can speak and where mystery abounds.
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Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
From the creators of the award winning games “The Whispered World” and “Deponia” comes this extraordinary game Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes.
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Chaos on Deponia
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
With this long-expected sequel to the critically highly acclaimed and lavishly praised Deponia, the player enters round two. Chaos on Deponia turns out to be even wackier than its predecessor and instantly puts the player under its spell.
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The Dark Eye: Memoria
Single-player alternative to Blackguards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Blackguards.
In Memoria, players travel through different time periods, following two distinct protagonists: Sadja, a southern princess who wants to be a war hero, and Geron, a bird catcher who wants to lift a curse from his girlfriend.