Single-player games like Bloodgrounds
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Bloodgrounds, 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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Arena Monarchy
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Arena Monarchy is a gladiator management game with a heavy focus on turn-based combat. Collect loot, theorycraft builds, upgrade your ludus and become champion!
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Veilkeeper
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
A tactical RPG where your army shrinks the deeper you push. Lead fragile expeditions into unstable rifts, secure relay nodes to hold your connection, and build a shard that grows stronger with every return. Decide when to advance, when to retreat, and what you're willing to leave behind.
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Fragile Heroes
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Recruit, train, and lead ragged squads of volunteers into battle against the forces of undeath. Each run you’ll have access to a different set of heroes and classes to combine. Can you save your village and break the cycle?
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Mystical Tactics
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers in a mystical world. Train your heroes in fast-paced tactical battles, equip them with powerful items and lead them to repel the Dark Lord and his legions.
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Zodiac Legion
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Zodiac Legion is a turn-based tactical RPG where you take command of an arcane chivalric order. Expand your potential in a world of reawakening magic. Develop your stronghold, research astral powers, and lead your champions in combat against forces and beasts from beyond myth and memory.
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Sons of the Arena: Pollice Verso
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Train gladiators. Manage your ludus. Send them to the sand to fight, win, and bleed. Turn-based hex tactics where stamina, formations, and four classes — Swordsman, Spearman, Archer, Mace Fighter — decide every match. Permadeath makes every loss final.
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Sarmatian Heroes
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Sarmatian Heroes is a turn-based strategy RPG where you explore the world, develop heroes, command armies, build fortified cities, and fight tactical battles on hex-based battlefields in an alternate-history setting.
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Kill the Thing
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Bloodgrounds.
Kill The Thing is a challenging roguelike turn-based tactical RPG. Keep the corruption under control while searching for its origin. Undertake missions across four distinct regions, targeting key resources, upgrading your base, and building your roster of heroes. For the final confrontation.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Bloodgrounds.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Our Adventurer Guild
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?
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Bear With Me - Episode One
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.
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Zero Reflex : Black Eye Edition
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Circles, bullets, shurikens, rockets, saws and time ... they're all after you! Zero Reflex will tests both your dexterity and your nerves in a fast-paced punishing environment that keeps pushing your limits. You have no save points and no excuses! Be faster than a blink of the Eye!
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Agenda
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Agenda is a strategy simulation game in which you control a world-wide independent agency with a set goal of world domination. Try to claim your global influence through the power of your allies and covert operations such as assassinations, bribery or fraud.
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Last Encounter
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Last Encounter is a twin-stick action roguelite in deep space following a group of heroes trying to prevent the unavoidable by cloning their ships and designing their weapons with swappable components.
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Bear With Me - Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
The Bear With Me - Collector's Edition contains all three episodes, telling the whole story of Amber and Ted. It also includes the original soundtrack, a digital art book and full puzzle and script design documents.
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Bear With Me: The Lost Robots
Single-player alternative to Bloodgrounds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Bloodgrounds.
Bear With Me: The Lost Robots is an all new prequel chapter featuring Amber’s brother Flint and the callous detective Ted E. Bear. Take to the gritty and bustling undergrounds of Paper City, discovering new characters and rich lore leading up to the events of the first 3 episodes of Bear With Me.