Single-player games like Dark Year
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dark Year, 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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Necrodungeon
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Fight the undead scorge. Upgrade your powers. Retrieve holy relics. Free the world. NECRODUNGEON is a procedural retro first-person dungeon crawler where you can combine countless powers to raise against the forces of evil.
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Halls of Torment
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?
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The Moon Hell
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Dark Year.
Welcome to a world of darkness, where every step can be your last. Explore a stunning world filled with fear and horror, solve puzzles, and endure combat trials to become a hero and protect your world from darkness. Become a warrior ready to fight anything that stands in your way in this action RPG.
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Tyrant's Realm
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Tyrant's Realm is a roguelite action-adventure inspired by classic PS1 visuals. Explore procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds, battling through dangers that evolve with each run. Death is not the end, as the night is still young.
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Hack and Slime
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
What could be scarier than a massive dungeon-tower infested with skulls, ogres, and dragons? That those same monsters ride the largest multinational in the world with it. You know; business is business.
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Grimlord
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Grimlord is a Dark Fantasy Action Souls-like RPG - on VR. Awakened in a monastery deep in the Lonely Mountains, you walk in an epic quest as the adventurer standing before the darkness and striving for the light against the tyrannical Grim Lord.
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Grim Dawn
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
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Dread Delusion
Single-player alternative to Dark Year — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Year.
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.