Single-player games like Roots Devour
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Roots Devour, 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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Pharos Light
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
Pharos Light is a survival horror game inspired by “The Lighthouse” and Lovecraft. Upgrade the Lighthouse with unique equipment, develop the island, and survive the night.
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SEVEIL
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
A corporate-horror roguelike deckbuilder. Clock in at VEIL & CO. and find your build. Reviews, reports and overtime forms are your cards—beat rivals, recruit coworkers, and climb week by week toward the month-end performance review. Burn your health, overdraw your mind, dig up darker secrets.
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Memories Loaming
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
A horror anthology about people working along a remote highway in Labrador, Canada. Try to remain balanced and lucid at your normal job. Also, there's a bear.
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Sleep Aid
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
Not every game is meant to be fair. Not every player is meant to survive. Bluff, adapt, and outsmart your opponent in tense poker matches where the cards don't always play by the rules.
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Nabte
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
Nabte is a first-person horror game set in Mexico, 1926. Trapped inside a psychiatric institution, Remedios must find a way out without fighting back, while unexplained symptoms begin to worsen the deeper she goes.
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Bagnomor
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
Bagnomor is a bleak survival-horror set in a remote corner of Eastern Europe, where ancient entities were awakened by human folly. There is no escape, and the forest wall is closing in.
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SOMA
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
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INCLOSED
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
A twisted survival horror set in a broken harvest fair. Hide in cutouts during deadly games, endure cruel punishments, and uncover the truth behind the barn before someone awakens.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
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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CARRION
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Roots Devour.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Roots Devour — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Roots Devour.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...