Single-player games like The Lightning Struck Orphan
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to The Lightning Struck Orphan, 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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Kingmaker Academy: Warrior's Duels
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Dear warriors of the Kingmaker Academy! Face your talented colleagues in challenging duels at our school’s most important tournament! Improve your skills with each duel, become the king of warriors and rule the school. But beware, remember it’s a roguelike! You dont want to be eliminated, do you?!
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The Corpsmen
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
The Corpsmen is a deck-building roguelite where you build and lead a team of creatures to fight, hunt and harvest other monsters. Your creatures will grow and learn new skills according to how you construct them. Craft unique creatures and decks, and venture forth into the unknown.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
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...
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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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LONESTAR
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
LONESTAR is a strategic Roguelike spaceship deckbuilder. As a bounty hunter, you will capture criminals scattered across the universe. Win the shockwave battle to gain rewards and vacations. Find treasures, customize spaceships, unlock talents, defeat the felons and be a legend!
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Breach Wanderers
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
A fresh take on Roguelike Deckbuilders that lets you fine-tune your decks before each run to adapt your strategy on your way to victory. Over 1,200 cards to choose from, ten characters with their own set of unique skills, and dozens of items and missions to evolve your tactics.
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DICEOMANCER
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
DICEOMANCER is a roguelike deck-building game. Though you long for a peaceful life, you're forced to embark on an adventure. In this world of swords, magic, and guns, make good use of your dice and deck to find a way back to tranquility! What can the dice be used for? To change... anything.
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Menace from the Deep
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
Menace from the Deep is an enthralling Roguelike Deckbuilding card game that unfolds in a dark world, drawing inspiration from Howard Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Set against the backdrop of 1920s USA, the narrative revolves around a clandestine occult society.
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The Dreadful Whispers
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
A handcrafted adventure about overcoming fear and doubt. Will you defeat your inner demons or be crippled with regret ?
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Dashing Fire
Single-player alternative to The Lightning Struck Orphan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Lightning Struck Orphan.
DASH between tiny, monster-infested planets on your journey to becoming the next Sun!