Single-player games like Backstab
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Backstab, 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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Song Of Aria
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
This is a single player role-playing adventure game, where you need to play as a human and go to a different world to defeat four disaster monster bosses, obtain their disaster core, and ultimately win the game!
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Renova
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Renova is a topdown, open world ARPG with real-time combat and exploration elements. The game features a large sandbox, a number of unique dungeons and an interactive environment system.
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The Blood Amulet
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
A Psychedelic adventure and turn based RPG, with randomized loot, tactical game play and loot sorting. Stylized Visual Arts unlike any other game. Epic Boss fights. Home made music/art. Story Mode, text based game. ---Set out to defeat the Goblin Tribes and destroy The Blood Amulet. By any means.
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Dark PGT
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Dark PGT – A Souls-like game in an alternate universe of future USSR on Unreal Engine 5. You will play the role of alcoholic-schizophrenic experiencing psychological disorders and hallucinations. Travel to a village in 2030 to unravel all its secrets and solve all its problems.
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Void Sols
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Abstract ruins. Hostile shapes. No escape but forward... Death isn’t the end as you know it. Here, it’s how you grow! Each defeat teaches you more as you rise again to defeat foes with stolen blades and bows. Pushing through a broken world warped by cruelty and shadows. Welcome. This is Void Sols.
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Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
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Antichamber
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Antichamber is a mind-bending psychological exploration game where nothing can be taken for granted. Discover an Escher-like world where hallways wrap around upon each other, spaces reconfigure themselves, and accomplishing the impossible may just be the only way forward.
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Manifold Garden
Single-player alternative to Backstab — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Backstab.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.