Single-player games like Bardbarian
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Bardbarian, 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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CastleStorm
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Bardbarian.
Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.
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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Bardbarian.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
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Has-Been Heroes
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Bardbarian.
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!
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Desktop Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Bardbarian.
Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bardbarian.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Arboria
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bardbarian.
Fight, die, and fight again in this dark fantasy trollz-like roguelite. As a Yotun troll warrior, descend into the ever-changing, creepy dungeons of Durnar. Use a variety of Symbiotic Weapons and Bio-Mutations to slay enemies and heal The Father Tree.
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Rampage Knights
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bardbarian.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bardbarian.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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HoloBall
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bardbarian.
HoloBall plunges players into an action-sports arcade arena inspired by one of the most iconic games of all time. Use your paddles to hit, smash and curve the HoloBall past your opponent to score. Learn and master skillshots to outmatch your increasingly difficult opponents.
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JumpJet Rex
Single-player alternative to Bardbarian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Bardbarian.
Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?