Single-player games like Shift'n Slay
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Shift'n Slay, 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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Twilight Wars
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shift'n Slay.
Twilight Wars is a tactical dungeon crawler set in a neon-drenched cyberpunk future. Corporations rule the world. Rebuild a shattered spy agency, assemble a team of elite operatives, and wage a covert war to reclaim the world from the shadows.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shift'n Slay.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Othercide
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shift'n Slay.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shift'n Slay.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Rogue Waters
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shift'n Slay.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shift'n Slay.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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Hard West 2
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shift'n Slay.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
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Hard West
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Shift'n Slay.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shift'n Slay.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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RUINER
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
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Judge Dredd 95
Single-player alternative to Shift'n Slay — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Respect the badge! Dredd is back, and he's cleaning up the streets of Mega-City One again in this classic shoot-em-up platformer.