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Single-player games like Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears, 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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    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection — Steam game cover

    Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Delve into the depths of Deepest Chamber: Resurrection, where card boosting is your key to survival. Employ this unique mechanic to augment your abilities, strategize your next moves and endure a series of increasingly perilous descents in this gripping rogue-lite, card-battling adventure!

    2023StrategyIndieRPG5.84 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pyrene — Steam game cover

    Pyrene

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Defeat hellish monsters and rebuild your home in Pyrene, a fast paced roguelike dungeon-crawler. Play with different heroes & spells, collect powerful relics to upgrade your deck while uncovering the mysteries behind your village’s destruction.

    2024StrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pairs & Perils — Steam game cover

    Pairs & Perils

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Pairs & Perils is a memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG — Steam game cover

    Abalon: Roguelike Tactics CCG

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Abalon is a roguelike adventure that fuses tactical turn-based combat and card strategy. Choose your summoner and explore a tabletop world to discover its secrets. Build the perfect deck, outsmart your enemies and become legend!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Black Book — Steam game cover

    Black Book

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    “Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters — Steam game cover

    Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Lead humanity’s greatest weapon, the Grey Knights, in this fast-paced turn-based tactical RPG. Root out and purge a galaxy-spanning plague in a cinematic, story-driven campaign, using the tactics and talents of your own personalised squad of Daemonhunters.

    2022StrategyRPG44.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monster Train — Steam game cover

    Monster Train

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Banners of Ruin — Steam game cover

    Banners of Ruin

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Assemble your party. Answer the call. Win the war. Build a deck and fight a series of turn-based combats with up to 6 party characters through the city of Dawn's Point. Each character can unlock a set of unique cards and abilities that can augment your deck in powerful, exciting ways.

    2021StrategyRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Darkest Dungeon® — Steam game cover

    Darkest Dungeon®

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

    2016StrategyIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    Slay the Spire

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GWENT: The Witcher Card Game — Steam game cover

    GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    Command mighty Witcher-world heroes in epic online PvP card battles!

    2020StrategyRPGFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RAID: Shadow Legends — Steam game cover

    RAID: Shadow Legends

    Single-player alternative to Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dragon Chronicles: Black Tears.

    RAID: Shadow Legends is a free-to-play collection RPG with 800+ playable Champions and 8 game modes. Heed the Arbiter's call and defend the dark fantasy world of Teleria.

    2024StrategyMassively MultiplayerRPGFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →