Single-player games like Backpacker Guild
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Backpacker Guild, 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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Recruiting Against Rodents
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Backpacker Guild.
View resumes, hire employees, train them into roles, and defeat the rodents! Recruiting Against Rodents is a small indie roguelike auto-battler where you, a hiring manager, must build a team to fight 15 waves of rats from a nearby cave.
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Slotbound
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Backpacker Guild.
A roguelike auto-battler defense where luck meets strategy. Spin a 3x3 slot machine to summon units and grow your army by absorbing others. Use Items and Cores to manipulate the odds and survive challenging judgement waves and boss waves. Every spin and every choice counts.
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Primarch
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Backpacker Guild.
Primarch is a roguelike auto-battler centered on a single hero. After being exiled to a foreign planet, you must prove yourself to a fallen God in order to return home.
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Gravefire Tavern
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backpacker Guild.
Gravefire Tavern is a dark-fantasy roguelite backpack auto-battler. Recruit adventurers, arrange formations, and create builds through item shape, placement, and adjacency. Brave shifting expeditions where every victory, wound, death, and legacy shapes your tavern and the party that follows.
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Board Poker
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backpacker Guild.
A roguelike deckbuilder where you build a board, not just a hand. Drop cards onto the grid and score poker hands across every row, column, and diagonal at once. Stack rule-breaking augments, chain explosive combos, and rake in the gold.
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For The Fame
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Backpacker Guild.
For The Fame is a PVP auto-battler roguelike filled with game-breaking synergies. Explore an ever-changing dungeon, trade gold for new items and improve your build to defeat other players.
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Camp Cook: Cooking on the frontline
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backpacker Guild.
Manage a struggling wartime kitchen in this cooking autobattler. Work with the supplies you’re given, prepare meals, and ration food among warriors from the age of swords and bows. When battle begins, your actions will shape the outcome.
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Exoset
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Backpacker Guild.
An inventory-management airship-building auto-battler. Design your battlecruiser, pack its hull with powerful weapons, and arrange support systems to create synergies that multiply its firepower from hundreds to millions, then watch it battle ever-escalating threats.
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Sudoku RPG
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sudoku RPG is a new style of game that combines Sudoku Puzzle and RPG genres. The only thing that can help a miner who has been named a hero by God's mistake is your excellent brain and concentration.
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RaidTitans
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backpacker Guild.
RaidTitans is a classic-style real-time strategy role-playing game where you hire various mercenaries, craft equipment, and battle a variety of monsters. The hero, who lost everything in a single moment, is exiled to a remote village, but his story has only just begun.
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En-Train
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The end is near. A man with a single gun barely managed to get on the train, but nobody knows where this train, running aimlessly in an empty world, is heading.
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Fantasy Fishing Town
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Backpacker Guild.
Welcome to Fantasy Fishing Town!Embark on a journey to catch various fish and complete quests to find the legendary fish. Enjoy the unique pleasure of pixel graphics and side-scrolling fishing!The legendary fish - it's mine!
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Hungry Caveman
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Run, jump, and use your spear to attack animals and gather meat. It's up to you to use a variety of items to help with the hunt and keep the hungry caveman well-fed. Are you ready to embark on a prehistoric adventure with the Hungry Caveman?
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Idle Catfarmia
Single-player alternative to Backpacker Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Backpacker Guild.
Help the cat fairies to arrange resources, produce and harvest crops, and manage the farm. The more efficiently the farm grows, the richer your pockets become. Show some clicking skills to unwelcome visitors who occasionally appear on the farm.