Single-player games like Death Howl
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Death Howl, 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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Wildfrost
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Take on the elements in Wildfrost, a tactical roguelike deckbuilder! Journey across a frozen tundra, collecting cards strong enough to banish the eternal winter…
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StarVaders
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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Floppy Knights
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Meet the Floppy Knights: tangible projections summoned from floppy disks! Tactics fuse with card game mechanics as Phoebe and Carlton, a brilliant young inventor & her robot-arm bestie, square off in turn-based battles. Select your Knights, hone your deck, and execute your strategy for victory!
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Roguebook
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
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Duelyst
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
The depth of CCG meets the strategy of tabletop gaming in Duelyst! Every choice matters, from your General and deck to positioning on the 9x5 battleboard. Competitive head-to-head turn-based battles at its best!
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Ash of Gods: The Way
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Solve tactical puzzles in constantly changing battles and overcome circumstances that are NEVER in your favor. Defend your commander, win duels, capture points, experiment with your strategy to defeat a superior enemy, and make decisions that affect your story.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
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!
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Hyper Light Drifter
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Howl.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
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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Mewgenics
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Death Howl.
Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
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Blasphemous
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Death Howl.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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Mind Scanners
Single-player alternative to Death Howl — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Death Howl.
Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...