Single-player games like Life as a Lich
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Life as a Lich, 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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Keeper's Vigil
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
As the Harbinger, you are the only Keeper who can cast spells. Stop a necromantic plague, uncover an Elven conspiracy, and decide the fate of a dying world! A text-based fantasy novel, 193,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects."
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The Nascent Necromancer
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
When you're falsely accused of sorcery, corrupt inquisitors make you the object of a witch hunt. Now, sorcery might be the only way for you to survive.
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Temple of Endless Night
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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Whiskey-Four
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Never stop running, not with the galaxy at stake. Save it at all costs, and save yourself if you can.
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Dawn of Heroes
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
By day, you're just another citizen. By night, you defend the city. But don’t quit your day job, hero. A text-based superhero novel, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
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Message in a Melody
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Can music save the human race? You and the Raqullan Empire will soon find out. Decide whether music, and the humans who make it, should survive.
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Scarlet Sails
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?
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Fallen Hero: Rebirth
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use your telepathy romance old friends and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has ever known!
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Fallen Hero: Retribution
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
So you're a villain now? Let's see if you survive the experience.
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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. Or maybe it's better to keep them closed. Seems the supernatural didn’t get the memo that nothing exciting ever happens in the little town of Wayhaven.
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Tin Star
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
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Community College Hero: Trial by Fire
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Outwit your professors at superpower school! Ace your exams, date classmates, and bring down the nation’s most wanted villains to earn your degree.
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Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the early days of society's collapse?
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Lords of Infinity
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Life as a Lich.
Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.
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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two
Single-player alternative to Life as a Lich — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Life as a Lich.
Under the lights of the carnival, will romance and adventure bloom anew? The quiet town of Wayhaven is once again the center of supernatural occurrences.