Single-player games like Into the Restless Ruins
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Into the Restless Ruins, 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 Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
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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Drop Duchy
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Restless Ruins.
From the creators of Vampire Survivors comes a turbo-charged, turn-based roguelite deckbuilder! Deal world-ending combos, blitz through infested dungeons, and master the Turboturn to obliterate hordes of familiar foes with a chaotic hand of cards.
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Dungeon Clawler
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Restless Ruins.
Dungeon Clawler is a Roguelike Claw Machine Deckbuilder. Build your deck, grab weapons and items from the claw machine to battle enemies, discover powerful perks that create game-changing synergies and unleash crazy combos as you fight your way through the dungeon!
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
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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Hand of Fate
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.
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Rogue Hex
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!
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Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Loop Hero
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Binaries
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Test your reflexes and awareness as you simultaneously guide two lovable balls through over 100 brightly-coloured challenges in a controller-smashingly tough BAFTA nominated platformer.
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Dead End Job
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
Dead End Job sends you into a madcap, Ren & Stimpy-esque world to bust up ghosts. It’s a procedurally generated, couch co-op, twin-stick shooter that straps a vacuum pack to your back and puts a plasma blaster in your hand. For you, it’s just another day in the office.
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Dungeon Golf
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
It’s mini golf in a dungeon (duh). Whack your way through lava, traps and monsters using a lute, your fists, or your own skeletal leg. You can even score a hole-in-none! Compete with your friends online or together to be the true Dungeon Golf champion.
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Ice Cream Wars
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Into the Restless Ruins.
A madcap arcade driving game in the unexpectedly cut-throat world of the frozen confectionary distribution industry. Race against the clock (and Gelatoni's henchmen) to provide the residents of Rippleton with the sweet frozen treats they're craving.
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Into the Slimy Mines
Single-player alternative to Into the Restless Ruins — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Into the Restless Ruins.
A roguelike tower defense with a card-driven twist. Build your deck, carve out tunnels, and deploy defences directly into the path of the swarm. Rank up your chosen Guild and rescue your Dwarven crew to get off this frackin’ slime-infested moon!