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Single-player games like ARC: Antic Runes Combat

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to ARC: Antic Runes Combat, 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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    F.R.E.D.'s Ascent — Steam game cover

    F.R.E.D.'s Ascent

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    A 2.5D rage platformer. Nine zones, each with its own physics — ice, wind, sticky floors, low gravity. You are F.R.E.D., a small machine kept asleep beneath a world that never wanted you to wake. Climb anyway. Wanderer, No-Save, and Speedrun modes.

    2026ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Glimmer Chain — Steam game cover

    Glimmer Chain

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    Use the chain to swing and propel yourself through the buildings. Execute fluid and epic moves to light up the city in the shortest possible time!

    2024ActionIndieCasual7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Runner Roy — Steam game cover

    Runner Roy

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    Runner Roy is a sidescroller platformer where you have to count both on your skills and luck to overcome (and survive!) as many machines and obstacles along the way as you can.

    2023ActionIndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SnowKnight: Super Strength, Big Head, Twin Tails — Steam game cover

    SnowKnight: Super Strength, Big Head, Twin Tails

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    A 2D side-scrolling beat'em up with story, puzzles and sarcasm. A quirky strong loli wakes in snow, wields a broken hammer, battles thugs, zombies, mutants and talking creatures, smashing her way through the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

    IndieAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Neon Shard — Steam game cover

    Neon Shard

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    Neon Shard is a 2D Platformer game featuring challenging time limited levels. Jump and stomp! Break the shards to gather resources that will help you to upgrade your factory and your character to face harder challanges.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GrassChopper — Steam game cover

    GrassChopper

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    Swing your scythe, earn coins, and spend them on a variety of upgrades to cut deeper into the overgrowth. An incremental action game about pushing further than anyone has gone before

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blockpocalypse — Steam game cover

    Blockpocalypse

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    Blockpocalypse is the shared screen multiplayer party platformer about surviving with your friends... or at least outliving them.

    2016ActionSportsIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Witcheye — Steam game cover

    Witcheye

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    Set off on an adventure as a mild-mannered witch who transforms into a flying eyeball of vengeance after a smarmy knight and wizard steal her spell ingredients.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Level UP! Factory — Steam game cover

    Level UP! Factory

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Commander! Manage your shelter with survivors in a abandoned nuclear power plant. Search resources to make different types of boxes, send expeditions, repair work areas, face enemies to defend your facilities, deploy drones and rc cars, prepare for special events and more. All in real-time.

    2024Simulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Time Re:Quest — Steam game cover

    Time Re:Quest

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A survival game with a classic style of the graphic adventures of the 80s. Current graphics, updated to the new generations and with a simple way to play. Two game modes. Discover your way and one great game. Procedural game, it is generated as you progress. Every game is different. Survive!

    2024Simulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hidden Pinball — Steam game cover

    Hidden Pinball

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    The secret game for your desktop. Enjoy over 100 themed tables, over 50 daily special events and real-time challenges. Beat the records at all the tables and earn your crowns, badges and increase your prestige. Configure it to play the way you want, even in full screen. Improve yourself.

    2024Casual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Magical Frontline — Steam game cover

    Magical Frontline

    Single-player alternative to ARC: Antic Runes Combat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with ARC: Antic Runes Combat.

    The Fantasy Card Game is available in version 2.0 with 3 New Game Modes, more advanced enemies, cards and more. The Magic Battles for the supremacy in the territory, Local Multiplayer, Tower of Mytikas and Conquest in Ziliana Gorge. Zeus awaits in the Top, the glory awaits for you. Play Now.

    2025IndieRPGCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →