Single-player games like Matelotes
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Matelotes, 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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Demolitors
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Command powerful Demolitors, battle enemy machines with unique Insignias, upgrade each machine through its skill tree, unlock even stronger Insignias, and defeat formidable bosses.
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Roguebound Pirates
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Loot, upgrade & dominate! Your inventory IS your ship in this action roguelike. Customize weapons, create game-breaking synergies, and claim your place as the most overpowered pirate across the seas!
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Food Devils
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Matelotes.
You're the last chef in a post-apocalyptic world. Attract adventurers with monstrous food, make them sign contracts with the Food Devils and organize expeditions to collect wicked ingredients! Customize your characters, build the perfect restaurant and plan every move in this Tactics-RPG Roguelite.
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Court Wizard
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Cast spells, brew potions, and command defenders in this real-time strategy game. Choose from wildly different wizard archetypes, master spells with talent trees, and survive endless waves of attackers. Every wizard changes how you play. Can you defeat all of the bosses?
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Marque & Reprisal
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Explore. Trade. Fish. Whale. Colonize. Fight. Pillage. Survive. You are a sea captain in the year 1522, and the whole world is yours to discover in this roguelike sandbox historical sailing simulator.
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Pirate Survivors
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Matelotes.
Cursed to the abyss, your skeletal crew battles hordes of sea monsters in this movement-focused bullet-heaven roguelite. Stack upgrades without limit, discover powerful synergies, unlock unique ships and captains, and challenge deadly Sea Legends as the depths become ever more dangerous.
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Here Be Dragons
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Matelotes.
Here Be Dragons is a satirical turn-based strategy game featuring unique "living map" graphics, where you lead a group of crazed captains and eradicate legendary monsters in order to allow Christopher Columbus the discovery of the New World.
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Project Zarya
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Matelotes.
Project Zarya is an open-world adventure set in post-apocalyptic Russia, where every day is a fight for survival. Explore, gather resources, build shelters, craft equipment, and battle the infected alone or with friends.
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To Hell With The Ugly
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
To Hell with the Ugly is an adventure game where you play as Rock Bailey, a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped. Alternate between turn-based combats and investigation in this film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian.
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Edgar - Bokbok in Boulzac
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Crackpot outcast Edgar sets out to Boulzac to save his squash, and instead uncovers an unearthly secret at the heart of the city. A colourful, surreal and utterly bonkers point-and-click narrative adventure.
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Looking For Fael
Single-player alternative to Matelotes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Matelotes.
Hello, this is Fael... Listen, this is going to sound strange, but... I think I'm lost in the apartment. Right now... I... I don't know where I am. Can you come and help me?