Single-player games like The Nightmare Cooperative
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to The Nightmare Cooperative, 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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Road Not Taken
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Road Not Taken is a roguelike puzzle game about surviving life’s surprises. You play as a ranger adventuring through a vast, unforgiving forest in the aftermath of a brutal winter storm, rescuing children who have lost their way.
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Runestone Keeper
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Runestone Keeper is a roguelike dungeon crawler that blends classic RPG elements and turn based strategy. Heroes, monsters, equipment, events, magic and skills, traps and devices, shrines and altars, Goddesses and merchants. Choose your weapon and begin an epic adventure!
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Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
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Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
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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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Trials of Fire
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
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Othercide
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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Bad Hotel
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
IGF FINALIST 2013 BAFTA WINNER 2012 TIGA AWARD FINALIST 2012 1. Build Hotel. 2. Make Music. 3. Stop Tadstock. An insane hybrid of a tower defense game and a procedural music toy with tons of bullets (and healthy number of Wu-Tang references and credit crunch satire). The hit game for iOS now available on Windows and Mac!