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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Herman Electro
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Dungeon crawling roguelike where rooms contain puzzles, not enemies. Discover alternative solutions which use up different tools. Manage you resources, spend rare tools, and discover secrets. Will your covert broadcasts be answered? 480+ Puzzles.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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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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Ironcast
Single-player alternative to The Nightmare Cooperative — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Nightmare Cooperative.
Puzzlequest meets FTL in this Steampunk Victorian era roguelite.
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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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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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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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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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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!