Single-player games like Nightmare Frontier
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Nightmare Frontier, 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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Rogue Waters
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
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Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightmare Frontier.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
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Miasma Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
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Chains of Freedom
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
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MEMOLITH: Forsaken by Light
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightmare Frontier.
A turn-based tactical RPG set in a medieval city overrun by horrific creatures, where only your wits and strategies can keep you alive. Plunge into The Dark Shroud to rescue survivors, inherit the memories of the fallen, and restore the shattered "Memolith" to reclaim the lost light.
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Blightstone
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
A challenging, turn-based strategy with a roguelike edge. Lead a team of adventurers to destroy the Blightstone and free the world from corruption. Use free movement, dynamic environments and collectable skills to save the crystal, and save the world.
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Bloodgrounds
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Nightmare Frontier.
Bloodgrounds merges tactical turn-based combat with strategic management, RPG and roguelite elements. Forged in the pits of the arena, you fought your way out and now as a wealthy patron you recruit, train, and command your team of hardened Gladiators to glory - or death.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Hard West 2
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.
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Re-Legion
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Nightmare Frontier.
Become The Prophet in a world of the future without the future! Lead your Cult in this cyberpunk RTS in the fight against evil corporations and heretics. Choose your creed, convert citizens, create an army and take over the city!
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Deep Blue 3D Maze in Space
Single-player alternative to Nightmare Frontier — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Nightmare Frontier.
A multi-dimensional gaming experience beyond anything you’ve ever played before. Try to control the constantly rolling ball which moves in a three-dimensional maze, collect gravitons, open the portal and escape before the platform explodes. And most important beware of everything that is purple!