Single-player games like Crimson Desert
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Crimson Desert, 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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Dragon's Dogma 2
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crimson Desert.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single player, narrative driven action-RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience – from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
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Save Princess Torosso
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Save Princess Torosso is a fantasy 3D action adventure with ranged magic combat, skill card progression, and 3D platforming obstacles. Instead of complex builds, it focuses on intuitive controls and stage clearing like a classic arcade game.
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On the Dragon Wings - Birth of a Hero
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Get ready for the Best Dragon Riding Experience! You are not born as a Hero. But you can become one of them! Bruce and Ursula are brother and sister. One day their life starts to change with a Dragon. Now, It is time to become a Hero by saving their captive father from Dark Rider.
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Monster Hunter Wilds
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.
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DragonSword : Awakening
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Explore the anime-style open world of the Continent of Orbis, brought to life with Unreal Engine 5! Recruit unique companions, unleash spectacular Status Ailment tag-team action, and embark on an epic journey to save the world from the threat of a Dragon reawakened after 60 years.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.
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Dragon Age™ Inquisition
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Winner of over 130 Game of the Year awards, discover the definitive Dragon Age: Inquisition experience. The Game of the Year Edition includes the critically acclaimed game, all three official add-ons - Jaws of Hakkon, The Descent, and Trespasser - and more.
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Red Dead Redemption 2
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.
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Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Crimson Desert.
Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...
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Starfield
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Crimson Desert.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Crimson Desert — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.