Single-player games like Caves of Qud
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Caves of Qud, 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 Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Caves of Qud.
Explore randomly generated content and experience the thrill of a classic tactical turn-based rogue-like RPG! Choose from a diverse cast of characters, each with their own unique abilities and strengths. Get ready for an unforgettable journey of strategy, skill, and discovery.
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Rift Wizard
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Rift Wizard is a tough as nails fantasy roguelike featuring challenging turn based combat and deep open ended character building. Craft your spellbook from over 100 unique spells and abilities and fight your way through a series of procedurally generated challenges to defeat your nemesis.
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UnReal World
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
The cult classic open-ended wilderness survival roguelike taking place in the ancient North, iron-age Finland. Throughout the years, UnReal World has been praised for its incredible depth, realism, atmos and immersion. Lose yourself in the most intricate, detailed and enchanting iron-age game world.
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Jupiter Hell
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
True Roguelike. Turn-based shooter. Permadeath. Tribute to the sci-fi classics of the Golden VHS era. Successor to DRL. Just you and your gun against hordes of horrors and monstrosities. Give them hell to the rhythm of heavy metal.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
A fun, fast, light-hearted, turn-based RPG, where the tradition of old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe!
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Soulash 2
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Soulash 2 is a sandbox RPG roguelike with a procedurally generated open world, simulated history, skill-based progression system, customizable abilities, material-based crafting, building, trading, and the possibility of total mayhem. Will you save your world or destroy it?
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Cogmind
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Cogmind is a sci-fi roguelike epic in which you play a robot building yourself from components found or salvaged from other robots. Explore a living, breathing world through turn-based tactical combat, or sneak, hack, and fly your way to victory.
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Sproggiwood
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Bring civilization to Sproggiwood, a story-driven, turn-based roguelike set in a humorous world inspired by Finnish mythology. Grow your civilization and plunder procedural dungeons with six unique classes. Outsmart mischievous monsters who work together in unexpected ways. No two dungeon dives are alike.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Caves of Qud.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
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Dwarf Fortress
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Caves of Qud.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Elin
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
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Stoneshard
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Caves of Qud — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Caves of Qud.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.