Single-player games like Encounter: The Lost Cards
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Encounter: The Lost Cards, 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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Fallen Isekai
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Fallen Isekai is a three-lane tactical card roguelike. Play as Lin Mo, recruit heroes from five races, build your deck, command units across three lanes, conquer the tower, and find a way back to reality.
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难蚌尖塔
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
《难蚌尖塔》是一款类《杀戮尖塔》的肉鸽卡牌构筑游戏。在这诡异且荒诞的塔中，互联网君子六艺、以及各种名场面都变成了蕴含强大力量的卡牌，你将构建卡组、击败敌人，在不断轮回的冒险中逐步揭开迷雾后的秘密。
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Elemental Lands
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Turn-based tactical card battler with roguelite upgrades. Lead your growing party of heroes to capture objectives in grid-based combat with spell draw combos. Strategically control a campaign map, gather resources & cast siege spells to push back elemental factions overwhelming your lands!
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Oh!Ware
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Place marbles into pits, chaining their movement across a living board to trigger captures and effects. Every pit is a choice, and every marble a desperate prayer
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Age of Legacy
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Age of Legacy is an unforgiving roguelike RPG with intense turn-based 1v1 combat. Choose a class to define your tactical approach, and hunt unique equipment and powerful runestones. Survival is key, because death means game over!
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Iron Resolution
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Command a mercenary company in a brutal tactical RPG where death is permanent, morale breaks, and injuries leave a lasting scar. Master multiple classes + varying terrain across 10 campaign levels, 100+ Rogue mode, or duel with friends in PvP. The Ironlands need a leader. Will you answer the call?
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Escape to Ariah
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Strategically use runes on a mystical grid in this tactical roguelike deckbuilder. Choose a character with unique abilities and runes for a variety of build ideas. Can you survive your quest to escape to Ariah?
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One More Try: Prologue
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
Fight your way through the lands of the magical kingdom in this turn-based, roguelike deck builder game. Fight your enemies by combining powerful poker combinations, enhance their effects, endow them with new properties, find magical relics and choose new classes for your hero.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
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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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Encounter: The Lost Cards — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Encounter: The Lost Cards.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.