Single-player games like Pelican Empyrean
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Pelican Empyrean, 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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DinerDeck
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
A cooking roguelike deckbuilder where you combine ingredient cards from your deck to make recipes, and serve every dish to the right customer to survive seven escalating nights. You can enhance your score by leveling up your cards&recipes, buy new ones and use power items to win the game.
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Tavrik
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pelican Empyrean.
Tavrik is a hex-grid roguelite deckbuilder where every card reshapes the map. Build roads and bridges across a dangerous medieval world, then reach the exit before your energy runs out—with a friendly cat at your side.
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Smerk: Wacky Autobattles
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
A deckbuilding roguelike autobattler of chaotic combos, watching numbers go up and breaking the game.
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Pokermancer
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
A roguelike deckbuilder where poker hands are scored on a grid, not played from a hand. Link neighboring cards across a 4x4 grid into pairs, straights and flushes, then slide, swap and delete cards to bypass hazards that block the paths you need.
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Leaf Us Alone
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
Build a powerful army with synergistic abilities, and prove your strategic mastery in this unique deckbuilding roguelite. Command your forces in battle, triggering outrageous combo to defeat the invading Voidlings threatening to consume the world.
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Faryloopa
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
Build the board. Play the cards. Roll the dice. Faryloopa is a roguelike deckbuilder meets boardbuilder where every run is a new layout, new synergies, and bigger scores to chase.
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Par Under Review
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
During golf’s Golden Age in the 1920s and 1930s, hickory gives way to steel and the modern bag takes shape. Draft your equipment and play across course blueprints in a turn-based golf roguelike. Cards and dice model the golfer while you handle the strategy, the probabilities and the pursuit of par.
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Tic Card Toe
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
A Turn Based Strategy Roguelike with Deckbuilding elements that transforms Tic-Tac-Toe into a High-Stakes Combat Tournament!
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Joon Shining
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
Master the elements. Explore mystical worlds. Harness ancient powers. Joon Shining is an enchanted golf-like platformer with a fantasy twist. Use magic to bend physics, influence environments, and make impossible shots, as you puzzle your way through a strange & mythic multiverse
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After Light Fades
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
Solve, evolve, and let go. In this mystical, magical sokoban puzzle journey, each artefact you master must eventually be left behind. Explore seven emotionally resonant fantasy worlds, casting away artefacts tied to grief, memory, and transformation.
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Dream of the Star Haven
Single-player alternative to Pelican Empyrean — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Pelican Empyrean.
A giant-leap 1st person platforming journey through islands in the sky! Recover your stolen body parts, gaining new powers for each part you find. Delve into the strange gilded-cage secrets of the conscious place known as Star Haven