Single-player games like Pixel Dungeon
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Pixel Dungeon, 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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Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Quest of Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.
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Desktop Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Each step into the unknown heals you and reveals new obstacles as you guide fresh heros to glorious retirement or ignominious death. Master tactical spells, appease ancient gods and get rich through taxidermy in this award-winning quick-play puzzle-roguelike.
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Dungeon Souls
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
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Cardinal Quest 2
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
Hack, slash and rush the forces of darkness. Assault castles and mountain lairs to liberate all in this super-sleek modernization of the classic roguelike formula! Will you play a crafting Alchemist, a sneaky backstabbing Thief... or something else?
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pixel Dungeon.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to Pixel Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Pixel Dungeon.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.