Single-player games like A Bastard's Tale
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to A Bastard's Tale, 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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End of Knights
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Destroy unholy hoards of the undead and defend your stronghold! Gain new abilities and hone your skills in this challenging arcade action game. Can you survive the End of Knights?
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Cubes and Knights
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
You are strong and huge, you have a heavy sword in your hands, and somewhere deep an ancient evil is hidden. The King himself sent you on a difficult campaign: to find the immortal enemy of all people. Find ancient artifacts and work your way through the labyrinths with steel and magic.
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Driven Out
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations and deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly in this seamless world without any load screens.
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Bot slash Bot
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
You click - You dash - You slash. Bot slash Bot is a fast-paced, top-down Hack n‘ Slash in which you control a rogue robot slashing & dashing through your former co-machines holding you captive! It's all about speed. Time is running out.
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Eternal Samurai
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Possess your enemies and take revenge against the evil lords of the land in this retro-platformer action game
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The Violets of Amicus™
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Attack, dodge, and counter the monsters invading the land of Velare in The Violets of Amicus, a 2D action-adventure inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and modern combat games alike. The ferocious Violets are waking from their ancient gardens. Can a lowly courier save the kingdom?
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Abberbury
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Enter the dungeon of a medieval castle full of traps, enemies, mysteries! Can you overcome all obstacles to justice?
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Treasure Drifter: Nian
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
"Treasure Drifter: Nian" is a game combining defensive action and walking exploration. Bring your partner to learn different character stories, defeat difficult enemies, and unlock different puzzles on the long road. Grow and explore the world in the cycle of departure and return.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with A Bastard's Tale.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with A Bastard's Tale.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Shadows of the past
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Shadows of the past is a visual novel for adults only. In a small town, private detective Josh Wilson leads a quiet and measured life, solving small problems for the locals. But everything changes when Ellie shows up on his office doorstep....
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Hammer of Virtue
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with A Bastard's Tale.
A hammer-smashing action game with fully destructible environments. use your hammer for combat or smash the environment to launch debris towards your enemy to create emergent and chaotic gameplay interactions in a wild adventure.