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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Serandor The Last Knight
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Serandor The Last Knight is a short challenging, 2D side-scrolling hack-and-slash action game. Embark on a dark journey as Arlen, master precision sword combat, and avenge your fallen kingdom.
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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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Blades & Battles
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Relive the era of beat 'em ups in a new legend! Wield your sword as Arthur or Lancelot and fight side by side in epic battles inspired by the classic Golden Axe, now in 3D with pixelated 2.5D graphics and full of retro action.
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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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Dawar: Ashes of the Snow
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with A Bastard's Tale.
Dawar is a third-person action-adventure game. Carve your path in a punishing, UI-less world. Master the combat mechanics. Dismember your enemies. Reach your goal.
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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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The Shadow of Shadows
Single-player alternative to A Bastard's Tale — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with A Bastard's Tale.
Lilith is a young Shadow that wants to be a Light. She embarks on a journey to learn how Light is made but is about to find out a horrible secret. Will you help her turn the tides?
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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.