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Single-player games like RiftGuard

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to RiftGuard, 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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    Outlaw Raiders — Steam game cover

    Outlaw Raiders

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with RiftGuard.

    Lead your outlaw crew on raids to rob, steal, and fight for riches. Build up your camp and recruit more outlaws so you can become the ultimate outlaw.

    2026StrategySingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lone Tower — Steam game cover

    Lone Tower

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with RiftGuard.

    Defend one tower. Face endless waves. Build synergies, unlock permanent upgrades, and survive the chaos.

    ActionStrategyRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tombstone Tactics — Steam game cover

    Tombstone Tactics

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with RiftGuard.

    Tombstone Tactics is a roguelike autobattler played from the wrong side of the crypt. Raise skeletons, arm them with the gear of fallen heroes, and sacrifice the weak to reshape your forces. Build the right army to keep your Lich alive through the run.

    2026StrategySimulationCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slot Shogun — Steam game cover

    Slot Shogun

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RiftGuard.

    Roll deadly Combat Arts and slash your way to the title of the new Shogun in this slot-based samurai swordplay roguelike.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual2.39 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Brawl To The West — Steam game cover

    Brawl To The West

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RiftGuard.

    "Join this hilarious auto-battler! Equip gear, grow fruit trees, and tame monsters to build your team. Choose unique characters or battle others in ranked mode—every run is fresh! Weaklings perish; victors take all. Will you go the farthest? Dive in now!"

    2025StrategyIndieCasual8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Auto Jurassic Knights — Steam game cover

    Auto Jurassic Knights

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RiftGuard.

    Build the strongest squad of knights and dinosaurs to clash with your friends! Progress through the shop, gamble, merge, synergize, and equip your way to victory!

    StrategyIndieRPGFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rejected Draft — Steam game cover

    Rejected Draft

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RiftGuard.

    You are a flawed doodle thrown in the trash. Battle rival sketches in an idle climb for revenge. Every enemy is drawn by community artists, with alternate versions and direct credits. In an unusual twist on builds, choose which enemies appear in your world, then defeat them to absorb their powers.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Coinborne — Steam game cover

    Coinborne

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with RiftGuard.

    Coinborne is a unique Coinbuilder auto-battler. Here, everything is a coin. Clutch the chips of destiny as you traverse a crumbling wasteland. Collect, mint, and throw—amidst the clinking metal, will you tame the chaos with logic, or gamble everything on the brink of madness?

    StrategyIndieRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bumper — Steam game cover

    Bumper

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    BUMPER is a casual game made on Blender Game Engine where the player must to destroy the vehicles as much as possible, trying not to get caught by the police, reach the checkpoints to get time and improve your weapons.

    2016ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    War Cube — Steam game cover

    War Cube

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    War Cube is a strategy game, each team is on a face of the cube and the player must turn sideways to position your troops so that they stop in an attacking position, being behind or beside the enemy.

    2016IndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Space Hit — Steam game cover

    Space Hit

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    On SPACE HIT you finished your space mission, and it's just time to come back home, but your journey will not be so easy as you think...

    2017IndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TOTOBALL — Steam game cover

    TOTOBALL

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    TOTOBALL, also known as table football, is a football-inspired game. In it players have to pull, push and spin the soccer players that are stuck in cross bars, a simple game that can give you lots of fun times with your friends

    2017SportsIndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    FIGHTING BOX — Steam game cover

    FIGHTING BOX

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    Fighting box is a casual game with characters that use boxing gloves, the player must to hit the opponent until his energy bar drain out, or the opponent fall out from the ring. The game use procedural levels, so the player can play as long as he survives or until the time out per round.

    2017IndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SALVATOR — Steam game cover

    SALVATOR

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    All souls around of the world were taken by the shadows beings and trapped in asteroids wandering through space, but there is an angel known as SALVATOR, that have the mission of rescue the souls to return them to home and save the world.

    2018ActionIndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ARENA 8 — Steam game cover

    ARENA 8

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    What happens when warriors, worlds and different times decide to face each other to know who is the best? The "ARENA 8", a place where these warriors can solve their differences.

    2018ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The last soldier — Steam game cover

    The last soldier

    Single-player alternative to RiftGuard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with RiftGuard.

    "The last soldier" is a game where the player controls a soldier who is the sole survivor of his battalion. Into the game the player will find 6 game modes and 21 goals, where the player can shoot, paralyze enemies, steal war tanks, blow up enemy tanks, escape and more ...

    2018ActionIndieCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →