Single-player games like BLACK SOULS
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to BLACK SOULS, 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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BLACK SOULS II
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Despair. Fear, Madness, once again. An original work based on "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass." Dark Fairy Tale Fantasy x Psychological Horror RPG focusing on the themes of "Exploration of a Mad World" and "Life or Death Combat against Demonbeasts".
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Faye Falling
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Faye Falling is a single-player, story-driven, turn-based RPG. You play as a recently deceased spirit trying to find their way in an afterlife seeped in turmoil. It is up to you to save your soul, and every soul, from the great darkness that threatens it.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
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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The Nameless: Slay Dragon
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
The Nameless: Slay Dragon is like a mix of CRPG and JRPG. In short - how to slay the immensely powerful and cunning evil dragon? You will play as a young man having a bloody feud with a dragon, and face powerful, sinister and tricky enemies with friends....
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Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.
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유어 블라이트
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
'Your Blight' is a turn-based dark fantasy RPG that survives in a city sealed off by the appearance of a vampire. Survive for a limited time of 21 days. Explore the city. Meet the survivors. And uncover the secrets surrounding you and the world.
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Persona 3 Portable
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
If I say there’s an hour “hidden” between one day and the next... would you believe me? Master the power of the heart, Persona, and uncover the tragic truth of the Dark Hour.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with BLACK SOULS.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Fear & Hunger
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
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LISA: The Painful
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
The miserable journey of a broken man...
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Pathologic 2
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.
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MARY
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
MARY - is an adventure shooter with surviving elements where you will survive in zombie apocalypse playing as a girl named Jane.
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Red Dead Redemption
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Experience the story of former outlaw John Marston as he tracks down the last remaining members of the notorious Van der Linde Gang in the PC debut of the critically acclaimed predecessor to Red Dead Redemption 2.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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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Starfield
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with BLACK SOULS.
Starfield is the first new universe in 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4.
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POSTAL 2
Single-player alternative to BLACK SOULS — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with BLACK SOULS.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?