Single-player games like Cardinal Quest 2
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Cardinal Quest 2, 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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Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
Explore randomly generated content and experience the thrill of a classic tactical turn-based rogue-like RPG! Choose from a diverse cast of characters, each with their own unique abilities and strengths. Get ready for an unforgettable journey of strategy, skill, and discovery.
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Pixel Dungeon
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
Pixel Dungeon is an exciting and extremely popular roguelike (more than 2 million mobile installs!). Explore the depths of Pixel Dungeon, collect useful items and fight fierce monsters to find the Amulet of Yendor - the ultimate artefact of this game world!
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Haque
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
Haque is a glitch fantasy roguelike adventure about cute monsters, low-bit hauntings, and a suspiciously talkative narrator. Choose your character and battle through forests, deserts and dungeons to defeat a mysterious evil. Die often. Try again!
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Dungeonmans
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
Crush monsters and get loots in the classic turn-based style of deep dungeons and high adventure! Grow the Dungeonmans Academy, a bastion of learning that expands as you play. Serious gameplay with a light-hearted atmosphere, combining the feel of history's great RPGs and dice-slinging adventures around the tabletop.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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I Am Overburdened
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
I Am Overburdened is a silly turn-based roguelike full of crazy artifacts and a "hero" who has 20 inventory slots.
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Rogue Fable III
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
Rogue Fable III is a traditional rogue-like game which combines the depth, complexity, and challenge of the genre classics with a shorter, more tightly focused game length.
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XLarn
Single-player alternative to Cardinal Quest 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cardinal Quest 2.
This is a heavily extended version of one of the most famous roguelike games of the 80’s named LARN. Your choice is to find a magic elixier for your daughters recovery. Therefore you have to explore a lot of unknown caves, filled with monsters, demons and traps. Good luck! You may need it!