Single-player games like Save Your Mother
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Save Your Mother, 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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The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Save Your Mother.
The Hyper‑Dungeon awaits! Explore an evershifting labyrinth where classic dungeon‑crawling meets exhilarating action. Challenge yourself in turn-based combat with a real‑time, arcade‑inspired twist and befriend an eccentric cast of dungeon dwellers on the quest for the legendary Sacred Groowl!
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Death's Door
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Save Your Mother.
Reaping souls of the dead and punching a clock might get monotonous but it's honest work for a Crow. The job gets lively when your assigned soul is stolen and you must track down a desperate thief to a realm untouched by death - where creatures grow far past their expiry.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Save Your Mother.
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
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Operencia: The Stolen Sun
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Save Your Mother.
Operencia: The Stolen Sun embraces everything you love about classic first-person dungeon-crawlers, enhancing the old-school turn-based RPG experience with modern sensibilities. Guide a team of memorable characters through a world inspired by Central European mythology.
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Paper Sorcerer
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Save Your Mother.
Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.
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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Save Your Mother.
Embark on a journey to a realm overrun by demons in a new epic RPG from the creators of the critically acclaimed Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Explore the nature of good and evil, learn the true cost of power, and rise as a Mythic Hero capable of deeds beyond mortal expectations.
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#BLUD
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Save Your Mother.
Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
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Sword of the Necromancer
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Save Your Mother.
Help Tama to save Koko using the powers of the forbidden Sword of the Necromancer. Turn your foes into allies and reach the depths of the Necromancer's dungeon. Defeat the guardians to gain enough soul power to bring Koko back from the dead, no matter the cost.
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Undertale
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Save Your Mother.
UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
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Lamia Must Die
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Save Your Mother.
A horrible monster has been terrorizing the local town for years, doing terrible, unspeakable things to the citizen. One day, a paladin leads several other heroes towards the cave where the monster lies in, them being the final hope for the town of Clearmill and to save it from total devastation.
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Strangers of the Power
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Save Your Mother.
Strangers of The Power is a dungeon crawler RPG where the player can select between three different characters. Each character also has one unique follower.
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Adventures of Dragon
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Save Your Mother.
Unlikely hero is thrust into a crazy world and gets involved in a grand adventure!
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Border of her Heart
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Save Your Mother.
Border of her Heart is a VN about Border control.
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Strangers of the Power 2
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Save Your Mother.
Strangers of the Power 2 is a sequel that seeks to improve and expand upon the formula of the original and help bring more of the same kind of a game that people got with the original.
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Helga: Euphorium's Song
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Save Your Mother.
Helga: Euphorium's Song is a JRPG set in a lewd world named Euphorium. Fight monsters, save the world and have sex with sexy peasant women in a humorous adventure for adults!!
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Strangers of the Power 3
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Save Your Mother.
Young adventurer's trial by fire gets out of hand and threatens the lives of multiple people.
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Bride for the Princess
Single-player alternative to Save Your Mother — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Save Your Mother.
Bride for the Princess is Erotic Yuri Visual Novel that tells a story about a Princess who must find someone to marry before her upcoming coronation due to a conspiracy; a legislation that was passed behind her back in attempt to ruin her.