Single-player games like Trulon: The Shadow Engine
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Trulon: The Shadow Engine, 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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Soul Saga
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Fly an airship, manage a guild, and defend your sky world from literal destruction.
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NEOVERSE
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Neoverse is a beautiful, fantastic game consisting of adventures with thrilling challenges. It is a strategic, action, rogue-lite, deck building game that will test the player’s skill. Start an adventure with unique heroes to save the world along various timelines.
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Children of Zodiarcs
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
A story-driven, tactical RPG set in the fantasy realm of Lumus; a world divided by affluence and poverty. Take control of Nahmi and her fellow outcasts, utilising a brand new deck and dice based combat system to strike a blow to the noble Lords’ and Ladies’ unquenchable thirst for profit.
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Detective Girl of the Steam City
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Play as Sophie, a private investigator not unlike Sherlock Holmes. It's up to Sophie to uncover the hidden truths of London through her investigations. What mysteries and intrigue await her? Find out in this steampunk RPG!
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Rise Eterna
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Follow the story of Lua and unveil the mysteries surrounding her origins in the tactical RPG, reminiscence of the 16-bit era Japanese strategy games. Recruit up to 14 characters with unique abilities and defeat your worst nightmare in epic fights.
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Skyborn
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Life under the iron rule of the winged Skyborn race isn’t so bad for Claret Spencer, the star mechanic of a successful airship repair shop, present her with broken machinery and she’s sure to fix it. She’s one of the fortunate ones, not all who live under the watchful eye of the Skyborn are so lucky…Little does she know that her stable,...
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Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Gamindustri has been taken over by a new threat, and the CPUs are nowhere to be found! It’s now up to their younger sisters to step into the spotlight and save the day in this hilarious, deeply customizable JRPG!
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SteamWorld Heist
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!
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Knights of Pen and Paper 2
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Prepare to inhabit a world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. Knights of Pen & Paper 2 is a turn-based, retro style, pixel-art adventure full of danger, intrigue, death, and saving throws!
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Knights of Pen and Paper 3
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Enter the new and improved world of chivalry, class warfare and off-beat pop references. Knights of Pen & Paper 3 is a true sequel to the turn-based, retro style, pixel-art adventure full of danger and saving throws you hold so dear!
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Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Cabals combines the strategic deck building of card games and tactics of a chess like board game. The classic collectible card game is now designed from the ground up for PC. Choose your side, build your perfect deck and battle in the War of Cabals to decide the fate of humankind!
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Cabals: Card Blitz
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Build decks and fight auto-battles.
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Knights of Pen and Paper 2: Free Edition
Single-player alternative to Trulon: The Shadow Engine — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Trulon: The Shadow Engine.
Join the retro RPG world of Paperos - become a Knight of Pen and Paper in the newly revamped "Free Edition"!