Single-player games like Protect the Grimoire
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Protect the Grimoire, 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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Vampire Memories - 吸血鬼的回忆
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
This is a SHMUP/STG game that allows anyone to experience and play happily; Games that will allow you to enjoy playing; Games that can make it easy for you to get started with low technical requirements; SHMUP/STG games that have completely different experiences from other games;
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Starforged Legacy
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Protect the Grimoire.
Outlast the onslaught in a sci-fi survivors-like where your decisions matter as much as your firepower. Command customizable starships, enhance your arsenal with 100+ strategy-defining upgrades, and annihilate endless fleets of cosmic combatants! Carve your legacy among the stars or die trying!
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Abyss Horde
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Protect the Grimoire.
Darkness tears reality apart. Hordes of beasts, monsters, and abyssal demons surge from the depths mindless, driven only by destruction. Adventurer, the line needs you! In 《Abyss Horde》, defend against ever-stronger waves. Every run builds a new defense; every upgrade shifts the tide.
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Mortal Realm Survivors
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Protect the Grimoire.
Stranded in the fallen Mortal Realm, resistance fighter Li Anbang teams up with Luo, an intelligent entropy beast. Merge relics, activate powerful synergies, choose mutations, and survive escalating battles. Defeat the Entropy Beast King and reclaim the portal out of the Mortal Realm.
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NeuroSquad - Slay the Horde
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
Invent your own weapons in this sci-fi Roguelike shooter! Combine any weapon with any upgrade to customize your arsenal. Form a squad of holographic soldiers, redesign their guns too, and slay hordes of cybernetic enemies!
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Timber Fever
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
Cut down the infinitely tall Tree to grow stronger. Timber Fever is an action, incremental roguelike where you create chaos with wacky tools while surviving enemy waves.
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Abyssalis
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
Descend through the ocean layers, purify marine life, and survive the abyss in this bullet hell roguelite. Face colossal bosses, choose powerful upgrades, and uncover the curse's origin. Can you save the ocean before you become fish bait?
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Let Me Die
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Protect the Grimoire.
Let Me Die is a short incremental game about a hero trapped in a loop, fighting a monster. Every time you die, you gain the resources needed to push further. Turn death into power. Unlock upgrades, complete quests, create unique builds. Break the loop.
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Aeve:Zero Gravity
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
"Aeve:Zero Gravity" is an arcade space shooter about battles in open space. In a classic mode "Shoot'em'all"
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Soccer Battle Royale
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
Imagine battle royal and soccer will be combined in one game. This is exactly this game, Soccer Battle Royale.
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Me And Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Protect the Grimoire.
Me And Dungeons is a first-person action game for one player. Pass through all the dungeons to prove your courage and become a real warrior. Kill monsters, grab gains, and buy weapons. You may also create your own adventure with a simple dungeon editor.
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Candy Mandy
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Protect the Grimoire.
Classic game in the popular "three in a row" genre.
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Dust On Wheels
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Protect the Grimoire.
Who comes first to the finish in this long grueling dusty race depends on you.
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Dice Keeper
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
Play chill or try to beat the world record in this dice-based Puzzle Game, Dice Keeper the very first game of Zanarka Studios.
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Great Ball of Fire
Single-player alternative to Protect the Grimoire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Protect the Grimoire.
Help our round blue hero turn into fire in order to get rid of some nasty birds!