Single-player games like Illustack
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Illustack, 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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Tiled Gambit
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
Tiled Gambit is a minesweeper inspired roguelike where every grid is a new gamble!
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Kyvos
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
A dice roguelike. Build your own dice face by face, combine special effects, and fight enemy cards with unique abilities in fast-paced runs full of luck, strategy, and tension.
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The Hero and His Friends
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Illustack.
A fantasy roguelike adventure with unique card battles. Recruit companions and battle enemies using Companion Cards, where each round compares a random stat. Every companion has unique abilities that change the rules of combat. Build your team, adapt your strategy, and shape your own adventure.
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Fifrelin
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
A medieval betting roguelike. Each night, repay an angry wizard or finish your life as a wet sock. Hide in a bush and try to guess who's behind it by betting the only thing you have left... your life.
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Pegs of Hell
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Illustack.
A physics roguelike where you build the pachinko board yourself. Place and upgrade pegs, arrange powerful Arcana, split balls, trigger elemental chains and create absurd scoring machines before Hell's rent catches up with you.
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Coinsweeper
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
Coinsweeper is a roguelite that combines classic Minesweeper with risk management, deck-building and gambling mechanics.
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Billiard Rampage
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Illustack.
Billiard Rampage is a Roguelike-like game in the form of snooker billiards, blending deck-building with physics simulation. You play as a billiard ball that refuses to be struck, rolling toward victory by building your deck, collecting stickers, and using chalk in ever-changing rules.
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Scrambled Ships
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
A Yacht Dice Roguelike set on a ship with a mysterious figure, trapped in an endless game night atop a sunset cruise. Think outside the box, buy items, and progress through the rounds, or fall to the ever-increasing score targets.
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政通人和
Single-player alternative to Illustack — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Illustack.
"Peace and Prosperity" is a independently developed ink-wash style historical strategy game set in an alternate pre-Qin period of China. Starting from a small village of just a few hundred people, and conquer all sides to gradually build their own vassal state with millions of people.