Single-player games like TALES: INK GUARDIAN
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to TALES: INK GUARDIAN, 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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FORJ
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
Fight through cursed arenas, extract with the loot, and reforge it into power. A co-op action roguelite where hand-built golems mine, craft and run your shop while you battle, and every weapon can be enhanced, imbued, socketed and rerolled at your forge.
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Realmlords
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
REALMLORDS is a fast‑paced Bullet‑hell / Spell-hell roguelite with 12 distinct classes, each offering unique weapons, abilities, and build paths. Explore 9 dangerous Randomly Generated Elemental Realms filled with unique monsters, hazards, and loot as you fight to survive each run.
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Tamespire
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
A cozy-dark creature-collection roguelite deckbuilder. Tame Spirelings, fuse their moves into a living deck, and climb a Spire that rebuilds itself every run. Evolve your team, master five clashing elements, and push your luck through endless Ascensions.
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PinPow
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
PinPow is a turn-based roguelike pinball RPG where you play as a hero sucked into an otherworldly pinball machine - battling your way through chaotic dungeons, and enemies to defeat the evil Pinball Wizard. Strategize your shots, upgrade your hero, and bounce your way to victory!
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Shadows of Beginnings
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
A dark fantasy action RPG. Arrive as an Outsider. Earn your place, rebuild a town from ash, master your class, and face the creatures threatening to consume what little remains. Your legend starts from nothing.
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Earth Forge
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
COLLECT, UPGRADE, UNLOCK AND NAVIGATE Single player adventure gameplay involves mining for materials, finding and collecting enough minerals in a randomly generated world to unlock upgrades. The upgraded player can then navigate through mines and dungeons avoiding bats to reach treasure chests.
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Oathbreak Dungeons
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
Oathbreak Dungeons is a frantic 2D action-platformer roguelite where light is a privilege and chaos is your only way out. Plunge through 50 floors of a procedurally generated abyss, collecting reality-bending cards and facing biomechanical horrors alone or with up to 4 friends!
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Bravemech: The Century War
Single-player alternative to TALES: INK GUARDIAN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with TALES: INK GUARDIAN.
A mecha action-roguelite — one full war campaign per run, solo or in 4-player couch co-op. Command a squadron through Year One of a hundred-year war, build your roster, bury your dead, face nemesis aces who remember your scars, and take your career to the online ranked leaderboards.