Single-player games like EPIC IDLE TALE
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to EPIC IDLE TALE, 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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Idle Kingdom
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with EPIC IDLE TALE.
Idle Kingdom is all about "number-go-up". Over 10 skills to train, lots of enemies to defeat, and so many items to collect!
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Cornerfall
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with EPIC IDLE TALE.
A text-based idle RPG that lives in the corner of your desktop. Build your character, send them into cursed lands, and check back to find new loot, defeated bosses, and higher tiers unlocked. All without lifting a finger.
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Ruins Runner
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with EPIC IDLE TALE.
Craft, fight, and explore a procedural 2D world — biomes, ruins, crypts, and vaults. Choose a class, build your kit, and delve solo or in friends co-op. Hunt Story bosses across the map, or push Crawler runs and extract before greed kills the run.
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Necromancer Idle: The Endless Drain
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with EPIC IDLE TALE.
Defeat The Necromancer and free the world from his evil! An Idle/Incremental inspired by RPGs and Roguelites: choose between Soldier, Ranger or Mage, die and rise again keeping your innate experience, automate your actions and reincarnate until you end the curse that drains your life.
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Incremental Quest - Dungeon Depths
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Casual with EPIC IDLE TALE.
An incremental RPG where you venture into a dungeon to delve as deep as possible—fighting monsters, looting, and leveling up. Can you defeat every boss? How deep can you go?
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挂机修仙
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with EPIC IDLE TALE.
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Chest & Blade
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with EPIC IDLE TALE.
A dark fantasy idle RPG where your hero fights on its own. Play Warrior, Mage or Barbarian, farm bosses and chests for loot, then spend it on crafting, skills, runes and augments to push one act further.
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Background Hero
Single-player alternative to EPIC IDLE TALE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with EPIC IDLE TALE.
Every hero starts somewhere, usually with a dull axe, an even duller pickaxe. Background Hero puts you in charge of building one from scratch, one skill at a time. Idle progression, tiered upgrades, task lists, resources, dungeon rewards -- perfect for the completionist chasing the elusive 100%