Single-player games like The Banner Saga 3
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to The Banner Saga 3, 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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The Banner Saga 2
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
The award-winning adventure continues in Banner Saga 2! This epic, story-based, role-playing game continues its emotional journey across a breaking world. Bold leadership decisions, wise use of resources, and skillful battle tactics are vital to ensure your viking clans make it through alive.
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Wintermoor Tactics Club
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Wintermoor Tactics Club is a story about surviving high school, with gameplay inspired by tactics RPGs and visual novels.
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Spear Song
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Ancient Slavic knights fight against evil in turn-based tactical combat! Lead your group through the kingdom to cleanse the land from fiends and monsters! Each attempt presents a new, randomly generated journey.
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MASSIVE CHALICE
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.
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Expeditions: Viking
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Circa 790 AD. A small band of Norse warriors lands on the shores of England. History may have forgotten their names, but their actions live on. As the chieftain of your clan, let ambition guide your choices in the party-based RPG Expeditions: Viking. How will history remember you?
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King's Bounty II
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Banner Saga 3.
Legend returns! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre.
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King's Bounty: Warriors of the North
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Banner Saga 3.
King’s Bounty: Warriors of the North is a standalone entry of the beloved tactical RPG series set in the world of The Legend, generations after its events. You will lead a Viking hero, wield Rune Magic, command Valkyries, and defend the northern lands of Endoria from an undead invasion.
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Oxenfree
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.
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Stacking
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'
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Whispering Willows
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Interact with the spirits of the dead, solve the puzzles of the mysterious mansion and help Elena find her missing father in the horror/adventure puzzle game: Whispering Willows.
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What Remains of Edith Finch
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Banner Saga 3.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Banner Saga 3.
Gather your party and get ready for the kick-ass new version of GameSpot's PC Game of the Year 2014. With hours of new content, new game modes, full voiceovers, split-screen multiplayer, and thousands of improvements, there's never been a better time to explore the epic world of Rivellon!
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Towerborne
Single-player alternative to The Banner Saga 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Banner Saga 3.
Towerborne is an exciting side-scrolling Action RPG Brawler. As an immortal warrior journey across a crumbling world, uncover the mystery of the fallen City of Numbers, and push back the corruption threatening humanity’s survival.