Single-player games like Shorted
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shorted, 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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Index 1391
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shorted.
In this techno-gothic roguelike deckbuilder, journey to the heart of a twisted Sanctum to destroy the VIRUS infecting your faith. Wield sacred cards to defeat corrupted foes, build a powerful deck, and equip rule-altering Doctrines that reshape the rules of combat.
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A Bun Above
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Stack it. Don't drop it. Cash in on synergy. A physics-stacking burger roguelike where neighbouring ingredients chain effects into each other — the taller and tidier your build, the bigger the score. Draft a deck, pick from 8 cooks, work the shift.
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Laurus
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Rig the machine until it pays out wrong. Draw symbols from your bag across five reels, chain paylines, and slot circuit-board artifacts into combos the house never accounted for. A roguelike deckbuilder about the arithmetic of very bad odds.
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My Snake Likes Apples
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
A short, minimalist incremental game about raising a foolish snake and helping it go the distance.
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Facelet
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Facelet is a roguelike deckbuilder played on a scrambled puzzle cube. Twist layers to line up colors, cash them in, and build a deck that scores a cube nobody would ever finish. Spend your winnings on Algorithms, Mods, stickers and Tools, then take the bigger cube into the next Depth.
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Dataminers
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Get inside the mind of an ethical hacker and race against the firewall as you collect data, hack terminals and bring enemies down from the inside. Dataminers is a casual logic game, where you climb and clear towers full of data mines.
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First Age
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shorted.
A turn-based strategy card game set in the Neolithic Age. Sacrifice villagers, tame mammoths, and build powerful card synergies to lead your tribe through the threat of the Dark Ages. Will your people stand the test of time?
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Gambeat
Single-player alternative to Shorted — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shorted.
Start with pawns, end with clowns. Build a roster of evolving pieces, stack game-breaking stickers, and chain together absurd high scores in this chess roguelike deckbuilder.