Single-player games like Abyssal Breeder's Journal
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Abyssal Breeder's Journal, 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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Craftaway: Tactics
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
Fight, Strategize, and Power up in this tactical roguelite with progression, equipment, card crafting, and campaigns! DEMO COMING SOON!
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Overbuffed
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
A dark fantasy roguelike deckbuilder with auto-battler combat. Build your deck, summon creatures, upgrade your weapon, and fight your way through floors filled with ever-deadlier enemies. Every run is different. Every mistake can be fatal.
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POKOR
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
POKOR is a story-driven roguelike tactical turn-based card RPG. Players take on the role of Heart, commanding a deck of playing card soldiers to engage in turn-based battles against enemies as they venture deeper into a vast, pale, and ever-changing palace to uncover the truth and the true self.
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Lootdeck
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
Every item you equip adds new action cards to your deck. Lootdeck is a tactical roguelite deckbuilder deeply integrated with tabletop combat mechanics. Craft your own unique playstyle through the loot you find, outsmart enemies on a tactical grid, and delve deeper into an ever-changing dungeon.
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Deckmon
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
Deckmon is a card-based strategy roguelite game inspired by blackjack. As a Deckmon trainer, you command your three Deckmon in battles against other Deckmon, challenge the 5 major league gyms, and ultimately defeat the league champion to become the ultimate Deckmon Master!
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Pemkie Island
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
Pemkie Island is a monster taming RPG adventure, in a roguelite format. Travel across the 5 different regions while discovering and taming unique creatures called Pemkies. Master their traits, choose the right skills and build the best team possible to restore balance!
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Empire in Decay
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
Start a rebellion and fight chess inspired turn-based combats in this roguelike deckbuilder. Upgrade your units and cards wisely. You will need it to progress through the districts of Daandria, the city where the tyrant king awaits you. Save this Empire in Decay.
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Folklore War Game
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
The folklore war. Build a deck, pick a folklore, and settle the fights the legends never had. A roguelike deckbuilder about dying, rebuilding, and one more run.
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SEC//SIM — Security Engineer Simulation
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
Stand watch as the defensive AI in a SOC at 2 a.m. Pull one anomalous line from a flooding log, prove it with a grep pipeline, name it in ATT&CK terms, then cut the attack without losing uptime. A dozen-plus real attacks, detections you write yourself, twenty-plus nights, more endings than one.
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NO KING IN HELL
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
A turn-based strategy RPG with elevation-based maps and monster raising. Weaken and seize enemies to control them that same turn. Assign classes, raise, evolve, and fuse monsters to build squads. Manage invasion and defense forces as rival factions compete for control of the continent.
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Devour & Evolve
Single-player alternative to Abyssal Breeder's Journal — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Abyssal Breeder's Journal.
You are born at the bottom of the food chain, in a first-person maze that grows more dangerous the deeper it runs. Weaken your prey, then choose: devour it, or bind it and carry it home. What you carry home lives in your nest, pairs, and lays — and the egg it lays is the body you wake up in next.