Single-player games like Boiler & Blood
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Boiler & Blood, 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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Dark Rail
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Turn-based management roguelike. Command the Inquisition and rule an industrial city on the empire’s edge. Use your train to meet prisoner shipment quotas by hunting heretics and slaying magical beasts. Produce supplies, contain revolt, and sacrifice prisoners to stop the madness.
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Our Fleet Is In Orbit
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
A single-player space-strategy roguelite about reconquering a shattered empire across a procedurally generated galaxy. Plan fleet battles that unfold on your orders, and drive ground invasions front by front across the planet below. Every ship, crew, and army you lose is gone for good.
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IPS 13: All Signals Lost
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Boiler & Blood.
Take command of the massive VOD(Vehicle of Destruction) and journey across planet Gaiganthra with your IPS(Inter-Planetary Squad)-13 crew to uncover the mystery of humans there. Be prepared for the worse and ready to fight. Upgrade your VOD, hire new crew factions, to be the ultimate War Machine.
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Ironfront Express
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Boiler & Blood.
Upgrade your engine’s arsenal in this bullet hell, tower defense roguelite featuring the most heavily armored locomotive in existence. Engineer and command the Ironfront Express in a unique take on lane defense where you upgrade with specialized turrets, drones, and tactical abilities.
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SOG: Vietnam
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
Head to Vietnam as a lone SOG operative. Gear up, upgrade your skills, and explore the danger-filled jungles. Complete the missions assigned by your country and eliminate enemies using napalm and artillery in a brutal, tactical, turn-based 2D roguelite that does not forgive mistakes!
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Submarine Homesick Blues
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
A real-time submarine management and survival game with tactical pause, where you manage crew, systems, and resources under constant pressure.
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Ants in Space!
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Boiler & Blood.
Mate, merge, and mutate your space ants to repel an invasion of asteroid-riding termites in this roguelike strategy game!
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Continuum
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
A generation ship roguelite where no one aboard survives the journey. Travel the stars one world at a time as each generation shapes your ship and writes a new chapter in the chronicle.
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PULSARI
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Boiler & Blood.
A precision rhythm arcade game where the music doesn’t begin until you earn it. Strike beats from four directions to build each track layer by layer, then keep the music alive because one miss can tear it apart.
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The Big Suck
Single-player alternative to Boiler & Blood — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Boiler & Blood.
A short incremental game where you are the disaster. Destroy fields, cars, buildings. Gather wreck to grow and spend it on upgrades inside the big skill tree.