Single-player games like The Long Way Up
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Long Way Up, 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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Crystal Core
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Crystal Core is a first-person roguelike deckbuilder where every card becomes an action in battle. Build your deck, choose your hero, and descend through the cursed Crystal Caves, battling monsters and growing stronger with every encounter. Can you survive the depths and destroy the Crystal Core?
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Kardiya: The Winds of Fate
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Rogue-lite RPG Dicebuilding game. Roll the dice, choose your companions, organize your gear, explore all of Kardia, and die. Then try again! Try again and again. Experience a different story each time. Until you find The Winds of Fate.
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Guild Idle
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An incremental idle RPG focused on hero management, buildcraft, optimization, and long-term progression. Develop powerful heroes, push them through the endless Eternal Strife, and immortalize them in asynchronous PvP where their legacy strengthens future generations.
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SALT SWEEPER
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
SALT SWEEPER is a roguelite twist on minesweeper. Sweep corrupted desert mines, fight enemies in turn-based combat, and grow more powerful with weapons and spells you find along the way.
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Guaxiang Lu: Trigram Chronicles
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with The Long Way Up.
Guaxiang Lu: Trigram Chronicles is a Five Elements & Eight Trigrams roguelike deckbuilder. Rise from Qi Refining to ascension: channel coins into Yin and Yang, play cards in the elemental cycle to trigger combos, and collect eight trigram discs to challenge the Heavenly Dao. Your journey begins now！
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The Road Remembers
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A roguelite told in plain words. Each seed is a road, and each hero who walks it leaves their mark: the thing they took stays taken, the village they saved holds a feast for the next stranger, their cairn holds their sword, and the guardian they fought is still wounded. The road remembers.
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IMMRAMA: Voyages of the Otherworlds
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A story-driven RPG you play with text or voice. No jargon, use your own words and the game understands. A hand-written world of myth responds. Real dice, factions, and consequences underneath; a complete, cinematic voyage you can actually finish. Every word human-authored. AI only does the telling.
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Zodiac Mountain
Single-player alternative to The Long Way Up — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Early Access with The Long Way Up.
Ascend Zodiac Mountain in a roguelike deckbuilder with two-sided cards. Build Yin & Yang hands, discover powerful relics, and create satisfying synergies to defeat mythical enemies.