Single-player games like Tides of Caldmere
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Tides of Caldmere, 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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Mistworld
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Mistworld is a fantasy RPG that embraces the classic spirit of the genre while offering a rich and expansive world.
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Dreadloop
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Dreadloop is a turn-based RPG set in a dark-fantasy world, where life is bound by memories - etched in text, captured in paint and sculpted by hand - a gift turned curse, that must be broken. Gather a team, claim powerful gear and kill anyone in your way.
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A Noite Sem Fim
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
A Noite Sem Fim é uma aventura com elementos de RPG e combate por turnos por um reino de fantasia medieval onde um conflito entre deuses e ambições humanas marcam a terra.
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Mordheim: City of the Damned
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
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Monsters' Den: Book of Dread
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Enter the Monsters' Den, a place of endless adventure, battle and reward! Lead your party of four heroes through each level of the ever-changing dungeon, fighting in turn-based battles and hunting for that elusive rare loot. The web-game classic comes to Steam!
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Fight Life: Vanguard
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
Engage in tactical turn-based combat, manage and upgrade each character, and strive to reclaim harmony in a world on the brink of oblivion. Take on the mantle of leadership as you guide a mercenary squad through perilous landscapes, selecting your comrades from a diverse pool of skilled recruits.
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Hexhorde
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
A pixel-art horde survivor. Pick a hero, wade into the swarm, and let your weapons fire while you move, level up, and shape a build — stacking upgrades, chasing synergies, and evolving your gear across stages full of enemies.
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The Ancient Caverns
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Tides of Caldmere.
A dark-fantasy roguelite dungeon crawler. Choose a class and descend through ever-shifting caverns, battling tier-scaled monsters floor by floor. Death takes your gear, but the artifacts you recover are yours forever. Loot, craft, and return to town to grow stronger.
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Bagatto
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.
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Bulwark Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
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Twigs and Firewood
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
A cozy first-person woodland game. Wander autumn glades gathering twigs and firewood, tend a crackling campfire, cook hearty meals, and travel between peaceful areas — buying tools, comforts and campsites to make each spot your own. No pressure, no fail states: just gentle days by the fire.
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Crownhold
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Crownhold is a cozy storybook tower defense. Line winding roads with archers, mages, artillery and barracks, upgrade them into 12 mighty specializations, lead a hero and rain meteors on the goblin horde across 21 hand-painted levels — then hold on in Endless mode.
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Verlicia Saga
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
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The Antler and Ale Inn
Single-player alternative to Tides of Caldmere — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tides of Caldmere.
A cozy fantasy tavern-building sim. Lay the floors, raise the walls, and furnish every corner — then cook, brew, and pour for a village of hungry guests. Hire your crew, run the inn upstairs, and grow a four-table taproom into a legendary multi-storey estate. No timers — play at your own pace.