Single-player games like Shardkeep
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Shardkeep, 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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Leaf Us Alone
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Build a powerful army with synergistic abilities, and prove your strategic mastery in this unique deckbuilding roguelite. Command your forces in battle, triggering outrageous combo to defeat the invading Voidlings threatening to consume the world.
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Cyberdeck Shuffle
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Hack the system in this deckbuilder meets strategic shape-matching puzzle game. Swap bits to match codes, play cards to annihilate the grid and place synergistic modifiers, and chain combos to break through cyber defences and infiltrate the corporate network.
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Glazed Mirror : Myriad Cards
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Randomly deal the cards, with the Role cards determining the card pool. Based on the technique cards in hand, play them in sequence to trigger their effects. Alter cards alter the initial deal, and the Phantasm challenge the depth limit.
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Match! The 12 CZ Wars
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
"Match! The 12 CZ Wars" is a roguelike strategy game blending match-3 and buff-building. Partner with 12 Zodiac Maidens to repel ancient primordial beasts. Navigate random events, battles, and upgrades. Carefully choose paths, manage resources, and empower your Maidens to secure victory.
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Mind Match
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Not your usual Match-3. Trapped in your own imagination, match ideas to fuel abilities that upgrade every fight. Beware, Dark Ideas cloud your board and force you to rethink. Place relics that twist the rules. Face Monsters that fight back, and climb a tower built from your own creative blocks.
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Vaethorn: Realm of Legends
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
A tactical roguelite card game set within the pages of an ancient, living storybook, where every card is a fate. Choose your Lord, cross the realms of Vaethorn, and write your own legend.
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Legends of Gems
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
400+ gems, 40+ combos & relics offer endless builds! Collect elemental gems, fuse them strategically, and counter unique enemy mechanics to forge world-shattering combat styles.
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Fragment Collapse
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
Fragment Collapse is a satisfying tile matching rogue-like deck-builder where you defragment your hard drive by matching clusters of files. Discover powerful cartridges to upgrade your computer, boost your files with enhancements and build massive combos for file-busting mayhem!
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Hexhorde
Single-player alternative to Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
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 Shardkeep — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shardkeep.
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.