Single-player games like Kill the Thing
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Kill the Thing, 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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Mystical Tactics
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers in a mystical world. Train your heroes in fast-paced tactical battles, equip them with powerful items and lead them to repel the Dark Lord and his legions.
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Zodiac Legion
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
Zodiac Legion is a turn-based tactical RPG where you take command of an arcane chivalric order. Expand your potential in a world of reawakening magic. Develop your stronghold, research astral powers, and lead your champions in combat against forces and beasts from beyond myth and memory.
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Primus
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Kill the Thing.
Choose your leader, build your Ludus, and lead your gladiators through brutal arena circuits filled with deadly crowd events, beasts, and rival champions on the climb toward Primus.
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Never's End
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
Master a deeply systemic battlefield where every force interacts. Move heat to create wind, shift humidity to change the weather, and compress the earth, turning rock into lava. Possess townsfolk, explore an open world, and fight back the ever-creeping Never in this turn-based tactical RPG.
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Lost In The Open
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
An unexpected assassination attempt leaves you wounded and fleeing across no man's land. To survive in this roguelike, low-fantasy tactical RPG, you must recruit strategically, fight desperately and repent sincerely.
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Bloodgrounds
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
Bloodgrounds merges tactical turn-based combat with strategic management, RPG and roguelite elements. Forged in the pits of the arena, you fought your way out and now as a wealthy patron you recruit, train, and command your team of hardened Gladiators to glory - or death.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
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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The Iron Oath
Single-player alternative to Kill the Thing — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Kill the Thing.
Command, endure, and prosper in The Iron Oath, a turn-based tactical RPG where the fate of your mercenary company rests on your decisions. Customize your roster, build your renown, and discover the secrets that await in the medieval fantasy realm of Caelum.