Single-player games like Pathway
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Pathway, 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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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
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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Wargroove
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
Take to the battlefield with Wargroove, a strategy game for up to 4 players! Choose your Commander and wage turn-based war on battling factions. Design and share maps, cut-scenes and campaigns with easy-to-use editors and in-depth customization tools!
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Rogue Waters
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Pathway.
Rogue Waters is a Pirate Tactical Turn-Based Rogue-lite. Play as Captain Cutter, commanding your ship and crew through procedurally generated encounters to seek revenge. Recruit, train, and upgrade crew, use powerful sea creatures, and engage in dynamic naval and melee combat to gain the upper hand.
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The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
The Storm Guard is a challenging turn-based roguelike role-playing game inspired by the Night’s Watch in the Game of Thrones. You assume the role of the Lord Commander of the Storm Guard leading the order during difficult times. An ancient dragon and its minions have returned, threatening the realm of men.
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Inkbound
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
A turn-based tactical roguelike from the creators of Monster Train. Play solo or co-op, create powerful builds, and save the Atheneum.
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Star Renegades
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
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Curious Expedition 2
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
Curious Expedition 2 is a turn-based narrative roguelike set in a reimagined version of the late 19th century that uses procedural gameplay and story elements to create completely unique and epic adventures every time you play.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Pathway.
Take on the role of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and get ready to avoid numerous traps and to solve riddles. A mysterious murder, numerous suspects, and the famous mummy for a case that appears to be not that easy...
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pathway.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Raiders Of The Lost Island
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Pathway.
Raiders of the Lost Island is a LOCAL co-op party game where up to 4 players compete in looting treasures from a sinking island, while building a boat to survive the final wave.
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Mummy, mummy, mummy!
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
Mummy, mummy, mummy! - a puzzle platformer game about mummies, made in 2D hand-drawn graphics.
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Halfway
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Pathway.
Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds. Until now, they were alone ...
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Wargroove 2
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pathway.
Trouble stirs on the shores of Aurania. An ambitious new faction has unearthed forbidden relics capable of catastrophic consequences. But how far will they go to achieve glory? Take to the battlefield, sea, and sky with a cast of new Commanders, using your wits to wage turn-based war!
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Witchbrook
Single-player alternative to Pathway — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Pathway.
Discover magic and mystery in Witchbrook, a spellbinding witch life-sim for up to 4-players! Start your life as the newest resident witch in the bustling seaside city of Mossport. Make friends, find love, and discover a world filled with wonder and charm on the road to graduation and beyond...