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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 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wargroove — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rogue Waters — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionStrategyAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Storm Guard: Darkness is Coming — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Inkbound — Steam game cover

    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.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Star Renegades — Steam game cover

    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!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Curious Expedition 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy — Steam game cover

    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...

    2009AdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified — Steam game cover

    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.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM® 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Slay the Spire — Steam game cover

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Raiders Of The Lost Island — Steam game cover

    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.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mummy, mummy, mummy! — Steam game cover

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Halfway — Steam game cover

    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 ...

    2014ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Wargroove 2 — Steam game cover

    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!

    2023Strategy19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Witchbrook — Steam game cover

    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...

    2026IndieSimulationRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →