Single-player games like Five Elements
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Five Elements, 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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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
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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Deathtrap
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Harebrained Schemes' biggest Shadowrun game to date, and the definitive Shadowrun RPG experience available on PC. Now a standalone title with tons of new content & improvements!
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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Pit People®
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
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Final Upgrade
Single-player alternative to Five Elements — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Elements.
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!