Single-player games like Griftlands
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Griftlands, 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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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
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Roguebook
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Embrace the challenge of a roguelike deckbuilder with unique mechanics from the developers of Faeria and Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering™. Build a team of two heroes, unleash powerful combos and defeat the legends of the Roguebook!
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Deep Sky Derelicts
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Deep Sky Derelicts is an original combination of turn-based strategy and RPG, enriched with tactical card combat and popular roguelike elements. Explore derelict alien ships, fight, loot and upgrade your gear, all in distinctive retro-futuristic comic book aesthetic style.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
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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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Astrea is a DICE-deck-building roguelike that flips the script on deckbuilders by using dice instead of cards and a unique dual “damage” system: Purification vs Corruption. Build a dice pool strong enough to purify Astrea's out-of-control corruption and save the Star System.
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Gordian Quest
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
An epic deckbuilding RPG inspired by old-school classics like Ultima and D&D, using modern gaming concepts like roguelite elements and turnbased strategic combat. Lead and nurture parties of heroes. Forge bonds and discover new skills among them. Guide them to unravel the curses laid upon the lands.
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Tainted Grail: Conquest
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
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Knock on the Coffin Lid
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Investigate your own death, find ways to break free from a time loop, choose a hero who will ascend to the throne and rule the Northern gate! The fates of whole nations of the land of Midian depend on your choices.
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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Peglin
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
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Wildermyth
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
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Fights in Tight Spaces
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
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Decktamer
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Deck-building meets monster catching in this turn-based roguelike. Recruit enemy cards to your party as you dive into the depths of the abyss. Will you kill them or will you tame them?
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Nowhere Prophet
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
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Gloomhaven
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Lead your band of mercenaries in the land of Gloomhaven, work with unsavoury individuals, shape the fate of the region, fight your way through horrific places and get rich or die trying in this ruthless Tactical-RPG.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
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Oxygen Not Included
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
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Don't Starve
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
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Mark of the Ninja
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
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Rotwood
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven.
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Hot Lava
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
The Floor is Hot Lava! Run, jump, climb, and surf across nostalgia-packed environments flooded with hot molten lava. Explore alone, or join your friends. And whatever you do, don’t touch the floor.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Griftlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Griftlands.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.