Single-player games like Avernum 3: Ruined World
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Avernum 3: Ruined World, 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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Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.
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Avadon 2: The Corruption
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avadon 2: The Corruption is a huge, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the second chapter in the epic Avadon trilogy. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law.
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Avernum: Escape From the Pit
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
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Avadon 3: The Warborn
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Huge, old-school, indie fantasy role-playing adventure. Features an epic story and tactical, turn-based combat. Explore cunning dungeons, hunt for 100s of magical artifacts, and use dozens of magical abilities. Many different endings. Will you save your people or betray them? It's up to you.
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Avadon: The Black Fortress
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Use your power to crush a growing rebellion! (Or join it.)
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Geneforge 1 - Mutagen
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
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Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
You are in a barbarian land. They are trying to kill you. The Queen demands you tame them. So what now? Escape into an exciting, open-ended story and cunning tactical combat. Epic, indie fantasy adventure. Freely explore a huge world, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose.
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Queen's Wish: The Conqueror
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.
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Avernum 4
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avernum 4 is the first chapter in the Great Trials Trilogy, three games that tell the tale of your land’s struggles in the face of powerful forces that seek to destroy it.
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Nethergate: Resurrection
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Spiderweb Software's classic adventure of treachery and battle in ancient times has returned! Travel back to ancient Britannia for a tale of cunning foes, vicious battles, and a race to rediscover the lost secrets of magic. Britannia is a land ravaged by war.
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SKALD: Against the Black Priory
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
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Geneforge 1
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.
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Avernum 4: Greed and Glory
Single-player alternative to Avernum 3: Ruined World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
The cult-classic saga is back! Battle for fame, power, and wealth in the subterranean nation of Avernum. Conquer an enormous underworld in this epic turn-based fantasy RPG. Features huge, clever dungeons, varied and cunning foes, 100s of artifacts to find or craft, and a really cool story.