Single-player games like Despotism 3k
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Despotism 3k, 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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Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Guide puny humans through Despot's Game - a rogue-like tactics army battler. Equip your team and sacrifice them through procedural dungeons as you fight enemies, and other players!
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Astronaut: The Best
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management adventure where people aren't just numbers: they're screwups. You must run a proper space academy using lies, witchcraft, and/or hard work. Guide cadets through a roguelite web of scandals and challenges, or the government will have you killed.
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Void War
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
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Brutal Orchestra
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Brutal Orchestra is a Turn-Based Roguelike Strategy Game. You died, someone killed you. You are in Purgatory and you will never escape. Make a deal with the "demon" Bosch and set off into Purgatory finding all manner of demented friends and foes on your quest to get petty revenge.
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Luck be a Landlord
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
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dotAGE
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?
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Burning Knight
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
Steal everything you can and flee from the Burning Knight's castle in this action-packed roguelike! The game features tight bullet hell, tons of items, characters to meet... and secrets!
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FTL: Faster Than Light
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Despotism 3k.
Welcome to Slime 3K, an unhinged roguelite bullet-heaven set in the Despot’s Game universe! Build a deck of crazy weapons, grow stronger and devour hordes of pink puny humans as a murderous jelly blob on a warpath of death, violence and pretzels.
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Hull Rupture
Single-player alternative to Despotism 3k — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Despotism 3k.
If the ship stops, humanity ends. Manage a spaceship, treat puny humans as resources, and repel relentless alien assaults in a base-management tower-defense roguelite where every choice seemed reasonable at the time.