Single-player games like Cultist Simulator
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cultist Simulator, 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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BOOK OF HOURS
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cultist Simulator.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
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Sultan's Game
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cultist Simulator.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
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Scarlet Hollow
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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Black Book
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
“Black Book” is a dark RPG Adventure, based on Slavic myths, in which you play as a young sorceress. Fight evil forces in card-based battles and explore the world, where humans live alongside mythological creatures.
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Loop Hero
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Cultist Simulator.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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SUNLESS SEA
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
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Inscryption
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Cultist Simulator.
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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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cultist Simulator.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
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Pillars of Eternity
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cultist Simulator.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
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Tyranny
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cultist Simulator.
Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Cultist Simulator.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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A House of Many Doors
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
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Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling.
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West of Loathing
Single-player alternative to Cultist Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Cultist Simulator.
West of Loathing — a slapstick comedy stick-figure wild west adventure role-playing game.