Single-player games like Othercide
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Othercide, 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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Iratus: Lord of the Dead
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
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Darkest Dungeon® II
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Legend of Keepers is the perfect mix between Dungeon Defender and Roguelite. You have been hired as a dungeon manager by the Dungeons Company. Your job is simple: protect their dungeons!
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Dungeon Rushers
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
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Crowntakers
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.
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Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Phoenix Point
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
The acclaimed strategy game from the creator of X-COM. Fight tactical battles on procedural maps against a foe that adapts to your tactics. Manage diplomacy and economy on a global scale. Research, explore, overcome. Now includes Steam Workshop support for mods!
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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
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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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?
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Marvel's Midnight Suns
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
FIGHT AND STRATEGIZE LIKE A SUPER HERO IN THE DARKER CORNERS OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE. Play as The Hunter, a legendary demon slayer who must lead a team of Super Heroes and supernatural warriors facing apocalyptic threats.
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XCOM®: Chimera Squad
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.
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Moonscars
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Othercide.
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
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Star Renegades
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
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Nova Hearts
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Othercide.
A mysterious force of power transforms you and other highly attractive people in your area into superheroes and villains! TEXT, DATE and FIGHT your friends and enemies alike.
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Ex Sanguis
Single-player alternative to Othercide — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Othercide.
Bleed the world back to life in a series of tactical, turn-based bloodbaths! Lead your STILLAE, elite warriors in the fight to save a dying world from the forces of STASIS. Slay foes, kick them back on the timeline, and trigger chain events where elegance and blood flow as one.