Single-player games like Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk, 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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Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
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Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.
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Ruins of Araethia
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
An open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic medieval fantasy world. Learn to survive, fight off threats, and thrive in a harsh world.
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Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
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Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
From the creative minds that brought you Metal as Phuk and The Chronicles of Quiver Dick, Crankage Games brings you another hilarious, boner-inducing tale of epic proportions! Embark on a journey as Mary the Fairy, a cannibalistic, foul-mouthed pixie in an even more foul-mouthed world!
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Fabled Lands
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
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Roadwarden
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Dust and Salt
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Dust and Salt is a text-based narrative adventure with a pinch of turn-based tactical battles which has you as the main hero leading your troops in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go and whom to form alliances with. Force your will with either diplomacy or through war.
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Trap for Winners
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A gripping sci-fi interactive thriller that lets you shape your own character and his morality. YOU make the choices – and suffer the consequences!
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Blood Sword
Single-player alternative to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.