Single-player games like NetHack: Legacy
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to NetHack: Legacy, 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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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NetHack: Legacy.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Vulture for NetHack
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NetHack: Legacy.
Vulture for NetHack is an isometric graphical interface for the roguelike engine: NetHack.
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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NetHack: Legacy.
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.
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Tales of Maj'Eyal
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NetHack: Legacy.
Tales of Maj’Eyal is a roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building. Play as one of many unique races and classes in the lore-filled world of Eyal, exploring random dungeons, facing challenging battles, and developing characters with your own tailored mix of abilities and powers.
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Caves of Qud
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NetHack: Legacy.
Inhabit a deeply-simulated science fantasy world and chisel through layers of thousand-year-old civilizations. Build a character from over a hundred mutations and cybernetics. The award-winning sandbox roguelike & RPG full of robots, deep lore, and sentient plants.
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with NetHack: Legacy.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a traditional roguelike dungeon crawler that's simple to start but hard to master! Every game is a unique challenge, with six different heroes, randomized levels and enemies, and hundreds of items to collect and use.
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with NetHack: Legacy.
The epitome of a modern traditional roguelike: with turn-based play and a RPG-like skill progression system, it hearkens back to some of the major aspects of this genre. This game has an incredible depth, with a deep inventory system, vehicles and boats, NPCs with their own stories, and more.
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Dungeons of Dredmor
Single-player alternative to NetHack: Legacy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with NetHack: Legacy.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.