Single-player games like EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5, 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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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE: IRON RAIN
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Save the world without hope. Year 2040. An action TPS where you will become one of the EDF soldiers and fight against the invaders from outer space which ruined the world. In the world settings which differs from the original "EARTH DEFENSE FORCE" series, more than 50 missions in five difficulties await for your challenge.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Live the future of despair.The year is 2024 AD. The survivors fought against the remaining threats while trying their best to continue their recovery.Three years passed in the year 2027. In a new world without hope, the time has come to once again resist the fate of the Earth.
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Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Satisfy your need of destruction by smashing armor vehicles to pieces in spectacular fashions during the epic 4 players co-op campaign. Vehicles and drivers have unique upgrades and class combination. Multiple weapons such as laser beam, giant hammer, Mech's katana.
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Steel Graves
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
A nervous Action / Strategy / Building game in multiplayer that oppose humans against aliens in huge battlefields. Build your base anywhere, upgrade your equipment, recruit hundreds of IA soldiers, and take part in the greatest intergalactic war.
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STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Play the classic STAR WARS™ Battlefront games, online and offline in this definitive collection.
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SilverFrame(纯白星原)
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
This is a 3D space combat game.You will be driving a transformable mecha to perform missions singly or with your partner.There are large fleet, missile barrage, super beam cannon, dog-fighting and other exciting challenges waiting for you.
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DAEMON X MACHINA
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Pilot your fully customizable Arsenal mech and join your fellow mercenaries in defending humanity from the corrupted machines and gigantic robots in this post-apocalyptic action game!
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Prototype™
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
You are the Prototype, Alex Mercer, a man without memory armed with amazing shape-shifting abilities, hunting your way to the heart of the conspiracy which created you; making those responsible pay. Fast & Deadly Shape-Shifting Combat: Reconfigure your body to the situation at hand.
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Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of...
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Mirror's Edge™
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5.
In a city where information is heavily monitored, couriers called Runners transport sensitive data. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, & you are being hunted. You are a Runner called Faith and this innovative first-person action-adventure is your story.
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Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit launches you into a new open-world landscape behind the wheel of the world's fastest and most beautiful cars. From Criterion, the award-winning studio behind the Burnout series, Hot Pursuit will redefine racing games for a whole new generation.
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Ultimate Destruction Simulator
Single-player alternative to EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Slow down time, spawn tornadoes, change gravity, create your own maps, play maps created by others! All kinds of missiles, grenades and charges, different sized tornadoes, black holes, earth shatters. Different material types to build from with their own properties. All that and more in this Sim