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Single-player games like Dungeon Defenders: Awakened

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened, 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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    Dungeon Defenders — Steam game cover

    Dungeon Defenders

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Create a hero from one of four classes to save Etheria in this 4-player coop Tower Defense Action-RPG. Includes Steam exclusive Portal gun & TF2 familiars!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dungeon Defenders II — Steam game cover

    Dungeon Defenders II

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.

    2017ActionStrategyIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Toaster Defense — Steam game cover

    Toaster Defense

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Smash and shoot down robots in this challenging fast-paced game that mixes tower defense and shoot 'em up platforming. Build lamps, fans, and meat tenderizers to aid in your defenses and find the deadliest combination. Do you have what it takes to defend the world's cutest toaster?!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dark Age Empires — Steam game cover

    Dark Age Empires

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Dark Age Empires is an open world survival game that can be played in single player mode or as an online multiplayer game on a dedicated server.Do you have what it takes to not only survive in this dark age, but to rise up, fight back and create your own Dark Age Empire?

    ActionAdventureRPGSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tremble of Towers — Steam game cover

    Tremble of Towers

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Tremble of Towers is a CO-OP tower defense game where you can build any structure with any resource. Countless of combinations are waiting for you and your friends to be discovered in order to protect your beloved Goal Stone from all kinds of enemies in various maps!

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Riftbreaker — Steam game cover

    The Riftbreaker

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skyclimbers — Steam game cover

    Skyclimbers

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Build your kingdom, choose your class, and tame monsters in this Multiplayer City-Building RPG that takes place in a procedurally generated anime-themed universe.

    2026ActionStrategyAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cat Quest II — Steam game cover

    Cat Quest II

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Open-world action-RPG in a fantasy realm of cats and dogs. Sequel to the award-winning original, CAT QUEST II lets you play solo or with a friend, as both a cat and dog! Quest in a world filled with magic, defeat monsters and collect loot in a catventure like never before!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Orcs Must Die! — Steam game cover

    Orcs Must Die!

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.

    2011ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Orcs Must Die! 2 — Steam game cover

    Orcs Must Die! 2

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

    2012ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sanctum 2 — Steam game cover

    Sanctum 2

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

    2013ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Save The World — Steam game cover

    Save The World

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    The story is a young man summoned to another world is suffered from the scourge of aggression by monsters,and save the world with the native heroes. Game mode is rogue,you only release your kill desire to kill the monsters all! Special Zhen Fa System,allow you active powerful Zhen Fa to bombing!

    2024StrategyAdventureRPG2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dungeon Defenders: Going Rogue — Steam game cover

    Dungeon Defenders: Going Rogue

    Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders: Awakened — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders: Awakened.

    Combining Roguelite, Action RPG, and Tower Defense gameplay into a crazy free-for-all, where it’s you and up to three friends versus hordes of enemies. Select your hero, survive the waves of foes, unlock new weapons and runes, and take on the bosses that await you!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →