Single-player games like Role of Hex
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Role of Hex, 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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BattleGrounds : War, Tanks And Nukes
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
A military styled action tower-defence game filled with nukes, missiles and tanks. Improve your building, canons and tanks. Purchase stronger ammunition and survive the next wave. Highly replayable, tough and addictive.The fun never ends
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Rogue Door Defense
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Role of Hex.
Rogue Door Defense is a tower defense mazing game with rogue-lite elements. Choose a door, defeat the enemies behind it and claim your unique reward. Build and upgrade different towers. Design your own maze to defend your lives against the attacking waves of monsters and powerful bosses.
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Terrafort
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Role of Hex.
A procedurally generated sandbox survival game with RTS elements.
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Creator-initial
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
A real -time strategy game that can create items to operate logic.No resource collection
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Byte Lynx
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!
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Rogue Station
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Role of Hex.
This "space station builder simulation roguelite" puts you in charge of a space station. Fight off enemy ships, fleets and rival stations to dominate your corner of space. Build and upgrade your station, hire and manage your crew. Survive as long as you can.
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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
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Taur
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Creeper World: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
Imagine an enemy that is everywhere and moves like a giant, organic mass across the map. Imagine your base and your people surrounded by a blanket of crushing destruction from all directions. Your only hope, well what hope? Then you take the high ground and pound this enemy into oblivion.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Heliotropism
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Role of Hex.
From seed to a great tree! Survive the seasons, face crisis and mutate yourself into a tree able to achieve your final form! Grow flowers, mutate, adapt and evolve and finally bear fruits!
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cluck-a-thon
Single-player alternative to Role of Hex — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Role of Hex.
Cluck-a-thon: Merge and create extraordinary chickens in this enchanting indie adventure. Discover unique chickens and immerse yourself in a charming world of feathered fun! Join the clucking frenzy today!