Single-player games like Harvest: Massive Encounter
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Harvest: Massive Encounter, 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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AI War: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
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Defense Grid: The Awakening
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
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Sol Survivor
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Jump in to intense turret defense action with Sol Survivor! Build turrets to defend your colony and the innocent colonists within. Smash enemies with volleys of actively-controlled orbital support. Play with friends in co-operative and competitive multiplayer matches or test your mettle against our new Survival mode!
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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Particle Fleet: Emergence
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
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Revenge of the Titans
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
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Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.
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Sanctum
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
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Cobalt
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
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Cobalt WASD
Single-player alternative to Harvest: Massive Encounter — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Harvest: Massive Encounter.
Cobalt WASD is a multiplayer bomb-defusal action platformer with grenades that stop time. Blast your way to the bomb site or repel the assault! Use teleporter guns, grappling hooks, sticky sentry turrets and quick tactical thinking to lead your team to victory! Play online or against AI!