Single-player games like Refactor
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Refactor, 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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Time Walker: Dark World
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Time Walker Dark World is a roguelike auto-battler with strategic combat. Players will need to adjust their formations, plan their resources, acquire loot, and upgrade skills to defeat formidable enemies and vicious bosses.
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Variables 2
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
After two years of precipitation, we re-made this variable sequel after thinking about it! Variable 2 is a unique stand-alone tower defense game. We have enriched the building and elements of tower defense, and the experience in the game can be changed according to your ideas!
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Micron Defense Force
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
A Roguelike Tower Defense in space with missions to conquer. Can you hold against the spreading alien bosses? Build and upgrade towers against the corruption. Choose your technologies and warpspeed your way to victory.
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Stronghold Defenders
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Gather and manage resources, defend your stronghold, explore and expand your kingdom and fight back against corruption.
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Tower Tactics: Liberation
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!
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变量 Variables
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
We created this unique single player game with a combination of Tower Defence and Roguelike. Come and create your maze, build your turret, defeat the invaders, and save the world!
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StarryNight
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
《星夜迷城》是一款轻松休闲的的策略，建设，塔防类型的小游戏。玩家需要在有限的时间内生存发展，并且抵御敌人的进攻，合理的利用资源，将会是成功的关键。
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Space Survival
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
This is a post-apocalyptic survival game that combines tower defense, survival, strategy, and random events. The game atmosphere is fun, and there are many wonderful props waiting for you to discover. Every decision you make will affect subsequent development. Live by your wisdom,
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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Unstoppable Gorg
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!
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Revenge of the Titans
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
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.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
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.
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Prime World: Defenders
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.
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Subnautica
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
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Space Run
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!
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A hermit crab is finding a house
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play as an adorable hermit crab, solve the shell puzzle on the beach and find the perfect house. The key to solve the puzzles is to stack shells cleverly and plan the order and direction of entry or exit.
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Orcdom
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Orcdom is a minimalist tower defense game with full freedom in tower placement. Defend your crystal from waves of orcs attacking from all directions. Plan your layout, time your spells, and unlock new strategy modes in this fast-paced tactical challenge!