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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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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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
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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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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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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Repel The Rifts
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
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Core Defense
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
A roguelike tower defense game with a dash of deckbuilding. Choose a reward, improve your build, survive the next wave, repeat. Highly replayable, difficult, and addictive. You'll want just one more wave, just one more run!
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Nordhold
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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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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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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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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Terrorhedron Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Terrorhedron is the 3D, cooperative tower defense game for the PC. Unmatched challenge and complexity is introduced to the genre through 3 dimensional gameplay, micro-strategy through programmable turrets and 'edge of seat' gameplay is extended to multiplayer with up to 8 players online co-op.
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X-Morph: Defense
Single-player alternative to Refactor — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Refactor.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
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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!