Single-player games like Defense Grid: The Awakening
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Defense Grid: The Awakening, 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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CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Tep The Destroyer TD
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
TEP the destroyer is a single player tower defense game where you will face alien monsters and ships in ground and space battles! Your strategy will decide the fate of your people in a sci-fi environment of varying difficulties!
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The Rift Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
The Rift is a tower defense game with elements of RPG gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. Enemies from an alternate universe are attacking and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building defensive towers.
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Unstoppable Gorg
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!
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SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
"SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES" blends high-quality Three-Lane Tower Defense with Reverse Tower Defense gameplay. Command your units in a thrilling narrative reminiscent of a StarCraft and Plants Vs. Zombies fusion! Your choices will forge the path to victory—or defeat.
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Sanctum 2
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
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.
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Portal
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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Age of Empires II (Retired)
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Age of Empires II has been re-imagined in high definition. With the release of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, this product will not be updated further.