Single-player games like Defense Grid: The Awakening
Below are 10 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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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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X-Morph: Defense
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
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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Sanctum
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
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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Super Sanctum TD
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
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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Revenge of the Titans
Single-player alternative to Defense Grid: The Awakening — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defense Grid: The Awakening.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
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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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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.