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Single-player games like Minion Slayer

Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Minion Slayer, 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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    Skel Dungeon: Heroes Must Die! — Steam game cover

    Skel Dungeon: Heroes Must Die!

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    Skel Dungeon is a real-time strategy defense game. Become a small skeleton and defeat the heroes invading your dungeon. Set up and upgrade trap rooms, expand your dungeon, and strengthen your skeleton to stand against increasingly powerful heroes.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Valdrax Beyond the Rift — Steam game cover

    Valdrax Beyond the Rift

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    Build a kingdom from nothing, forge your armies, and breach the rifts between worlds. Face endless enemies, recruit legendary creatures, and prepare for the ultimate battle against the Demon Lord. Every map is different. Every death is permanent.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    They Came From Below — Steam game cover

    They Came From Below

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    They Came From Below is a cute Tower Defense in Lowpoly 3D graphics. Here you have to build an economy and various defense towers to resist hordes of skeletons.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dangerous Land — Steam game cover

    Dangerous Land

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    Dangerous Land is a first-person strategic game enriched with elements of exploration and action. Assume the role of the ruler of your settlement, manage and develop it in real-time, recruit and upgrade units, take care of resources, and participate in epic battles.

    2023StrategyIndieEarly Access7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bacteria Wars — Steam game cover

    Bacteria Wars

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    A real-time strategy game in which you fight to secure the victory of your Bacteria over the Cell Defense Force and other enemy Bacteria in a world where your units are your only resource, and where your mobile base will not be enough to keep you alive.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tower Factory — Steam game cover

    Tower Factory

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?

    2024ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    From Glory To Goo — Steam game cover

    From Glory To Goo

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Minion Slayer.

    From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

    2024StrategySimulationEarly Access8.39 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Phoenix Hope — Steam game cover

    Phoenix Hope

    Single-player alternative to Minion Slayer — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Minion Slayer.

    Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →