Single-player games like Forward Defense
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Forward Defense, 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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Para Bellum - Hold the Line
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
Para Bellum - Hold the Line is a 3D real time small unit tactics game. Your task is to hold off enemy attacks wave after wave using a variety of different Units and Supports in your arsenal to the best of your abilities in Campaign and Skirmish modes.
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Forgotten but Unbroken
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
A tactical turn-based strategy game inspired by events and stories of forgotten and unsung heroes of WW2. Unique and new-to-genre features offer immersion and deeper protagonists to lead and care for. Lead the resistance against the Axis Forces.
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Every Day We Fight
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
Caught in a time loop, your band of resistance fighters is humanity’s last hope. Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactics and roguelite strategy as you learn new abilities, seek out new weapons, and develop new techniques to overcome the mysterious alien threat.
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End State
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
End State is a turn-based tactics game where you manage a mercenary company tracking down a terrorists in a war-torn country. Hire, gear up and gain experience for your mercenaries. Take on rebels and criminal gangs, do side contracts and explore Brekovia.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Door Kickers 2: Task Force North
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
Command military Special Ops Teams in gripping tactical combat against a Middle East-based terrorist network. Sequel to RockPaperShotgun's "Best Tactics Game of 2014".
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Classified: France '44
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
Command an elite team of allied special operators in Nazi-occupied France wreaking havoc in the run up to D-Day in this ambitious turn-based tactics game. Take on the might of Germany's war machine and launch daring raids in occupied territory. Can you do enough to ensure Allied victory?
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Combat Mission Black Sea
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forward Defense.
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
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Command & Conquer™ Generals
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
Command & Conquer Generals puts your trigger finger on the pulse of modern warfare. Prepare your forces General... it's time to engage in the next generation of real-time strategy.