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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Warfront Defenders
Single-player alternative to Forward Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Forward Defense.
The gameplay is inspired by famous last stands from some of history's deadliest conflicts, such as the Second World War and the Sino-Japanese War. A hybrid of Tower Defense and Real-Time Strategy with a lot of replay value.
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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.