Single-player games like Axom: Conquest
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Axom: Conquest, 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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Ironfront Express
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axom: Conquest.
Upgrade your engine’s arsenal in this bullet hell, tower defense roguelite featuring the most heavily armored locomotive in existence. Engineer and command the Ironfront Express in a unique take on lane defense where you upgrade with specialized turrets, drones, and tactical abilities.
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Tower Lab
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Roguelite tower defense where enemies can’t be killed, knock them off with physics instead! Build devastating contraptions that push, pull, and launch enemies. Unlock towers, discover broken synergies, and dominate through creative combinations.
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Zero Bugs Given
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Zero Bugs Given is a tower defense / roguelike game designed with the ambition of making every run different from the others. Every wave, a pair of bonus and malus will force you to adapt in the best way you can. Build your defense and try survive as long as you can!
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Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
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Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
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Endless Defense
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
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Plasma Dome
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axom: Conquest.
Plasma Dome is a tactical tower defense with roguelite progression and no predefined paths. Defend your city from an aerial assault of geometric entities from another dimension.
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THE AEON FALL
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Endless waves of 100,000 infected pour toward you. A brutally hard roguelike defense built on the Paradox of Progress: every advance raises the noise, and louder noise draws a deadlier swarm. Design your base, break through with one unit you control, and adapt each run. Survive a planet alone.
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Vortex Rush
Single-player alternative to Axom: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Axom: Conquest.
Pit yourself against the clock as you weave through the vortex avoiding obstacles and going as far as possible before your time expires. Vortex rush challenges you to go as fast as possible and stay alive doing it.