Single-player games like Monarchy
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Monarchy, 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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Kingdom Eighties
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
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Castles on Clouds
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A Roguelike Tower Defense game set on a user controlled procedurally generated island. Select unique cards and relics that enhance your towers abilities, crafting powerful builds to defend against the growing hordes of enemies.
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No Heroes Here 2
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A group of non-adventurers is the last hope in defending the castle in this chaotic co-op tower defense game with roguelike features. With up to 4 players, your party must organize the castle, work as a team to craft ammo, and shoot at enemies to protect your kingdom!
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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Runeroots TD
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Synergize rune traits to give your towers powerful new abilities in this roguelite tower defense! Collect perks, relics, and items you can equip to your towers for unique builds each run!
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Rogue Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Classic tower defense meets roguelike adventure where you control the hero! Dive into procedurally generated levels filled with unique waves of enemies. Create powerful synergies with a variety of game-changing skills, relics, weapons, and traits to defend your kingdom. Every run is a new challenge!
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Keep Keepers
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Tower Defense meets Base Management. Strategically place your defenses. Craft wacky ammunition like fiery peppers and boomerang bananas. Discover amazing weapons and automate your economy while defending against waves of enemies. Can you handle the chaos?
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Kingdom: New Lands
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.
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Song of Slavs
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Become a Tsar! Create your own settlement and expand it into a stronghold to protect your people in a handcrafted side-scroller pixel art adventure game. Construct your town, gather resources, and fight enemies like a real tsar.
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Kingdom
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Kingdom is a single- and multiplayer RPG survival game set in a medieval world, where you can become a king and set taxes to upgrade your kingdom to the next era!
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Dark Quest 2
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Dark Quest 2 is a turn based RPG where you control a party of heroes on your epic quest to defeat the evil sorcerer and his minions.
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Dark Quest 3
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A rogue-lite tabletop that mixes card based exploration with turn based combat. Create your party, draw adventure cards, roll dice and fight monsters to defeat the sorcerer and his magic.
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Dark Quest
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
Dark Quest is a turn-based dungeon crawler where you command a party of heroes on an epic quest to defeat the dark sorcerer and his minions, and save the land from his dark magic.
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Story of a Gladiator
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Story of a Gladiator is an arena beat 'em up where you take the role of a man in search of his destiny. Fight against waves of enemies in the arena to earn coin and fame until you are strong enough to enter the colosseum and become champion.
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Dark Quest 4
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Monarchy.
A turn based dungeon crawler where you create a party of heroes to go on epic quests.
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Blow it up
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Blow it up is a physics destruction game. Unlock new bombs, explore the world and go on an epic journey of destruction.
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Geometry Survivor
Single-player alternative to Monarchy — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Geometry Survivor is rogue-lite survival where you fight waves of enemies. Unlock innovative upgrades in the shop, acquire new ships and conquer the unforgiving grid world.