Single-player games like Emberward
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Emberward, 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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Tower Dominion
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
Build and design the terrain while defending your stronghold against alien invasion in this unique Roguelike tower defense. Choose from 30 heroes, survive enemy waves, and upgrade a variety of destructive towers to hold the line!
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Rogue Tower
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
Rogue Tower is a tower defense game with roguelike elements and a continuously expanding path which you can influence. Unlock, build, upgrade, expand, defend.
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Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Axon TD lets you expand the map boundaries themselves. A huge arsenal of towers and a wide variety of enemies clash in a battlefield that grows to your whims. Engage in single, cooperative, and roguelite gameplay.
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Hexguardian
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
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Deep Among the Swarm
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
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Tower Tactics: Liberation
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
We fused deck-building roguelikes and tower defenses in a way never seen before - deploy your towers, collect valuable trinkets and cast powerful spells to defend yourself against the Salkoth!
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Necronator: Dead Wrong
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Necronator: Dead Wrong is a deck-building roguelike with an RTS twist. Build a powerful deck. Collect and deploy undead units and raise a unique army. Master each commander’s playstyle and conquer the world. Change the game with rule-bending relics. Unlock new decks and do it all again.
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Isle of Arrows
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Isle of Arrows is a Puzzle Tower Defense game in which you build a fortress in the sky. Place towers, expand the isle, and build your own paths. Can you find the perfect spot for each tile to beat the RNG and defend against waves of invaders?
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Magic Tower
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Inspired by RPG map in "Warcraft III" , the core gameplay is plunder resources from enemies. This game is not only a simple thief, but also a test of the collocation between the various defensive towers, as well as a balance between the defense tower injury and the enemy's blood volume.
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Monster Train
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
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Defense Tower Simulator
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Welcome to Tower Defense Simulator and prepare yourself to protect your kingdom from different monsters! Join this game and prepare to many exciting missions with this great game!