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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9 Kings
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Emberward.
A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
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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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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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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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Balatro
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
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Cluckmech Oasis
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
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Monster Train 2
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Monster Train returns with all new clans, new enemy factions, new challenges, new modes and more! Defend your Pyre in the classic three-tiered, vertical gameplay that made the original roguelike deckbuilder a hit.
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Drop Duchy
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!
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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!