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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Deck of Haunts
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
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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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Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
By accident, you broke the seal of the mysterious book, which contains an enormous magical power that allows users to control any Yokai by defeating them and recording their names. This godly power is too much which alerts all the Yokai. You must find your own way to defeat them and survive.
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Elements and build
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win
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Backpack Hero
Single-player alternative to Emberward — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Emberward.
The inventory management roguelike! Collect rare items, organize your backpack, and vanquish your foes!
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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!