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Single-player games like Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense

Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense, 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 Rush Origins - Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

    2018StrategyIndie8.24 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    It's payback time! Lead your mighty dark army and make the Kingdom tremble with every step. Build powerful towers, choose your arsenal for destruction, and find the deadliest combination - train legendary heroes and lead them to victory!

    2020Strategy7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD — Steam game cover

    Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    While a formidable evil emerges, an unexpected alliance is taking shape! It will take the finest warriors of Linirea and the relentless Dark Army to stop it. Beware! Though they may journey side by side the ever-changing winds of fate could swiftly alter their course.

    2024StrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pixel Fortress: Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Pixel Fortress: Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Pixel Fortress is a retro-inspired tower defense game packed with fast-paced real-time strategy. Build your defenses, command powerful abilities, and unleash devastating energy blasts to hold off relentless enemy waves. Can you master the battlefield?

    2025StrategyIndieEarly Access4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Defense: Prehistory — Steam game cover

    Age of Defense: Prehistory

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    The most addicting tower defense game, packed with monsters and tough defenders, all of which fit perfectly into the cartoonish environment. Prehistory is a prologue for the main story Age of Defense.

    2024StrategyIndieFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lord Clicker — Steam game cover

    Lord Clicker

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Lord Clicker combines Clicker and Tower Defense in one game. Click to accumulate gold coins and make your choice: buy populace to generate wealth on your behalf, or hire men to defend your village.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Relic Guardian - Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Relic Guardian - Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    "Relic Guardian" is a fantasy style strategy tower defense game. As the builder on the battlefield, summon a variety of defense towers and spells with reliable hero companions to complete this epic and guarding adventure!

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monster Battle Quest — Steam game cover

    Monster Battle Quest

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Recruit and evolve the perfect monster team to destroy opposing enemy. Defeat enemy monsters to earn gold, increase your strength, and dominate the monster world.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DG2: Defense Grid 2 — Steam game cover

    DG2: Defense Grid 2

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.

    2014StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    GemCraft - Legacy Collection — Steam game cover

    GemCraft - Legacy Collection

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Experience the original three GemCraft games in one collection. GemCraft 1, GemCraft 0, and GemCraft Labyrinth! Forge and combine magical gems, build deadly defenses, and survive relentless waves in one of the most beloved Flash-era tower defense series!

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition — Steam game cover

    Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

    2016Strategy5.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Defense Tower Simulator — Steam game cover

    Defense Tower Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    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!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anomaly — Steam game cover

    Anomaly

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Anomaly is a horror game inspired by Scanner Somber, the Garry's Mod game mode LiDAR, LiDAR.EXE, and The Backrooms. Try to escape from the level that you are in by finding keys and the exit, while not being killed by the Anomaly!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Iron Marines — Steam game cover

    Iron Marines

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!

    2019ActionStrategyIndie7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legends of Kingdom Rush — Steam game cover

    Legends of Kingdom Rush

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    RPG turn-based combat game with deep tactics and bad jokes! Do you have what it takes to save the kingdom?

    2022StrategyIndieRPG5.24 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Iron Marines Invasion — Steam game cover

    Iron Marines Invasion

    Single-player alternative to Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense.

    Prepare to take off, soldier! The galaxy needs your strategy! Prove your RTS expertise, explore an entire galaxy and defend it from a threatening invasion.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →