Single-player games like Automate Defend Repeat
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Automate Defend Repeat, 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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Dig or Die
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Mob Factory
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Automate Defend Repeat.
Mob factory is an tower defense and automation game for the lazy adventurer. Smelt down enemy loot into turrets & factories to automate an ever expanding dungeon from the comfort of your tower.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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CleanFall
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.
CleanFall is a survival rogue-like that prizes player freedom and creativity. Build mobile death machines to fight off ravenous hordes, craft and alchemize gun turrets, and tunnel through subterranean ecosystems crawling with nameless horrors.
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Summa Expeditionis
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Automate Defend Repeat.
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
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shapez
Single-player alternative to Automate Defend Repeat — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Automate Defend Repeat.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!