Single-player games like Cthulhu tower
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cthulhu tower, 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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Last Train Home
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
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Terrafort
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cthulhu tower.
A procedurally generated sandbox survival game with RTS elements.
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Super Special Squad
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cthulhu tower.
Super Special Squad - is a team management tower defense game set in post apocalypse world. Build up your squad, earn money and gather resources, upgrade your heroes, destroy hundreds of enemies and save our planet Earth yet another time.
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TowerKeep - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In a living land of magic and monsters, the world itself is your greatest weapon. Gather from the land, build your defenses, and hold back the horde. A tower defense where no two lands are ever the same.
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Runeomicon: Training Room
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cthulhu tower.
Practice rune drawing outside the ritual. Runeomicon: Training Room lets you train across multiple difficulty levels and sharpen your skills without the threat of failure. Learn the patterns, build muscle memory, and prepare yourself for the relentless pressure of the full ritual in Runeomicon.
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Path to Catakombs
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Cthulhu tower.
Build and defend an armored train through ever-changing underground routes. Recruit gunners, alchemists, and mechanics, upgrade your wagons, choose your path, and survive relentless kobold raids and colossal bosses.
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TriviOwl
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cthulhu tower.
Answer correctly to gain power—get it wrong, and you’ll empower the enemy. TriviOwl is a quiz-based tower defense game where you lay out the path and use your general knowledge to stop ridiculous hordes determined to devour the Trivia Tree.
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Kingdom TD: Draft Your Demise
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Choose the enemies. Risk a deadlier wave for more gold. Build winding defenses, upgrade your towers, and ride between them to boost their power. How much danger will you draft to defend your campfire?
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Marginal act
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu tower.
The greate waves destroyed everything in the city, but the mysterious mechanism stopped the time in the game district. For all outside residents, the events within the segment stopped, but for the inhabitants of the district the time continues to go.
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Bloody trains
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cthulhu tower.
Sitcom train conductor blowing heads simulator
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Why pizza?
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Cthulhu tower.
Baba is you meet Getting over it to deliver the best pizza and try not to get bankrupt!
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Cthulhu pub
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu tower.
In Cthulhu pub, you can build your own pub or restaurant. Create cute characters, creepy monsters and establish a small cute pub or make a large castle with monsters, humans, and ancient Gods.
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KOBOLOK
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu tower.
KOBOLOK is an ethnic PS1 style horror game based on an Eastern European fairytale about round bread "Kolobok" aka "O Koblížkovi" aka "Pannkauken".
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Bakeborough
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In Bakeborough, a Bakery RPG, you can take out your eye to see less.
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Frogvival
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Frogvival is a survival game in which you eat an animal - you add its DNA to you!
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Where is Drake?
Single-player alternative to Cthulhu tower — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Cthulhu tower.
Your new favourite horror game where you need to find Drake the pirate among other imposters