Single-player games like McDROID
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to McDROID, 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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Cosmic Robots
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
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Towers & Tentacles
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
A holographic goldfish commands an octopus pilot in this 2D action tower defense game. Build towers, fight alongside them, and redirect power where it’s needed most. Hold back the waves, repair your crashed ship, and escape the alien planet.
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Iron Brigade
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
Join The Mobile Trench Brigade and protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace!
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Cat Go: Tactical Defense Braw
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
Cats Go! is a defense game blending strategy, cooperation, and direct combat. Grow mutant plants to protect your village! Whether you prefer to play solo as a brave defender or team up with friends online. Not feeling cooperative? Slip into the role of a devil cat and secretly sabotage the village!
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Blood Waves
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
Hardcore and bloody shooter where you will have to repel the attacks of the living dead using the destroying traps, defensive barricades and also weapon of close and long-range combat.
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Armed to the Gears
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with McDROID.
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.
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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with McDROID.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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Spacejacked
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with McDROID.
A super fast-paced ARCADE TOWER-DEFENSE. Build turrets and shoot your way through hordes of alien scum as you protect multiple rooms simultaneously!
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Last Hope
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with McDROID.
An erotic adventure through space with three very busty women as you try to save the day while enjoying the many pleasures of their company.
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Flesh & Bone
Single-player alternative to McDROID — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In a world filled with strange machines, battle flying swarms - a first in VR - and if you survive long enough, get obliterated by the MOTHER OF SWARM. FLESH & BONE is the most brutal 90s survival arena with ZERO hand holding and the freedom to chose your play style: melee, range, turret, hijack!