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Single-player games like Castle Push

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Castle Push, 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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    Summoner Apprentice — Steam game cover

    Summoner Apprentice

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    Delve into the mystical art of summoning alongside Feylin, the last of the Ancients. Begin your journey as her new apprentice and learn how to summon minions, outwit your enemies, collect relics to enhance your powers and overcome the dreadful obstacles set in your path.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cook to Zero — Steam game cover

    Cook to Zero

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    Cook meals to deploy mercenaries and hold back waves of monsters! Manage the kitchen and battlefield at the same time in this pixel-art real-time strategy defense game.

    StrategyIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bulwark — Steam game cover

    Bulwark

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    Bulwark is a medieval-themed 2D pixel tower defense game with a dynamic block-based building system. Construct and fortify your castle, manage resources, and recruit troops to defend against waves of enemies. Build, strategize, and adapt in this unique blend of fortress construction and combat.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legend of Defenders — Steam game cover

    Legend of Defenders

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    A thrilling idle tower defense game with automated battles and endless growth! Build your defenses, deploy heroes, and watch your fortress evolve from a humble outpost into an unstoppable stronghold—even while you’re away.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    HEXFORGE — Steam game cover

    HEXFORGE

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    Command a hex arena where your weapons fire themselves, but the build is yours. Mark targets, drop abilities, vent the heat. Between rounds, crack capsules, merge mods and rewire a 13-socket grid. Six zones, one long run, and a machine that slowly starts playing itself.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DragonFire: Defense — Steam game cover

    DragonFire: Defense

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    Raise and equip dragons, expand your tower, manage resources, and defend your kingdom across five enemy realms in this colorful 2D idle tower-defense game.

    2026StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nijoaju — Steam game cover

    Nijoaju

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Push.

    Two characters. One goal. Think as one. In Nijoaju, control a powerful stone creature and an agile water creature, combining their unique abilities to solve challenging puzzles, overcome obstacles, and prove that only by working together can you move forward.

    2027ActionIndieCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Invader TD — Steam game cover

    Invader TD

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Castle Push.

    Invader TD is a side scroller tower defense, where the player is in the role of an alien race with the purpose of infecting and dominating the earth, you must protect yourself from the attacks of the humans, who are trying to destroy you.

    2022StrategyIndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Escape to the Italian brainrot — Steam game cover

    Escape to the Italian brainrot

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Push.

    Escape to the Italian brainrot - это совместная игра в жанре хоррор для 1-2 игроков. Избегай Сахура и других монстров, чтобы попытаться сбежать.

    2025ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
  10. 10
    Rake: The lake — Steam game cover

    Rake: The lake

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Castle Push.

    Welcome to the mysterious world of the lake, surrounded by darkness and mystery. In this two—person cooperative survival game, you will take on the role of hunters tasked with exploring wild surroundings and tracking down a mysterious Rake creature.

    IndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    No One Here But Me — Steam game cover

    No One Here But Me

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Castle Push.

    Work as a night administrator at a computer club, check visitors, detect anomalies, and survive nightmare-filled nights full of monsters and mysteries.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    BURGER, NO PLEASE! — Steam game cover

    BURGER, NO PLEASE!

    Single-player alternative to Castle Push — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Castle Push.

    BURGER, NO PLEASE! — a trashy co-op for up to 4 players where you work in fast food and get ingredients in absurd ways: fish from toilets, cola from rusty taps, cheese from rats. Cook, sabotage, and laugh until you cry!

    IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerSingle-playerSimilar games →