Single-player games like Live Hard, Die Hard
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Live Hard, Die Hard, 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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Seed World
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Seed World is a game that aims to combine automation, conveyor belts, and level progression. The game simplifies automation 'construction' into a series of progress bars, with each progress producing or consuming resources, and players need to manage resources.
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HeroesSagaZero
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Pixel-art meets 2.5D battles in this strategy-driven, loot-focused roguelite RPG. Build your own team, master countless skill combinations, and collect gear with endless randomized options. No two strategies are ever the same—unleash your tactics and carve your path to infinite victory!
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Toy War - Cannon
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Control a toy сannon. Shoot the toy soldiers with the toy gun just like you did when you were a kid.
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Pathways Lost: Reclaim
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Send customised troops and your powerful mech into battle in this strategic auto battler. Spawn units, equip gear, unlock skills and reclaim lost worlds. Optimize your army and master ever increasing challenges. Fast-paced matches, endless depth.
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Stick Wars: The Laneborn
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
A 2D stickman strategy game on three lanes: you don’t micro troops you decide gold, deployments, and upgrades. Ally champions, lane-swapping bosses, and a campaign that only gets tougher.
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Lawless
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Lawless is a top-down 2D urban crime survival management game. Hustle as a new gangster—extort civilians, fight rivals, loot crates, and take jobs. Renovate buildings into grow houses, crew quarters, or gyms. Petty crime, sales, gang expansion: build your empire on one map. Loud moves draw heat.
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Empire Game
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Strategic game inspired by "Heroes of Might and Magic" & "Hero's Hour" with auto-battler combat. Multiple races embody real-world civilizations (China, France, etc.). Randomly generated maps ensure unique playthroughs. Adapt, expand, and conquer in a dynamic world!
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War Hospital
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Take charge of a WW1 field hospital on the Western Front, and make all the decisions necessary to help the soldiers recover and to support the war effort. In this narrative management game, you are the last bastion of humanity.
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Home Behind 2
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Home Behind 2 is a Roguelike RPG which set in Scaria, a country engulfed in a ten-year civil war. Lead a patchwork group of revolutionary fighters into the depths of the government's territory as you struggle to overthrow a brutal authoritarian regime!
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Bad Bad
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
You play as a shooter along the way shooting bombs, destroying barricades, finding supplies and roads until you see a helicopter to complete the game. After the battle, don't forget to admire the anime foot wall on the road.
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Vivid Knight
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Live Hard, Die Hard.
"Vivid Knight" is a "party-building roguelike" game in which you collect friends who have been turned into jewels and fight by combining their abilities! Explore the ever-changing dungeon and harness the gems you have gathered to challenge the labyrinth!
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ShapeHero Factory
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live Hard, Die Hard.
In ShapeHero Factory, you’re the engineer of an ever-evolving paint-fuelled factory that spits out magical, shape-based warriors. Send them into battle - to death or glory - then build an even better factory on your next run.
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Vivid World
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Live Hard, Die Hard.
A follow-up to the hit game Vivid Knight, Vivid World is a completely new party-building, roguelike strategy game! Our story takes place in the Underworld, a land ruled by demons. Utilize and master our protagonist, Lemuria's new Jewel Magic to conquer strange dungeons.
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OmOchim
Single-player alternative to Live Hard, Die Hard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Live Hard, Die Hard.
Build machines, contraptions and playgrounds out of everyday objects in a physics sandbox driven by visual programming. Overcome obstacles, save the city, create worlds. Every goal has a dozen answers. Every crash, collapse and explosion is just the next idea.