Single-player games like Acid Planet
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Acid Planet, 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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Deep Among the Swarm
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Acid Planet.
Deep Among the Swarm is a challenging survival RTS roguelite about surviving against thousands of enemies. Drill ever deeper underground while fighting the endless onslaught of the Swarm. Can you save humanity?
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From Glory To Goo
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Acid Planet.
From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.
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Tower Factory
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Acid Planet.
Tower Factory is a tower defense and automation game with roguelite elements. Optimize resource production using conveyor systems while defending against monster waves. Can you find and destroy the enemy tower before it's too late?
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Monsters are Coming!
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Acid Planet.
Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defences, and survive for as long as you can. Will you reach the Ark?
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Frontline Crisis
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Acid Planet.
Defend humanity's last hope, pilot a powerful mech, in Frontlines Crisis! A battlefield swarming with insects makes strategic and combat decisions crucial. Each decision will determine your fate. Defend humanity's last sanctuary, fight fiercely, and uphold human honor with wits and courage!
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Utopia Must Fall
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Acid Planet.
Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.
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Desperate Place
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Acid Planet.
Desperate Place is a strategic tower defense game where you play as a crew member who wakes up early on a damaged colonization starship. Stranded on an unknown planet, you must gather resources, repair the ship, and defend against alien monsters to survive and escape.
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Calyx
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Acid Planet.
A strategy game with a new kind of enemy, Calyx puts you in charge of a space mining outpost, locked in battle against powerful plant-aliens. Build your base, gather resources, assemble your forces, and take on the Calyx. With only an out-of-date AI for company, can you survive?
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Vampire Survivors
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Acid Planet.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
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Thronefall
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Acid Planet.
A minimalist game about building and defending your little kingdom.
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Red Planet Rampart
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Acid Planet.
You are deployed to the desolate red planet to reforge humanity's hope. With no hospitable atmosphere, no nurturing water sources, only relentless storms, unknown alien creatures, you must use wit and determination to survive on this alien land and build a Mars base of your own.
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Journey to Incrementalia
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Acid Planet.
Journey to Incrementalia is an active incremental auto-battler about a necromancer on a short quest. Cast diabolical spells, summon an army and open the gates of hell on your quest to break down 99 walls and reach the lost city of Incrementalia.
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Feed the Reactor
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Acid Planet.
An incremental unfolding game about feeding fuel into a reactor. Combine elements to produce energy, unlock exotic technologies and explore a strange galaxy.
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The Count of Monte Clicker
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Count of Monte Clicker is an incremental game about breaking out of prison and finding treasure. With the help of fellow prisoner Abbe Faria, you, Edmond Dantes must escape the notorious Chateau d'Idle and claim your destiny.
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Berserk Mode
Single-player alternative to Acid Planet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Acid Planet.
Berserk Mode is a visceral time-attack fantasy rogue-lite. Become the Berserker and wade into a dungeon battlefield swarming with monsters. Unleash the absurd power of your Beast in a storm of blood and gibs. Prepare to enter Berserk Mode.