Single-player games like Coastal Defense
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Coastal Defense, 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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Steel Republic Rail Defender
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
SRRD is a hybrid of Strategy Railroad Logistics, Resource gathering, Base building, and Tower Defense
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For The Fatherland
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
6 June 1944, the greatest military invasion in human history begins with Allied soldiers landing in Normandy trying to bring an end to the war. You have been given the task of stopping the Allied invasion and defending the German territories in France. Will you be worthy and defend the Fatherland?
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Roman Conquest: Rise to Power
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
Roman Conquest: Rise to Power is a turn-based strategy game in which the player can feel like a great commander of the Roman Empire. Lead a legion and go with your army to recapture the occupied lands.
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Market Warfare
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Coastal Defense.
Lead the Fruit Army and defend your base from the evil vegetables in this Tower Defense game. Create your strategy with a variety of characters: adapt to different scenarios, manage your money to keep your defense line full of fruits.
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Urban War Defense
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
Lead through an action-packed fast-paced tower defense game with a story of an invasion on your homeland by a large foreign force and as a newly appointed commander do what you can to help your country fight back and defend against this enemy force which is approaching from the coast.
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
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Defense Of Greece TD
Single-player alternative to Coastal Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Coastal Defense.
Ancient Greece under siege. Steam engines roar, bronze towers rise, and waves of soldiers and machines march against you.