Single-player games like Guardian: Defense to Others
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Guardian: Defense to Others, 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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Flip TD - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian: Defense to Others.
Flip Tower Defense on it's head in Flip TD. Flip your world upside down to defend with towers, upgrades, modifiers, powers, and more. Build custom worlds with the in-game world builder and share them online to compete for high scores in the community leaderboards.
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转生魔塔
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Guardian: Defense to Others.
转生魔塔是一个集合了roguelike元素的三消割草游戏。勇者被魔王击败后,其灵魂转生成为了魔塔的一部分。利用三消击杀与各种魔塔技能,打败魔物。游戏内含有10+大关卡,多种难度挑战,150+魔塔技能与随机装备可供任意组合;70种带有各异技能的怪物,7种形态各异的BOSS挑战。
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Dungeon Exiles
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian: Defense to Others.
Conquer the darkness in Dungeon Exiles, an autobattler roguelike set in a dark fantasy world. Descend into the procedurally generated dungeon, level up, unlock synergies and acquire powerful items as you fight for survival and slay the bosses.
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Conquest Dark
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Guardian: Defense to Others.
Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian: Defense to Others.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Pixel Survivors : Roguelike
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Guardian: Defense to Others.
A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!
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Refence
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian: Defense to Others.
Refence is a roguelite based idle defense game, where you can choose heroes and their traits, upgrade your castle, and manage resources to fend off enemies from the Demon Realm who are trying to attack your castle.
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Has-Been Heroes
Single-player alternative to Guardian: Defense to Others — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guardian: Defense to Others.
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!