Single-player games like ITER-8
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to ITER-8, 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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CLEAR RED
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ITER-8.
A first-person roguelike buried in a Cold War ICBM bunker under alien siege. Defend the missile. Drill through soil, tunnels, caves and even ancient temples. Collect resources, craft items, upgrade everything. Burn coal to keep bunker running. Find two launch keys. Fire. Kill the mothership. Repeat.
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Tower Lab
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with ITER-8.
Enemies have no health, push them off instead. Weaponize physics in this roguelite tower defense game. Draft a deck, chain towers into living contraptions, grow and shrink every projectile, and launch hordes of robots off the edge.
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Raid Haven
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with ITER-8.
A strategy, wave-based survival game focused on building fortified bases and defending against ever-more-powerful raids. Gear up your pawns with powerful weapons and armour, adapt your defences, and survive wave after wave of increasingly dangerous enemies.
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Axom: Conquest
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ITER-8.
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
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Rustic Defense
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ITER-8.
Rustic Defense is a fantasy tower defense game with roguelike elements, generated enviroment with option explore your own way. Research skills and heroes, choose path, build towers and upgrade them.
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Towerslam
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with ITER-8.
Slam your towers down and conquer endless maps of enemies in this roguelike tower defense game. Level up, earn loot, unlock powerful upgrades and create unstoppable towers!
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KnighTD
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with ITER-8.
Defend an ever-expanding procedural map where towers buff your units and every boss drops game-changing loot. Choose a class, master Fire, Ice, Lightning, or Physical units, and survive.
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Everfront
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with ITER-8.
A territory-control strategy game where you continuously expand against AI opponents. Master six doctrines, unlock upgrades, and dominate procedurally generated maps.
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Wall World
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with ITER-8.
Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
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Dome Keeper
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ITER-8.
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
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Trash Sailors: Co-Op Trash Raft Simulator
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ITER-8.
Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn co-op sailing adventure for one to four players. Create the trashiest team in history, in online or local co-op and find your way in the aftermath of a great trash tsunami.
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Escape Doodland
Single-player alternative to ITER-8 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with ITER-8.
Death and destruction came into Doodland. This happy and joyful land is going to change. You play as one of Doodlers, a peaceful inhabitant of happy doodle world, attacked by a merciless monster. There are only two options: run as fast as you can or die.