Single-player games like GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows, 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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GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
The epic tower defense dark fantasy journey continues! Create powerful gems with various abilities and take on the battle against an endlessly flowing army of monsters, and face the growing darkness as you fight your way back towards the Spiritforge.
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Nordhold
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Enemies are coming! Every decision matters: build your city, grow the economy, and prepare for enemy waves. Strengthen your defenses, adapt your strategy, and unleash your hero’s full potential. This unique Tower Defense will test your skills – are you worthy to claim a place at Valhalla?
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Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Lead an armored squad through the perils of this reversed tower defense action-strategy game!
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Revenge of the Titans
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!
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Dungeon Warfare
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Dungeon Warfare is a challenging tower defense strategy game where you become a dungeon lord to defend your dungeons with deadliest of traps and insidious contraptions against greedy adventurers and wanna-be heroes.
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Hexguardian
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Hexguardian is a roguelite, tower defense game where you build your own maps with hexagonal tiles! Build and upgrade towers, recruit armies, learn spells, construct wonders and place hexagonal tiles to create a path to enhance your defenses. With plenty of game modes and talents to unlock!
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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Deathtrap
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
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GemCraft - Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to GemCraft - Chasing Shadows — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.
Forge and combine magical gems, build deadly defenses, and survive relentless waves in the Flash-era tower defense classics GemCraft, Chapter Zero, and Labyrinth. Now with up to 9x speed, new hotkeys, easier gem combining, and smoother performance.