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Single-player games like Totally Defenceless

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Totally Defenceless, 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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    Micron Defense Force — Steam game cover

    Micron Defense Force

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Totally Defenceless.

    A Roguelike Tower Defense in space with missions to conquer. Can you hold against the spreading alien bosses? Build and upgrade towers against the corruption. Choose your technologies and warpspeed your way to victory.

    2024Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Infested Planet — Steam game cover

    Infested Planet

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    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.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Starship Troopers: Terran Command — Steam game cover

    Starship Troopers: Terran Command

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Totally Defenceless.

    Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!

    2022Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Revenge of the Titans — Steam game cover

    Revenge of the Titans

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    The ultimate mash-up of Real-time Strategy and Tower Defense!

    2011ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dungeon Warfare — Steam game cover

    Dungeon Warfare

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    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.

    2015StrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Protolife — Steam game cover

    Protolife

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    Protolife is an unique tower-based strategy game which gives you a direct control over the builder robot in a struggle against the hungry proto-life organism.

    2018StrategyIndie11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Repel The Rifts — Steam game cover

    Repel The Rifts

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.

    2025StrategyIndieEarly Access12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    CARNAGE OFFERING Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    The replicator robots are back! It's 2528. The machines are increasingly infecting the planets with genetically modified monsters. Challenge them and try to stop the onslaught. Upgrade buildings and heroes, mine resources, discover technology and fight to save humanity!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Skeleton Warrior — Steam game cover

    Skeleton Warrior

    Single-player alternative to Totally Defenceless — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Totally Defenceless.

    This is a third person action adventure game. Players are surrounded by zombies,Players are free to explore the surrounding areas,Players must avoid zombie attacks or kill zombies to ensure that their health value survives for as long as possible.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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