Single-player games like Legacy of Defense
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Legacy of 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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Hungry Ghosts
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
Hungry Ghosts is a wild tower defense roguelike where you exorcise hungry ghosts with magical desserts and drinks! Play as a fearless witch and her various companions with unique powers, upgrade your dishes, and unleash powerful synergies to survive haunted waves and defeat bosses.
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Tower Lab
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
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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Riftweaver's Deck
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
Riftweaver's Deck is a roguelite deckbuilding autobattler. Recruit heroes, better your equipment and skills. Travel through the rift portals to encounter powerful foes and friends. Be Victorious on your quest, and Vanquish the Dark Riftweaver and his morphlings!
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Abyss Deck
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
A deckbuilding auto-battler roguelike.Build your team, shape your deck, and survive through random events and shifting rules.Every outcome depends on your decisions before battle.
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Zodiac Mountain
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
Ascend Zodiac Mountain in a roguelike deckbuilder with two-sided cards. Build Yin & Yang hands, discover powerful relics, and create satisfying synergies to defeat mythical enemies.
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Crystal Core
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
Crystal Core is a first-person roguelike deckbuilder where every card becomes an action in battle. Build your deck, choose your hero, and descend through the cursed Crystal Caves, battling monsters and growing stronger with every encounter. Can you survive the depths and destroy the Crystal Core?
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Tails & Talons
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
The tower gets stronger. So does your hand. Every card is an attack, a spell, or both. Chain the right combo and turn a scratch into a killing blow. Play as one of a crew of furry adventurers who descend into an eldritch tower, each with their own reasons, one shared goal: reach the bottom.
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Joey's Nightmare II
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Legacy of Defense.
Joey’s Nightmare II is a cartoon-style roguelite deckbuilding card battler set inside a bizarre and dangerous dream. Battle monkeys, donkeys, turkeys, and undead horrors, build powerful card combos, and fight your way through a nightmare that changes every run.
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Brotato
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Legacy of Defense.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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Survivor Of The Journey
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Legacy of Defense.
Survivor of the Journey is a survival game with rogue-like elements Survive in countless fantasy monsters Grow faster than the enemy that comes and knock them down Survive to the end and defeat the boss. Failed? Use your stuff to be strong. Can't you? Let's try our luck this time.
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Paper Cannon
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Legacy of Defense.
Paper Cannon is an addictive casual shooting game where you destroy balls with simple controls. Face off against bosses at the end of each stage, and power up your cannon to destroy everything raining down from the sky! Wow!
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Soul Stream
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Legacy of Defense.
Defy the flow of the Soulstream, reach its end, and face the truth. Soulstream — a desktop background idle auto-battler adventure.
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Loop Miner
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Legacy of Defense.
Loop Miner is a mining incremental game where a cute mole miner endlessly digs through mines, gathers resources, collects artifacts, and ventures deeper underground. Experience the satisfaction of growing stronger through endless mining loops.
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Happy Little Farm
Single-player alternative to Legacy of Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Legacy of Defense.
Happy Little Farm is a cozy incremental farming game where you grow a small, happy farm with cute animals. Plant crops, care for animals, and enjoy peaceful days. However, after the sun goes down, it may be best not to check whether the animals are truly happy.