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Single-player games like Deadstone

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Deadstone, 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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    Wild Ice — Steam game cover

    Wild Ice

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.

    Grab your stick, build traps, defend the furnaces, and dangle your way to victory against waves of frost zombies in this hockey-themed tower defense game.

    ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TANK ZERO — Steam game cover

    TANK ZERO

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.

    TANK ZERO is an action-packed game with tanks where players build their own unique tank from various parts, such as the hull, chassis, cannon, engine, and armor. Each time, players can create different combinations of characteristics and appearances for their tank.

    2024ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Frontline Zed — Steam game cover

    Frontline Zed

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.

    Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.

    2019ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Land of Glarefall — Steam game cover

    Land of Glarefall

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.

    An action-adventure survival game where every night could be your last. Explore a vast, dangerous world where survival depends on smart resource management, tactical combat, and what you choose to do before night falls.

    2026ActionStrategyIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Living Dead — Steam game cover

    Living Dead

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.

    Living Dead is a fun coop wave based 3D shooter from a top view perspective. The Game takes place in a simulation of a zombie shooter and the goal is to survive as much waves as possible or beat them all. Each wave becomes more difficult than the previous one.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    VERSUS SQUAD — Steam game cover

    VERSUS SQUAD

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.

    Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

    2016ActionIndie7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Lumencraft — Steam game cover

    Lumencraft

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.

    Lumencraft is a unique combination of a top-down, rogue-like shooter and base building with tower defense elements. Dig and light up dark halls of a fully destructible environment on procedurally generated maps and campaign levels to find precious Lumen - humanity's only chance for survival.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Ascent — Steam game cover

    The Ascent

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Deadstone.

    The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?

    2021ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves — Steam game cover

    Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves

    Single-player alternative to Deadstone — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Deadstone.

    Combining action and strategy in a unique way, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves transports you into an epic folktale co-written with best-selling Canadian author Bryan Perro (Amos Daragon, Wariwulf), in which two feuding brothers will have to put aside their differences to save their sister, who is pursued by the Devil himself!

    2013ActionStrategyIndieFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Vigilantes — Steam game cover

    Vigilantes

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

    Vigilantes is a combat focused, turn-based tactical RPG set in the crime riddled city of Reiker. The game offers hardcore squad-level combat in a gritty neo-noir setting, intel gathering through surveillance and interrogation, a detailed character system, base facilities, crafting, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prometheus Wept — Steam game cover

    Prometheus Wept

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

    Prometheus Wept is a turn-based, party-based RPG set on a post digital apocalypse Earth. The game offers squad-level combat, branching dialogue with consequential choices, simultaneous battles between cyberspace and the physical world, along with deep character progression and crafting systems.

    2025StrategyIndieRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →