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Single-player games like Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails

Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails, 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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    REBELLION PRINCESS|リベリオン プリンセス — Steam game cover

    REBELLION PRINCESS|リベリオン プリンセス

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Raise your favorite characters and have them ready to fight in the next run! Command beautiful girls to defend the castle and princess A non-reset roguelite × tower defense

    2026ActionStrategy4.79 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Graphic Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Graphic Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    This is a minimalist-style tower defense game that is easy-going and relaxing, with a moderate level of difficulty. Build your tower formations to fend off enemies. It also supports online multiplayer, allowing you to team up and experience an unprecedented level of tower defense fun!

    2025StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Seed World — Steam game cover

    Seed World

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Seed World is a game that aims to combine automation, conveyor belts, and level progression. The game simplifies automation 'construction' into a series of progress bars, with each progress producing or consuming resources, and players need to manage resources.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    城市塔防-City Tower Defence — Steam game cover

    城市塔防-City Tower Defence

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Roguelite tower defense. Each run generates a different map identity, base position, frontline layout, and pressure lanes. Build and upgrade towers, shape your run with cards and between-wave rewards, manage resources and positioning, survive waves of escalating enemies and boss encounters.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons — Steam game cover

    Yokai Art: Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    By accident, you broke the seal of the mysterious book, which contains an enormous magical power that allows users to control any Yokai by defeating them and recording their names. This godly power is too much which alerts all the Yokai. You must find your own way to defeat them and survive.

    2022ActionStrategyIndie6.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ITER-8 — Steam game cover

    ITER-8

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Welcome to the surface, ITER employee #8. Mine the Pillar, upgrade your tools, defend your base, reach the top... or die miserably. Each expendable worker pushes the mission forward - one glorious, replaceable iteration at a time.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Final War: Frozen Defense — Steam game cover

    Final War: Frozen Defense

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Strategy Tower Defense, RTS Battles on the World Map

    2025StrategySimulationFree To PlayFreeSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Toy Shire — Steam game cover

    Toy Shire

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Are you prepared for a thrilling toy army tower defense adventure? Welcome to the Toy Shire! Battle diverse foes in various locations, defend your family, and repel foes from your area. Save the world by strengthening your defense with toy towers!

    2024ActionStrategyEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition — Steam game cover

    Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    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.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Playing History 2 - Slave Trade — Steam game cover

    Playing History 2 - Slave Trade

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Travel back in time and witness the horrors of slave trade firsthand. You will be working as young slave steward on a ship crossing the Atlantic. You are to serve the captain and be his eyes and ears. What do you do, when you realize that your own sister has been captured by the slave traders?

    2015IndieAdventureCasual0.49 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mirror 2: Project X — Steam game cover

    Mirror 2: Project X

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    Enter the parallel worlds enriched by the stories and match-3 games developed using cel-shading techniques powered by Unreal Engine 4. Ponder on your choices because each of them will determine the fate of all.

    2022IndieAdventureRPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Plants vs. Zombies™: Replanted — Steam game cover

    Plants vs. Zombies™: Replanted

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    The classic Plants vs. Zombies returns in glorious HD! The original battle between Plants and Zombies is back — bigger, brighter, and crazier than ever before! Experience the game that started it all, now remastered with stunning HD graphics and packed with new secrets and content to uncover.

    2025Strategy13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love Tavern — Steam game cover

    Love Tavern

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cyber Crush 2069 — Steam game cover

    Cyber Crush 2069

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    You, as a ripperdoc (self-proclaimed), have started your new clinic in a corner of Little China. With your cyberware fixing skill, will it help you to impress the girl?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love n Dream — Steam game cover

    Love n Dream

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    《Love n Dream》 is a puzzle game with many kawaii girls. You will be transformed into multiple roles to approach all of our girls. Your job is to unlock their desired, characteristic, favorite, hate by using your skill to solve all the puzzles and understand more about them.

    2020IndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love n Dream: Virtual Happiness — Steam game cover

    Love n Dream: Virtual Happiness

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    《Love n Dream: Virtual Happiness》is a card-based puzzle game with RPG components. Your job is to lead different girls to advance their adventure levels in a Virtual Reality Game.

    2020IndieCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms — Steam game cover

    Love Tavern 2: Beastmen Kingdoms

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different staffs from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.

    ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Eternal Lust: Zenyh City — Steam game cover

    Eternal Lust: Zenyh City

    Single-player alternative to Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Yokai Art 2: Tales of the Nine-Tails.

    《Eternal Lust: Zenyh City》is a match-3 puzzle game with dating elements. Your job is to complete all the missions and adventures around you to help all the girls on your journey.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →