Single-player games like Gridle
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Gridle, 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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Refence
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridle.
Refence is a roguelite based idle defense game, where you can choose heroes and their traits, upgrade your castle, and manage resources to fend off enemies from the Demon Realm who are trying to attack your castle.
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Raid Auctus
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridle.
Grow your perfect raid team while the game runs! Build and train your squad from 20 unique classes, enhance their power through permanent upgrades, and watch them conquer challenging raids in Raid Auctus.
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Maktala: Slime Lootfest
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridle.
An incremental game where you kill hordes of slimes and use their loot to become stronger and farm them. Collect powerful loot, master skills, and uncover tons of content.
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Goblin Buster: Incremental Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridle.
Goblin Buster is an incremental tower defense game with deep upgrade mechanics. Obliterate annoying goblins, collect materials, discover powerful relics, invest in unique buildings and spend your resources to upgrade towers and magical spells with a massive skill tree!
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Kin and Quarry
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gridle.
An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig. Upgrade. Repeat.
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IDLE BOSS RUSH
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridle.
Slay giant bosses and turn the hollow wasteland into the almighty kingdom! Endlessly rewarding incremental game where you collect fountains of rare loot, unleash crazy combos and watch the monsters fall under your knees. Boss Rush that keeps on going when you're gone!
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Ash Warden
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gridle.
Survive waves of enemies in Ash Warden, an incremental tower defense where you slowly become overpowered. Unlock new abilities, fight against powerful bosses, and evolve into an unstoppable force against the endless Redgaze hordes.
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Gaiadon: Eternal Quest
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridle.
An Epic Incremental/Idle RPG
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Siegeturtle
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gridle.
Upgrade your turtle, recruit cute animals like unicorns, giant squids, otters and more, and blast through waves in an idle roguelite auto battler! Swim farther with each run, unlock new skills, and get closer to home every time you grow stronger.
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Clicker Heroes
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridle.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Haste-Miner 2
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridle.
Haste-Miner 2 is a casual game where your main objective is to mine. When mining, you earn a currency called tokens and the blocks you mine are stored in your "backpack". Tokens can be used to upgrade your pickaxe in lots of different ways.
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EternaMine
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gridle.
Mine, fight monsters, upgrade your gear, obtain rare items, unlock new powers and mine some more in the massive follow-up to the popular title "Haste-Miner 2". Eternamine offers a casual yet engaging gameplay experience, expand your mining empire and discover the secrets that lie beneath the earth.
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Celldom Classic
Single-player alternative to Gridle — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Gridle.
The popular webgame comes to Steam! Celldom is a different type of clicker game where you swipe over a "board" to earn income instead of clicking. Spend money on upgrading your board, upgrade idle earnings, unlock dashers and rebirth to start over again with permanent boosts.