Single-player games like Garden Rescue
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Garden Rescue, 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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Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Garden Rescue.
Get ready for an epic journey to defend your kingdom against hordes of orcs, trolls, evil wizards and other nasty fiends using a vast arsenal of towers and spells at your command!Fight on forests, mountains and wastelands, customizing your defensive strategy with different tower upgrades and specializations!
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Go Home Dinosaurs!
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Todd Rex wants steak. Todd Rex wants YOUR steak. Are you gonna let him take it? No way! Go Home, Dinosaurs!Prevent hordes of marauding Dinos from crashing your party in the world’s premier BBQ defense simulator! Unlock powerful towers that act like little weaponized puzzle pieces.
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Bean Beasts
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Garden Rescue.
Defeat monster hordes alongside your Bean Beasts in this cute, challenging Tower Defense Game! Evolve your companions, explore upgrade paths for traps and take on epic boss battles!
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Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Garden Rescue.
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.
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Planet TD
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
6 different types of towers! 4 planets with different characteristics! 25 different enemies. Drones, Tanks, Biorobotic enemies and many different ground and air vehicles! Snowy and Glacial maps, Desert and Arid lands! Prepare to defend the solar system against invaders!
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Unstoppable Gorg
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Defend the solar system from fearsome aliens by sending satellites into orbit in revolutionary tower defense action!
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Fieldrunners 2
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Get ready to DEFEND THE WORLD! The biggest sequel in tower defense history is finally here: Fieldrunners 2 has arrived! From Subatomic Studios, creators of the award winning classic strategy game comes an all new adventure that was years in the making.
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Minimalist Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Collect resources and establish a defense line before dark And then Facing countless enemies
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Odysseus: Long Way Home
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Garden Rescue.
Embark on an exciting journey and plunge yourself into the myths of Ancient Greece with Odysseus, the legendary hero of the Trojan war.
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The chronicles of Emerland. Solitaire.
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Garden Rescue.
Defeat the dark forces - win a battle for Emerland!
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Garden Rescue: Christmas Edition
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Rescue the Christmas trees from swarms of ravenous insects.
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Rush for gold: Alaska
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Take part in the famous "Rush for Gold" in Alaska!
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Rush for gold: California
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Garden Rescue.
Feel the legendary 'Gold Fever' in sunny California!
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Tropical Fish Shop 2
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Garden Rescue.
A diverse gameplay combines several genres of “Match 3”, “Hidden object”, “Sim”, and various mini-games.
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Emerland Solitaire: Endless Journey
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Garden Rescue.
Welcome to Emerland Solitaire, the land of card magic! An incredible journey awaits you, in a beautiful world filled with dwarfs, elves, mermaids and many other amazing creatures.
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Mahjong Magic Islands
Single-player alternative to Garden Rescue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Garden Rescue.
Mahjong: Magic Islands features classic mahjong solitaire in a uniquely original visual format. Collecting components for magic spells adds a fun layer to the gameplay, and meeting cute magical creatures to help out gives the varied levels of the game more significant depth.