Single-player games like Ghouls & Guardians
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Ghouls & Guardians, 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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Medieval Survivors: Village Defense
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
A first-person strategy game blending colony building, lane-based battles, tower defense, and action combat.
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Heart Of Muriet
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
Your faction's development is in your hands in this 4X real-time strategy game. As a powerful mage, build thriving settlements and diverse armies to bring a fractured land under your spell.
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Defend Our Land
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
10 Lanes. 1 Base. Classic grid-based tactical defense.Defend Our Land is a high-octane lane-defense strategy game inspired by classic grid-placement mechanics. Build a booming economy, position your units, and hold back relentless enemy waves attacking across 10 front lines simultaneously.
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Resilient
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ghouls & Guardians.
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
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Zombie Warz
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
Zombie Warz is a strategy survivor RTS with rogue-lite gameplay elements. Play as the king of a kingdom under siege by zombies and survive to discover their origins.
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Little Kingdom RTS
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
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Rune Defender
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
Rune Defender is a grid based tower defense game. You build towers during the day and defend against the undead during the night.
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Quiet Bruise
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
Play as dumb plushies trying to keep a collapsing factory alive in this tower defence factory automation game. Build chaotic production lines, fight off hordes of cats and crocs, survive your own terrible decisions and keep the factory running.
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Shadows of Revenge
Single-player alternative to Ghouls & Guardians — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ghouls & Guardians.
Shadows of Revenge puts you into the sinister heart of a mafia-dominated Manhattan. As the boss of a once-proud family now fallen into disgrace, your journey to reclaim the city will test your wit, resourcefulness and determination.