Single-player games like The Deadly Tower of Monsters
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to The Deadly Tower of Monsters, 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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Terror of Hemasaurus
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.
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EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.
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Tower 57
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Tower 57 is a fast-paced neo-retro shooter where cooperation is as important as your ammo capacity. As a member of an extraordinary task force fight your way through a dieselpunk megatower and uncover its hidden secrets.
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Pizza Tower
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer, with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energetic soundtrack.
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Livelock
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Livelock is a co-operative top-down shooter where you play solo or with up to two allies to break the cycle of infinite war between machines. As one of the remaining Capital Intellects, your role is to unlock Eden and revive humanity.
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Deathwish Enforcers Special Edition
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
A gritty, non-stop blood bath from the creator of Insanity's Blade, Super Battle Princess Madelyn and the recently released GuardGrave. And a parody of beloved 60s and 70s classic action films, heroes and villains. Deathwish Enforcers... There's gonna be hell to pay!
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Abathor
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Abathor is a challenging 2D action platformer for solo play or up to 4 players. Embark on an epic 16-bit quest inspired by Golden Axe, Rastan, and Castlevania IV. Traverse Atlantis, battle demons, and defeat vicious bosses to save your progress! Enjoy an amazing OST from classic-era musicians!
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Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Finish the hunt in this epic finale to the Turok Trilogy. Pick up immediately after the events of Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, with dual protagonists Joseph and Danielle Fireseed, of the Turok family tree, as they battle the titular antagonist Oblivion and its followers, the Flesh Eaters.
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Psychonauts
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
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Zeno Clash
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.
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The Stanley Parable
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
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Rock of Ages
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
A rock-solid combination of rock-rolling action, deep strategy, and captivating art and music from different ages of history, this is a game of crush or be crushed!
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Rock of Ages 2: Bigger & Boulder™
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
The greatest rock-racing, tower defense, art history game is back! Like the title says, Bigger & Boulder cranks up the surrealism and gameplay with chaotic 4P multiplayer, new time periods, and improved graphics, physics, and destructibility powered by UE4 to be, well… BIGGER AND BOULDER.
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Abyss Odyssey
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
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Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Competitive tower defense meets arcade action and gets rolled up with ACE Team's quirky, Monty Python-esque humor into one giant, creative game for the ages. This time around, you can even make your own levels!
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Clash: Artifacts of Chaos
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Hunted by mercenaries of an enemy with untold power, the fighter Pseudo and the creature under his protection begin a perilous quest to the edges of strange lands.
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The Eternal Cylinder
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.
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Zeno Clash 2
Single-player alternative to The Deadly Tower of Monsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Deadly Tower of Monsters.
Ghat's story is far from over: Zeno Clash 2 picks up where the deliciously brazen first game left off. After 4 years of waiting, the sequel to the surreal first-person brawler brings more variety in combat and levels, and even more bizarre storytelling into the beguiling world of Zenozoik.