Single-player games like The Ember Guardian
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to The Ember Guardian, 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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Red Rocket Defencism
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
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Dwarven Deeps
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Gather gold, build defenses and reclaim the old dwarven kingdom of your ancestors. Rebuild the old halls, unlock ancient technologies and fend off enemies as the noise of your new kingdom attracts enemies. Dwarven Deeps is a solo or coop micro-strategy tower defense game in a low-poly dwarven realm.
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Kingdom III: Rising Realms
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Protect your crown! Kingdom returns in an all-new micro-strategy and tower defense game set in a shattered realm. Embark on an atmospheric adventure across lands of legend to build a lasting legacy and challenge the empowered Greed threat.
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Diseased
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Build your camp in the freezing cold and make tough choices. Capture walls to expand your borders and send your men to explore. Risk it all for vital resources, as surviving the relentless waves of the Diseased emerging from the dark will be harder than you think.
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Dwarven Rampart
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Raise massive armies and fight thousands of enemies. Dwarven Rampart is a fantasy roguelite strategy game where you build dwarven cities and fight massive fights. How long can you survive?
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Undead Defense TD
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Zombies are coming! Build your defenses and expand your settlement to create a safe space for humanity. Use turrets, walls and light towers to keep the darkness safe. Expand your settlement to find abandoned settlements and additional resources.
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Resilient
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
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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Painted Kingdoms: Tower Defense & Firefighting
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ember Guardian.
Painted Kingdoms is a minimalist strategy game where you paint, build, and defend your Kingdom of paper. Harness the power of paint to protect it from relentless flames and enemy hordes. Will your Painted Kingdom survive the next wave?
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Stalker
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
The background story of "Stalker" is that a teenager encounters various events on the road following a young girl. The teenager(player) can selectively interact and give repairs / help due to these events. How you will lead to different ending. The game was developed during the Global Game Jam 2020.
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Remnant: From the Ashes
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
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Kingdom Two Crowns
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with The Ember Guardian.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
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Dome Keeper
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Defend against waves of alien monsters in this unique roguelike action miner. Dig for resources, collect useful gadgets, and upgrade equipment to increase odds of survival – just hurry back before your dome is destroyed!
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The Last of Us™ Part I
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.
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Kingdom
Single-player alternative to The Ember Guardian — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ember Guardian.
Kingdom is a single- and multiplayer RPG survival game set in a medieval world, where you can become a king and set taxes to upgrade your kingdom to the next era!