Single-player games like Defend Your Life: TD
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Defend Your Life: TD, 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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MoonBeam
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
Here's a special forces team for you, they all have unique skills. Your task is to make the enemy die in a designated place. Get more energy.
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Nuts Protocol
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend Your Life: TD.
You might think this is yet another Tower Defense game. Well, friend, you are not wrong! The twist? It's fast-paced! Your greatest resource is positioning - and moving around is a must. Also, you control an orange Squirrel equipped with more-than-military-grade turrets! OMG - can it get any better?
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Haunted Dorm
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Defend Your Life: TD.
"Haunted Dorm" is a 2D tower defense game. In the game, players need to evade the pursuit of dream hunters, find a suitable dormitory to hide in, and develop the economy to build forts to resist the dream hunters.
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Fighting for Land / 打怪兽抢领地
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
"Fighting for Land" is a casual roguelite tower defense game that blends randomized card draws, randomized power-ups, and territory-coloring.
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Just Desserts
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
Select your commander and play a series of tower defense levels as you progress through a randomly generated map. Find shops to unlock upgrades for your towers and commander, and fight mini bosses for bonus rewards to prepare for Count Cakeula.
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The Hero We Need
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
Create your own distinctive towers, enhance only the necessary components, and experiment with them in quick battle mode. THWN enables you to craft each tower individually using runes that determine the projectile and its effects, giving you the freedom to adopt strategies that suit your play style.
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Protect My Cheese
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend Your Life: TD.
A stunning and chaotic tower defense strategy game where we play as cats to defeat the cheese-hungry rats. Survive against waves of enemies and guard the cheese.
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Cat Go: Tactical Defense Braw
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend Your Life: TD.
Cats Go! is a defense game blending strategy, cooperation, and direct combat. Grow mutant plants to protect your village! Whether you prefer to play solo as a brave defender or team up with friends online. Not feeling cooperative? Slip into the role of a devil cat and secretly sabotage the village!
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Once upon a time
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Defend Your Life: TD.
« Once Upon A Time » is an adventure game in which a young woman, finds a magic book and is instantly teleported inside. Each chapter of the book is one single tale in which you will have to solve riddles in fairy tale designed settings. Magic and nature will be friends and foes.
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Bloons TD 6
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Defend Your Life: TD.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
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Kingdom Run VR
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
Kingdom Run VR is an action-packed fitness game; explore trapped tombs, avoid dangers, collect gems and eliminate enemies!
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Killing Room
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.
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Walking Zombie: Shooter
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Casual with Defend Your Life: TD.
The Walking Zombie is a stationary FPS with an online co-op mode in a world full of zombies to kill. Buy and upgrade your weapons, kill all enemies in 200 levels and destroy mighty boss monsters before they eat you alive!
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Band of Defenders
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defend Your Life: TD.
A Co-Op FPS game with base building in a post-apocalyptic world. Craft weapons, build barricades and automated turrets, unlock new gear and items for visual customization and kill all savages and mutants trying to destroy the remnants of human civilization.
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Build Wars
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Defend Your Life: TD.
Use and boost your creativity in these non-violent battles of block-building magic. Show that you are the best and gain recognition from fellow builders in this harsh but ultimately fair player vs. player online building game. Win, unlock new blocks and with it your potential.
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Walking Zombie 2
Single-player alternative to Defend Your Life: TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defend Your Life: TD.
Zombie singleplayer shooter in modern polygon graphics with rich RPG elements.