Single-player games like Hearthguard
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Hearthguard, 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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Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
You are the Wandering Monolith, falling from the sky. Summon towers, expand the board, defend your core, and build your deck of upgrades to conquer countless worlds.
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Endless Defense
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Endless Defense is a roguelite sci-fi tower defense game where every run becomes a new build. Place turrets, choose traits, draw upgrade cards, use special tiles, and evolve your defense to survive endless waves of enemies, elites, and bosses.
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Underground Security Inc
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Build the most profitable dungeon while repelling parties of adventuring "heroes". Manage minions, mine ores, build traps and collect ancient tomes in this roguelite dungeon defense game.
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Axom: Conquest
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Build and defend your fortress while expanding out in this hold-out tower defense roguelite. Battle across a procedural alien homeworld, fight back corrupted terrain, discover hundreds of structures and upgrades as physics-driven swarms threaten to wipe out humanity.
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Sushi Cat - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Battle back waves of rogue sushi in this cute-but-chaotic roguelite tower defense! Build, upgrade, and reshape the battlefield each run.
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Sunbreak War
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
A light Rogue strategy game centered on building and defense. Build your territory, recruit soldiers to fend off enemies. 9 maps, 6 weapons (30 talents), 40 monsters, 30 units/buildings. Plan your pace, control soldiers, choose abilities—enjoy command and strategy.
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Nordhold: Origins
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Immerse yourself in Nordhold: Origins, a tower defense game with high replayability. Build a medieval Nordic village, develop its economy, and defend it with unique towers and upgrades. Choose heroes and relics, compete on leaderboards, and aim for the Valhalla rank!
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Repel The Rifts
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hearthguard.
Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
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The Revenge of Sophia Red
Single-player alternative to Hearthguard — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Hearthguard.
The Revenge Of Sophia Red is a first-person psychological horror adventure with puzzle elements. It's about the life of the book author Sophia Red. Love can turn into hate and make people blind. Revenge has become the only meaning in Sophia's life. This is her story.