Single-player games like Defend The Dungeon
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Defend The Dungeon, 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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Time Dungeons
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend The Dungeon.
Team up in 1-4 player co-op to defend relics across shattered timelines. Build deadly towers, unleash hero abilities, grab run changing upgrades, or dive into endless arcade survival and chase the leaderboards before reality collapses.
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The Maze
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend The Dungeon.
Escape an ever-shifting procedural labyrinth. Loot legendary armor, overcome challenges in crafting zones, and survive deadly traps in this fantasy Roguelite. With progressive difficulty and unique enemies, can you find the exit before the Ghost finds you?
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Architect of War
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defend The Dungeon.
A strategic tower defense with roguelike elements where every enemy demands an answer. Prepare your team, adapt your defense, and face waves designed to break your strategy.
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Bulwark Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend The Dungeon.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
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Mindswarm Elements TD
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend The Dungeon.
The tower defense that thinks back: the swarm analyzes your defense, develops resistances and sends saboteurs. Counter with 6 elements, powerful combo towers and support totems — solo, in co-op up to 4 players or in versus duels up to 4.
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Cards We're Dealt
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defend The Dungeon.
Wander haunted halls as an office temp and collect magical cards with supernatural abilities to fight demons and and explore the underworld in this horror, deckbuilding, roguelike game.
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Battle of Heroes 3
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Defend The Dungeon.
The hero acts as a mercenary who is sent to the border of the kingdom. Use combat and magic skills, explore the fantasy world, develop a hero and warriors, towers, aura, magic, weapons. Explore and create magical items. Grow a dragon or a cerberus.
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Debauchery & Magic
Single-player alternative to Defend The Dungeon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defend The Dungeon.
In Haven, magic thrives and debauchery is strictly forbidden. Defy a ruthless new ruler as you and your friends quest, loot, party, and battle your way across the kingdom to bring freedom back to its people.