Single-player games like Ballatory
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Ballatory, 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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Incrempire
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
Defend. Upgrade. Dominate. A relaxing incremental base-defense game, packed with powerful skills and a deep skill tree.
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Idle Survivor
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Ballatory.
Your ship is stranded and cannot move. Something out here has woken up, and it breeds faster than you can kill it. All you can do is upgrade your arsenal and fight back, wave after wave, for as long as you can hold.
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Endless Escalation
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
A strategy-driven incremental where choices actually matter. Upgrade costs scale together, forcing meaningful trade-offs instead of blindly upgrading everything. Build defenses, specialize your army, and adapt to overcome ever-evolving enemy forces.
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Screen Survivors
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Ballatory.
An idle survivor-like that sits in the corner of your screen.
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Master Healer Kale with useless party
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
A short incremental game where you play as a Healer in a party. Your main job is to keep your party alive. Upgrade 200+ skills in a skill tree, from healing to party damage. Designed to be completed in around 4 hours.
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Dig n Fight
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Ballatory.
Dig for treasures, build powerful backpack synergies, and defeat all enemies.
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Crystal Ascend
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Ballatory.
A simple incremental game where you nurture crystal elementals by destroying floating crystals and harvesting aether. Upgrade the skill tree, unlock new abilities to gather resources faster, and build your ultimate crystal companions.
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Rock Flipper
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Ballatory.
Rock Flipper is a short incremental idler about throwing rocks to mine and earn cash, completing a huge skill tree, awakening monoliths, feeding the Rift, and becoming enlightened with the truth about the universe.
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Rock Crusher
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
Rock Crusher is an incremental game with a massive skill tree. Control a little rock-crushing machine stranded on a mysterious planet. Crush rocks, collect materials, evolve through upgrades, uncover the planet’s secrets - and maybe, just maybe, find a way to escape.
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Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
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Beat Stickman: Infinity Clones
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
An action-packed clicker idle game with an interesting little story. The game has a very simple art style and stunning visual effect. There are 28 unique weapons for you to unlock, the last two are very satisfying.
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Beat Stickman: Beyond
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
An idle clicker game where you beat a Stickman with lots of stuff. The game comes with a narrative that will blow your mind!
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Live Art: Impossible Challenge
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Ballatory.
A challenging and fun game for all ages. Hold the draw button to make your character move along the lines of an image, avoid obstacles, and bring the beautiful art to life! Test your skills, and have good laughs with friends. All levels are well-crafted and carefully tested.
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Overwritten: Defeat The Net
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Ballatory.
A roguelike deckbuilding card game where you control, and buff your objects to defeat all kinds of funny sci-fi enemies.
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Towerful Guardians
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Ballatory.
Pilot your flying machine, be it a helicopter, a mech, or a straight magical suit, to fight alien monsters and defend the towers that are very important to mankind in a post-apocalyptic setting. Upgrade your gears, build strong synergy with the tower's abilities to out-scale enemy power and survive!
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Relic Delivery
Single-player alternative to Ballatory — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ballatory.
(VERY EARLY DEVELOPMENT, WISHLIST AND FOLLOW TO GET UPDATED). Shoot your way out of a relentless pursuit in the middle of a desert in your armed truck to deliver a stolen Time Relic. Harness the relic's power to aid your escape, but brace yourself for the unimaginable consequences.