Single-player games like Evil Defenders
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Evil Defenders, 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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Fort Defense
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
All hands on deck! Pirate armada dead ahead! Take part in an uncompromising struggle repelling freebooters' assaults. Watch out, the enemy may catch the tide for ruining your fortress. Build towers, collect crystals, upgrade spells and believe in your victory!
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Last Hope - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Zombie Tower Defense: Join the ongoing war, in an open world, against the undead zombie horde. Choose between multiple powerful heroes all with unique epic gear and skills! With the wide variety of towers you can create your own perfect strategy.
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CastleStorm
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Welcome to the world of CastleStorm, a super genre mashup of 2D physics destruction mashed with tower defense brawler! CastleStorm was born out of the fond childhood memory of building and destroying LEGO castles.
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Defend Your Life: TD
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Defend Your Life! Is tower defense set in human body where players are fighting against villain hordes of viruses and bacteria. Levels and units correspond to reality of human anatomy.
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Super Sanctum TD
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
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Prime World: Defenders
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Fight off hordes of monstrous mutants created from a strange cataclysmic event in the new tower defense game, Prime World: Defenders. Join a group of exile treasure hunters who have ventured into the capital of an ancient empire, vast with mystery and danger.
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Ancient Planet Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Ancient Planet is classic tower defense game. The stronghold of an ancient civilization has been invaded by hordes of alien raiders. Use powerful technologies of the Ancient and repel the attack of the enemy's armies!
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Royal Defense
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
The castle needs a hero – hordes of trolls are surrounding it! Build towers, save money, learn spells - don't let the enemy in! Follow the exciting story of the dwarven kingdom's eternal struggle against the troll hordes, who want only to crush the dwarves and claim their territory.
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Tower Dwellers
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Tower Dwellers is a unit crafting tower defence that features lots of micromanagement and keeps the player engaged in the battle throughout the entire game.
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Cursed Treasure 2
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Evil Defenders.
Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.
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Beautiful Mystic Defenders
Single-player alternative to Evil Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Evil Defenders.
Beautiful Mystic Defenders is a tactical tower defense, romantic visual novel game where you are the savior of the mystic realm's incredibly gorgeous ladies. Build towers wisely, level up heroines, obtain upgrades, defeat hordes of monsters and immerse in a stimulating harem love story!