Single-player games like Gnomed
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Gnomed, 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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Spud Keeper
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnomed.
Pick up and smash bugs, upgrade your tools to protect your potato patch from escalating waves of pests!
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Keep On Nailing
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Gnomed.
Hammer nails. Collect coins. Repeat (a lot). Keep On Nailing is a cozy incremental game where a flick of your cursor sends a swarm of auto-hammers raining across the board. Grow a huge skill tree, forge mightier hammers, and crack open flashy powers!
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I Only Moved My Mouse
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gnomed.
Your cursor is the blade. Never click — move the mouse and the sword cuts whatever its edge sweeps through. Take your hand off it and the blade fights on without you. Hold the core, clear endless waves, take an Awakening, then spend the shards on 100 sword tiers and a forge with no last level.
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Dyeversion
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gnomed.
Dyeversion is a color-routing tower defense. Drag liquid hoses from color sources to your towers, mix colors to forge powerful COMBO towers, and route your pipes around the enemy path. Battle dozens of levels, earn tokens, and unlock a deep skill tree.
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The Walking Tower
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Gnomed.
The Walking Tower is Tower Defence / Action roguelike game. Play as sentient towers, build axalotes defences and slay waves of enemies. Gather items, collect materials, upgrade your arsenal. But be carefull when to leave, failure is not acceptable. Its okay to fight another day.
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How to Turn Zombie
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Gnomed.
Take control of a living virus and infect the human body from within. Destroy cells, harvest Biomass, evolve powerful mutations, and defend your Viral Core against relentless immune-system attacks in this incremental tower defense game.
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Idle Survivor
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gnomed.
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 Rails
Single-player alternative to Gnomed — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gnomed.
Protect your train with your drones as it rolls through a monster-infested wasteland. Reach new stations to buy new weapons, wagons, and upgrades. Keep rolling until you or the game crashes. Isometric bullet heaven roguelite.