Single-player games like Poker Defense
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Poker Defense, 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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Astro Company
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.
Build the path. Defend the Core. Combine towers, cards, and artifacts into broken synergies in an endless tower defense roguelike.
- 2
Von Neumann Project
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.
Von Neumann Project is a space based RTS where you build, mine, and expand across the universe in an attempt to find your creator's equals. Play across 4 different sectors with 28 handcrafted missions, with each sector introducing unique enemies, buildings, and missions.
- 3
Starfort
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Poker Defense.
Defend your empire in a sci-fi tower defense game. Build deadly combinations of railguns, lasers, gravity wells, drones, and cannons across three maps, 50 levels per map, and four difficulty modes.
- 4
HEXHOLD: SIX FORMATIONS
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Poker Defense.
Hex grid, 30 waves of endless night. Build your Six Formations, summon Three Kingdoms heroes, and defend the last stronghold through deckbuilding synergy.
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Kill The Hero
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.
A Dungeon Builder, Autobattler and Deckbuilder in one. They call themselves “heroes”. You call them gold suppliers. Dig your domain, build deadly traps, place guards and play powerful cards as ever-stronger “heroes” invade your dungeon. Take their gold and build the World Domination Machine.
- 6
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.
Rogue Realm: Guardian Grids is a medieval fantasy blend of tower defense and roguelike progression. Build defenses on a grid, manage resources, and survive ever-evolving enemies.
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Axom: Conquest
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Poker Defense.
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.
- 8
Bagatto
Single-player alternative to Poker Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Poker Defense.
Bagatto is a pixel-art poker roguelike. Score with poker hands, multiply them with a growing arsenal of Jokers, and blow past every blind by absurd margins. Buy, sell and stack wild synergies through escalating antes and cunning boss battles — the best trick is the one you build yourself.