Single-player games like Shard Defender: Rogue
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Shard Defender: Rogue, 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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Galaxy Critter Co.
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shard Defender: Rogue.
Galaxy Critter Co. is a cute chaotic roguelike where tower defense meets top-down shooting: build by day, fight by night, and craft broken synergies to survive the Swarm.
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Reforge Front
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shard Defender: Rogue.
Defend the furnace from waves of goblins by building and upgrading in an FPS tower defense.
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Luxmithar
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shard Defender: Rogue.
Defend a crashed forge in this 2D survival defense roguelite. Expand a modular world grid, build towers and traps, and survive relentless enemy waves across shifting days, storms, and darkness.
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Crystalia
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shard Defender: Rogue.
Crystalia is a first-person tower defense game mixing automation, management and exploration set in a utopian sci-fi world built on crystal extraction. Dig into caves, build autonomous defense zones and uncover the history of a civilization shaped around crystals.
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Warf
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shard Defender: Rogue.
Unleash strategic survival in Warf, where you guide Warf through relentless hordes, deploy towers, and engage in thrilling combat. Defend against the horde and emerge as the ultimate survivor in this innovative fusion of survival action and tower defense
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SENTRY
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shard Defender: Rogue.
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
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Blood Rush
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shard Defender: Rogue.
BLOOD RUSH is a fast paced, skill based FPS, mixed with roguelites elements. Upgrade yourself, buy unique guns, drain miracles from relics and destroy anyone or anything standing on your way!
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Sanctum 2
Single-player alternative to Shard Defender: Rogue — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shard Defender: Rogue.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.