Single-player games like Tower Dwellers
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Tower Dwellers, 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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CastleStorm
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
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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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
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Evil Defenders
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tower Dwellers.
Evil Defenders is a fun, frenetic defense game: build and upgrade your towers, сast spells to repel enemy forces, use special landmarks and defend the Lands of Evil from invaders! Feel free to play the game in many different ways through unique tower upgrades, a deep skill tree and 100 in-game achievements.
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Swords and Soldiers HD
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods! Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Tower Wars
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!
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Fieldrunners 2
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Get ready to DEFEND THE WORLD! The biggest sequel in tower defense history is finally here: Fieldrunners 2 has arrived! From Subatomic Studios, creators of the award winning classic strategy game comes an all new adventure that was years in the making.
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Cannon Brawl
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tower Dwellers.
Cannon Brawl is action RTS and artillery hybrid. Pilot an airship, command powerful weapon emplacements and use the destructible terrain to out think and destroy your enemy! It's a new take on artillery strategy!
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Bestseller: Curse of the Golden Owl
Single-player alternative to Tower Dwellers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Young writer Jane Harrison, a daughter of the famous detective, is going through a creative crisis. Her father vanished while working on his last case two years ago. Jane sets off on a journey through the United States and gets involved in a dangerous intrigue. The key to the mystery might be a cursed item…