Single-player games like Wake the Beacon
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Wake the Beacon, 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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Protect the Pit
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wake the Beacon.
Attack with your cursor, build towers and walls to defend your pit! An incremental clicker that combines tower defense, maze building, and large upgrade trees. Earn money, upgrade your defenses, and build winding mazes to stop the hordes of the Dark Forest.
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Sky of Destruction
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
Sky of Destruction is a top-down shooter created by a team of two people. Combine aircrafts in your combat fleet, which will help you during the mission. Your goal is to destroy the enemy aircraft carrier or buildings, breaking through the enemy air armada. Explosions and total destruction!
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Pixel Orbit
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
Incremental game about defending Earth from impending danger. Develop your Skill Tree to setup automatic turrets and various other defensive mechanisms.
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Farming with lasers
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wake the Beacon.
Incinerate various pests with your giant laser, as you grow your farm. Purchase incremental upgrades to expedite the process.
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Cosmic Crusher
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
Incremental game about protecting solar system. Destroy asteroids with a huge arsenal of weapons, upgrade your skills through a massive skill tree, and defend the solar system from hostile alien fleets. How far can you go?
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Dyeversion
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
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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Traveloot
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
Traveloot is a run-based incremental game where you guide a growing team of adventurers across islands. Gather resources, fight hordes of enemies, unlock branching skill tree, and find new party members to join your team. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op.
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Towerful Defense: A Rogue TD
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
A roguelike tower defense where you control a single tower to fight against hordes of aliens coming from all directions. Pick your tower, equip up to 4 skills, and choose from a variety of traits and unique effect items to craft powerful builds that lead you to victory.
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Monster Flipper
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wake the Beacon.
Monster Flipper is a short incremental game where you buy and level monsters, smash them with a giant hammer for gold, and unlock swords and artifacts to automate your progress.
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Civilization Alchemy
Single-player alternative to Wake the Beacon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wake the Beacon.
Combine two elements and discover the inventions that shaped civilization. Explore 250+ elements across 12 eras, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age, in a relaxing alchemy puzzle.