Single-player games like Mindswarm Elements TD
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Mindswarm Elements TD, 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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Bulwark Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
Bulwark Tower Defense is a competitive team tower-defense: wall your lane with auto-fighting units to hold back the waves, then spend essence to send monsters that break your rivals' defenses. Grow your economy, upgrade a shared King, and outlast the enemy team across 1v1–4v4.
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Soul Tides
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Mindswarm Elements TD.
Command dark armies in this tug-of-war auto-battler. Build your base, summon units, customize abilities, and push the battlefield toward your enemy’s stronghold. Adapt your strategy each match and dominate in PvP, co-op, or Trials mode.
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Flip & Conquer
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
A coin decides every battle — you decide everything else: the target, the stake, the cards you spring. Not luck, nerve. Wager one square or your whole border and take the map. Learn it in one round, play it all night — up to 8 empires online, or a branching campaign solo.
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Wend
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
A tower defense game with a heavy focus on mazing. Includes a campaign, ranked PVP, and an endless PVE mode you can play solo or with up to 4 players in co-op. New maps are generated daily, weekly and monthly so you will never run out of content!
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Bound by Valor
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
Defend the Flower of Life in a chaotic co-op action roguelike where players combine elemental powers, craft broken builds mid-battle, and survive relentless waves together.
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Block Beast
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
Craft Blocks & Collect Upgrades to build the strongest Beast, and claim your title as "King Of The Jungle!" With thousands of possible combinations, which Beast will reign supreme in this fast paced, real-time, creature-customizer, arena-battler.
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Invaders Tower Defense Online
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
Build your ultimate defense with a combination of powerful towers. Attack your opponent with strong Invaders. This game is sure to offer a unique and immersive experience for all tower defense enthusiasts!
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Tower Survivors
Single-player alternative to Mindswarm Elements TD — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mindswarm Elements TD.
'Tower Survivors' is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must survive, upgrade and defend humanity against massive unending armies from Anubis Tomb, Jurassic Valley and Vampire Monastery. Set in three different empires hell-bent on your destruction, it’s not if you can survive, but how long.