Single-player games like Catnip Wars
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Catnip Wars, 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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Defender Of Falyndor
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.
Defender OF Falyndor is a First-Person Tower Defense game in Virtual Reality! Take control of your character, towers, and much more to protect Falyndor from waves of invasions to become the ultimate Defender of Falyndor!
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Hex Tower Boogie
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.
A tower defense where towers don't make their own bullets. You build the factory that feeds them: harvest ammo, route it through belts, and stack effects until a single shot homes, pierces, splashes AND one-shots the whole screen.
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Jarred Defense
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Catnip Wars.
A difficult maze-building tower defense about Yuki, a cat trapped in a teleporting jar. Protect it from robots and endure its unhelpful comments. Build your own paths, adapt as levels change, unlock powerful items, and uncover Yuki’s story. A love letter to Warcraft III custom maps.
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Ages TD
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.
Spear towers become balistas, balistas become railguns. Defend one world through three ages as it grows around your towers - and find out why the horde keeps returning. A story-driven tower defense about a world worth 800 years of war, and the Reaper who farms it.
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Hexfall: Planetary Defense
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.
Hexfall is a planet-scale tower defense game where over 100,000 enemies attack at once. Mine the crust, wire the power and arm a hex world against an armada that fills the sky long before it comes down.
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Ceniza - Tower Defense
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.
Build the route. Break the machines. Recover your stolen energy cores. CENIZA is a 3D tower defense set in an industrial wasteland, with 100 waves, seven upgradeable tower families and colossal robotic bosses. Reshape the battlefield, then make it your own with mods.
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Rise of Mutant Swarms
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Catnip Wars.
Rise of Mutant Swarms is a strategy survival tower-defense game where you defend the base against waves of evolving mutant enemies. Place and upgrade turrets, adapt to enemy abilities, and make critical decisions as the pressure rises with every wave.
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Raging Titan
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Catnip Wars.
Build your towers, plan your efforts, watch out for changing paths and strike back against the alien invaders in this challenging tower defense game!
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Cradle of Ash
Single-player alternative to Catnip Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Catnip Wars.
Survival horror in a quarantined company town. You wake alone at the edge of Ashbrook, where the dead get back up from anything you do to them — unless what is left of them burns. Ration the fuel. Do not leave a corpse whole. And when the noise gets closer, do not go toward it.