Single-player games like D for Defender
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to D for Defender, 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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Little Kingdom RTS
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with D for Defender.
Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.
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Ants Times Infinity
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with D for Defender.
Craft your nest underground, finding powerful combinations of chambers and pheromones to build the perfect ant-spawning engine. Then unleash them in their thousands onto the surface, directing workers to fuel the swarm while soldiers and champions push out to conquer enemy territories.
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Flow Of War
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with D for Defender.
A unique blend of base building and wave defense. Workers automatically gather resources and manage your economy while you focus on strategy. Expand and fortify your kingdom, command elite armies, and survive endless procedurally generated enemy waves.
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Red Rocket Defencism
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with D for Defender.
You, a military officer from our great autocratic motherland, must protect our precious rockets from the evil capitalist enemy in this revolutionary base building strategy game. Bribe! Surveil! Purge! Imbibe! The end justifies the means when you have to protect our invaluable rockets!
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Phosphor Command
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with D for Defender.
You command a forward operating base in a world ravaged by war and shadow contracts. Deploy squads into real-time tactical combat, research upgrades, manage a fragile economy, and push back a front that never stops advancing.
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Sir, We Have an Orc Problem
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with D for Defender.
Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!
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The Scouring
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with D for Defender.
The Scouring is an RTS with fast pace, high attention to detail and next generation experience. Lead humans or orcs in a Classic Mode or use one of powerful Heroes to fight for victory! Play alone or with friends. Use our modding tools to create maps and custom game modes! Join The Scouring!
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to D for Defender — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with D for Defender.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.