Single-player games like The Thing: Tower Defense
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Thing: Tower Defense, 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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Deathtrap
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Deathtrap is a Tower Defense game with strong action-RPG elements, a game of vicious tricks, killing machines, rotating blades and splattering blood.
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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.
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Anomaly 2
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Anomaly 2 is a sequel to the critically acclaimed Anomaly Warzone Earth. Maintaining the core elements of the original, Anomaly 2 adds plenty of new features: unit morphing, over million tactical combinations, post-apo world and tower defense vs tower offense multiplayer mode.
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Defense Grid: The Awakening
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.
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Has-Been Heroes
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Has-Been Heroes is a challenging, lane-based roguelike game of strategy and action, featuring a band of heroes on a quest to escort the King's twin princesses to school!
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Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Combining action and strategy in a unique way, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves transports you into an epic folktale co-written with best-selling Canadian author Bryan Perro (Amos Daragon, Wariwulf), in which two feuding brothers will have to put aside their differences to save their sister, who is pursued by the Devil himself!
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ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Thing: Tower Defense.
ENDLESS™ Dungeon is a Rogue-lite Tactical Action game, set in the award-winning ENDLESS™ Universe. Recruit a team of shipwrecked heroes, plunge into a long-abandoned space station, and protect your crystal against never-ending waves of monsters… or die trying, get reloaded, and try again.
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Sol Survivor
Single-player alternative to The Thing: Tower Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Thing: Tower Defense.
Jump in to intense turret defense action with Sol Survivor! Build turrets to defend your colony and the innocent colonists within. Smash enemies with volleys of actively-controlled orbital support. Play with friends in co-operative and competitive multiplayer matches or test your mettle against our new Survival mode!