Single-player games like Dungeon Defenders
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dungeon Defenders, 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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Dungeon Defenders: Awakened
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Dungeon Defenders: Awakened is co-op Tower Defense combined with epic Action RPG combat. You’re able to join forces with up to four players to take on a never-ending army of orcs, demons, and dragons! Are your defenses strong enough to save the world of Etheria?
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Dungeon Defenders II
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
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ENDLESS™ Dungeon - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
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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Orcs Must Die!
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.
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Grim Dawn
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
Enter an apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, iron is valued above gold and trust is hard earned. This ARPG features complex character development, hundreds of unique items, crafting and quests with choice & consequence.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dungeon Defenders.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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Deathtrap
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
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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Orcs Must Die! 2
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
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Sanctum 2
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Dungeon Defenders.
Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.
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Save The World
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Dungeon Defenders.
The story is a young man summoned to another world is suffered from the scourge of aggression by monsters,and save the world with the native heroes. Game mode is rogue,you only release your kill desire to kill the monsters all! Special Zhen Fa System,allow you active powerful Zhen Fa to bombing!
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Dungeon Defenders: Going Rogue
Single-player alternative to Dungeon Defenders — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Dungeon Defenders.
Combining Roguelite, Action RPG, and Tower Defense gameplay into a crazy free-for-all, where it’s you and up to three friends versus hordes of enemies. Select your hero, survive the waves of foes, unlock new weapons and runes, and take on the bosses that await you!