Single-player games like MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to MarZ: Tactical Base 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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Infested Planet
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base 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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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Zombie City Defense 2
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?
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Taur
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?
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Risen Kingdom
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
Risen Kingdom is a real-time strategy game. Build and fortify your settlements to survive and push back armies of the undead.
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Grim Nights
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.
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VERSUS SQUAD
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!
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Age of Darkness: Final Stand
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.
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DG2: Defense Grid 2
Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.
Great strategy is timeless. Build, adapt, and defend across dynamic maps, solo or online - every session brings new strategies, new solutions, and new surprises. Now is the perfect time to enter the grid.