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Single-player games like MarZ: Tactical Base Defense

Below are 10 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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    They Are Billions — Steam game cover

    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?

    2019Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand — Steam game cover

    Towers & Goblins: The Last Stand

    Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.

    Build towers, manage resources, and lead units to defend your kingdom against goblins. Every decision you make determines your kingdom's fate.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mars or Die! — Steam game cover

    Mars or Die!

    Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.

    Control two characters simultaneously! Survive, gather, collect upgrades, fight all sizes of one-eyed Martians, build defensible outposts and conquer Mars, in this glorious mix between roguelite and tower defense.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grim Nights — Steam game cover

    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.

    2018StrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Final Outpost: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Final Outpost: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.

    Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?

    2025StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Reshaping Mars — Steam game cover

    Reshaping Mars

    Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.

    「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Taur — Steam game cover

    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?

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Freaking Meatbags — Steam game cover

    Freaking Meatbags

    Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.

    Land on a planet, pick up some rocks, leave before the solar system explodes. Oh, and don't die in the nightly robot attacks! Freaking Meatbags is a humorous real-time strategy game that's all about building a base, mixing meatbag DNA, then convincing those dolts to help you gather resources.

    2015ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DG2: Defense Grid 2 — Steam game cover

    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.

    2014StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel — Steam game cover

    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel

    Single-player alternative to MarZ: Tactical Base Defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with MarZ: Tactical Base Defense.

    SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →