Single-player games like Scary defense
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Scary 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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Lockdown
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scary defense.
A short vehicle driving horror game
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The Evil Within 2
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Scary defense.
Detective Sebastian Castellanos has lost everything, including his daughter, Lily. To save her, he must descend into the nightmarish world of STEM. Horrifying threats emerge from every corner, and he must rely on his wits to survive. For his one chance at redemption, the only way out is in.
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Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap combines chaotic third-person combat with devious trap-laying strategy. Enjoy endless replayability as your War Mage grows stronger through roguelite progression. Repel relentless orc hordes solo or with up to 4 players.
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Winnie The Pooh: The Serial Killer
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Scary defense.
Winnie The Pooh: The Serial Killer is a Third Person Shooter where your goal is to use a stealthy approach and kill as many civilians as possible or hostile approach and kill as many police as possible before the time runs out.
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ASSASSIN: The First List (Beta)
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Dive into the heart-pounding world of Assassin (ATFL), where every shadow holds danger and every move could be your last. As an elite assassin navigating a web of deception and intrigue, you'll face off against powerful adversaries, unravel dark secrets, and ultimately decide the fate of nations.
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Automate Defend Repeat
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Automate, Defend, Repeat: A combination of factory management and tower defense strategy. Build a planet-dominating factory, defend it from disgruntled resource-carrying monsters, and defeat a total of 6 bosses. Once you have done that, select a New Game + modifier and do it again!
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Zombies In Valkeala
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scary defense.
Third person shooter game, where player controls woman character whose mission is to kill zombies in place called Valkeala in 4 different locations
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The Left Behind
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Scary defense.
The Left Behind is a solo and co-op post-apocalyptic survival game. Explore a typical Dutch open-world landscape at daytime and beware of hordes of enemies coming in at night. Loot and hunt to survive. Each night, the game becomes increasingly challenging. How long will you survive?
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Kitchen Simulator 2015
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Kitchen simulator, The game that turns you into the chef. As the owner and chef of your very own restaurant, you now have the responsibilities to keep your place clean, serving quality meals to your hungry customers, Impressing the high class to get to that fancy five star restaurant,more…
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Psycho on the loose
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
An assassin with a rise in his career to kill his target is out on a murdering spree. He is out there with alot of motives but his main motive is two eliminate all targets and who ever may get in his way.
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Operation swat
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Ever wanted to be a part of a swat team, Where your mission is to rescue hostages? Well now you can be. You and your team of 3, Which you command are a 24/7 emergency swat team.
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Hold your houses
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Have you ever been in a robbery and didn't have weapons to defend yourself and your house? Well now you can, with hold your houses you have a variety of weapons to use to help you defend yourself, your house and take on those unwanted robbers.
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Kitchen Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Scary defense.
Ever wanted to own your own restaurant? Well now you can with Kitchen Simulator 2. Customer satisfaction is your main aim, try and serve as many customers as you can, without leaving to many disappointed before the day ends.
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Survive: The king killer
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Survive: The king killer is a one man team with a one life only game that is an open world survival game.
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Factory pirates
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Factory pirate lets you play with your friends co-op on an adventure to serve customers at your pirate ship restaurant. You will need to solve complex puzzles to get the items they are needing.
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Battle royale simulator
Single-player alternative to Scary defense — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Scary defense.
Battle royale simulator lets you simulate and control a battle royale game. You can choose the amount of player (like 600 at max), game speed, air drops, where the storm will close and just some really cool things