Single-player games like Defense: Abominations
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Defense: Abominations, 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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Alien Shooter TD
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Defense: Abominations.
Innovative Tower Defense inspired by legendary Alien Shooter series! The game was created in keeping with the best traditions of Sigma`s games, no concessions of any kind - everything is just like in real life!
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Dead Effect
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
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Outlast
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defense: Abominations.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Killing Floor
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defense: Abominations.
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
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Zombie Army Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defense: Abominations.
The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.
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The Beast Inside
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
The Beast Inside is a unique, gripping twist on thriller and survival horror. Immerse in the story of long-buried secrets, personal tragedies, and madness. Play as two protagonists bounded by dark heritage. Combat the enemies, solve riddles and experience real terror in the 3D-scanned environment.
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Defense: Abominations.
Fear and isolation seep through the walls of an abandoned southern farmhouse. "7" marks a new beginning for survival horror with the “Isolated View” of the visceral new first-person perspective.
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Endless Horde
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The horde is here to eat your brain and murder every single one of your scientists. Gather your forces, this is the last stand before we lose the facility! Place guards, close doors, and position traps. Survive as long as you can!
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Deadly Escape
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Deadly Escape is a Survival Horror game made with pixel art graphics, inspired by survival horror games of the '90s.
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Zombie Desperation
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Zombie Desperation is a small horror game where you shoot hordes of zombies until you die, aiming to obtain a higher rank in the online leaderboards while unlocking new scenarios and weapons.
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Undead & Beyond
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Take control of Dr. Beyond in his quest to escape the facility! Use the products of your research to create an undead army and cause havoc in the complex while you aim to accomplish your objectives to reach the next area.
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Visceral Cubes
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
After losing contact with a space station on mars, you are sent to retrieve a high value item for the company. It didn’t take very long for our protagonist to find out that something went very very wrong in this place. Use stealth to get past your enemies or run for your life hoping that they don't catch up and explode in your face.
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Time Splatter
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Time splatter is a small episodic rail shooter game where our protagonist, after touching an ancient monolith, is transported to the times where the black plague transformed people into zombie like creatures and knights protected the land.
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Dragon Chase
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
Dragon chase is a small game hybrid between a platformer and a runner where you take the control of a knight being chased by a Dragon. Avoid being ripped by the Dragon, dodge traps and fend off enemies on a randomized environment.
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Orc Raid
Single-player alternative to Defense: Abominations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Defense: Abominations.
The horde is here! fight to the death using the weapons you find scattered across the battlefield. Orc Raid is a first person shooter where you fight hordes of enemies across a randomized environment to rank up via Online Leaderboards.