Single-player games like Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Below are 23 single-player Steam games similar to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition, 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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Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
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Hearts of Iron IV
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
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Old World
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
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Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Spanning the most turbulent era in Western history, your quest for territory and power takes you through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even onto the shores of the New World.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was first released in 1985. It was the first historical simulation game released in Japan based on the Chinese classical literature "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Players become the leaders of their countries and strive to unite the land under their rule.
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Imperial Glory
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
It is a time of war in Europe. Driven by new ideas of Enlightenment, the hearts of men and women across the continent are inflamed with dreams of freedom and glory. This is the moment for a military genius to forge himself a name to be remembered throughout all eternity. This is your moment.
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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.
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Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The standalone expansion for Mount & Blade! With Fire & Sword builds and expands upon the highly regarded combat system from Mount & Blade: Warband. Firearms have been introduced to the battlefield.
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Crusader Kings II
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"The ultimate depiction of the Three Kingdom. A heroic drama of a gathering of Legends. "With this as the concept behind Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, we have compiled an experience that will immerse you even deeper into the world of the Three Kingdoms, with "human drama," seen through the interactions of the...
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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe is a standalone add-on for "Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars" presenting new nations with the possibility to wage multiplayer battles.
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Total War: WARHAMMER III
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.