Single-player games like Dreadlands
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Dreadlands, 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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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.
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Spaceland: Sci-Fi Indie Tactics
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.
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Hard West
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Dreadlands.
When a tragic turn of events sets one man down a path of supernatural chaos and revenge, he must brutally hunt down all those who wronged him. Fight and survive through 8 unique story-based scenarios, and try your hand at 40 individually designed turn-based combat missions
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Company of Crime
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.
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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
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Lost Eidolons
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Dreadlands.
Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.
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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...
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Blackguards
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.
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Krater
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dreadlands.
The game brings you far into the future of a post-apocalyptic Sweden.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Mordheim: City of the Damned
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.