Single-player games like Dreadlands
Below are 14 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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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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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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Hard West
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie 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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Empire of Sin
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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BATTLETECH
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Dreadlands.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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Mad Max
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Play as Mad Max, a reluctant hero and survivor who wants nothing more than to leave the madness behind and find solace.
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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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Borderlands 2
Single-player alternative to Dreadlands — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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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.