Single-player games like Forgetful Dictator
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Forgetful Dictator, 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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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forgetful Dictator.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year that has become a worldwide hit.
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Tales of a Spymaster
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forgetful Dictator.
Break from the traditional role of ruler and take up a new set of tools within Tales of a Spymaster, a turn-based strategy set in a fictional world, filled with threats and opportunities. Choose your kingdom and guide your ruler to victory, in whatever manner you deem fit.
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ENDLESS™ Space - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Forgetful Dictator.
ENDLESS™ Space is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS™ Universe, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forgetful Dictator.
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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Dominions 3: The Awakening
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forgetful Dictator.
The Old God has left the world and the pretenders are awakening and coming out from hiding. You start the game by designing one of the pretender gods that will compete for true ascension to godhood. The type of god can range from a magically powerful arch mage to an ancient kraken or a mystic monolith that people pray to.
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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forgetful Dictator.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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Hex Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forgetful Dictator.
Hex Kingdoms is a turn-based strategy game set in medevial times with fantasy themes. Expand your kingdom, set up your defenses, train soldiers and monsters to become the only ruler of the land.
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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Forgetful Dictator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Forgetful Dictator.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!