Single-player games like Shadow Empire
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Shadow Empire, 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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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadow Empire.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
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Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadow Empire.
In Dominions 5 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.
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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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Old World
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
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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Kingdom, Dungeon, and Hero
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Lead your kingdoms. protect your lands, conquer your enemies. Stop the fallen god Draeul. Collect the Unity Runes to prevent the Corruption Curse from destroying the realm. Armies keep you in power, Heroes do your bidding and adventure to defeat the horrific creations of the curse.
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Xenonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
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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Stellar Monarch
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Asymmetric space empire builder where you feel like the Emperor, not a logistics officer. No micromanagement, grand scale, fast paced, audiences, assassins, imperial court, disloyal admirals.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadow Empire.
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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Distant Worlds 2
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.
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Europa Universalis V
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadow Empire.
Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.
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Football Manager 26
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
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Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadow Empire.
Command a true operational structure. Can you balance and prioritize three different Theatres in order to achieve your objective?
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Advanced Tactics Gold
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Advanced Tactics: Gold offers a unique and infinitely replayable wargaming experience for any strategy fan. Building off of the enormous success of Advanced Tactics: World War II, the Gold edition gives players a more powerful game editor, much improved random game engine, many new features and abilities, and more.
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Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Decisive Campaigns: The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris is the first in an innovative series of operational World War II wargames that also include a strategic element. The Blitzkrieg from Warsaw to Paris simulates Germany’s military successes in Poland and France in 1939 and 1940 .
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Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shadow Empire.
Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue simulates the German drive to Stalingrad and into the Caucasus of the summer of 1942, as well as its May preludes (2nd Kharkov offensive, Operation Trappenjagd) and also the Soviet winter counter-offensive (Operation Uranus) that ended with the encirclement of 6th Army in Stalingrad.
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Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive
Single-player alternative to Shadow Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Shadow Empire.
Decisive Campaigns: Ardennes Offensive is the fourth wargame in the Decisive Campaign series. Covering the battles in the Ardennes between December 1944 and January 1945, it brings to life Operational wargaming by lowering the scale to just above tactical level.