Single-player games like ICBM
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to ICBM, 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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ICBM: Escalation
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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First Strike
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
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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Forts
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!
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WARNO
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
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Cold Waters
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.
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Sub Command
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
Take charge of the most deadly modern-day submarines in the world - three distinct submarines across two unique and challenging campaigns. Utilize cutting-edge sensor and weapon technology to locate, track and destroy the enemy - even deliver Tomahawk missiles to inland targets.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
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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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to ICBM — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with ICBM.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.