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Single-player games like Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots, 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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    Rule The World CHESS — Steam game cover

    Rule The World CHESS

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Rule the world with your army! Defeat Demons kingdom as well as Humans Kingdom! Use your magic and weapons to conquer the world! Experience chess in 3D fights with a lot of customizations! Create your own army!

    2022ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arete — Steam game cover

    Arete

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Arete: The Battles of Alexander the Great is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame where you'll relive the Macedonian king's most epic battles, from fighting alongside his father in Greece to climactic clashes with Darius in Persia to battling warlords at the extreme fringe of the empire.

    2025StrategySimulationCasual9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    World War 2 Operation Husky — Steam game cover

    World War 2 Operation Husky

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    A light wargame with simple rules tailored to run smooth battles. Recommended to introduce new players to wargames basic concepts and for fast multiplayer matches.

    2021StrategySimulation8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Old Salt — Steam game cover

    Old Salt

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    A Naval Strategy With No Reinforcements On The Way. Command a Custom Fleet with faction abilities in Multiplayer matches or Faction Campaigns.

    2025StrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Headquarters: World War II — Steam game cover

    Headquarters: World War II

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Headquarters: World War II is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game where your battlefield tactics are as important as your army management skills. Experience both sides of the war, battling in Europe as the USA, the UK, or Germany. Storm bunkers, occupy houses, win tank duels.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Valor & Victory — Steam game cover

    Valor & Victory

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Valor & Victory is a fast-playing, easy to learn World War II squad-level game system. Based on the original Valor & Victory board game, the digital edition provides you with an accessible and deep challenge, developed for classic tabletop game lovers.

    2021StrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hex of Steel — Steam game cover

    Hex of Steel

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Hex of Steel is a refreshing WWII wargame covering all fronts featuring a certain amount of original mechanics. Fight in solo against finally a decent AI throughout Europe, Africa or the Pacific, or against a friend in the cross-platform PBEM or real time multiplayer. Coop is also an option!

    2020StrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SGS Pacific D-Day — Steam game cover

    SGS Pacific D-Day

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    One game, five great battles where the US Marines gained even more glory, at the price of terrible losses. Relive bloody assaults on Saipan, Tinian, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Peleliu in this recreation of epic land battles of the Pacific War. Both sides are playable, each with their own challenge

    2022StrategySimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blocks!: Julius Caesar — Steam game cover

    Blocks!: Julius Caesar

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Blocks!: Julius Caesar is an epic two-player wargame that brings the drama of the Roman Civil War (49-45 BC) to life. Take control of the legions of Caesar or Pompey against AI or in online Multiplayer. Fight to determine the future of Rome: Republic or Empire.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars — Steam game cover

    Napoleon's Eagles: Game of the Napoleonic Wars

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Napoleon's Eagles is the classic board game War & Peace for computer. Be Napoleon – or stand against him – in a series of short scenarios that cover the epic battles of the age, or in a multiplayer-only grand campaign that may – or may not – end on the field of Waterloo.

    2023Strategy34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blocks!: Richard III — Steam game cover

    Blocks!: Richard III

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Richard the Third is an epic two-player wargame that recreates the bloody dynastic struggle in the 15th century between the royal houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Britannia — Steam game cover

    Britannia

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Relive over a thousand years of Great Britain's history in this epic game of conquest and domination. From Roman legions to the Norman Conquest led by William the Conqueror, explore the fate of numerous nations and fight to become king.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Small Wars: Mohicans — Steam game cover

    Small Wars: Mohicans

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    Small Wars: Mohicans offers you a quick and fun to play experience of the French & Indian War (1754-1760) in the vast wilderness of 18th century North America. Play the French and their Indigenous Allies or Britain troops and colonials and gain control of the new world.

    2024Strategy24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hispania — Steam game cover

    Hispania

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    HISPANIA is the computer adaptation of a famous historical board game that broadly depicts the two thousand years of history of the Hispanian Peninsula.

    2025Strategy29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    No Retreat! The Russian Front — Steam game cover

    No Retreat! The Russian Front

    Single-player alternative to Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Blocks!: Hammer of the Scots.

    This game is a Strategic game on the Eastern Front of World War II.It is a digital port from the famous and eponym boardgame, No Retreat!, designed by Carl Paradis.

    2026Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →