Single-player games like Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein, 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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Close Combat: Cross of Iron
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
In Close Combat: Cross of Iron you start off as a junior officer leading your men into battle in real-time, focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II. Earn promotions as you deal with an unforgiving enemy. Fight and survive through the frozen winter, hot dusty summer and muddy autumn.
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Steel Division: Normandy 44
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
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Steel Division 2
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
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Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
The first installment in the real-time tactics series that would become known as Men of War, now refreshed and enhanced! Take command of American, British, Soviet, or German forces and fight on the battlefields of World War II in 32 single-player missions or with others in PvP and co-op sessions.
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Supreme Ruler Ultimate
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!
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Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat – Last Stand Arnhem is part of Close Combat series. Its design is based on the critically acclaimed Close Combat – A Bridge Too Far, originally developed by Atomic Games, as well as the more recent Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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Company of Heroes 3
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Company of Heroes 3 combines heart-pounding combat with deeper strategic choices in a stunning Mediterranean theatre of war. In Company of Heroes 3, every battle tells a story...what's yours?
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
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Close Combat - Panthers in the Fog
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog details the desperate German counter-attack at Mortain, the last chance of the Wehrmacht to stave off defeat in Normandy. Can you match the tenacity of the American defenders of Hill 314? Or can you succeed where the Panzers failed, driving through to the sea and changing history?
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Close Combat - Gateway to Caen
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat: Gateway to Caen is a great release in the critically-acclaimed Close Combat series. Gateway to Caen focuses on the largest, concentrated British offensive since the Normandy landings in an attempt to penetrate the German lines west of Caen and cross the Odon River to get the stalled advance moving again.
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Armored Brigade
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Armored Brigade is a real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability. In Armored Brigade the Cold War has turned hot, and Europe is once again torn apart by conflict. An "Iron Curtain" divides the Western Powers gathered together under the NATO banner from the Soviet Union
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Close Combat: The Longest Day
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. In Close Combat: The Longest Day take command of either the Allied Expeditionary Force or Germany’s Wehrmacht.
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Close Combat: Modern Tactics
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein.
Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. Close Combat - Modern Tactics was originally released in 2007, and re-released on Steam in 2021.