Single-player games like Close Combat: The Longest Day
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Close Combat: The Longest Day, 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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
Defeat the enemy in this classic nonstop World War II battle action. Lead your men through the terror, fatigue, and hell of war on to victory. Only you can bring'em back alive!
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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
Close Combat is a pausable real-time wargame series, heavily focused on historical accuracy and realistic soldier psychological profiles. Team management is crucial as every man in your team matter.
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Close Combat: Modern Tactics
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: The Longest Day — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: The Longest Day.
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.