Single-player games like Empires and Tribes
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Empires and Tribes, 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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Legends of Ellaria
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Legends of Ellaria is a unique blend of sandbox action-RPG and real-time strategy. Build a new kingdom for your people, construct and manage its cities, command your troops in epic battles and join them fighting in third-person action, and live adventures in an immersive high fantasy world.
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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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Primitive Society Simulator
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
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Rising Lords
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Bellwright
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
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First Feudal
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
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Life is Feudal: Forest Village
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Medieval Dynasty
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
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The Guild 3
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
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The Guild Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
It’s the year 1400- the late Middle Ages. Europe sees the dawn of the golden age of the new departures and the free spirit. Under the rule of the bourgeoisie and businessmen, more and more towns are emerging from the clutches of the aristocracy and are achieving independence, power and wealth.
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The Guild II
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
The Guild 2 is the shining successor of the ultra successful medieval life sim, Europe 1400. The Guild 2 is a unique mixture of RPG and life simulation in an immersive middle ages scenario. The player and his party become part of history and can even change it in real-time. Go back to the dark middle ages and found a new dynasty!
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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Empires and Tribes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Empires and Tribes.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.