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Single-player games like Tactical Combat Department

Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Tactical Combat Department, 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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    Breach & Clear — Steam game cover

    Breach & Clear

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    Breach & Clear brings deep tactical strategy simulation to PC, Mac and Linux! Build your Special Operations team, plan and execute advanced missions, and own every angle.Choose your real-world squad -- US Army Rangers, Germany's KSK, Canada’s JTF2, UK SAS, and more -- and take on a variety of foes with different skill-sets and...

    2014ActionStrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gears Tactics — Steam game cover

    Gears Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.

    2020Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tactical Breach Wizards — Steam game cover

    Tactical Breach Wizards

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactical Combat Department.

    In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Arma Tactics — Steam game cover

    Arma Tactics

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactical Combat Department.

    Arma Tactics is a turn-based close-combat strategy game, where you take control of a four-member Special Forces team. There are no given strategies, rails to move on, or paths to follow; it‘s up to you to decide how you will play through both the story-driven missions and generated missions with randomized objectives.

    2013StrategyIndie8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Blackguards — Steam game cover

    Blackguards

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    What happens when the only hope of a threatened world lies not with heroes in shining armor, but in the hands of a band of misfits and criminals? Blackguards, a new turn-based strategy RPG, explores this very question. You will discover over 180 unique hex-based battlegrounds within a dark and mature story of crime, drugs, and murder.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Into the Breach — Steam game cover

    Into the Breach

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Tactical Combat Department.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jagged Alliance 3 — Steam game cover

    Jagged Alliance 3

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.

    2023ActionStrategy13.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hard West 2 — Steam game cover

    Hard West 2

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    Hard West 2 is a journey to the heart of darkness in the American West. Take control of a supernatural posse and catch the mysterious Ghost Train. Outsmart, outcheat and outgun your enemies in this turn-based tactics game set in a Wild West world where nothing is as it seems.

    2022ActionStrategyRPG29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Police Quest: SWAT 2 — Steam game cover

    Police Quest: SWAT 2

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Tactical Combat Department.

    Keep the peace or wreck havoc on the streets of LA.

    2017StrategySimulation5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rebel Cops — Steam game cover

    Rebel Cops

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    Lead a ragtag squad of cops in rebellion against their town's new criminal power and see how long you can hold out in this unforgiving turn-based spin-off game from This Is the Police. You'll be desperately short on supplies, and a single shot can cost a cop their life.

    2019Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified — Steam game cover

    The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tactical Combat Department.

    The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

    2013Action19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Door Kickers — Steam game cover

    Door Kickers

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    XCOM® 2 — Steam game cover

    XCOM® 2

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tactical Combat Department.

    XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

    2016Strategy2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Underground Keeper 2 — Steam game cover

    Underground Keeper 2

    Single-player alternative to Tactical Combat Department — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Tactical Combat Department.

    Underground Keeper 2 is a logical 3D puzzle game from a first person view. You will enjoy hours of entertainment in a 60 levels and 5 different environments. Levels generator included.

    2020IndieCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →