Single-player games like Para Bellum
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Para Bellum, 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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Three Kingdoms: March
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Para Bellum.
Three Kingdoms: March is a tactical strategy simulation where you command troops with drag-based orders and build your realm through officers, policies, and research. Outmaneuver enemies in real-time battles, strike their flanks and rear, and prepare your path to unification.
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Tabletop Tavern
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Para Bellum.
Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.
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Commandos: Origins
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Para Bellum.
ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
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Ratten Reich
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Para Bellum.
Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.
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9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Para Bellum.
Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.
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Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Para Bellum.
Aiko's Choice is the anticipated standalone expansion to the acclaimed stealth strategy game Shadow Tactics. Set in Edo Japan, you take control of the skillful kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
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Crossfire: Legion
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Para Bellum.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
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Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
Single-player alternative to Para Bellum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Para Bellum.
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.