Single-player games like Close Combat: Cross of Iron
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Close Combat: Cross of Iron, 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: Last Stand Arnhem
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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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Steel Division: Normandy 44
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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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Firefight
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
Firefight is a World War II real-time simulation game similar in style to the old Close Combat series but brought up to date with better AI, individual soldier modelling, a faster frame rate to give more intense and realistic combat and an easy to use command interface.
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Company of Heroes 3
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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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Broken Arrow
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
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Sudden Strike 5
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
Sudden Strike 5 delivers real-time tactics in epic WWII battles. A host of tactical options and more than 300 playable units open-up multiple approaches to reach your objectives in a 25 mission campaign on historical battlefields in Europe and North Africa.
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Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.
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Steel Division 2
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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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Call of Duty: World at War
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.
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Men of War: Assault Squad
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
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Close Combat - Panthers in the Fog
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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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Men of War II
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.
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Soul Wargame
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
This is a dark style strategy game that combines Wargame and Rogulike. Everyone received a mysterious invitation after destroying the conspiracy of the cult. You will lead a group of undead warriors on an adventure journey to defeat invincible enemies one by one.
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Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
Command a fire brigade of soldiers on the Russian Front in this real-time strategy game set in World War II. Play as either the Soviets or Germans as you orchestrate your squads' attack, defense, and survival over four grueling years of the grandest and bloodiest war the world has ever seen.
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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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: The Longest Day
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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: Cross of Iron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Cross of Iron.
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.