Single-player games like Close Combat: Modern Tactics
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Close Combat: Modern Tactics, 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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Combat Mission Cold War
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
CM Cold War is set in the tipping-point years of a conflict that gripped the world for 45 years. Between 1979-1982, both the NATO and Soviet Warsaw Pact militaries began the shift away from industrialized warfare of the early 20th century and towards the modern digital battlefield of today.
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Broken Arrow
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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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Combat Mission Black Sea
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
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First Strike
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
FIRST STRIKE is a fast paced real time strategy game where you play one of the twelve biggest nuclear superpowers of the world – from known superpowers like the USA to an upstart hellraiser like North Korea – and try to be the last one remaining when the whole world blows to smithereens.
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Firefight
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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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Regiments
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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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Steel Division: Normandy 44
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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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Close Combat: Cross of Iron
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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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Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
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.