Single-player games like Close Combat: Modern Tactics
Below are 10 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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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: European Escalation
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
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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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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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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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Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
The first installment in the real-time tactics series that would become known as Men of War, now refreshed and enhanced! Take command of American, British, Soviet, or German forces and fight on the battlefields of World War II in 32 single-player missions or with others in PvP and co-op sessions.
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Single-player alternative to Close Combat: Modern Tactics — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Close Combat: Modern Tactics.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
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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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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.