Single-player games like Tempest Rising
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Tempest Rising, 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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Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
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Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.
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Supreme Commander 2
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
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Cossacks 3
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
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Iron Harvest
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+
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9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
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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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
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Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Red Alert 3: Uprising features four new mini-campaigns, giving players a deeper dive into the storyline's of the Soviets, the Allies, the Empire of the Rising Sun and a unique campaign centered on the origins of everyone’s favorite psionic Japanese schoolgirl commando, Yuriko Omega.
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Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
The year is 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning of the Third Tiberium War and the long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-Time Strategy franchise of all time
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守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.