Single-player games like Tempest Rising
Below are 14 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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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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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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Crossfire: Legion
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Tempest Rising.
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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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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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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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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TFC: The Fertile Crescent
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
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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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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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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.
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Tower of Nod
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Tempest Rising.
In Tower of Nod, master sleep-based controls to manipulate falling blocks and build your path upward. Navigate shifting floors, deadly traps, and monsters in this action-roguelike deckbuilding platformer. Every run is unique—discover powerful relics and conquer the ever-changing tower.
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Click and Conquer
Single-player alternative to Tempest Rising — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Tempest Rising.
Click and Conquer is a short, relaxing incremental game. Drop bombs through the fog of war, uncover hidden enemies, collect rewards, and spend currency to boost passive income, increase bombing power, and unlock new maps.