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Single-player games like Arcane Wilds

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Arcane Wilds, 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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    Age of Mythology: Retold — Steam game cover

    Age of Mythology: Retold

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.

    2024Strategy29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition — Steam game cover

    Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    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.

    2021Strategy39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far — Steam game cover

    9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    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.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cossacks 3 — Steam game cover

    Cossacks 3

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    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!

    2016ActionStrategyAdventure19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crossfire: Legion — Steam game cover

    Crossfire: Legion

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    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.

    2022ActionStrategyDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Moduwar — Steam game cover

    Moduwar

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Arcane Wilds.

    Moduwar is an adaptive organic RTS where you control an alien creature, Modu - and your body is your army. Grow new organs, split, merge and mutate them into unique units that adapt to your needs as you fight against human and alien threats in single and multiplayer modes.

    2025StrategyIndieEarly Access14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Godsworn — Steam game cover

    Godsworn

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Arcane Wilds.

    Godsworn is a classic mythological RTS. Experience an epic fantasy retelling of the Baltic Crusades, where pagan gods and their tribes clash against crusaders and armies of heaven. Choose a divine hero, rally worshippers alongside mythical creatures, and smite the unworthy!

    2024StrategyRPGEarly Access29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense — Steam game cover

    Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    An infinitely replayable multiplayer and single-player tower defense. Defend against waves of enemies and destroy the enemy's king before they destroy yours. Legion TD 2 is a one-of-a-kind game of tactics, teamwork, and prediction. Party as 1-8 players.

    2021StrategyIndieCasual24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Empires® III (2007) — Steam game cover

    Age of Empires® III (2007)

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    Microsoft Studios brings you three epic Age of Empires III games in one monumental collection for the first time.

    2012StrategySimulationDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Earth 2150 Trilogy — Steam game cover

    Earth 2150 Trilogy

    Single-player alternative to Arcane Wilds — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Arcane Wilds.

    Your heroes and your armies will need strong leadership to take them on a spellbinding odyssey that has everything a gamer’s heart could wish for breathtaking worlds in space, battles against cunning enemies and even downright treason from your own government faction - are you up to it?

    2013Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →