Single-player games like Wartales
Below are 24 single-player Steam games similar to Wartales, 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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Tattered Banners
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Wartales.
Lead a mercenary company in a turn-based tactics RPG set in a dynamic, simulated world shaped by your actions. Recruit, equip, and evolve your warband to survive a medieval-fantasy realm where cities rise and fall, noble houses pursue personal agendas, and the land bears the scars of your decisions.
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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wartales.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
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For The King
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wartales.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Wartales.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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For The King II
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wartales.
Battle against Fahrul's tyrannical Queen alone or as a party of four players in the sequel to For The King, the massively popular turn-based roguelite tabletop RPG. Will you unravel the once beloved Queen's terrible secret?
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wartales.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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Stolen Realm
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Wartales.
Stolen Realm is a simultaneous turn-based tactical dungeon crawling looter with action RPG elements where you control up to 6 heroes, solo or through online co-op, venturing forth in adventures set in a high-fantasy, low-poly world.
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Valorborn
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wartales.
Dive into a living medieval fantasy sandbox RPG where the world moves with or without you and factions rise and fall. Become a thief, hunter, or sellsword, survive alone or with a party, and shape your story in a fully enterable world where every building, cave, and road hides opportunity or danger.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wartales.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wartales.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and RPG with Wartales.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Slay the Spire
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wartales.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
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Valheim
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wartales.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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Tyranny
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Wartales.
Experience a story-driven RPG where your choices mean all the difference in the world.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wartales.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Dune: Spice Wars
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wartales.
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
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Evoland
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wartales.
Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game.
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Evoland 2
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wartales.
Evoland 2 is an unique RPG, with its graphic style and gameplay changing as you progress through a deep storyline based on time travel.
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Darksburg
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Wartales.
DARKSBURG is a co-op roguelite in which you must escape a procedurally generated medieval city overwhelmed by undead forces. Fight alongside up to 3 friends, overcome the revenants and get out while you can...
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Evoland Legendary Edition
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wartales.
Evoland Legendary Edition brings you two great and unique RPGs, with their graphic style and gameplay changing as you progress through the game!
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SpaceCraft
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wartales.
The Universe is yours. SpaceCraft is an online space exploration and building game. Explore a vast galaxy of solar systems and planets, mine and craft resources, design and build ships, automate planetary bases and interplanetary logistics, trade and cooperate.
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Farever
Single-player alternative to Wartales — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with Wartales.
Forge your legend in a forgotten realm! Farever is an online multiplayer action RPG set in a vast fantasy open world. Alone or with friends, embark on an epic journey together! Explore wild lands and dangerous dungeons, craft powerful gear, and carve your path through dynamic combat and platforming.