Single-player games like Combat Mission Cold War
Below are 18 single-player Steam games similar to Combat Mission Cold War, 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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Combat Mission Black Sea
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
Combat Mission Black Sea is a military grade simulation depicting a fictional series of escalations between Russian and Ukraine which results in open conflict in the summer of 2017
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Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
The latest title in the famous Combat Mission franchise of wargames, now on Steam. Shock Force 2 brings you to a hypothetical conflict in Syria between the forces of NATO and the Syrian Army. Play either on WeGo or Real Time in an incredibly detailed and realistic 1:1 tactical simulation.
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Thirty Years War
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
Fight on the battlefields of early 17th-century Europe in a tactical wargame of religious war, dynastic ambition, and emerging modern armies. Command Imperial, Catholic League, Swedish, Protestant, French, Spanish, Bavarian, and more across 80 scenarios and 2 campaigns spanning the Thirty Years War.
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War of the Austrian Succession
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
Fight across Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession in a tactical wargame of dynastic conflict, continental campaigns, cavalry charges, and rebellions. Command Austrian, Prussian, French, British, Bavarian, Spanish, Sardinian, Jacobite and allied forces across 85 scenarios and 3 campaigns.
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About Frontlines
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
A turn-based strategy game built on total freedom. Design your own maps, forge your own units, and set your own rules of war. Build and play every era you can imagine. Quick, tense, tactical battles against AI, friends, or players worldwide.
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MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
A modern 3D revival of the turn-based artillery duel for up to 8 players. Control a Cold War arsenal of missiles, cluster bombs, and nukes to destroy your enemies. Say your prayers, press fire, and hope to be the last one standing.
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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
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Unity of Command II
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
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Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.
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WARNO
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
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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Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a game about a fictitious conflict on one of the Sakhalin islands.
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Armored Brigade
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Combat Mission Cold War.
Armored Brigade is a real-time tactical wargame, focusing on realism and playability. In Armored Brigade the Cold War has turned hot, and Europe is once again torn apart by conflict. An "Iron Curtain" divides the Western Powers gathered together under the NATO banner from the Soviet Union
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Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
Stand together with the US Marines in Operation Flashpoint: Red River, the ultimate tactical infantry shooter.
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Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
Combat Mission Battle for Normandy faithfully recreates the experience of tactical land warfare in Western France during World War Two.
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Combat Mission: Red Thunder
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
Combat Mission Red Thunder focuses on the hard fought Eastern Front battles of Bagration and Poland, from the swamps of Belarus to the gates of Warsaw during the summer of 1944.
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Combat Mission Fortress Italy
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
Combat Mission Fortress Italy brings wargamers to the "soft underbelly of Europe", a place that was anything but.
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Combat Mission: Final Blitzkrieg
Single-player alternative to Combat Mission Cold War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Combat Mission Cold War.
Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg (CMFB) follows the Western Allies through the battles along Germany's border and into the heart of the Reich itself.