Single-player games like Five Nations
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Five Nations, 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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BlackChain
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Nations.
A classic single-player RTS set in a Solar System ruled by megacorporations. Journey from Mars all the way to Planet 9 and uncover the secrets of the BlackChain.
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CHAOTIC ERA
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Nations.
AT THE LIMITS OF EARTH, AT THE EXTREMITY OF HEAVEN. A REAL-TIME STRATEGY NIGHTMARE.
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ALL OUT WAR
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Nations.
Design and deploy your own robotic army, then watch them battle it out on their own. Set in a retro-futuristic sci-fi battleground, the action plays out autonomously as your robots clash and fight. It's like watching ant wars, reimagined with robots and laser weapons.
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SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Nations.
"SYNCHRONIZERS: UNDEAD MARINES" blends high-quality Three-Lane Tower Defense with Reverse Tower Defense gameplay. Command your units in a thrilling narrative reminiscent of a StarCraft and Plants Vs. Zombies fusion! Your choices will forge the path to victory—or defeat.
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Space Alliance: Frontier
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Nations.
Get ready to protect the entire solar system from an unprecedented threat - the D'Ahari, a race of insect-like aliens. Control an entire fleet of spaceships, trade with other races of an Alliance, and develop your own space station.
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Sector YAMA
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Five Nations.
Sci-fi military action-rts. Play as a space soldier, abandoned by the command on an alien planet. Find allies, gather resources, train new troops, and escape from Sector Yama. Casual "single-stick shooter" controls, fun tactical combat, rewarding exploration, and rich storytelling.
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Cosmic Robots
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
Defend your planet from waves of robot invaders! Build powerful turrets, upgrade your defenses, and command robot units to fight drones, tanks, and massive bosses. Then send your own forces to attack the enemy planet in this action-packed sci-fi tower defense game.
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Crimson Freedom
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
Story-driven RTS set on Mars! Build bases, command armies and uncover the choices and failures of humanity. Each campaign offers a radically different perspective on the struggle for humanity's future, a conflict between freedom, control and a frenzied pursuit for immortality through AI.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
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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SpellForce 3 Reforced
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Five Nations.
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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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
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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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
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War Wind
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
War Wind is a real-time strategy game that allows you to view an epic battle through the eyes of four unique races, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The game features 28 ready-to-play scenarios and a story of such compelling depth you won't believe it's just a game.
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Command & Conquer™ Generals
Single-player alternative to Five Nations — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Five Nations.
Command & Conquer Generals puts your trigger finger on the pulse of modern warfare. Prepare your forces General... it's time to engage in the next generation of real-time strategy.