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Single-player games like Children of the Nile: Alexandria

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Children of the Nile: Alexandria, 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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    Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition — Steam game cover

    Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.

    2008StrategySimulation7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropico 5 — Steam game cover

    Tropico 5

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

    2014StrategySimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anno 117: Pax Romana — Steam game cover

    Anno 117: Pax Romana

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

    2025StrategySimulation59.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — Steam game cover

    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Anno 1800 — Steam game cover

    Anno 1800

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

    2019StrategySimulation59.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cataclismo — Steam game cover

    Cataclismo

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

    2025StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Railway Empire 2 — Steam game cover

    Railway Empire 2

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

    2023StrategySimulation49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Knights of Honor II: Sovereign — Steam game cover

    Knights of Honor II: Sovereign

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

    2022StrategySimulation44.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pharaoh™: A New Era — Steam game cover

    Pharaoh™: A New Era

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

    2023StrategySimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Caesar™ IV — Steam game cover

    Caesar™ IV

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.

    2016StrategySimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hinterland — Steam game cover

    Hinterland

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    June 11, 2009 - Update Two new playable Orc classes: Lord (Warrior) or Shaman. Expanded gameplay: Orcs consume twice as much food, learn martial skills faster, manufacture items slower, and the Shaman uses totems to summon creatures. Several new items regardless of character class.

    2008StrategyRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mosby's Confederacy — Steam game cover

    Mosby's Confederacy

    Single-player alternative to Children of the Nile: Alexandria — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Children of the Nile: Alexandria.

    As John Singleton Mosby, one of the Civil War's most interesting and dynamic leaders, you are charged, not with leading vast armies into battle, but with commanding small bands of skirmishers, scouts, and guerilla fighters on opportunistic missions to scout, ambush, steal supplies, and harass a larger and better-armed force of Union soldi

    2008Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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