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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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