Single-player games like Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance, 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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Starship Troopers: Terran Command
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Lead the Mobile Infantry in this RTS game set in the Starship Troopers film universe. Balance your army composition with a diverse set of unit types, overcome line-of-sight and line-of-fire challenges through tactical positioning, and use special abilities to smash the Arachnid hordes!
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
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Regiments
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
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Broken Arrow
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay.
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Combat Mission Shock Force 2
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
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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Wargame: European Escalation
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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Syrian Warfare
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Real Time Strategy with a high degree of realism. The game is based on a true story.
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Men of War II
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.
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Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is a fast-paced turn-based strategy game set in the grimdark universe of the 41st Millennium. Pick your force, develop your army, field mighty heroes and fight for victory using superior strategy, awesome abilities, and devastating weaponry.
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Battle Academy
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
A turn-based strategy game like no other has landed on Steam. Approachable, absorbing and visually impressive yet detailed, Battle Academy aims to revolutionise the strategy games market with a blend of intuitive design and compelling gameplay.
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Scramble: Battle of Britain
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Scramble: Battle of Britain is a tactical dogfighting game set in 1940, featuring intense aerial battles in a 3D airspace. Take control of a squadron of fighters, planning maneuvers, witnessing real-time simulations, and analyzing battle damage with detailed camera tools.
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Stargate: Timekeepers
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Stargate: Timekeepers is a real-time tactics game where you lead a team of specialists through a story-driven campaign set in the SG-1 universe. Sneak your characters behind enemy lines, use their unique skills, craft the perfect plan to unravel a timeloop mystery, and defeat the Goa’uld threat.
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Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Sequel to its successful predecessor, Battle Academy 2 moves the action east – to the bloodied plains of Mother Russia. When a gritty new look, great new features, and random mission generation meet battle-proven gameplay you can be sure of a turn-based strategy classic!
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Legion Gold
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Well-received by gamers and critics alike, Legion Gold is the expanded and improved version of its predecessor, Legion, and includes not only the original Legion game but a hefty expansion pack too.
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Chariots of War
Single-player alternative to Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance.
Chariots of War is an operational real-time game where you can play one of 58 different nations on a huge historically accurate and beautiful map covering the entire Middle East! Build up your cities and keep their inhabitants happy.