Single-player games like Total War: PHARAOH
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Total War: PHARAOH, 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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Total War: PHARAOH DYNASTIES
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Wage total war across the ancient world from the Aegean to Mesopotamia in this free addition to Total War: PHARAOH. Challenge the Bronze Age Collapse by building your own dynasty and leading your faction to victory with new cultures, new units and dramatic new battle mechanics.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Old World
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.
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Crusader Kings III
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
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Field of Glory: Empires
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.
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Total War: WARHAMMER III
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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A Total War Saga: TROY
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Inspired by The Iliad and brought to life through the award-winning strategy game series, A Total War Saga: TROY brings a blend of grand, turn-based empire management and spectacular real-time battles to the heart of the Trojan War.
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Crusader Kings II
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Nobunaga's Ambition, the first of the series, was released in 1983. Players assume the mantle of either Nobunaga Oda or Shingen Takeda and strive to conquer the entire land (17 areas in the Kansai and central Japan region). They manage their country to make it rich, then prepare their military forces.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
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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Total War: ROME REMASTERED
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Total War: ROME REMASTERED lets you relive the legacy that defined the award-winning strategy game series. Remastered to 4K with multiple improvements to visuals as well as refinements to gameplay, it’s time to revisit a true classic. Not everyone gets a second chance to conquer the Roman Empire.
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STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Total War: PHARAOH.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Total War: PHARAOH — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Total War: PHARAOH.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.