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Single-player games like Periculum

Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Periculum, 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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    Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Periculum.

    42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

    2019Strategy34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far — Steam game cover

    9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rising Lords — Steam game cover

    Rising Lords

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    TerraScape — Steam game cover

    TerraScape

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    Build gorgeous kingdoms on floating islands by strategically placing buildings in this cozy, medieval City-Puzzler. Discover secret combinations, take on weekly challenges and explore randomly generated maps in various single- and multiplayer game modes.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Eyes of War — Steam game cover

    Eyes of War

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    Eyes of War is a real-time strategy game set in the medieval era, offering both single-player and multiplayer experiences where you can control every unit in character mode. Build your castle, lead your army, and dominate the map. Eyes of War invites you to epic battles of the medieval era!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Formata — Steam game cover

    Formata

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    Lead. Fight. Win.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Total War: ATTILA — Steam game cover

    Total War: ATTILA

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Periculum.

    Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

    2015Strategy44.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    DEFCON — Steam game cover

    DEFCON

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.

    2006StrategyIndie11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    A House of Thieves — Steam game cover

    A House of Thieves

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Periculum.

    A House of Thieves is a level-based stealth comedy-horror game about a Thief who doesn't go shopping but instead takes his shopping list and breaks into random houses to get his things.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    There is a Thief in my House VR — Steam game cover

    There is a Thief in my House VR

    Single-player alternative to Periculum — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Periculum.

    How is the life of a thief? While others are at work, you break into their house, doing some renovations and taking their TV and Game consoles because they don't need them anymore!

    2019ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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