Single-player games like Imperium Romanum Gold Edition
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition, 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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Grand Ages: Rome
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.
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Nova Patria
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim. In this alternate history, the empire never fell and lived on to discover the New World and steam power. Manage intricate supply chains, expanding cities, and innovations in a hopeful, procedurally generated, isometric simulation of industrial antiquity.
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Pompeii: The Legacy
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.
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CivCity: Rome
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!
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Pax Augusta
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
Pax Augusta is probably the most authentic ancient city-building simulation. Build flourishing cities and look after your citizens. Earn gold with production and trade of goods and build impressive monuments. Strengthen your influence and become a Roman emperor!
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Caesar™ IV
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
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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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
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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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
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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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
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Pharaoh™: A New Era
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
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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Surviving Mars
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Tropico 5
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
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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Stranded: Alien Dawn
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
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Victor Vran ARPG
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.
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Omerta - City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to Imperium Romanum Gold Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Imperium Romanum Gold Edition.
Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.