Single-player games like Kingdoms Rise and Fall
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Kingdoms Rise and Fall, 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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9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
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.
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Castle Story
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
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.
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Wargame: European Escalation
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
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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Original War
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
An American geological expedition, under a UN mandate, assesses the natural resources in a distant part of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. But instead of oil, they discover a deposit of a hitherto unknown mineral.
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Solar Kingdoms: Human Survival
Single-player alternative to Kingdoms Rise and Fall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Kingdoms Rise and Fall.
Solar Kingdoms is a real-time strategy game where you command forces across solar systems, engaging in large battles both in space and on the surfaces planets. Establish colonies, find resources and artifacts, and fight up to 8 factions in skirmish, large campaign, missions, and multiplayer.