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Single-player games like Small Kingdoms

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Small Kingdoms, 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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    DSS 2: War Industry — Steam game cover

    DSS 2: War Industry

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?

    2025StrategySimulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SandTable War: Three Kingdoms — Steam game cover

    SandTable War: Three Kingdoms

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    "SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation8.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Sid Meier's Civilization VII — Steam game cover

    Sid Meier's Civilization VII

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!

    2025StrategySimulation69.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mandate Order — Steam game cover

    Mandate Order

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation16.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terra Invicta — Steam game cover

    Terra Invicta

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

    2026StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cataclismo — Steam game cover

    Cataclismo

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

    2025StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Old World — Steam game cover

    Old World

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    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?

    2022StrategySimulationRPG39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crusader Kings III — Steam game cover

    Crusader Kings III

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    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.

    2020StrategySimulationRPG49.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Fortune and Gloria — Steam game cover

    Fortune and Gloria

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Grab your trusty assault rifle, a handful of grenades, and get ready to be dropped off in the hot zone to rescue as many hostages as you can, taking out any enemies you encounter, before beating the boss and getting on the chopper heading off to the next mission.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pirate Island Rescue — Steam game cover

    Pirate Island Rescue

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Swing your cutlass, shoot your pistol, and throw your bombs to clear your path of enemy pirates as you run and jump your way across each island to rescue the captives from the clutches of dastardly Captain Black Beard.

    2018Action1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Steampunk Graveyard — Steam game cover

    Steampunk Graveyard

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The dead walk with a metallic clunk! Run, jump and shoot your way past mechanized zombies in an endless series of graveyards. It's up to you, Professor Selene Gasket, to put a stop to the menace and save the terrified villagers from the minions of Baron Richter von Sprocket.

    2018ActionIndieCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The King's Campaign — Steam game cover

    The King's Campaign

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    Conquer Medieval Europe and North Africa in a combination of Grand Strategy and Real-Time Strategy gameplay where you rule one of 28 kingdoms as you build and manage your cities, engage in diplomacy and command massive armies on the world map and on the battlefield

    2023StrategySimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Small Kingdoms Prologue — Steam game cover

    Small Kingdoms Prologue

    Single-player alternative to Small Kingdoms — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Small Kingdoms.

    Rule a small fantasy kingdom and conquer your rival as you build up your cities and armies on the world map and command your troops on the battlefield. Small Kingdoms is a streamlined grand strategy and real-time strategy game, the Small Kingdoms Prologue is a free introductory campaign

    2023StrategySimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →