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Single-player games like Historia Realis: Rome

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Historia Realis: Rome, 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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    Civis: The Eternal City — Steam game cover

    Civis: The Eternal City

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    A Roman political simulator set in the late Republic. Navigate the Senate, manage your household, build a dynasty, and watch the Republic you serve slowly become something unrecognizable.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crusader Kings III — Steam game cover

    Crusader Kings III

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    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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    The Emperor and State — Steam game cover

    The Emperor and State

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Monarch : Medieval Remastered — Steam game cover

    Monarch : Medieval Remastered

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    In the medieval era, assume the role of a lord and engage with other lords,develop fiefdoms, and employ strategies involving intrigue, warfare, and plunder. Expand your territory and strengthen your house lineage Or, be a god, manipulate the world? This game primarily strategic role-playing elements

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Europa Universalis IV — Steam game cover

    Europa Universalis IV

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

    2013StrategySimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    春秋 — Steam game cover

    春秋

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    此为以春秋时代为背景,历史战略类即时制游戏。两千多年前华夏大地锦绣山河一眼尽收,可在其间建造城郭,构筑关隘,修筑长城,农商、车船、战阵行走其间。礼崩乐坏,百家兴起、诸侯争霸、异族入侵、合纵连横,列国之伐兵、伐交、伐谋就此展开。磅礴壮丽的春秋画卷待君前来指点江山!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crisis in the Kremlin — Steam game cover

    Crisis in the Kremlin

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    Don’t let the Soviet Union collapse, and fall in the darkness of history or lead the Union by a new path – democracy and free market! But before you decide something, think – wouldn’t it cause more harm than good?

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    King's Orders — Steam game cover

    King's Orders

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Painters Guild — Steam game cover

    Painters Guild

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Historia Realis: Rome.

    Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Robotherapy — Steam game cover

    Robotherapy

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?

    2023IndieAdventureCasual4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Roguemance — Steam game cover

    Roguemance

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Historia Realis: Rome.

    Roguemance is a roguelite with romance. Each battle is a date! Meet love interests, fight relationship problems and make heart-breaking decisions.

    2018StrategyIndieRPG6.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Firelore: Short Tales — Steam game cover

    Firelore: Short Tales

    Single-player alternative to Historia Realis: Rome — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Historia Realis: Rome.

    3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.

    2025IndieRPG5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →