Single-player games like Making History: The Great War
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Making History: The Great War, 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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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
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Hearts of Iron IV
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
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Making History: The Second World War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Choose a nation and prepare for the greatest conflict in human history, World War II. Build your military and industrial power, form alliances and race to achieve the advanced technologies that will bring total victory in this global-wide turn-based Grand Strategy struggle.
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Making History II: The War of the World
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
What if Germany won the Battle of Britain? What if Moscow fell in 1942?You’re in charge. Anything can happen and history will never repeat itself in this classic WWII grand strategy game MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World. Are you ready to battle for global dominance?
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Unity of Command II
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Unity of Command II is the sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed strategy games of all time; a game critics called 'the perfect gateway' into computer war games.
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Panzer Corps Gold
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
The ultimate edition of Panzer Corps, containing hundreds of scenarios and all its expansions. Panzer Corps Gold is the culmination of the wargame that has enthralled millions of fans all around the globe, and now it’s your chance to fully experience a real classic.
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Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Supreme Ruler The Great War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. BattleGoat Studios invites you to travel back to 1914 and select from more than 50 playable regions at the onset of World War I, as European powers struggle to survive and new technologies transform warfare.
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PARADOX
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Making History: The Great War.
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.
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Tiny Civilization
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Making History: The Great War.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
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Toe-tal War
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Making History: The Great War.
Toe-tal War is a platformer where you kill people with your foot smell. Run and jump to make your feet smelly, change your shoes and socks to control the smell — then get close to enemies and stink them to death.
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Making History: The Calm and the Storm Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Making History: The Great War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Making History: The Great War.
Making History Gold Edition is the expanded and updated version of the original WWII grand strategy game Making History: Calm & the Storm. Command your nation and change the course of history.