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Single-player games like Total Annihilation

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Total Annihilation, 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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    Supreme Commander — Steam game cover

    Supreme Commander

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.

    2011Strategy12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance — Steam game cover

    Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    The last days of man are at hand.. Two years after the Infinite War the once great warring nations now lie in ruins, and humanity’s hope for a brighter future is nothing but a bitter memory. A new, seemingly unstoppable enemy, supported by the zealots of The Order, now seeks to eradicate mankind: UEF, Aeon Loyalist, and Cybran alike.

    2011Strategy12.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planetary Annihilation: TITANS — Steam game cover

    Planetary Annihilation: TITANS

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!

    2015ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection — Steam game cover

    Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.

    2020Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SunAge: Battle for Elysium — Steam game cover

    SunAge: Battle for Elysium

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    A return to the roots of real-time strategy, providing beautiful 2D visuals combined with all the features that we came to expect from old school classics. This remastered version is a culmination of all the improvements and new features based upon suggestions from the community.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Impossible Creatures Steam Edition — Steam game cover

    Impossible Creatures Steam Edition

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world.

    2015Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Taur — Steam game cover

    Taur

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

    2020ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Armed to the Gears — Steam game cover

    Armed to the Gears

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!

    2020ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft — Steam game cover

    守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Empires: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.

    2019Strategy19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Aircraft War — Steam game cover

    Aircraft War

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Fight against enemy planes with the fun Aircraft War! Challenge your friends with single and double player modes. Conquer the sky, enjoy the victory!

    2019ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel — Steam game cover

    SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.

    2015IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WARZONE — Steam game cover

    WARZONE

    Single-player alternative to Total Annihilation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total Annihilation.

    WARZONE is a tactical turn-based war game which requires a chess level of logical thinking and which provides an entertainment comparable to that of a tank shooter.

    2017StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →