Single-player games like True Vikings
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to True Vikings, 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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Vigil: A Knight Story
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with True Vikings.
A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.
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PhD Simulator
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with True Vikings.
PhD Simulator is a text-based strategy and life simulation game about doctoral study. Spend limited energy on research, papers, journal choices, and your advisor while managing stress, health, and unexpected events. Finish your dissertation and face the final review. How wold you manage your PhD?
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13 Germinal
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with True Vikings.
A historical and narrative RPG set in the world of Emile Zola's novel. You are a young man in 1866, forced to work deep in the mines to survive. But every day, the work gets harder and the meals get smaller. Organize a strike, reignite the smoldering revolt, and try to change this unjust world.
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ADUR Azken Erronka
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with True Vikings.
ADUR Azken Erronka euskal Erdi Aro mitologikoan girotutako rol jokoa da. Euskal Herri osoan zehar bidaiatu, erronkak egin, zure ezaugarriak hobetu, eta Adur bizi indarra erabiltzen ikasi sorginkeriak gauzatzeko. Euskal erresuma datorkion mehatxutik babesteko gai izango al zara?
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Beggar's Road
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with True Vikings.
A darkly comic medieval roguelike where you travel between towns, recruit desperate companions, and survive strange encounters through difficult choices, scarce resources, and shifting alliances with bishops, merchants, and bandits.
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Heads Will Roll: Reforged
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with True Vikings.
Hardcore survival RPG with non-linear story that lets you play as a young medieval soldier who over the course of battles and adventures becomes the most formidable and respected knight of his era. Or, if he’s not lucky enough, perishes in the chaos of the Hundred Years' War.
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Heads Will Roll: Downfall
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and RPG with True Vikings.
Heads Will Roll: Downfall is a combination of a tactical role-playing game and visual novel, in which you will assume the role of a medieval soldier.
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THE UNREMEMBERED
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure and Simulation with True Vikings.
A king is dead with no heir. In a capital where four houses sharpen their blades over an empty throne, you are a wandering mercenary looking for work. Left or right — one swipe decides a life. A dark-fantasy, choice-driven roguelite where, whatever you do, in the end you will not be remembered.
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Evil Bank Manager
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with True Vikings.
What could be better than having a million dollars, a billion? This will not make you all powerful in the world, your goal will not only be to make lots of money, but to print money and become a Federal reserve system
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Evil Democracy: 1932
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with True Vikings.
In the unique world of this political simulator, you travel to Europe, 1932-1935, to become the party leader in one of the following countries: Germany, France, or England. You have a real chance to become the winner of WWII even before it begins...
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Generals & Rulers
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with True Vikings.
What will be the strategy game if you throw out all the grind from it, all the boring annoying actions and leave only strategy and tactics? It became interesting to us and as a result we received Generals & Rulers. Try it now!
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Music Band Manager
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with True Vikings.
Always dreamed of creating your own music band? We will realize your dream! Record songs, release albums and manage group activities! With the advancement of the group, managers will help you, and you will also have to face more than one difficult choice. Compete for a place in the top 100! Conquer the whole world!
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Third Front: WWII
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Are you ready to rewrite history and take on the role of ruler of the nation? Show your knowledge of tactics and strategy, become the commander-in-chief of a huge army! Lead the troops of one of the three nations - the USSR, Germany and the Allies - and pave your way for each of them!
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Shelter Manager
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with True Vikings.
We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.
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Taxer Inc
Single-player alternative to True Vikings — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with True Vikings.
The biggest corporations are not Apple or Amazon. The biggest "corporations" are the states. Your employees are all citizens of the country. You don't pay them a salary - they will pay you themselves. You manage taxes and collect them.