Single-player games like Battle Mages
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Battle Mages, 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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Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
A thousand years had passed since the great battle between the Lord of Chaos and the forces of the Order. Little by little, life returned back to normal. The story begins, when a young neophyte journeys north, to learn from an eccentric wizard, one of the most ancient and powerful Guild’s members.
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MazeQuest 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
MazeQuest 2 is a mashup tribute to the great console RPGs of the 90's, with infinite replay, fun storylines and sidequests, fantastic beasts, dragons, trolls, and more!. Including party based combat, 50 learnable skills, 17 recruitable characters, and hundreds of randomly generated items!
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Cursed Treasure 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
Why be good when you can be... bad? Cursed Treasure 2 is an addictive tower-defense game that puts the power of darkness at your fingertips. Build towers of powerful orcs, demons, and undead, and master powerful spells, to protect your precious hoard from all manner of no-good do-gooders.
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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Assemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!
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Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.
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SpellForce 3 Soul Harvest
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Three years after the Purity Wars, Nortander is on the cusp of a new era.
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SpellForce 3 Fallen God
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Command the Trolls and lead them on an epic journey across the wild continent of Urgath. As Chieftain of the Moonkin, a tribe driven from its home by tusk hunters and disease, their survival is in your hands.
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SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition presents the award-winning SpellForce saga hits: "SpellForce 2 – Shadow Wars" and the add-on "SpellForce 2 – Dragon Storm" for a spectacular game experience!
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Spellcrafter
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Spellcrafter is an RPG game with deep tactical turn-based combat and a unique spell casting system. Explore the magical world, collect gold, interact with NPCs, take quests and make moral choices! Recruit heroes, assemble and summon powerful troops and send them into battle!
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Age of Wonders
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game’s fully patched up, start building your fantasy empire today!
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SpellForce - Platinum Edition
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Battle Mages.
Included in the Platinum Edition are three titles:SpellForce: The Order of DawnIn a world beyond imagination...In their immeasurable greed and constant thirst for power, the thirteen most powerful Mages of all time doomed the land, hurling it into an endless spiral of chaos and despair.
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Dawn of Warriors
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Battle Mages.
Features: 1. The main world is Super Big, which gives you a huge space to explore. 2. Challenge Tower is provided. Dungeons in Challenge Tower are 100% created by program, so never "Just the same". 3. Four difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, Crazy. "Crazy" means really crazy… 4.
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
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SpellForce 3 Reforced
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
SpellForce 3 - The perfect blend between RTS and RPG!
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Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Battle Mages.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland of diesel and dust, bandits and mobsters rule the last remaining cities, controlling all vital trade routes and destroying any hope of a return to a lawful world.
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BlazeRush
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
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Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise Of Clans / Ex Machina: Meridian 113
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans - is an addon to a vehicular Action/RPG set in an alternate future. New heroes and mysteries await you in the vistas of a post-apocalyptic North America.
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Battle vs Chess
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
Commanders, assemble your armies! BATTLE vs. CHESS calls for an interactive feather duster, chartering the successful chess game principle into the present day multimedia world. Animated fantasy figurines assemble in magical worlds and await your command!
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Planets Under Attack
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.
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Insane 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Features traditional time trial mode and 9 other game modes, including the popular “Capture the flag”, “Gate hunt” and “Pathfinder”.
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Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade/Ex Machina Arcade - is the races through the deserted prairies and canyons of northern America, infected by a fatal virus. You are to find the reasons of the global catastrophe described in the original game Hard Truck: Apocalypse.