Single-player games like Battle Mages
Below are 19 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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Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires - is a fantasy-based game from GSC Game World in the genre of RTS vs RPG for PC. 4 unique races awaits for the heroes, who want to fight in an Epic scale battles!
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Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
The cult heavy metal fantasy action-strategy gem comes to PC in HD. Lead your armies from the front lines, giving strategic orders to your forces while wading into hack n’ slash action battle. Crush your foes across four campaigns, and spend the spoils of war on upgrading your forces.
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Pennon and Battle
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
"Pennon and Battle" is a turn-based strategy war game. As a lord, you will play a crucial role in the revival of the kingdom! Lead heroes and armies to expand territory in Ruachland, utilize tactics and magic to eliminate enemy forces, and create your own legend!
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Lords of Magic: Special Edition
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Urak, once peaceful, is now a land of darkness, chaos and death. The people yearn for a champion to drive away the forces of evil. That champion is you.
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EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
Coordinate firefighters, police, medical personnel and specialists in the classic EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe! Now with the previously untranslated bonus missions in English.
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Warlords Battlecry III
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages.
Warlords Battlecry III is the next installment in the award-winning Warlords Battlecry series. Builds upon the famous features of previous Battlecry titles such as the outstanding AI, innovative gameplay and hero system that has made this brand renowned throughout the RTS genre.
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The Valiant
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages.
Embark on a journey of brotherhood and redemption in The Valiant, a squad-based RTS set in 13th Century Europe and the Middle East. Command and level-up your medieval knights as you fight through an epic SP campaign, then take your skills online in both cooperative and competitive MP modes.
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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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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.