Single-player games like Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness, 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
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
There is a world which needs your defense. You are the young mage that has just graduated the mages school and you must pass through several hard tests to become a decent defender.
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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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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Dungeons 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
The Dungeon Lord is back – and this time he’s serious! In Dungeons 2, fulfil the Dungeon Lord’s insatiable quest for vengeance by recruiting fearsome new monsters from all corners of the underworld in order to undertake his evil bidding.
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Masters of Anima
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
Delve into an original adventure and defy the forces of evil in strategic, action-packed battles. Summon and control large armies of up to 100 Guardians thanks to intuitive and innovative gameplay and make quick tactical decisions to prevail.
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Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina
Single-player alternative to Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — 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: Sign of Darkness — 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: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Mages: Sign of Darkness.
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: Sign of Darkness — 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: Sign of Darkness — 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.