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Single-player games like Maestro's Cold War 2

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Maestro's Cold War 2, 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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    SGS NATO's Nightmare — Steam game cover

    SGS NATO's Nightmare

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    What if the Warsaw Pact had attacked NATO in the mid-1980s. Or the other way around? Study this titanic conflict, within its most emblematic theater, Germany and Central Europe. Will you be able to achieve your goals without escalating into an uncontrollable nuclear conflict?

    2023StrategySimulation34.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SGS Korean War — Steam game cover

    SGS Korean War

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    The first intense conflict of the Cold War, this war is very often forgotten, its very rapid and dynamic but unknown aspect obliterated by months of stagnation following the first year of operations in Korea. Can you make it remembered?

    2022StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Twilight Struggle — Steam game cover

    Twilight Struggle

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.

    2016StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    WARNO — Steam game cover

    WARNO

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Realistic, immersive, breathtaking. WARNO is the ultimate World War III battle simulator from the masters of strategy, Eugen Systems. A Cold War turns decisively hot as you command hundreds of units on a beautiful and brutal battlefield. Outsmart, outfight, and lead your forces to total victory.

    2024ActionStrategyIndie39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 — Steam game cover

    Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    A Giant Strategy Sandbox experience set in Warlord China. *Tons of playable factions! *Communist insurgents, * Boxers like rebels, *Greedy warlords, *Mongol riders, *A mad russian baron, *Shanghai gangsters, *And armored trains!

    2023StrategySimulation24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of History 2: Definitive Edition — Steam game cover

    Age of History 2: Definitive Edition

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.

    2026StrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Oriental Empires — Steam game cover

    Oriental Empires

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Imperator: Rome — Steam game cover

    Imperator: Rome

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

    2019StrategySimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Terminal Conflict — Steam game cover

    Terminal Conflict

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Touch the world with your fingertips! Your retro terminal awaits your command, for the balance of power, in this definitive Cold War strategy game. Here you belong; assert your leadership through turn based strategic tit-for-tat, on the brink of mutually assured destruction. Don't let it slip away!

    2020StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa — Steam game cover

    Cauldrons of War - Barbarossa

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Cauldrons of War Barbarossa is the turn-based strategic wargame you will launch whenever you want your WW2 shot but don't have time for a monster strategy game.From June 1941 until the Battle of Moscow, play the USSR or the Axis forces in one of the largest and bloodiest operations in history.

    2020StrategySimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad — Steam game cover

    Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Cauldrons of War Stalingrad is the turn-based strategic wargame you will launch whenever you want your WW2 shot but don't have time for a monster strategy game.From May 1942 to November 1942 play the USSR or the Axis forces in some of the largest and bloodiest operations in history.

    2021Strategy14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cat Fu Mi — Steam game cover

    Cat Fu Mi

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    Cat Fu Mi is a cute casual puzzle game with cats. The game mechanism is based upon "rock-scissors-paper", but you can't rely only upon your luck to win. You will have to understand your opponent and be clever to finish the game. Perfect for kids and casual gamers.

    2018IndieCasual2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Jey's Empire — Steam game cover

    Jey's Empire

    Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.

    Step into the shoes of J. Edgar Hoover and combat the Mafia, Communists, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, and more as you shape history with your every move. Download now and become the ultimate mastermind in this thrilling management RPG!

    2019StrategySimulationRPG14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →