Single-player games like Maestro's Cold War 2
Below are 12 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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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!
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Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold 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.
Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.
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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.
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China: Mao's legacy
Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.
Year 1976, the stormy Cultural revolution has died down, hard times of hongweibing and public critics are coming to an end. Old and sick Mao Zedong will soon leave China to his comrades from CPC. The Cold War is coming into a new phase...
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Solar Nations 2
Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.
In this Grand Strategy game, you take control of the Solar System's Great Powers in 2092 and weather the storm of change as you navigate the uncertain waters of the future. Control the greatest military forces in the world and wage wars on an epic scale: outer space is yours to conquer!
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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!
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ICBM: Escalation
Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Maestro's Cold War 2.
ICBM: Escalation is a grand RTS where you command armies, develop cutting-edge tech, and wield devastating weapons. Conquer enemies with conventional forces or nuclear firepower. With new modes like Standoff and Conquest, the game offers deep strategic layers in a global warfare setting.
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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to Maestro's Cold War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Maestro's Cold War 2.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!