Single-player games like Settle and Battle: New Empires
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Settle and Battle: New Empires, 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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Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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Kingdom Wars 4
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
It's 1347, the time of the Hundred Years' War. In this historical grand strategy and RTS hybrid you play as one of 200 minor lords across medieval Europe, Africa or Middle East. Rise up to take over your Kingdom and be crowned, then fight to preserve your empire as Black Death descends on Europe.
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Driftland: The Magic Revival
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
After a devastating war between ancient mages, a powerful spell is all that holds together the shattered planet of Driftland. Take on the role of a powerful mage capable of moving and connecting floating lands, develop a mighty empire, and restore Driftland to its former glory!
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Settle and Battle: New Empires — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Settle and Battle: New Empires.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.