Single-player games like The Little World
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Little World, 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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Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Little World.
In Dominions 6 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or an enormous tree. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.
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Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Little World.
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius – Relics of War brings you to a world of terror and violence. Four factions will engage in a brutal war for dominance over the planet’s resources. In the first turn-based 4X strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000 you will lead one of four unique factions.
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Airships: Conquer the Skies
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Little World.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
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A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Little World.
Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.
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Oriental Empires
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Little World.
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.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Little World.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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DEFCON
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with The Little World.
Inspired by the 1983 cult classic film, Wargames, DEFCON superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion of the Cold War era, playing on the fascinating aspects of psychological gameplay that occur during strategic nuclear warfare.
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Arma 3
Single-player alternative to The Little World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Little World.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.