Single-player games like Knights of the Crusades
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Knights of the Crusades, 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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Medieval Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Rewrite medieval history through bloody siege combat in a fusion of RTS and Grand Strategy genres. Rule, build, and serve your King as a minor lord in medieval Europe. Experience siege, field and naval combat with an unseen degree of brutality. Rogue-like progression, epic towns and battles await…
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Kingdom Wars 4
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
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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Cataclismo
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Knights of the Crusades.
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
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StarFringe: Adversus
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Knights of the Crusades.
This is the story about the beginning of the conquest of outer space by earthlings. It began as a global idea of saving mankind from hunger and lack of resources, and ended as a brutal and merciless war in space far from Earth.
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Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Knights of the Crusades.
Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Knights of the Crusades.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Farthest Frontier
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
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Diplomacy is Not an Option
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Knights of the Crusades.
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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Crusader Kings II
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Knights of the Crusades.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Knights of the Crusades.
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.
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Toe-tal War
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Toe-tal War is a platformer where you kill people with your foot smell. Run and jump to make your feet smelly, change your shoes and socks to control the smell — then get close to enemies and stink them to death.
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Stars End
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Knights of the Crusades.
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.
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Kingdom Wars 2: Battles
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
Battle to survive through brutal siege combat, fighting each other, and hordes of Zombies. Engage in complex crafting, castle construction and city building. Fight on beautiful, yet gory, battlefields in the epic story campaign, multiplayer skirmish and coop modes.
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Kingdom Wars 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
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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Renaissance Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.
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Renaissance Kingdom Wars - Prologue
Single-player alternative to Knights of the Crusades — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Knights of the Crusades.
The year is 1510. In this grand strategy & RTS hybrid you play as one of a dozen characters across medieval Europe, Africa and Middle East. Start as a landless mercenary captain. Fight your way to become a minor lord. Rise up through Kingdoms hierarchy and be crowned, then expand your Kingdom.