Single-player games like The Great Wastes
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Great Wastes, 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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Shieldlinked
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
In this turn-based tactical RPG, coordinate your attacks with close allies to overcome the enemy with the unique Link system. Win battles through clever planning, spare opponents to earn their equipment or recruit them to your cause, and resist those who sow division.
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Hibera, Requiem for the Forgotten
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
War looms, and your allies need you. Fight your way through strife and turmoil on both sides of a conflict that threatens the continent of Hibera in this Strategy RPG, featuring a sweeping story, memorable characters, classic weapon triangle combat, and stakes with irreversible consequences.
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Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
Grey Heritage: Counter Gambit is the grand finale to the tactical RPG trilogy. Command a massive cast of returning heroes in the series’ most strategic entry yet. Master evolved turn-based combat, guide your army through tactical challenges, and witness the conclusion to every character's story.
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The Tainted Lands
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Great Wastes.
Tainted Lands is a turn-based tactical RPG in an eldritch fantasy setting. Lead a band of adventurers to traverse a forbidden wilderness where ancient horrors lie in wait. Recruit companions, scavenge relics, and face the Outer Gods.
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Chess Army
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with The Great Wastes.
Build your army, merge your units, and dominate the battlefield in a chess-inspired turn-based strategy game.
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Verlicia Saga
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Great Wastes.
Verlicia Saga is a fantasy, turn-based tactical RPG. Command a growing army across a branching campaign of grid battles: master the weapon triangle, promote and reclass your soldiers, forge bonds and marriages, and face permadeath where every fallen hero stays lost.
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Chaos Front
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Great Wastes.
A turn-based space mecha mercenary game. You can recruit pilots and captains with varying stories and skills, buy and modify spaceships, mecha, artillery, and fighters, take missions, participate in battles between Galactic Powers, change the situations, and experience different stories.
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Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler
Single-player alternative to The Great Wastes — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with The Great Wastes.
Travel to Midenshire, form your party, and venture forth into adventure! Fantasy Classic: Dungeon Crawler is an old-school party-based CRPG of dungeon exploration, tactical combat, traps, treasure, light vs dark, clashing steel, high magic, and white knuckle survival.