Single-player games like Battle Brothers
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Battle Brothers, 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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Wartales
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Battle Brothers.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
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MENACE
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
Lead a strike force against an alien threat in this turn-based tactical RPG from the developers of Battle Brothers. Answer distress calls across different worlds, train and equip infantry, deploy tanks and mechs, and plan and execute missions in detailed turn-based battles.
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
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Wasteland 3
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Battle Brothers.
Following the critically acclaimed 2014 Game of the Year winner Wasteland 2, the RPG series that pioneered the post-apocalyptic genre in video games returns with Wasteland 3.
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BATTLETECH
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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The Last Spell
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Battle Brothers.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Battle Brothers.
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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Darkest Dungeon®
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
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Mordheim: City of the Damned
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Mordheim: City of the Damned is the first video game adaptation of Games Workshop's cult classic tabletop game Mordheim. Set in the Warhammer World's decimated Empire city, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a turn-based tactical game where you lead warbands into bloody and lethal skirmishes.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Our Adventurer Guild
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
Become the new Guild Master of the Adventurer Guild and lead your adventurers in explorations and turnbased tactical battles. Will the Guild thrive under your leadership? Or will it finally disband under it?
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Battle Brothers.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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Aliens: Dark Descent
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Battle Brothers.
Drop into the gripping journey of Aliens: Dark Descent, a squad-based, single-player action game in the iconic Alien franchise. Lead your soldiers in real-time to stop a new and terrifying kind of Xenomorph outbreak on Planet Lethe.
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Xenonauts 2
Single-player alternative to Battle Brothers — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Battle Brothers.
Wage a global war of resistance against an alien invasion. Command turn-based tactical battles, build a network of covert bases, directly control your fighter wings, and achieve strategic victory in a simulation of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior foe.