Single-player games like Civil War: Bull Run 1861
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Civil War: Bull Run 1861, 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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Civil War: 1864
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Civil War: 1864 is the latest addition to our Civil War strategy series, bringing you the ferocious battles from 1864. Experience the American Civil War like never before with with over 40 missions; including 20 detailed historical battles.
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Civil War: Gettysburg
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought from 1st to 3rd July 1863, in Pennsylvania. The battle resulted the largest number of casualties in any battle of the entire war, and was the turning point of the American Civil War. Over three days General George Meade’s Army of the Potomac defeated the Confederate army of General Robert E.
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Civil War: 1865
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
After Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina, fell to the Union, in early 1865, Jefferson Davis belatedly handed over the supreme command or the army to General Lee. This could not stop the Union armies pressing on through North Carolina, capturing Fayetteville, Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh by mid-April.
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Civil War: 1861
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Civil War: 1861 covers the opening battles of the American Civil War. The game covers both the small and large actions of that momentous year, starting with the battle at ‘Big Bethel’, on to the comparatively vast engagements at ‘Bull Run’ and ‘Wilson’s Creek’.
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Civil War: 1862
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Relive iconic battles of the American Civil War. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn-based strategy game.
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Tank Battle: Normandy
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Land your troops on the beaches of northern France, lay bridges to cross flooded enemy defences, avoid tanktraps, clear the area of dangerous minefields, overcome the enemy and claim the beachhead for the Allies!
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Tank Battle: 1945
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
The end is near for the Third Reich, masters of Europe for too long! In Tank Battle: 1945 you will fight some missions as the German Army, in its last efforts to prevent the Allied advance.
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Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
‘Tank Battle: Blitzkrieg!’ recreates the first battles of World War II. On 1st September 1939 the German army marched into Poland, two weeks later the Soviets also invaded and the Polish army was crushed by 6th October. Over the coming months the Germans expanded their grip on Europe with further invasions of Denmark and Norway.
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Battles of the Ancient World
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
The ‘Battles of the Ancient World’ game system is a tactical simulation of some of the greatest and most important battles from 1457 B.C. to 378 A.D.. Each scenario features one of these great battles and players may play as either side. The game has been designed to ensure maximum playability and historical accuracy, in that order.
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Wellington's Victory
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
At dawn on June 18th, the torrential rain which had soaked the Belgium countryside the previous day began tapering off.
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Tank Battle: 1944
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Instantly get involved in the action by joining the Allied invasion of Europe during the Second World War. Take command of an American battle group during WW2 in this turn based strategy wargame and help liberate Europe from the evil Axis power-base!
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1775: Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Command the armies of the British Redcoats, English Loyalists, German Hessians, American Regulars, Patriots, French Regulars and Native Americans to decide the fate of the Americas!
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Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge is a Decision Games card game that recreates the famous World War Two battle (16-31 Dec 1944) in which the German Army mounted a surprise attack on the thin U.S. forces deployed in the Ardennes region.
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Civil War: 1863
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
Relive iconic battles of the American Civil War. Take command of both the Union and Confederate forces in this exciting turn-based strategy game.
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Commands & Colors: The Great War
Single-player alternative to Civil War: Bull Run 1861 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Civil War: Bull Run 1861.
The Great War allow players to portray important engagements throughout WWI history. The battles focus on the historical deployment of forces and important terrain features of trench fighting in scale with the game system.