Single-player games like City States: Medieval
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to City States: Medieval, 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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Anno 117: Pax Romana
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
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Knights of the Crusades
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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DSS 2: War Industry
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
In this real-time grand strategy game, command armies, build cities, and manage a dynamic economy. Establish automated supply routes within your territory to streamline production. Fortify your defenses and brace for intense battles. Can you lead your empire to dominance?
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Crusader Kings III
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
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Diplomacy is Not an Option
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
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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Medieval Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
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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Cataclismo
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
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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Stars End
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with City States: Medieval.
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
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
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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Kingdom Wars 2: Battles
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
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 City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with City States: Medieval.
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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Kingdom Wars 4
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with City States: Medieval.
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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Renaissance Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
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.