Single-player games like City States: Medieval
Below are 15 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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The King's Campaign
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
Conquer Medieval Europe and North Africa in a combination of Grand Strategy and Real-Time Strategy gameplay where you rule one of 28 kingdoms as you build and manage your cities, engage in diplomacy and command massive armies on the world map and on the battlefield
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SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
"SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City States: Medieval.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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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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Kingdom Wars 4
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and 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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AI War 2
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
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Attack on Toys
Single-player alternative to City States: Medieval — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with City States: Medieval.
Relive Your Childhood Toys comes to life! Build your Army Toys, make battle scenario, watch the Toys battling each other, and customize your play with Attack on Toys Toy Box. Command your Army Toys to fight againts another toys strategically and keep them alive during battle!
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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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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 Strategy and Indie 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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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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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.