Single-player games like Victoria II
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Victoria II, 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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Victoria 3
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
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Hearts of Iron III
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Hearts of Iron III lets you play the most engaging conflict in world history, World War 2, on all fronts as any country and through multiple different scenarios. Guide your nation to glory between 1936 and 1948 and wage war, conduct diplomacy and build your industry in the most detailed World War 2 game ever made.
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Imperator: Rome
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.
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Crusader Kings II
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
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Europa Universalis III Complete
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Europa Universalis III Complete includes the original Europa Universalis III as well as the expansions In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy.
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Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Developed by a team of experienced modders from the Paradox forum, Darkest Hour is a stand-alone Hearts of Iron game. The game features a mixture of short and in-depth campaigns set across the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Play from the outbreak of the Great War up until the onset of the Cold War.
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Supreme Ruler Ultimate
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make every effort to become Supreme Ruler!
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SuperPower 2 Steam Edition
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
SuperPower 2 is the only global geopolitical simulation game which allows players to control entire countries. Players control countries in 3 major areas: political, economic and military, but this time, in a beautiful real-time 3D environment.
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Age of Empires® III (2007)
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Microsoft Studios brings you three epic Age of Empires III games in one monumental collection for the first time.
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Making History: The Great War
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
The Great War is a turn-based grand strategy game based on the epic struggles of the WWI era. Experience the battles of attrition and punishing artillery barrages. Play as any nation of the period as the modern world of industrialized warfare replaces an age of kings with a struggle of ideologies.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
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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Hearts of Iron IV
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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Crusader Kings III
Single-player alternative to Victoria II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Victoria II.
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.