Single-player games like Failover
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Failover, 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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Close the Sky
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
A real-time war of air defence and industry. Build the economy, bury it, and layer SAMs over what you cannot hide. Read a fading intel picture of the enemy base and aim every missile yourself. Break their will to fight before they break yours.
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Mandate Order
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.
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The Legend of Mala Tokmachka
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Build, expand, and arm a towering 2D fortress to withstand endless waves of ground and air attacks. Set in a nameless frontier village where a siege has lasted so long it became a legend, "The Legend of Mala Tokmachka" turns survival into myth.
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Last Train Home
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
The Great War is over - the fight continues. Command a legion of soldiers, desperately trying to make their way home amidst the chaos of civil war. Lead them through the unforgiving wilderness onboard an armored train. Manage your crew and resources and try to survive.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.
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Steel Division: Normandy 44
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Steel Division: Normandy is a tactical real-time strategy (RTS) game that pits players against AI enemies in a single-player campaign -- or against several opponents in massive 10-on-10 multiplayer battles.
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Regiments
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Regiments is a Real-Time Tactics game set in Germany 1989. The Cold War has gone hot, and the inferno is raging. Lead your Regiment through the fires of conflict and the fog of war. Break through the lines, call in artillery, maneuver, feign retreats, stage defenses, counter-attack. Do not relent.
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NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Failover.
Become a Daimyo of the Warring States period of Japanese history in NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION, a historical simulation game of conquest and domination. It is the 30th anniversary of this series and this current release, NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence, is the crown of the series.
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Otti: house keeper
Single-player alternative to Failover — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The mix of tower defense and puzzle, use traps to defend the house. Great designed levels, a bunch of traps, and mechanisms choose how you will defeat them!