Single-player games like Frozen Synapse 2
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Frozen Synapse 2, 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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Frozen Synapse
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
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Frozen Cortex
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
A hard-hitting simultaneous-turn-based tactical game from the creators of Frozen Synapse. Defeat your opponent’s plans on a randomly-generated playfield in this brutal futuresport.
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Frozen Synapse Prime
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
Take on the role of Tactics, leading a rebel faction to overthrow a powerful corporation controlling the virtual city of Markov Geist. Control an elite strike team of futuristic soldiers; plot paths and issue orders to your units, test your plans and predict your opponent in each turn.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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Field of Glory II
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
Field of Glory II is a turn-based tactical game set during the Rise of Rome from 280 BC to 25 BC.
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Warhammer 40,000: Regicide
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is a brutal take on one of the greatest turn based strategy games of all time. Regicide fuses multiple phases of gameplay with dynamic action. Maneuver your army into place and unleash a devastating array of tactical abilities to crush your enemies.
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Company of Crime
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.
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Skulls of the Shogun
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Enter the Samurai Afterlife and join forces with vibrant ghost-samurai warriors, magical animal monks, and mustachioed samurai generals. It's fast-paced turn-based strategy inspired by Advance Wars, and supercharged with fighting-game flare!
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X-COM: Apocalypse
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
There's something evil in the city tonight... Earth has been ravaged by human excess, petty conflict and alien invasion. The world's population has been herded into huge cities, the first of which was Mega Primus. 2084: A Utopia shattered, social collapse and civil unrest reigns in Mega Primus. Fiendish aliens terrorize the city.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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TIME STRIKE
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
TIME STRIKE is a single-player FPS that gives you maximum control: stop time to dodge projectiles, rip down walls, line up a headshot, and flip flying debris into hapless enemies. CONTROL TIME. CONTROL SPACE.