Single-player games like Frozen Synapse 2
Below are 10 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 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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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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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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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Chaos Reborn
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Frozen Synapse 2.
Turn-based wizard combat with the tactical positioning of chess and the bluff of poker. Features wizard customization, 100s of gear items, single player realm adventures, online leagues and co-op play.
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Invisible, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Frozen Synapse 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Frozen Synapse 2.
Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.
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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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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.