Single-player games like Ratnik
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Ratnik, 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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King's Orders
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
King's Orders is a simplified historical strategy game with an important innovation. You command your armies by sending letters with orders. Messengers with these letters travel the land and can be lost or intercepted. Generals execute orders upon receipt and send you reports the same dangerous way.
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Radio Commander: Vietnam '64
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Use the radio to give commands to the soldiers on the battlefield. Keep track of the situation based on their voice reports only. Lead US platoons to clash with Vietcong in a realistic, innovative approach to the RTS genre. Make hard choices in a narrative driven experience, and face the outcome.
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Regiments
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Wargame: Red Dragon
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
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 Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
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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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
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Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold contains Supreme Ruler 2020 and the expansion, Global Crisis: SUPREME RULER 2020 Overnight, the US dollar crashes AND the sound echoes across the globe. The economic crisis amplifies global instabilities and regional disputes, tearing the world asunder. Nations dissolve, economies collapse, and tensions escalate.
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Platoon
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ratnik.
Assault and defend positions. Exploit cover and terrain. Call in artillery strikes and use special units. Storm trenches, conquer villages and urban neighborhoods. Command your troops from a classic Real-Time Tactics perspective, or take direct control of any soldier or vehicle on the battlefield.
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Warboss
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ratnik.
Choose your units, place them where it counts and build an army that wins. Deploy heroes with powerful skills to support your units and swing the battle your way. Unite the clans and take the fight to the Dubdals. Warboss is a casual and goofy battle simulator.
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Duball Dash
Single-player alternative to Ratnik — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Roll fast, crash often, and keep dashing—Duball Dash is endless hyper-casual fun inside the tube. Roll fast as a cool green ball rocking swag white ski goggles, dodge metal walls with black-and-yellow hazard tape, and slip past bouncing red cylinders as the speed ramps up.