Single-player games like Axes and Acres
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Axes and Acres, 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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Minos Strategos
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
You are the legendary Minos Strategos (general of the ancient city of Minos)! Command the defenders of the temple by harnessing the power of specific battle formations to push back the Minotaur hordes. Minos Strategos is a quick single-player strategy game with a focus on elegance and clarity.
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Militia
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Militia is a tight turn-based strategy game that brings the thrill of victory to single-player. It's simple to pick up, and from the moment you start, you'll be learning and improving -- building your skills, learning new strategies, and ranking up on the single player ladder.
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Predictors
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Go solo or invite up to three friends to play this turn-based roguelike, where all characters move simultaneously. Fight against evil forces in the ever-changing Dark Forest. Learn skills: from Fire Magic to Necromancy. Get better loot. Change the difficulty. Repeat.
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Trials of Fire
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
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Nowhere Prophet
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
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Tales from Candlekeep: Tomb of Annihilation
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
On the deadly peninsula of Chult, an adventuring party must fight their way through dangerous jungles, labyrinths and dungeons to find and reverse the cause of the death curse. Choose to play as one or more of the four adventurers to face many perilous challenges and deadly foes throughout the quest.
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Second Front
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Axes and Acres.
Second Front is a tactical WWII turn-based strategy game. Craft & share your own scenarios and maps or use your strategic prowess in 48 scenarios set in iconic locations. Command over 40 types of infantry and 216 tanks, vehicles and guns. An infinite tactical sandbox experience.
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Space Hulk: Ascension (Classic)
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Space Hulk: Ascension is a 3D, digital, turn based, strategy game, which re-interprets the classic board game experience, and adds new RPG style mechanics, new weapons and missions, new enemy types, 3 playable chapters and loads of other new features to the single player experience.
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Solar Settlers
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Solar Settlers is a card-driven space exploration strategy game set in the far future. Our sun is on the verge of collapse and so mankind has taken to the stars aboard colony ships to seek out a new home.
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SkyBoats
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Ahoy SkyBoat captains! Today is your chance to learn to sail the skies, take control of the winds and discover vast riches up in the clouds. Even better, as you improve your skill at the game, SkyBoats will use your evolving rank to consistently give you a satisfying strategic challenge.
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Rolling in the Reef
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Rolling in the Reef is a dice-driven strategy game about guiding your fishy friends to thrive in their coral home. Dive beneath the waves to build big fish combos, collect valuable artifacts and unlock wild new schools of fish.
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Militia 2
Single-player alternative to Axes and Acres — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Axes and Acres.
Militia is back with more bite-sized strategy that evolves to match your skill! Beat back hordes of ruffians that challenge you in Beam and Push World!