Single-player games like Modern Wars
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Modern Wars, 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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Shadow Division: Spymaster
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Modern Wars.
Lead your nation's intelligence agency through an invasion in the modern day. Recruit and manage spies, uncover double agents, run covert operations, and manipulate foreign powers to secure the support your country needs to survive.
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Mandate Order
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
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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Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Modern Wars.
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
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Age of History 2: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
The grand strategy classic returns with improved gameplay, a massive 13,892 province map, expanded diplomacy and wartime capitulation, new civilizations and scenarios, atomic weapons, smarter AI, enhanced visuals, UI upgrades, and major performance improvements.
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Warnament
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
A turn-based grand strategy game, simple for newbies yet challenging for masters. As the leader of a nation, you will conquer territories and advance in military, technology, culture, or politics. Choose from historical scenarios or create your own with an editor.
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King's Orders
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
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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Rogue State Revolution
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Modern Wars.
Greetings your Excellency. Time to rebuild, reform and prepare for new challenges in the People's Republic of Basenji. In this thrilling political strategy, you will appoint ministers and lead the country to success. Be careful — you may find yourself replaced in the next election.
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Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
Single-player alternative to Modern Wars — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Modern Wars.
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.