Single-player games like Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition, 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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Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Command the seas, control the land, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe.
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Rome: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Control and conquer the greatest empire ever known to man.
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Crusader Kings III
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
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Bellfortis
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Bellfortis is a strategy game from the early Middle Ages. Expand your kingdom, use politics and power. Strategic planning on the map alternates with realtime battles of armies. Play as a grand strategy or on smaller local maps, build, recruit armies and fight!
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Panzer Corps 2
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Panzer Corps 2 is the ultimate Second World War strategy game! Enjoy the time-proven gameplay formula which has been appreciated by millions of players over the years, brought to a whole new level of refinement up to the latest technical standards.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
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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Hearts of Iron IV
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Victory is at your fingertips! Your ability to lead your nation is your supreme weapon, the strategy game Hearts of Iron IV lets you take command of any nation in World War II; the most engaging conflict in world history.
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Steel Division 2
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.
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Medieval: Total War™ - Collection
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
MEDIEVAL: Total War™ - Collection Edition is the compilation of the critically-acclaimed Medieval: Total War and its official expansion pack - Viking Invasion.
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Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Emperor Edition is the definitive edition of ROME II, featuring an improved politics system, overhauled building chains, rebalanced battles and improved visuals in both campaign and battleEmperor Edition contains all free feature updates since its release in 2013, which includes bug fixes, balancing, Twitch.
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Total War: THREE KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is the first in the award-winning series to recreate epic conflict across ancient China. Combining a gripping turn-based campaign of empire-building & conquest with stunning real-time battles, THREE KINGDOMS redefines the series in an age of heroes & legends.
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Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms is the official expansion to last year's award-winning Medieval II: Total War, presenting players with all-new territories to explore, troops to command, and enemies to conquer.
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
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Total War: ATTILA
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
"The ultimate depiction of the Three Kingdom. A heroic drama of a gathering of Legends. "With this as the concept behind Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, we have compiled an experience that will immerse you even deeper into the world of the Three Kingdoms, with "human drama," seen through the interactions of the...
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Pharaoh™: A New Era
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
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Total War: WARHAMMER III
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
The cataclysmic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is here. Rally your forces and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-bending horror where the very fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
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Alien: Isolation
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Single-player alternative to Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition.
Total War: SHOGUN 2 is the perfect mix of real-time and turn-based strategy gaming for newcomers and veterans alike.