Single-player games like Palisade
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Palisade, 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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Mandate Order
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Palisade.
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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Prime Domination
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Palisade.
Prime Domination is a real-time strategy game where you build your base, manage finance, produce powerful military units, and battle against AI or other players in large-scale multiplayer matches with up to 10 commanders.
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Phosphor Command
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Palisade.
You command a forward operating base in a world ravaged by war and shadow contracts. Deploy squads into real-time tactical combat, research upgrades, manage a fragile economy, and push back a front that never stops advancing.
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Tabletop Tavern
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Palisade.
Tabletop Tavern is a roguelike RTS where you build an army from scratch and command them across a brutal campaign. Recruit diverse units, create devastating synergies, and make tactical choices that shape the fate of every run.
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Firefight
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Palisade.
Firefight is a World War II real-time simulation game similar in style to the old Close Combat series but brought up to date with better AI, individual soldier modelling, a faster frame rate to give more intense and realistic combat and an easy to use command interface.
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Crusader Kings III
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Palisade.
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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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Palisade.
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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Wargame: Airland Battle
Single-player alternative to Palisade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Palisade.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.