Single-player games like Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation, 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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Eximius: Seize the Frontline
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
EXIMIUS is a FPS/RTS hybrid that focuses on squad-based combat. The game features an intense 5v5 multiplayer experience with each team comprising of 4 Squad Officers and one Commander.
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Ashes of the Singularity II
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
In this massive RTS game, command vast armies fighting for control of entire worlds. Control the forces of Earth, the mechanical AI Substrate, or the enigmatic Post-Human Coalition as you battle across the solar system in single player, cooperative multiplayer, or competitive multiplayer.
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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
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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Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Wage war across entire solar systems with massive armies at your command. Annihilate enemy forces with world-shattering TITAN-class units, and demolish planets with massive super weapons!
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Crossfire: Legion
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
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Tempest Rising
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
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Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
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Supreme Commander
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
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Supreme Commander 2
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
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Total Annihilation
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
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Galactic Civilizations III
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.
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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
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Galactic Civilizations IV
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.
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Star Control®: Origins
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.
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Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Fallen Enchantress is 4X strategy game from the makers of Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilizations. Build a civilization in the magical world of Elemental. Recruit heroes, train armies, build cities, forge alliances and save the world in this rich world where it's never the same game twice.
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Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
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The Political Machine 2020
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and take the 2020 presidential election by storm in Stardock’s popular political strategy game. Choose a candidate and run against a computer opponent or a candidate controlled by another person over the Internet.