Single-player games like Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Below are 18 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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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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Act of Aggression - Reboot Edition
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.
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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 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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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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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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Wargame: Airland Battle
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
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.
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Men of War: Assault Squad 2
Single-player alternative to Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.
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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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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.