Single-player games like Merkalis: Conquest
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Merkalis: Conquest, 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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Rank & Ruin
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
Real-time squad combat meets roguelite progression. Pick your faction, earn legendary heroes on the battlefield, and grow stronger with every run in Rank & Ruin
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Palisade
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
Build a kingdom, connect its towns, and fight for every border. Palisade is a real time strategy game where you command territory directly, with no squads to micromanage. Play five campaigns, set up your own Skirmishes, or face friends online.
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Renaissance Kingdom Wars - Prologue
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
The year is 1510. In this grand strategy & RTS hybrid you play as one of a dozen characters across medieval Europe, Africa and Middle East. Start as a landless mercenary captain. Fight your way to become a minor lord. Rise up through Kingdoms hierarchy and be crowned, then expand your Kingdom.
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SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
"SandTable War: Three Kingdoms" is a strategic simulation game set during the Three Kingdoms period. Here you can play as various factions from Three Kingdoms history to conquer cities and lands, unify the realm. With abundant historical officers and scenarios, come restore the Han Dynasty!
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Simulator of Ukraine 1991
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
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Mandate Order
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
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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King's Orders
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
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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Renaissance Kingdom Wars
Single-player alternative to Merkalis: Conquest — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Merkalis: Conquest.
The year is 1510. As wars rage across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it is the age of gunpowder and mercenaries - that changed the course of history. You can do it as well, going from a leader of men to the ruler of an empire in this unique mix of RTS and grand strategy.