Single-player games like Phantom Brigade
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Phantom Brigade, 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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BATTLETECH
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
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Into the Breach
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
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Star Renegades
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Star Renegades is a dimension spanning rogue-lite strategy RPG. Outsmart uniquely generated adversaries, forge bonds between heroes and end the cycle!
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Mechabellum
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Command massive armies in this epic mech auto-battler. Draft your troops, customize your units, master your formations, and crush enemies in spectacular 3D battles. All strategy, no clickfest. Outsmart opponents in 1v1, 2v2, free-for-all, or Survival Mode.
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Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue is the proof of concept for the upcoming procedural turn-based mecha tactics RPG set in alternate 1970s Southeast Asia. In this prologue chapter, you'll get to experience combat, exploration, and the opening story of the game.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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Tactical Breach Wizards
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.
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Super Robot Wars 30
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
30 years on, the battle for our world's future continues. Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG that brings characters and robots from a variety of mecha anime together to battle their mutual foes.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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Armored
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantom Brigade.
It's time for you to prove yourself in the management of armored vehicles. You have to perform many operations from liberating the territory to escorting VIP and battling against enemy armored vehicles.
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Phantom Brigade.
The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.
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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
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Frozen Synapse
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Brings the simultaneous turn-based strategy genre up-to-date and lets you give detailed, accurate orders to your squad.
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Othercide
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
As Humanity’s last hope, lead your army to combat in an intricate dance of spectacular actions and counters, using an original Dynamic Timeline System, and face fearsome bosses in epic battles.
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Wartales
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
Wartales is an open world RPG in which you lead a group of mercenaries in their search for wealth across a massive medieval universe. Explore the world, recruit companions, collect bounties and unravel the secrets of the tombs of the ancients!
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Crypt of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
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Rift of the NecroDancer
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Phantom Brigade.
The NecroDancer's back in an all-new rhythm game! Dragged into a strange new world, Cadence must engage in musical combat with monsters surging through the Rift! Face pulse-pounding Rhythm Rifts where every beat is a battle, all set to an original soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky & friends.
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Industries of Titan
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!