Single-player games like Phantom Brigade
Below are 18 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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SD GUNDAM G GENERATION CROSS RAYS
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Phantom Brigade.
Beyond creation, four eras come together as one! Discover the latest entry in this iconic Tactical RPG series. Form your own team of SD Gundams and deploy for battle -- with units from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, SEED, 00, and Iron-Blooded Orphans!
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Super Robot Wars 30
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation 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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Dead Hand
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Dead Hand is a turn based tactical roguelike game set in a fully destructible procedural environment. Guide your Autonomous Weapons Platform in a fatalistic trek through a multiple level underground cave complex in order to fulfill your directives.
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Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom Brigade.
The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!
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Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Phantom Brigade.
The sequel to the captivating tale of Fuga: Melodies of Steel has arrived! This turn-based RPG is back with a ramped up battle system for more strategy, as well as a brand new event system that gives you more thrilling choices to affect your experience!
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to Phantom Brigade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Phantom Brigade.
Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based roguelite with mech customization. Out-think wide-ranging tactical situations featuring robots with bad GPS, terrible aim, insecurity, a lack of focus, a tendency to backstab, and dozens of other maladies to exploit.
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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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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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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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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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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 Strategy and Indie 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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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!