Single-player games like AI War 2
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to AI War 2, 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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AI War: Fleet Command
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
"You are outgunned. You are massively outnumbered. You must win." These are your orders. Humanity has already fought its war against the machines -- and lost. AI death squads stand watch over every planet and every wormhole, the few remaining human settlements are held captive in orbiting bubbles, and the AIs have turned their...
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Airships: Conquer the Skies
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
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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Terra Invicta
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with AI War 2.
An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.
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Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with AI War 2.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
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Sins of a Solar Empire II
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with AI War 2.
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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Stronghold: Warlords
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with AI War 2.
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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SandTable War: Three Kingdoms
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
"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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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with AI War 2.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with AI War 2.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
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PARADOX
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AI War 2.
PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.
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AI WAR
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with AI War 2.
The exciting shooting game, AI WAR, is a war game where players need go through a hail of bullets and blow up the master control base of the intelligent robots. This game is full of uncertainty, where players seem to be in a real war field and the unexpected may happen any time. Wish you good luck!
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Heart of the Machine
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with AI War 2.
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
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The Last Federation
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
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Bionic Dues
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
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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Starward Rogue
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AI War 2.
Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
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A Valley Without Wind
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with AI War 2.
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
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Skyward Collapse
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
How do you balance -- and indeed encourage -- a war between factions without letting either side obliterate the other? How do you rule over gods, creatures, and men who refuse to obey you? How do you build a landscape of villages when bandits and mythology are conspiring to tear it down?
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A Valley Without Wind 2
Single-player alternative to AI War 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with AI War 2.
A modern take on the 16-bit era, A Valley Without Wind 2 blends a variety of mechanics across multiple genres, seamlessly bringing together the best qualities of old-school platform-shooters and turn-based strategy games.