Single-player games like Command: Chains of War
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Command: Chains of War, 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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Distant Worlds: Universe
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.
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Order of Battle: World War II
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Order of Battle: World War II is a breath of fresh air for all strategy fans. It is a game that takes wargaming to a new level by upgrading every single game element and rebooting the genre for a new generation of players.
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Pandora: First Contact
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.
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Qvadriga
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Qvadriga is a tactical game of chariot racing in ancient Roman circuses, where you take control of a four horse chariot team. Choose your preferred upgrade combinations and prove your skills at the arena.
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To End All Wars
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Ageod’s To End All Wars is a grand strategy game set during World War One. Players will take control over one of the major powers that so desperately fought for control over Europe and to end all wars.
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Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander.
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Buzz Aldrin's Space Program Manager
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Space Program Manager (SPM) is the ultimate game of space exploration. It is the mid 1950s and the race for dominance between the US and the Soviet Union is about to move into a new dimension: space.
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Pride of Nations
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Pride of Nations is a turn-based historical strategy game set in the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country and guides it through industrialization, military conquest, and colonization.
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ARMA: Gold Edition
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
ARMA: Gold is pack of ARMA: Armed Assault and an expansion pack ARMA: Queen's Gambit. ARMA is a first person tactical military shooter with large elements of realism and simulation. This game features a blend of large-scale military conflict spread over large areas alongside the more closed quarters battle.
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Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations is the ultimate military simulator for modern military conflicts. Designed with a huge emphasis on detail, realism, accuracy and flexibility, Command allows you to simulate and direct any historical or hypothetical air or naval engagement from 1945, at any scale, including strategic nuclear war.
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Harpoon
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Top Down Shooter, a game where the player will have to dive into the endless depths of the sea as a diver and face thousands of predatory marine life, shooting back at them, pumping their weapons and equipment, gaining points and passing more and more, setting new records!
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Command: Northern Inferno
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Command: Northern Inferno is a stand-alone game that uses the latest version of the Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations (CMANO) engine. Do you have what it takes to stand up to Soviet/WP forces and avert Armageddon?
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Command: Shifting Sands
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Shifting Sands traces the history of many Arab-Israeli conflicts: from the sidelines of the Suez crisis, through the lightning Six-Day War, the guerilla-like War Of Attrition and the strategic surprise of the Yom Kippur War, all the way to the historic Osirak raid and the epic air battle over the Bekaa Valley.
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Command: The Silent Service
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Submarine warfare from post-WW2 to the present day! Lay mines, strike land targets with cruise and ballistic missiles, creep up to surface ships to take hull shots undetected, sniff sensitive electronic emissions, tap undersea communications cables, covertly deliver special-forces teams ashore, and of course hunt down anything on the sea...
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Command: Desert Storm
Single-player alternative to Command: Chains of War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: Chains of War.
Command - Desert Storm is a new DLC release for Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations. Fourteen historical & hypothetical campaign scenarios plus a bonus contemporary standalone scenario cover the major actions that marked the conflict, allowing you to explore the events that happened - and the ones that could easily have.