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Single-player games like Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne, 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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    Age of Wonders — Steam game cover

    Age of Wonders

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Welcome to Age of Wonders, the authentic turn based fantasy strategy classic that started the hit series. Age of Wonders’ intimate atmosphere with painterly graphics still shines today. The game’s fully patched up, start building your fantasy empire today!

    2010StrategyRPG5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Wonders III — Steam game cover

    Age of Wonders III

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Age of Wonders III is the long anticipated sequel to the award-winning strategy series. Delivering a unique mix of Empire Building, Role Playing and Warfare, Age of Wonders III offers the ultimate in turn-based fantasy strategy for veterans of the series and new players alike!

    2014StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Wonders Shadow Magic — Steam game cover

    Age of Wonders Shadow Magic

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic is the third entry in the award winning fantasy strategy series. This fan-favorite enhances the series' praised fusion of empire building, role-playing and tactical combat with the eerie Shadow World and battle with races never before seen, across new and diverse landscapes.

    2010StrategyRPG9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planar Conquest — Steam game cover

    Planar Conquest

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Become an all-powerful Sorcerer Lord and lead one of 8 different races to the ultimate victory. Explore multiple planes of existence, raid dungeons, and conquer cities. Expand your armies, cast mighty spells, and summon godly creatures to do your bidding. Fight the enemies in D20 OGL battles.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Wonders 4 — Steam game cover

    Age of Wonders 4

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn!

    2023StrategyRPG24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Deity Empires — Steam game cover

    Deity Empires

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.

    2018StrategyRPG24.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ENDLESS™ Legend — Steam game cover

    ENDLESS™ Legend

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!

    2014StrategyRPG29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Eador. Masters of the Broken World — Steam game cover

    Eador. Masters of the Broken World

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

    2013StrategyIndieRPG19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Heroes of Might & Magic V — Steam game cover

    Heroes of Might & Magic V

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.

    2008Strategy9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PARADOX — Steam game cover

    PARADOX

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    PARADOX is a puzzle-platformer about time traveling and avoiding paradoxes.

    2020Indie0.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Wheel of Fortune — Steam game cover

    The Wheel of Fortune

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    The only visual novel dating sim with turbo-folk music playing in the background. Be a loser, get scammed, live with your parents and fail to get laid! Do you have what it takes to turn your luck around?

    2021IndieAdventureCasual8.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overlord™ — Steam game cover

    Overlord™

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt you become depends on how you handle any given situation. Your actions impact the game world. With incredible power at your disposal and a team of evil minded minions to do your evil bidding, how will you resist the temptation to be incredibly despotic?

    2007RPG1.09 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Age of Wonders: Planetfall — Steam game cover

    Age of Wonders: Planetfall

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

    2019Strategy10.19 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overlord II — Steam game cover

    Overlord II

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    Overlord II, sequel to the critically acclaimed cult hit, sees the return of the chaotic Minions and their new Dark Master. Bigger, badder and more beautifully destructive, Overlord 2 has a Glorious Empire to smash, a massive Netherworld to revive, Minion mounts to mobilize, a trio of mistresses to woo, War Machines to crush opposition...

    2009RPG1.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Overlord™: Raising Hell — Steam game cover

    Overlord™: Raising Hell

    Single-player alternative to Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne.

    How evil can you get? Discover how corruptible you are in Overlord, the twisted fantasy action adventure where you can be evil (or really evil). In the game's seriously warped fantasy world, players will become the Overlord and get first-hand experience of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    2008RPG1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →