Single-player games like Pandemic: The Board Game
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Pandemic: The Board Game, 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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For The King
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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Terraforming Mars
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.
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Wingspan
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves.
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Spirit Island
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.
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Ticket to Ride®
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pandemic: The Board Game.
Discover a fresh adaptation of the iconic, multi-award-winning board game. Play against fellow fans around the world, or take on state-of-the-art AI opponents. Build a railway empire, claim routes and dominate your competitors on the leaderboards in this fan-favourite modern classic!
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Splendor
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
The OFFICIAL digital adaptation of the best-selling board game. ** ONLINE MULTIPLAYER NOW AVAILABLE !!! **
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RISK: Global Domination
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
Take over the world in RISK: Global Domination, the iconic strategy board game with 100+ original and classic maps and millions of players
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Gremlins, Inc.
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
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Tabletop Simulator
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Pandemic: The Board Game.
Tabletop Simulator is the only simulator where you can let your aggression out by flipping the table! There are no rules to follow: just you, a physics sandbox, and your friends. Make your own online board games or play the thousands of community created mods. Unlimited gaming possibilities!
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Colt Express
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Pandemic: The Board Game.
Plan your hold up, adapt your scheme, get rich and get out! The game inspired from the famous train robbery boardgame!
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Munchkin: Quacked Quest
Single-player alternative to Pandemic: The Board Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Dive into Munchkin: Quacked Quest and re-discover the parody, puns, and humor from the hit card game Munchkin by Steve Jackson. Gather gold, throw your foes (and friends) into sacrifice pits, collect ducks, eliminate the monsters and reach the highest level to win the game!