Single-player games like Wasteland 3
Below are 20 single-player Steam games similar to Wasteland 3, 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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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 3.
The critically acclaimed RPG that raised the bar, from the creators of Baldur's Gate 3. Gather your party. Master deep, tactical combat. Venture as a party of up to four - but know that only one of you will have the chance to become a God.
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Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 3.
From the producer of the original Fallout comes Wasteland 2. With over 80 hours of gameplay, deck out your Ranger squad with devastating weaponry, test the limits of your strategy skills, and bring justice to the Wasteland! The choices are yours…but so are the consequences.
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Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
Patch 5.0 - Turn-based mode and The Ultimate challenge out now! Pursue a rogue god over land and sea in the sequel to the multi-award-winning RPG Pillars of Eternity. Captain your ship on a dangerous voyage of discovery across the vast unexplored archipelago region of the Deadfire.
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Jagged Alliance 3
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 3.
The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.
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XCOM® 2
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 3.
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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Wildermyth
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Wasteland 3.
Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.
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Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG and Strategy with Wasteland 3.
A tactical sci-fi RPG set in an alternative 1970's, where an enormous and inexplicable artifact –the Dome– is discovered in a remote desert. Fight enemies, explore the anomalous wasteland, level up your character, join one of the forces in the ruined world.
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ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic indie game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, Wasteland, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others.
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Disgaea 2 PC
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
The Overlord Zenon has cursed the land, leaving a young man named Adell to seek vengeance. However, all hell breaks loose as Adell accidentally kidnaps the Princess of the Netherworld. Will Adell be able to return the Princess, defeat Zenon, and break the Overlord's dark curse?
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Fallout: New Vegas
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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The Banner Saga
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 3.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
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Gears Tactics
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 3.
Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game from one of the most-acclaimed video game franchises – Gears of War. Outnumbered and fighting for survival, recruit and command your squad to hunt down an evil mastermind who makes monsters.
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Xenonauts
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 3.
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
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Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 3.
Tactical Squad-Based Combat comes to the Fallout® Universe! You are the wretched refuse. You may be born from dirt, but we will forge you into steel. You will learn to bend; if not you, will you break. In these dark times, the Brotherhood - your Brotherhood - is all that stands between the rekindled flame of civilization and the howling,...
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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
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X-COM: UFO Defense
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Wasteland 3.
You are in control of X-COM: an organization formed by the world's governments to fight the ever-increasing alien menace.
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Torment: Tides of Numenera
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Wasteland 3.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep
Single-player alternative to Wasteland 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Wasteland 3.
The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.