Single-player games like Marco Polo
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Marco Polo, 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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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
A strategy/action RPG. Create a character, engage in diplomacy, craft, trade and conquer new lands in a vast medieval sandbox. Raise armies to lead into battle and command and fight alongside your troops in massive real-time battles using a deep but intuitive skill-based combat system.
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
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Merchants of Kaidan
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Marco Polo.
Regain your riches, restore your honor and avenge your father's murder. A challenging trading game with lots of RPG elements.
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Port Royale 3
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.
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Battle Brothers
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Marco Polo.
Lead a mercenary company in this tactical RPG set in a medieval fantasy world. Chase fame and fortune as you choose where to go, who to recruit, which contracts to pursue, and how to train and equip your men in a procedurally generated open world campaign.
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Police Quest: SWAT
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
It's all in a day's work for members of the most elite force in crime fighting history.
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Iron Sky: Invasion
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
In the near future, mankind faces the greatest threat to its posterity ever in recorded history: an invading Nazi horde, reborn in the depths of space! An armada of Fourth Reich ships, built in secret at a hidden base on the moon, descends upon the Earth to rain terror and destruction.But this is not done without resistance.
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Silver
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Marco Polo.
Silver, a corrupt and sinister sorcerer, rules the land of Jarrah with an iron fist. He and his henchmen have abducted the village women as part of a pact with the almighty god, Apocalypse. Now, only one man can put a stop to Silver and his minions. That man is you, David, a promising young knight whose wife is among the captured.
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Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Marco Polo.
As you journey to the seemingly placid surroundings of a Greek courtyard or the secret gardens of Tihuanica, beware - things are not as they seem. This supernatural action adventure is sure to pique your obsession with horror and espionage.
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Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Marco Polo.
You'll take on the role of John T. Carter, a brilliant young astronomer, piecing together the puzzling history of the village and its cryptic inhabitants. Incredibly realistic action and supernatural chaos intertwine to draw players deep into the puzzling mysteries within the Shadow of the Comet.
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Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Marco Polo.
Slip through the door of time and face your destiny in a bizarre parallel universe! In this imaginative classic from ERE Informatique's Exxos label, your quest to rescue the Sci-Mutant Princess pits you against the five terrifying Ordeals of Delios in the treacherous realm of the Protozorqs.
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Drakkhen
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Marco Polo.
The prophecy has been fulfilled. The world shall be ruled by the dragons. On an island far away, their lords prepare for the conquest of the lands. There is only one hope for mankind. The emperor sends out four heroes to solve the puzzle of tears and prevent the invasion of the Drakkhen.
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Bubble Ghost
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Marco Polo.
In Bubble Ghost you must help a mischievous little spook blow a delicate bubble through a castle filled with diabolical devices and demons.
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Mystical
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Marco Polo.
You are a novice magician at the end of his studies. During a course on the opening of doors at the temple of the Great Wizard, you have clumsily cause the disappearance of all the phials and scrolls that he had so carefully classified over many years.
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Eternam
Single-player alternative to Marco Polo — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Marco Polo.
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