Single-player games like Command: The Silent Service
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Command: The Silent Service, 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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Sub Command
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Command: The Silent Service.
Take charge of the most deadly modern-day submarines in the world - three distinct submarines across two unique and challenging campaigns. Utilize cutting-edge sensor and weapon technology to locate, track and destroy the enemy - even deliver Tomahawk missiles to inland targets.
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Silent Hunter® III
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
The king of submarine simulations returns with an all-new 3D engine, new crew command features, and more realistic WWII naval action than ever before. The movie-like graphics and simple, tension-filled gameplay make this the perfect game for the realism fanatic and the casual gamer.
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Dangerous Waters
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Command: The Silent Service.
S.C.S. - Dangerous Waters allows you total control over multiple air, surface, and submarine platforms in a modern-day naval environment. Take direct control of individual crew stations and also plan and execute combined arms naval strategies from a top-down 'Commanders Eye' perspective.
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Wargame: European Escalation
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
The New Fatal Error DLC includes a new 5-mission Operation and touch-screen controls.
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Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations WOTY
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
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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Battlestations Pacific
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Command: The Silent Service.
Experience one war through two epic sagas where you will be a part of history or change it. Feel the power of the historically authentic and decisive battles of the Pacific War. Relive some of the grandest and most critical naval battles of recent history and for the first time, choose to lead your fleet to a completely different ending...
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Polaris Sector
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Can anyone build an empire in a place like this? Other factions are naturally suspicious of newcomers and may wage war at the first sign of unidentified craft. Here, a natural death is an uncommon luxury.
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Objects in Space
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Command: The Silent Service.
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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Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Step behind the periscope of a German U-boat and take on the Allied Forces in famous battles across the vast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The best-selling submarine series of all time continues with the highly anticipated Silent Hunter: Battle of the Atlantic.
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Cold Waters
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.
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Command: Northern Inferno
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
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: Chains of War
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
20 minutes into the future, a spark erupts in the Korean peninsula that will lead to a theaterwide conflagration embroiling the entire Western Pacific and drag all major powers into it.
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Command: Shifting Sands
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
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: Desert Storm
Single-player alternative to Command: The Silent Service — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Command: The Silent Service.
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.