While its all too brief story mode did offer a modicum of what fans had been hoping for in a modern Battlefront campaign, it failed to offer any meaningful content for single-player-inclined players. In its defence, it did launch with a PVE mode, although it was barebones at best.
It had barely any maps and only 10 bots per side. Fortunately, since its launch, it has been updated numerous times with a ton of additional content being added for those who wish to play alone.
New maps have been added to its base bot mode which adds a little bit of longevity to it. Additionally, a brand new mode called Instant Action has been added.
It is essentially the best mode from the original Battlefront games, playable against bots. The base gameplay is heaps of fun, and the hectic Instant Action mode can offer up to 30 minutes per round depending on which length you select. You can pick up Star Wars Battlefront 2 for relatively cheap on Amazon , or catch it on sale over on Steam or your console storefront of choice.
Brass Brigade is the game that motivated me to start this guide. While searching late one night I came across a forum page that was inquiring about games with bots. The solo developer of Brass Brigade had popped in to leave a comment with a link to his game. I, desperately wanting a new single-player experience, took a look. And boy was I glad I did. Brass Brigade is a game specifically made for singleplayer. It is a World War 2 third or first-person shooter set across vast maps. You can fight against as many bots as your PC can handle literally , and play as a range of different classes.
While the later games in the franchise make it notoriously difficult to access the offline bot modes , they traditionally have rather competent bots. Better yet, it can be played split-screen with a friend. So, should you want the classic gaming experience of couch co-op , then this is definitely one for you.
Thanks to the small map size, the amount of bots available is relatively generous. In split-screen, the amount of bots allowed is significantly smaller than if you play alone, but still enough that the map never feels empty. All of the weapons feel great, and there is enough variety that it never gets stale.
I have, however, played the rather excellent Chivalry: Medieval Warfare. Released way back in , this incredible medieval warfare simulator still holds up today. Better still, it has a very generous offline bot mode.
That counts, right? Essentially, these are WW2 simulators. They focus more on campaign-style missions, but these ostensibly play out like most offline bot modes out there. You wage war against a whole slew of bots across large-scale maps in what is a pretty impressive recreation of World War 2.
Easy Red 2 on the other hand expands on the series immensely, adding in squad-based mechanics, larger maps, more ambitious missions and classes. It also feels like the heftier of the two as it seemingly has more bots running around at any given time. Sure, it died out a long time ago, but this excellent monster hunting title still holds up today.
Its gameplay is exceptionally fun, and its bots do a very good job of simulating real players. Evolve has a really simple premise. Beating it before it can evolve into its final form is generally a good idea. There are numerous maps for you to explore which are all vast and incredibly detailed too.
The ability to play as either the hunters or the monster is a lot of fun and makes this an experience still worth playing. It is a triple-A experience, so you can expect solid gunplay. Unfortunately, Evolve has been delisted on PC and can be pretty difficult to track down these days.
No, they aren't especially difficult, at least not for a skilled player, but the bots in Heroes of the Storm's Vs-AI matches mimic human behavior enough to provide a legitimate game experience. These matches, where five human players face off against five AI-controlled opponents, offer a low-stakes situation for new players to learn the ropes or veterans to test out a new build.
And since the games still offer XP and count towards completing quests, the mode is a nice place to level up heroes you suck with without worrying about holding your team back. Bonus: with the stakes so low, players are much less toxic.
Depending on what difficultly level you choose, the bots of Unreal Tournament can be entertaining fodder or nigh-unbeatable gods. Either way, UT's bots have some of the best AI you'll find in any game before or since, utilizing self-preservation if they're outmatched and demonstrating real teamwork during capture the flag matches.
Unreal Tournament 99 has fantastic bots, too, and can be customized to a greater degree, but UT 's bots feel more like playing against real people. Left 4 Dead 2 is best played with friends and worst with internet randos, but it's surprisingly decent on your own. You can actually listen to the banter between characters I ride or die for polite hillbilly Ellis , and if you want to just poke around the fairground playing with the strength tester nobody's going to try to drag you away—except possibly a Smoker, with its tongue.
Arma 3's AI is pretty robotic, but its scenario editor tool which gained a 3D editing view, Eden, more than a year ago is powerful if you can utilize all of its functions to create dramatic convoy raids, airstrikes, helicopter extracts, and other pleasant tropes.
I think of Arma 3's bots less as intelligent enemies than I do interesting targets that I have to spot and knock down over hundreds of miles of detailed terrain. In bigger numbers and with the help of ordinance and vehicles , they can be deadly and erratic, but most of the fun is the roleplaying, navigating, and drama that happens along the way.
Joined Aug 15, Messages Turok Rage Wars. I'm not sure if they brought that one to Steam or not though I know they brought the first one or two to PC semi-recently. Edit: typos. Last edited: May 24, Joined Oct 18, Messages Quake Champions is a more recent title that has offline bot mode, I love it.
Joined Mar 26, Messages 13, I didn't see this one anywhere. I'll have to keep an eye out. From what I can tell, it only came to N64 in Last edited: May 25, Tried this one. Was never a real fan of Quake Arena. I did give it a try again though and will give it a chance. CS GO has offline bot mode as well, I play this one quite often as well when I don't want to deal with people.
Joined Sep 15, Messages UT98 and Q3. I don't play them much anymore, but had a lot of fun with them back in the day. I need to fire up UT98 again. As I recall, you need to put vsync on with UT98 these days, to avoid some issues with current PC's being so fast can't remember all the details, it's been awhile.
Joined Feb 9, Messages 59, The two Star Wars Battlefront games have quite a bit of offline content where you can play against bots. You can't do everything the games have to offer with bots, but a lot of it.
Betaboy [H]ard Gawd. Joined Dec 31, Messages 1, Joined May 15, Messages 9, Condition Zero? Joined Oct 27, Messages 1, I play DOTA 2 against the bots, since real people are too good for me.
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