Single-player games like Smart City Plan
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Smart City Plan, 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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Planet Zoo
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.
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Against the Storm
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Planet Coaster 2
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Business Magnate
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
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Government Simulator
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Government Simulator is a is a simple economic and political simulation game based on real-world data. Take control of a whole country, like the USA, Germany, France, Russia, or Austria. Change laws, taxes and budgets based on real world statistics and data, and see what happens.
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PostCollapse
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
PostCollapse is a survival simulation game set after the collapse of civilization. Gather items from the ruins, construct tools, grow your own food, go fishing and hunting. Single player only. No Zombies.
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Cargo Company
Single-player alternative to Smart City Plan — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.