Single-player games like NIMBY Rails
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to NIMBY Rails, 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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Investormania
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
GET ALL COUNTRIES! Compete with your FRIENDS. Get Countries, build buildings, hotels on a colorful and live map. Establish your political party and strive to come to power. Be the POLITICAL PARTY that wins with the right policies. INVESTORMANIA, Construction, Politics and more...
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Tropico 7
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
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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Transport Fever
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
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Citystate II
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
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Plutocracy
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with NIMBY Rails.
The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
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The Spatials
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
It's the year 5781 -- and you have been chosen to build and lead a space station in a wild corner of the galaxy! Attract visitors and explore hundreds of planets to fund your station.
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The Spatials: Galactology
Single-player alternative to NIMBY Rails — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with NIMBY Rails.
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.