Single-player games like RAILGRADE
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to RAILGRADE, 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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Railway Empire
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Rail Route
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
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Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
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Factory Town
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
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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shapez 2 - Factory
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
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Voxel Tycoon
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
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Railbound
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A relaxing puzzle game about fixing train connections and travelling the world - now with a level editor!
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Train Valley 2
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!
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Mindustry
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with RAILGRADE.
An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
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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Idle Transport Tycoon
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Enjoy fast, stress-free management! Build your service network, merge houses, and transport guests via train & ropeway. Upgrade facilities, hire staff, and climb the leaderboards in this bite-sized tycoon experience designed to be finished in one sitting; but still runs well in background.
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Train Valley
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Strategy with RAILGRADE.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Whiskerwood
Single-player alternative to RAILGRADE — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RAILGRADE.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.