Single-player games like Live the Life
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Live the Life, 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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Denizen
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.
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Westlanders
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
Forge your legacy in the Westlands. Survive and thrive in a Wild West open world. Alone or with friends, explore, fight, and build from your customizable wagon. Expand into bustling settlements, recruit allies, and forge a network to tame the wilderness and build your legacy.
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The Guild 3
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Live the Life.
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
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Crusader Kings III
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Live the Life.
Love, fight, scheme, and claim greatness. Determine your noble house’s legacy in the sprawling grand strategy of Crusader Kings III. Death is only the beginning as you guide your dynasty’s bloodline in the rich and larger-than-life simulation of the Middle Ages.
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Project Hospital
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live the Life.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Live the Life.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Paralives
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Live the Life.
Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?
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KINGDOMS
Single-player alternative to Live the Life — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Live the Life.
KINGDOMS is a procedural medieval RPG in a randomly generated open world. The main feature of KINGDOMS is a smart AI system that completely controls NPC behavior. As the player, you can fully interact with this massive world and become any person you want to be.