Single-player games like City of Gangsters
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to City of Gangsters, 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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Wiseguys: The Commission
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Take the role of Don in "Wiseguys: The Commission" and dominate New York. Plan crimes, traffic drugs, extort money and make war on rival families. Control the Commission, launder money. Your cunning will decide your fate. Are you ready to become the next boss of all bosses?
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Just Power: The Papal States
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Are you ready to found a dynasty which controls the Holy See over the centuries? Climb the hierarchies, hire your relatives, blackmail and bribe to get everything you want in this turn-based political simulator.
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Arcade Warlord
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Dominate during the 80s arcade boom in this Grand Strategy Tycoon. Engineer hit games, control the streets and weaponize the stock market. Money is a physical object on the map; hire a Bagman to collect profits or Enforcers as muscle. Destroy the competition in a neon-noir financial war.
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Secret Government
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Global strategy game about secret societies. You’ll lead the Brotherhood - an organization that juggles the whole world. The key feature of the game is the manipulation of powers. Instead of giving direct orders, the Brotherhood provokes countries into doing what the Brothers want.
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Sigma Theory: Global Cold War
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
A Turn-based Strategy game in a futuristic global cold war from the award-winning creators of Out There. Recruit a squad of special agents and run your intel agency to secure the control of the singularity.
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Plutocracy
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
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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Empire of Sin
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with City of Gangsters.
Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.
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The Commission 1920: Organized Crime Grand Strategy
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Stake your claim on the city of New Shore in this gritty simulation of 1920’s organized crime. As the Don, get involved with the rackets and politics that defined the Prohibition era. Claim your place among mafia history. How will you rule New Shore?
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Project Highrise
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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1849
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
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Rise of Industry 2
Single-player alternative to City of Gangsters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with City of Gangsters.
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!