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Single-player games like Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet

Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet, 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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    Shane's Trains — Steam game cover

    Shane's Trains

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Build and manage your own railway empire. Buy trains, create services, expand the network, and grow from a single branch line. Map your own routes, or play across the real UK rail network and beyond.

    2026StrategySimulationCasual5.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hardware Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Hardware Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    From 1986 to 2026, design and engineer the world's most advanced CPUs. Run your own fabs or manufacture for rivals. Research groundbreaking tech, manage your team, buy and build offices, and dominate the market through decades of cutthroat competition. Become the ultimate hardware tycoon.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation10.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Riftborne — Steam game cover

    Riftborne

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.79 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Warehouse Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Warehouse Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Warehouse Tycoon is a journey to Warehouse Legendary! Brave the business war. Today's dog in the water must be the crown in the city! With the company's destiny in your hands, every success drives you farther. Use your wisdom and guts to build a warehouse Empire!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Cloudlings — Steam game cover

    Cloudlings

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    PetrolHeads — Steam game cover

    PetrolHeads

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Build your dream garage from scratch! Customize everything from lifts to engines with deep tuning options. Design unique wide-body beasts, dominate drift duels or track days, and showcase your style in global meets. Your garage, your rules, your racing legacy starts now!

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon is a Kawaii themed pixel art game where you start your journey with a humble drink stand. Learn new recipes and unlock new equipment and locations, manage sales prices and inventory in order to succeed in becoming the largest bubble tea tycoon in town!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Crusader Kings III — Steam game cover

    Crusader Kings III

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    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.

    2020StrategySimulationRPG49.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike — Steam game cover

    RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    A coin-pushing dopamine machine. RACCOIN is a roguelike deckbuilder where you combine special coins with powerful items to trigger wildly satisfying combos. Stack shiny towers, spin the lucky wheel, and shake the machine until all the coins drop.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Apartament 1406: Horror — Steam game cover

    Apartament 1406: Horror

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Apartment 1406 is an intense horror game, that challenges you to constantly survive in a hostile environment. Collect items to survive against limited ammo and creatures that lurk in the dark. Solve the puzzles and survive in this dark game.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    THE IMPOSSIBLE — Steam game cover

    THE IMPOSSIBLE

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    THE IMPOSSIBLE is a minimal perspective illusion puzzle game. You control a small square in the IMPOSSIBLE world and remember: nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Play With Me: Escape Room — Steam game cover

    Play With Me: Escape Room

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Resoraki: The racing — Steam game cover

    Resoraki: The racing

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Take the wheel of a toy car and race on beautiful tracks in Poland, Finland, Australia, and Greece. Compete in championships, arcade, and time trials. Play solo or with a friend online (Remote Play Together) or locally. Buy now and take part in unforgettable races!

    2023ActionSportsIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hand Shadow — Steam game cover

    Hand Shadow

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Challenge your mind with puzzles that are based on optical illusions. Find the perfect position and angle by rotating the hands until order is restored, and discover a story of protagonist Morgan with professional voicing.

    IndieAdventureCasualSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MUMBA IV: Egypt Jewels — Steam game cover

    MUMBA IV: Egypt Jewels

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    Your task in MUMBA IV is to destroy coloured jewels in a limited number of moves and earn the highest possible number of points. The players of all age groups will definitely like amazing graphics and fun gameplay. MUMBA is watching You. He won't give you the jewels.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Bro, where's My head??? — Steam game cover

    Bro, where's My head???

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    My name is Odin. I come from the land of darkness and I want to take over the world. 3 days ago I tried to resurrect the undeath. Unfortunately, something went wrong because the skeletons don't have heads, can you help Me find their heads? When I rule the world, I will leave You alone.

    2021ActionStrategyIndie1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    ASMR LIGHTness - Light painting — Steam game cover

    ASMR LIGHTness - Light painting

    Single-player alternative to Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet.

    ASMR LIGHTness uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to recognize shapes in sandbox mode, and ASMR sounds/music reduce stress and let you relax, also ASMR LIGHTness can be just an atmospheric puzzle game with 60 levels.

    2021IndieCasual1.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →