Single-player games like Model City
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Model City, 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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Mini Motorways
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Model City.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
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City Tales - Medieval Era
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
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ISLANDERS
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Model City.
ISLANDERS is a minimalist strategy game about building cities on colorful islands.
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Townscaper
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.
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Please Fix The Road
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
Please Fix The Road is a colorful, minimalistic, laid-back and casual puzzle game in which it's probably not hard to guess... you're fixing roads! Your road repair doesn't have to be beautiful, it just needs to get the job done! Your mom will like this game too!
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Tile Cities
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Model City.
Tile Cities turns city-building experience into a simple relaxing puzzle game and does so with style
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Dorfromantik
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
Dorfromantik is a peaceful building strategy and puzzle game where you create a beautiful and ever-growing village landscape by placing tiles. Explore a variety of colorful biomes, discover and unlock new tiles and complete quests to fill your world with life!
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NewCity
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
The Regional City Builder: Let's Build Something New.
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Choo Choo Survivor
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
Drive your train to safety while shooting down endless hordes of zombies blocking your way. Upgrade your weapons and abilities and become absurdly powerful!
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Gamer To Game Developer Series 1: More Than a Gamer
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Welcome to the new GTGD S1, a Unity 2017 multiplayer tutorial for game developers. This training course is of intermediate difficulty so you should first be familiar with the basics of coding in Unity. This tutorial will teach you the key elements of the Unity 2017 multiplayer system.
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Guild Commander
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
In Guild Commander you manage your guild to victory! Deploy your guild members and save your world from the Necro Lord!
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Weekend Drive
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Model City.
Giants, zombies, aliens, dinosaurs, a fully destructible city with fun vehicles (including helicopter!) and weapons at your disposable, yes Weekend Drive is way ahead of the curve! Get set for a fun unique full on action first person shooter experience!
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Home By The River
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Model City.
This is a resource gathering, crafting RPG, where you build your home from scratch and make whatever design you want. You start with a dead polluted land that you transform into a beautiful homestead by a river. Play single player or LAN Co-op.
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Peacequarium
Single-player alternative to Model City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Model City.
An aquarium sim you can keep anywhere on your screen while you do other things. Buy endless upgrades, apply trait modifiers, and complete your collection of rare, epic and legendary fish! Buy today or give a gift to someone!