Single-player games like Game Dev Masters
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Game Dev Masters, 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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PC Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!
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Rail Route
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
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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COPA CITY
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
An economic strategy where top football clubs entrust you with organizing their matches. Build in the city, manage its structures and stadium, provide entertainment, food, and security for fans. Your success is measured by Match Readiness.
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Game Builder Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
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Fast Food Manager
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Launch your own business from scratch! Starting with a small coffee booth, build the most popular food service chain in town. Experiment, develop, make a profit.
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Pumping Simulator 2
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich
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Transport INC
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!
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Software Inc.
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
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Mad Games Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
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Game Dev Story
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
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Surviving Ceres
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
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The Ai Games
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Game Dev Masters.
Ever wonder why cockroaches can't be irradiated? They re-spawn. Earth is a survival game made by cockroaches. You are selected to represent the Earth game as its AI champion vs the greatest AI in all the games they have made. Will you survive the games, and what AAA conspiracy will you uncover?