Single-player games like Game Dev Masters
Below are 12 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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City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
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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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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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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 2
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
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Esports Life Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Manage your own esports squad, expand your gaming house, and defeat legendary teams to become the best in the world!
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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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Game Dev Studio
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?
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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 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?