Single-player games like Game Dev Masters
Below are 14 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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Server Owner Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Server Owner Tycoon has you step into the shoes of a game server owner to build your own online empire. Manage your staff members, catch the latest trends, keep users satisfied, research new features, and administer your server. Do you have what it takes to become the best server owner?
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Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Dev Masters.
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
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One More Release: Indie Studio Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Build your dream indie game studio from a tiny office into an industry legend. Hire developers, create games, research engines, survive reviews, fight bugs, decorate your office, and make one more release.
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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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Perfect Decision
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
「Perfect decision」 is a 2D strategic business simulation game with real estate as its theme. Here, you will choose different types of characters, use different types of companies, recruit different types of employees, and use different means to make profits in different types of cities!
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Code Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Start in 1980 in your garage and build your software empire. Unlock languages from BASIC to Python, develop projects, hire programmers and upgrade your office. Survive deadlines, bugs and demanding clients in this tycoon simulation.
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Business Manager
Single-player alternative to Game Dev Masters — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Dev Masters.
Create and run your own business, and try climb to the top of the markets by creating leading products and dominating the competition.
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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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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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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?