Single-player games like Highrise City
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Highrise 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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Citystate II
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Endzone 2
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
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Noble Legacy
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Imagine Earth
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
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Cities: Skylines II
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
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Survivor of Egypt: The Ancient Curse
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Highrise City.
Fight your way through endless hordes of monsters in this survival roguelite. Craft and optimize your gear, manage your inventory, and use merchant abilities to face increasingly challenging enemies. How long can you survive?