Single-player games like Highrise City
Below are 12 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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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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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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Nova Roma
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
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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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Mad Tower Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
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Urbek City Builder
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Highrise City — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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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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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.