Single-player games like Fish Tycoon
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Fish Tycoon, 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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Plant Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
Plant Tycoon is a gardening sim game where you nurture plants and experiment with increasingly rare and valuable species. The object is to breed and cross breed plants until you find the 6 Magic Plants of Isola and solve the genetic puzzle. You start with a couple of dollars, a handful of seeds, some soil and water.
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Fish Tycoon 2: Virtual Aquarium
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fish Tycoon.
Greetings Tycoons! Your favorite mobile game is now available on Windows & Mac! Are you as excited as we are? Happy Fishing!
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Black Hole Fishing
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
Black Hole Fishing is an absurd incremental game about catching, breeding, and perfecting SO MANY fish. Catch a fish, optimize its traits, then stock your pond with it as you pour fish and science into an endless singularity!
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Cornerpond
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
A chill idle-fishing desktop toy in the corner of your screen. Buy upgrades, catch rare fish, and customize your avatar at your own pace!
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Aquarist
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
A relaxing sandbox casual simulation game where you perform various, even strange, aquarium-related tasks on very diverse levels. As an Aquarist you must create and manage a home to amazing fish🐟, sea turtles🐢, sharks🦈, octopuses🐙, and more🐬. Aquarium is their world and life. Make it worth...
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Megaquarium
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
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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Slime Rancher
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fish Tycoon.
Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.
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Virtual Villagers: A New Home
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
Care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. They need to become farmers, builders, scientists, parents and make decisions about unpredictable 'island events'! Guide their day-to-day lives and help them explore and restore their new home.
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Virtual Villagers - The Secret City
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
Embark on a journey with a group of villagers in search of a new part of the island to populate. Land on the hidden shores of the northern side of Isola and explore what was once a secret city. Find new sources of food to nourish your villagers and help them rebuild the remains of this mysterious city. Who lived here before?
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Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
Somewhere in the Pacific, there was a beautiful island, called Isola, where lost villagers made their home. The castaways explored their small part of the island and knew every corner. Only a mysterious cave had not been carefully explored.
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Virtual Families
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Fish Tycoon.
From the developer of the smash-hit Virtual Villagers series comes the new casual game that captures the drama of life—Virtual Families! Virtual Families is a casual family sim that runs in true-real time. Adopt and nurture a needy person in the computer. Help them meet a mate, and start a family.
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Virtual Families 2: Our Dream House
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fish Tycoon.
The sequel to the smash hit is finally here!
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Virtual Villagers Origins 2
Single-player alternative to Fish Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Fish Tycoon.
Craft, build, farm, breed and solve puzzles in a village right on your computer!