Single-player games like Showrunner
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Showrunner, 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 Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
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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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
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Mad Games Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
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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STATIONflow
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
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The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
Shape the history of the Hollywood movie industry in this sandbox business simulation game. Create the movies you've always wanted to see, hire the best team, research cutting-edge technologies, and dominate the Box Office. Can you rise from a small studio to a Hollywood giant?
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Hollywood Animal
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.
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Parkasaurus
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
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Project Hospital
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
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Mad Games Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
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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Startup Company
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
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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This Merchant Life
Single-player alternative to Showrunner — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
This Merchant Life is a trading strategy game set in the troubled medieval kingdom of Peregrine. Turn a rickety wooden cart, two horses and a few coins into a thriving entrepreneurial triumph!