Single-player games like SteamWorld Build
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to SteamWorld Build, 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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Two Point Campus
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
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Fabledom
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
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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Let's Build a Zoo
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
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Parkasaurus
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
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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Planet Zoo
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
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Jurassic World Evolution
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
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Let Them Trade
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
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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Startopia
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
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Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
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Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
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Dungeon Keeper™ 2
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with SteamWorld Build.
Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.
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The Last Hospital
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Every decision made influences humanity's fate, with USMLE level medical questions woven into patient care, revealing the mysteries of a dying world.
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ISLANDERS: New Shores
Single-player alternative to SteamWorld Build — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with SteamWorld Build.
Welcome to ISLANDERS: New Shores. Build your island retreat in a calm, minimalist world with exciting new features that keep the classic charm while inspiring fresh creativity.