Single-player games like Rise of Industry 2
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Rise of Industry 2, 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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Turmoil
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
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Angel Investor Simulator™
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Invest into promising startups. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.
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Rise of Industry
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
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Let Them Trade
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
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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Moose Miners
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
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Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.
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Mad Games Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
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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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
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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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Tropico 6
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
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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Project Highrise
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
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1849
Single-player alternative to Rise of Industry 2 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.