Single-player games like Cities: Skylines
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Cities: Skylines, 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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Cities: Skylines II
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
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.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Planet Zoo
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
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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Smart City Plan
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Banished
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
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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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
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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Manor Lords
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Cities in Motion 2
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
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Cities in Motion
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam