Single-player games like Game Tycoon 1.5
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Game Tycoon 1.5, 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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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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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Game Dev Studio
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?
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Mad Games Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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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MMO98
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
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GamersGoMakers
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.
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The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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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Startup Company
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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 Masters
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
It's time to become the Game Developer you always wanted to be. Make use of a large array of features, and player skills to create stunning 10 / 10 games. Compete with and eventually acquire other dynamic Ai Studio's. Raise the talent of your team and studio's in an effort to dominate the market.
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Airline Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Run a modern airline, design unique airplanes and grow a run-down carrier into a globally recognized company that passengers practically beg to fly.
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Game Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
In Game Tycoon 2 you find yourself in the middle of the big players. Get into the act and experience the fascination of the game development. Reach your goal and become the Game Tycoon!
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Gold Rush! Classic
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Gold Rush! takes you back to the year 1849, when gold was discovered in California. It was certainly one of the most exciting times in American history. Gold Rush! includes the three routes tens of thousands took to the gold regions. Become Jerrod Wilson and experience each trek as you travel from New York to California.
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One Hundred Ways
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Game Tycoon 1.5.
100 (115!) tricky levels to solve “One Hundred Ways” to achieve it! The goal - make the ball reach its goal. Sounds simple - but it's not!
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Gold Rush! 2
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Game Tycoon 1.5.
The gold rush continues! The story of the sequel came from the pen of the developers of the original game. Jake and Jerrod Wilson found the richest vein of gold in California’s Mother Lode! But in their home town it’s not always good. A gang, who Jake and Jerrod personally knew leads Brooklyn and the has become very powerful.
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Gangsters 1920
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Explore the gloomy roads of the surreal 1920s underworld and find the relevant hints...
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Construction Playground
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Construction Playground is the ideal place to let off steam playfully in VR and control great vehicles and devices! It's an immersive VR experience on the construction site!
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Two Hundred Ways
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Two Hundred Ways gives puzzle fans twice as many mental challenges to overcome. The mission of each of its 200 levels sounds easy: guide one or more balls to the exit. But levels with up to three different layers and numerous ball traps don't make this task a walk in the park.