Single-player games like Game Tycoon 1.5
Below are 18 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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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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Two Point Campus
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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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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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RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.
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Project Highrise
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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Big Pharma
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
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Weedcraft Inc
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Game Tycoon 1.5.
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
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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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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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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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Gold Rush! Anniversary
Single-player alternative to Game Tycoon 1.5 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Game Tycoon 1.5.
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.