Single-player games like The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire, 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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Dim Torment
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
Action Real-Time Strategy Zones with Turn based map mode, awaken and entrench yourself in the torment, an expansive vista of shattered memories. Inhabit your physical memories and manage them with different strategies and trials. Embrace the prison, Navigate your fate, or shatter into slumber.
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Drug Dealer Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
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City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
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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Here Comes The Swarm
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?
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Junkyard Simulator
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.
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One Military Camp
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
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Cartel Tycoon
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
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Weedcraft Inc
Single-player alternative to The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire.
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.