Single-player games like Citystate Metropolis
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Citystate Metropolis, 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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NIMBY Rails
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Citystate Metropolis.
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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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Transport Fever
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
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Captain of Industry
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
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Cities: Skylines II
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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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Railway Empire
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Citystate II
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
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Citystate
Single-player alternative to Citystate Metropolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.