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Single-player games like Mad Smartphone Tycoon

Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Mad Smartphone Tycoon, 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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    Highrise City — Steam game cover

    Highrise City

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Super Movie Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Super Movie Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!

    2025StrategySimulation16.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Techtonica — Steam game cover

    Techtonica

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Kenshi — Steam game cover

    Kenshi

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ascent of Ashes — Steam game cover

    Ascent of Ashes

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Indoorlands — Steam game cover

    Indoorlands

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation18.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Seeds of Resilience — Steam game cover

    Seeds of Resilience

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game Dev Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Game Dev Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    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.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Computer Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Computer Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator — Steam game cover

    Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Son of Aral — Steam game cover

    Son of Aral

    Single-player alternative to Mad Smartphone Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Smartphone Tycoon.

    An experimental game that combines sandbox survival and tower defence. Expand your island from scratch and build it any way you want, also defend the enemies from destroying island's core.At last escape from this fake world!

    2020StrategyIndieEarly AccessFreeDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →