Single-player games like 1849
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to 1849, 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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Project Highrise
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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Banished
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Bounty Train
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
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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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
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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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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Run Zeus Run
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1849.
"Run Zeus Run" is an endless runner with modern mechanics of a platformer, dynamic music, incremental challenge needing patience, focus and bit of strategy. Try to get the highest score, the highest amount of coins, the highest monster kills and play until you are the best Zeus in the world.
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Zeus Begins
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1849.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
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Pharaoh™: A New Era
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
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Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
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Hot Cleopatra
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with 1849.
The scorching sun of the desert pleasantly warms the skin, and the air is filled with the aroma of flowers growing near the palace. The mistress of seas, sands, and hearts is ready to travel the Nile.
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City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
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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Rise of Industry 2
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!