Single-player games like 1849
Below are 16 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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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 117: Pax Romana
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
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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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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Ground of Aces
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
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Celestial Empire
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
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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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Nebuchadnezzar
Single-player alternative to 1849 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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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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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!