Single-player games like Train Fever
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Train Fever, 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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Transport Fever
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
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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Cities in Motion
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
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Railway Empire
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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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Cities in Motion 2
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
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Junxions
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
Answer your true calling as a traffic engineer in Junxions! Featuring comprehensive simulation, construction, and management tools, use careful planning to build roadways, railways, and walkways, and the complex interactions between them.
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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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Sid Meier's Railroads!
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
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Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Casual with Train Fever.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Train Fever — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.