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Single-player games like The Walking Trade

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to The Walking Trade, 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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    Billion Egg Farm — Steam game cover

    Billion Egg Farm

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Billion Egg Farm is a first-person automation game where you put chickens to work laying eggs and build production lines for eggs, meat, and processed goods.

    SimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    My Drug Cartel — Steam game cover

    My Drug Cartel

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

    2025StrategySimulationEarly Access24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Recycling Center Simulator — Steam game cover

    Recycling Center Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

    2024IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    On the Rocks — Steam game cover

    On the Rocks

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Run a bar in a toxic wasteland - scavenge the wasteland, brew what you find, serve who you must. In a world gone to ruin, the last bar standing is yours to run.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Waterpark Simulator — Steam game cover

    Waterpark Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Biofactory — Steam game cover

    Biofactory

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.

    2026StrategySimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ore Factory Squad ⛏️ — Steam game cover

    Ore Factory Squad ⛏️

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!

    2026IndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Ice Cream Simulator — Steam game cover

    Ice Cream Simulator

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual7.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Schedule I — Steam game cover

    Schedule I

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Walking Trade.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Walking Dead — Steam game cover

    The Walking Dead

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required.

    A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.

    2012Adventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Against All Odds — Steam game cover

    Against All Odds

    Single-player alternative to The Walking Trade — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with The Walking Trade.

    Water's cut. Rent's due. Jobs are scarce. Time to get rich. Enter the Slaughter League and win against all odds in supremely lethal races. Platforming meets slaughter in this casual racing game designed for players looking for a new experience - or a way to wind down with blood and guts galore!

    2023ActionSportsIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →