Single-player games like Crave New World
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Crave New World, 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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News Tower
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crave New World.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
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Tramp: Become President
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Crave New World.
This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.
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Industrial Mogul
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Crave New World.
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build your own brands, and compete in a living economy where prices are shaped by supply and demand.
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Ranchbound
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
Raise cattle, develop your ranch, hire cowboys, buy land, and invest in local businesses in a real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
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Age of Enlightenment
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
Shape the destiny of the world as an 18th century ruler. Forge alliances and prepare your armed forces to expand your domain and colonize new lands. Or focus on internal development and help your subjects thrive with prudent economic policy and lawmaking. The choice is yours in Age of Enlightenment!
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Victoria 3
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crave New World.
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
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Another Brick in The Mall
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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Sumerians
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crave New World.
Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.
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Drink Pro Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
In Drink Pro Tycoon you create your dreams company and dominate world drink industry. Create best drinks and make best advertisement campaigns. Invent newest technologies and market your drinks in the best way.
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Scramble
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
Scramble is a resource management game in which you compete against other companies for the colonization of the New World.
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Election Tycoon: Trump vs Harris
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
Election Tycoon is a real-time strategy game where you lead a campaign to win the 2024 US elections as Trump, Harris, or your own independent candidate. Influence states, color the US map in your party's colors, and outmaneuver your opponents in a high-stakes, map-based political battle.
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Weed Inc.
Single-player alternative to Crave New World — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crave New World.
Weed Inc. is a global strategy simulation. Build a cannabis strain from fragments, introduce it to legal markets, and spread it country by country. Turn Consumers into Addicts, contain the Side Effects, and stay ahead of an escalating Global Response.