Single-player games like Turmoil
Below are 21 single-player Steam games similar to Turmoil, 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 Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Turmoil.
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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Fuel Harvest Together
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Turmoil.
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
- 3
TerraForge
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Turmoil.
TerraForge is a mining simulation game mixed with a bit of shop management. You dig for ores, craft items, research new blueprints, improve your shop, sell your items and slowly grow your own little mining town.
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Moose Miners
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turmoil.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
- 5
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turmoil.
Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.
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Timeflow – Life Sim
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turmoil.
This game will make you rich! Learn the basics of investment and life management. Your goal is to make your dream come true. You can make a career, buy real estate, run business, trade stocks, become a blogger, or make a fortune on an art market. Study, network, and plan your time for all of it.
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Pub Sim
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Turmoil.
You've just bought your first Pub. First steps are to clean it, stock it, set your markup and let in the Patrons. Keep the drinks flowing and try not to shortchange anyone! If you keep it going long enough you might just earn enough to spruce up the place, hire staff and expand the premises.
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My Supermarket
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turmoil.
Manage your own supermarket, serving different types of customers and making the most profit you can! 🛒 Order products, restock shelves, play with your friends in co-op mode, chase thieves, hire employees, and grow your empire!
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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Turmoil.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV®: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion pack for Civilization IV - the 2005 PC Game of the Year that has become a worldwide hit.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Turmoil.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
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For The King
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turmoil.
For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.
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Sid Meier's Civilization® V
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Turmoil.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Urbek City Builder
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Turmoil.
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
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Songs of Conquest
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Turmoil.
Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.
- 15
Stolen Realm
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Turmoil.
Stolen Realm is a simultaneous turn-based tactical dungeon crawling looter with action RPG elements where you control up to 6 heroes, solo or through online co-op, venturing forth in adventures set in a high-fantasy, low-poly world.
- 16
Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Turmoil.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
- 17
Lake
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Turmoil.
It's 1986 - Meredith Weiss takes a break from her career in the big city to deliver mail in her hometown. How will she experience two weeks in beautiful Providence Oaks, with its iconic lake and quirky community? And what will she do next? It's up to you.
- 18
iO
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Turmoil.
iO is an abstract physics platformer about size and speed. Grow bigger and smaller in order to solve some of the trickiest puzzles. Reach the exit as quickly as possible and grab a gold medal as your reward!
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Lines
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Turmoil.
Lines is an abstract ‘zen’ game experience where form is just as important as function. Place or remove Dots to initiate a colourful race that fills a drawing. The colour that dominates the race wins.
- 20
Team Racing League
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
In this unique 3 on 3 racegame, it's up to you and your teammates to finish before the opposing team does. Mastering the high quality vehicle handling, special abilities, and optimal Team Strategy are key to win the race.
- 21
Briquid
Single-player alternative to Turmoil — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Turmoil.
Briquid is a simple yet challenging water physics puzzle game. Build bricks, remove them, or change the direction of gravity to get the water to its destination.