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Single-player games like Software Inc.

Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Software Inc., 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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    Heroes For Hire - Guild Micromanagement Simulator — Steam game cover

    Heroes For Hire - Guild Micromanagement Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Software Inc..

    You've joined a guild before, right? So, where's the trouble in managing a guild of your own, too? Use the GuildOS system to guide your heroes, raid some dungeons, and grow your guild to rise from the bottom of the ranks right up to the top in Heroes for Hire!

    2025IndieSimulationEarly Access7.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mad Games Tycoon 2 — Steam game cover

    Mad Games Tycoon 2

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Summer Islands — Steam game cover

    Summer Islands

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Summer Islands is a holiday real-time strategy business simulator. Be the right businessman, build your holiday paradise and grab the money from your tourists. Play alone, with your friends and with computer enemies and survive natural disasters without going insolvent.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins — Steam game cover

    City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Worldwide Rush — Steam game cover

    Worldwide Rush

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Club Architect — Steam game cover

    Club Architect

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Design, build, and manage your own nightclub in an isometric tycoon game. Open the doors, watch your guests, and improve your club night after night.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Parkitect — Steam game cover

    Parkitect

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Nebuchadnezzar — Steam game cover

    Nebuchadnezzar

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Factorio — Steam game cover

    Factorio

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation35.00 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game Dev Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Game Dev Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Capitalism 2 — Steam game cover

    Capitalism 2

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stardew Valley — Steam game cover

    Stardew Valley

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Software Inc..

    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?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Big Ambitions — Steam game cover

    Big Ambitions

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Software Inc..

    Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

    2023IndieSimulationEarly Access22.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RimWorld — Steam game cover

    RimWorld

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..

    A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Sims™ Legacy Collection — Steam game cover

    The Sims™ Legacy Collection

    Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Software Inc..

    The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.

    2025SimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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