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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FD's Industry Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
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Retail Rivals
Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Software Inc..
Build your retail empire inside a shopping mall. Open multiple stores, sabotage rivals, and play solo or with up to 8 players. Choose different match objectives or play endless mode and compete for retail domination.
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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!
- 4
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.
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Aquapark Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Software Inc. — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Software Inc..
Build the ultimate waterpark paradise in this classic tycoon simulation game! Design & customize water slides, pools, and saunas to fulfill your guests' needs. Combine creativity, strategy, and management to make a splash in the world of water parks and become the ultimate Aquapark Tycoon!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.