Single-player games like Painters Guild
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Painters Guild, 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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Country Tales 2: New Frontiers Collector's Edition
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Join the new sheriff in town, forge strong friendships and explore the Wild West in this fun and dynamic time management strategy game! Enjoy in dozens of unique levels, bonus levels, medals and collectables; build, upgrade, trade, collect, clear the road, explore and much more...
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Internet Cafe Owner
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Build and manage your own internet café, starting with second-hand computers and growing into a local hotspot for gamers and students. Balance your budget, upgrade your gear, and outsmart competitors to become the king of the neighborhood
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Industry Giant
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!
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Car Manufacture
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
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Europa Universalis IV
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.
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Let's Build a Zoo
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
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The Emperor and State
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
The Emperor and State is a turn-based strategy game that simulates the rule of an ancient feudal monarch. It involves the administration, policy adjustment, diplomatic checks and balances, national wars, as well as the emperor's self-cultivation, the cultivation of successors and so on.
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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
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Stardew Valley
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
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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Unholy Heights
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Welcome to Unholy Heights, a mashup of Tower Defense and Apartment Management Simulation!
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Littlewood
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.
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Robotherapy
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Painters Guild.
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
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Roguemance
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Roguemance is a roguelite with romance. Each battle is a date! Meet love interests, fight relationship problems and make heart-breaking decisions.
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Firelore: Short Tales
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Painters Guild.
3 short stories set in a mystical fantasy universe. You are a newborn Face of God. Hear tales of human suffering and triumph. Decide which Face of God you are. Pick a different fate for each main character. A short, linear experience that is introspective, emotional and spiritual.