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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Shoppe Keep
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.
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Turmoil
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
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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1849
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
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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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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Painters Guild.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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News Tower
Single-player alternative to Painters Guild — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Painters Guild.
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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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.