Single-player games like Drugs & Gambling
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Drugs & Gambling, 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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Organomancer
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
Run an organ trading empire in the dark underworld of Arkwright. Buy, upgrade, and sell organs across black markets. Manage your economy, dodge the police, and fulfill patient requests to dominate the underground.
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Mango & Berry's Sorbet Syndicate
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
Fruit is outlawed, and Mango and Berry are aspiring fruit lords! Manage a criminal, underground sorbet shop solo or online co-op. Smuggle goods, upgrade your shop, trade fruit or grow your own underground supply. Will Mango & Berry rise to power? Or are they headed for a tragic downfall?
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Hell Architect
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
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Bustle Beacon
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
Gentlemen, I have a hell of a deal for you. Rent a beacon station on the Fog Lane with almost nothing down. Build. Produce. Trade. Outrun the rent — and the place is yours. The bustle shall not stop! A turn-based roguelite city-builder with production chains and trade.
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Burger Flipper: A Fast Food Restaurant Simulator
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
Welcome to the Burger Flipper team! As our first hire, you’ll put a smile on customers’ faces as you prepare and serve their orders... And clean the kitchen and stock inventory. But we promote within! One day, you’ll be the manager, hiring new flippers, purchasing equipment, and choosing the menu!
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My Drug Cartel
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.
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Tomato Dealer
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
An illegal shopkeeping game set in an apartment. Grow tomatoes on your balcony, dry and sell them to customers. Be careful, some customers are undercover cops! Use clues from the mafia to detect cops.
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Bjois
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Drugs & Gambling.
'Premium' Virtual Pets. A top-down simulation game inspired by the likes of Dwarf Fortress & Rimworld, with a twist: the game plays itself. Watch and catalogue over 200 Bjois as they thrive in an ecosystem of your own choosing.
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Dark Card
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A game about exploration and experimentation
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Skills and Slimes
Single-player alternative to Drugs & Gambling — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Slay slimes and save humanity!