Single-player games like Project Highrise
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Project Highrise, 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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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Rise of Industry
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
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SimAirport
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
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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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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Another Brick in The Mall
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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STATIONflow
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
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News Tower
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
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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Casino Resort Tower
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
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Tower
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Tower is a top-down action game with adventure and puzzle elements. Fight out of a skyscraper full of terrorists. Find out what one motivated person can do against hundreds of thugs.
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Timberborn
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
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Mad Tower Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
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Loot Tower
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Fight, loot, climb, repeat! Explore randomly generated dungeons in this ARPG Bullet Heaven. Fight through endless waves of enemies to find what lies at the top.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
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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Parkitect
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
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!
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City of Gangsters
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
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1849
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
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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Rise of Industry 2
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!