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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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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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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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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Project Hospital
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Cliff Empire
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
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Corsair Cove
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
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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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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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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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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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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Two Point Hospital
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Project Highrise.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
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RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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Highrise Mogul
Single-player alternative to Project Highrise — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Project Highrise.
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
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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!