Single-player games like Publish! A Game About Making Games
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Publish! A Game About Making Games, 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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Server Owner Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Server Owner Tycoon has you step into the shoes of a game server owner to build your own online empire. Manage your staff members, catch the latest trends, keep users satisfied, research new features, and administer your server. Do you have what it takes to become the best server owner?
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Save the Game Devs
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Tap to drain an endless parade of overpaid CEOs, rescue laid-off game developers, and fund worker-owned indie studios. Upgrade from squeaky chairs to full cooperative ownership in a satirical incremental tycoon about rebuilding the games industry one severed golden parachute at a time.
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Game Dev Empire
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Start a game studio in 1980 and turn it into an industry empire. Build teams, create hits, follow a changing market with competitors, and expand into engines, publishing, hardware, digital stores, and acquisitions.
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Tramp: Become President
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.
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Last $50
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Build a drug empire with your last $50. Buy production, upgrade it, and hire workers to automate.
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PC Tycoon 2
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!
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Software Inc.
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
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Game Builder Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
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AI2U: With You 'Til The End
Single-player alternative to Publish! A Game About Making Games — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Publish! A Game About Making Games.
You wake up in a cute girl's home who's eager to keep you by her side! Engage with thematic stories, puzzles, and unique AI NPCs who'll go to any lengths to protect you—even when it means contradicting themselves. Bask in meet-cutes or brace for chaos if you try to escape.