Single-player games like Dirty Business
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Dirty Business, 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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Drug Dealer Schedule
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dirty Business.
Get your hands dirty in an immersive open-world crime simulator. Mix, grind, dissolve, and package every product yourself, build hidden labs, outsmart the police, smuggle shipments through checkpoints, and grow from a small-time dealer into an underground kingpin.
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Zombuds
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Dirty Business.
You're not here to survive the apocalypse. You're here to own it. Loot, manufacture and distribute what people REALLY want across a zombie-infested sandbox. Grab your friends, brainwash the undead into workers, and become the baddest apocalypse tycoon.
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Brewgether
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dirty Business.
Brewgether is a coop brewery sim. Run your own brewery, manage bars and employees, trade with townsfolk for different materials used in infusing the alcohol, build houses and furnish them in order to rent them out. Expand your business with new locations, brewery stations, vehicles and more.
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Dictapoint — Underground Pharma Simulator
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
They were waiting for a fix — they got you instead. Craft the cure, scale up production, run sales and wage war on the gangs choking this rotting town. Choose: stay honest and die broke, or brew a cure so good they'll crawl to you on their knees.
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Schedule I
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dirty Business.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
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Lexip
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Dirty Business.
Lexip is a cozy fantasy factory game about magic, rail logistics, and questionable sustainability. Build production chains across the overworld and underground, power machines with local magic, fulfill contracts, and keep Null pollution under control.
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Nomad Drive
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Dirty Business.
Repair your rundown RV and hit the road solo or in 1–4 player co-op through a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world. Gather resources, customize your RV, and survive as long as you can.
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Alchemy Factory
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dirty Business.
Craft your workshop as an alchemist! Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. Multiplayer Supported! Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!