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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Mulerun – Retro Bootlegger Simulator
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Distill moonshine, run a farm, and fly contraband for two masters who must never meet. The CIA owns you. The cartel pays you. A first-person bootlegger sim on a 1970s tropical island — solo or in 4-player online co-op.
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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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Illegourmet
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dirty Business.
From underground kitchen to culinary empire. Cook and distribute illegal food across a city obsessed with healthy eating. Expand your network of kitchens, hire employees, automate production, and take over the black market for flavor.
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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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Die for Pay
Single-player alternative to Dirty Business — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Dirty Business.
Die for Pay is a CO-OP Multiplayer action crime game where you try to rise from nothing in a world where riots break out every night. Make money by day, gather your crew. By night, stand your ground with honor, or run. When the siren sounds, there's no mercy.
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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.