Single-player games like Rush for gold: California
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Rush for gold: California, 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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BoomTown! Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.
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Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
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Train Valley
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rush for gold: California.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
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A Game of Dwarves
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
A Dwarven Prince on a quest to reclaim his people’s stolen land will take you on a great journey. Explore a continent filled with buried treasures and unearth mysteries that have laid hidden since the Great War.
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RUSH
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...
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Fieldrunners 2
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Get ready to DEFEND THE WORLD! The biggest sequel in tower defense history is finally here: Fieldrunners 2 has arrived! From Subatomic Studios, creators of the award winning classic strategy game comes an all new adventure that was years in the making.
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Tooth and Tail
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Rush for gold: California.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Garden Rescue
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Help the plants to defend the garden from being invaded by sneaky beetles.
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Odysseus: Long Way Home
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Embark on an exciting journey and plunge yourself into the myths of Ancient Greece with Odysseus, the legendary hero of the Trojan war.
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The chronicles of Emerland. Solitaire.
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Defeat the dark forces - win a battle for Emerland!
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Garden Rescue: Christmas Edition
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Rescue the Christmas trees from swarms of ravenous insects.
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Rush for gold: Alaska
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Take part in the famous "Rush for Gold" in Alaska!
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Tropical Fish Shop 2
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rush for gold: California.
A diverse gameplay combines several genres of “Match 3”, “Hidden object”, “Sim”, and various mini-games.
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Emerland Solitaire: Endless Journey
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Welcome to Emerland Solitaire, the land of card magic! An incredible journey awaits you, in a beautiful world filled with dwarfs, elves, mermaids and many other amazing creatures.
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Mahjong Magic Islands
Single-player alternative to Rush for gold: California — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Casual with Rush for gold: California.
Mahjong: Magic Islands features classic mahjong solitaire in a uniquely original visual format. Collecting components for magic spells adds a fun layer to the gameplay, and meeting cute magical creatures to help out gives the varied levels of the game more significant depth.