Single-player games like Railway Empire
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Railway Empire, 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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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
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Railroad Corporation
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Relive the pioneering spirit of the Golden Age of Steam by establishing your own railroad empire across 19th century North America. Bring settlements together, produce and trade goods and develop new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. Want more? RAILROAD CORPORATION 2 Out Now!
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Bounty Train
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.
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Rise of Industry
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
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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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Sid Meier's Railroads!
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
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Train Valley
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
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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Railroad Tycoon 3
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
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Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
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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Port Royale 3
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.
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Tropico 5
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
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Transport Fever
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Railway Empire.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
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Transport Tycoon Deluxe
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
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Grand Ages: Medieval
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
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Patrician IV
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Railway Empire.
You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.
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Rise of Venice
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Venice: As a young man striving for success, power and wealth and with the support of your family, you begin to build up a trading empire across Genua, Tripoli, Rome, Alexandria and Constantinople in addition to many other significant cities from the Renaissance. This is where your story begins...
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Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale
Single-player alternative to Railway Empire — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Railway Empire.
Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale tells the journey of a pirate captain with a lust for gold and glory who assumes command of a fleet of pirate ships to strike the Caribbean.