Single-player games like Metabolis
Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Metabolis, 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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Camping Keeper
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Build your campground from the ground up: tent sites, cabins, showers, pools, and the pipes and power lines behind them. Watch autonomous campers live, complain... and review you. Set prices, hire staff, and climb from a muddy one-star field to a five-star resort.
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Relaxation Massage Studio
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Relaxation Massage Studio is a relaxing massage studio management sim. Use the character customization system with over a thousand appearance options and hundreds of presets to create customers. As your studio grows, you’ll unlock new interactions and shape your dream massage studio.
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Ancient Cities
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
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HEXAROMA: Village Builder
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
HEXAROMA is a charming village builder set on a tiny island village where you start your Hexling colony! Place your buildings, and manage Hexling villagers on a hexagonal island. Plan your placements wisely, grow your settlement, optimize your colony and help your villagers thrive.
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Noble Legacy
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
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Wizdom Academy
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
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Casino Resort Tower
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Metabolis.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Ultimate Blacksmith Tycoon ~The Appraiser-Shopkeeper Conquers the Blacksmith Trade~
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
An appraiser-shopkeeper conquers the blacksmith trade. Read materials, decode Modifiers, bend the rarity table. Craft gear (Artifact 1 in 1,270), arm adventurers across 79 jobs, and dispatch parties into dungeons of 1,270+ monsters. Compound-interest debt, a re-forging workshop, 80+ tech nodes.
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FLOWORKS
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
A node-graph automation × idle factory builder. Materials flow along the wires you draw and transform at each machine. Fix bottlenecks, optimize your layout, grow a trade empire, and rise to rule the robotics industry. Zero art assets — every visual and sound is generated in code.
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OUTWORKS
Single-player alternative to Metabolis — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Metabolis.
Build a towering 3D fortress and hold the line. Stack floors, raise walls, and place turrets by altitude to survive escalating swarms of ground and flying machines closing on your core — then watch one collapsing tower take everything with it. A lean, neon, code-built base-defense roguelite.