Single-player games like Sideways Motorways
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Sideways Motorways, 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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RollerCoaster Tycoon® Wonderworks
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sideways Motorways.
It’s the grand opening of a new RollerCoaster Tycoon, featuring new levels of chaos and wonder as you do whatever it takes to keep guests happy (and injury-free). Customize rides, manage guests, and build wild roller coasters in your theme parks as you boost profits and expand your empire.
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Speed Rivals - Model Trains
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Build wild railway worlds, master fast and risky train driving, complete chaotic delivery missions, and race or cooperate with friends in a multiplayer train game where every track, wagon, and second matters.
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Loop One: Done
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Record loops with drones and robots by hand, to build up an efficient automated factory in this physics-based VR game.
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Mini Motorways
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sideways Motorways.
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Two Point Campus
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
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Minami Lane
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!
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Block'hood
Single-player alternative to Sideways Motorways — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sideways Motorways.
Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.