Single-player games like Serial Founder
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to Serial Founder, 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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The American Dream: Past Due
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Serial Founder.
The American Dream: Past Due is a realistic choice-driven sim. Play as a suddenly laid-off middle-aged man keeping up appearances. Balance family finances and emotions while facing mounting bills... Can you get your life back on track before your family falls apart?
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Mobsteria: Rise
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Start with empty pockets and a pickpocket's nerve. Build a criminal empire one racket at a time in this atmospheric pixel-art idle game. Train your skills, run your crew, manage the heat - and when the law closes in, burn it all down and rise again, stronger.
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Investor Incremental
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
From 0 to Hero investing simulation game. Start as a dead end job worker and work your way to financial freedom. Supports both minmaxing and relaxing playstyles.
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韭神：技能炒股
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Buy the dip, it dives. Sell the peak, it soars. Tired of being the sucker? Welcome to Leek God: Skill-Based Stock Trading—where the system itself hands you the hacks! The system is literally cheating for you. How can you not win?
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OIL.EXE
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
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Net Worthless
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
A satirical life-and-money sim. One turn is one month: budget your hours, work the job, ride the market, outlive inflation and your own decisions. Pick a character and make their dream come true. Or at least don't die trying.
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Arms Dealer
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Serial Founder.
Build a black-market empire from debt to unimaginable wealth in this deep strategy trading simulation. Buy weapons, manage risk, evade authorities, and profit from global conflict.
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Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Serial Founder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.