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Single-player games like Another Brick in The Mall

Below are 11 single-player Steam games similar to Another Brick in The Mall, 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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    Academia : School Simulator — Steam game cover

    Academia : School Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prison Architect — Steam game cover

    Prison Architect

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    SimAirport — Steam game cover

    SimAirport

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation — Steam game cover

    Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator — Steam game cover

    Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    MachiaVillain — Steam game cover

    MachiaVillain

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Project Highrise — Steam game cover

    Project Highrise

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

    2016StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Against the Storm — Steam game cover

    Against the Storm

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.

    A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

    2023StrategySimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Moon Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Moon Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    This is the original Moon Tycoon city-building game back from 2001! Remember building vast lunar colonies, then destroying them with meteors and asteroids? Blast off again with the first 3D Sim game, back to the old days on the dark side of the moon. Feeling nostalgic?

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Supermarket Simulator — Steam game cover

    Supermarket Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Icarus-X: Tides of Fire — Steam game cover

    Icarus-X: Tides of Fire

    Single-player alternative to Another Brick in The Mall — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.

    Blast your way through waves of enemies and bullets and defeat massive boss ships in this fast-paced vertical Shoot'em Up with a traditional Arcade Mode and an experimental Campaign Mode that borrows from the mechanics of ARPGs such as Diablo and Borderlands.

    2015ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →