Single-player games like Gladiator School
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Gladiator School, 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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Boxing School
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
BOXING SCHOOL! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. Management game made by the developers of Gladiator School.
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Age of Gladiators
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
"Age of Gladiators" is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.
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We Who Are About To Die
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!
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Gamer Career Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gladiator School.
Start your life as a simple gamer in the year 2000. Find popular games to stream or compete in 8 different Esports. Who will you be? Play your career and story. Can you become the most famous broadcaster or the best progamer in the world?
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Punch Club
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.
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Dead In Vinland
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
DEAD IN VINLAND is a survival/management game, mixed with RPG and adventure elements, about a Viking family trying their best to survive on a mysterious island.
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Gods of Sand
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
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Blackthorn Arena
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!
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Pro Gamer Manager
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gladiator School.
Compete for stardom in this Esport management tycoon.
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Tower Walker: MMO Grind Simulator
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gladiator School.
Tower Walker is a fresh new type of addictive semi-idle auto-grinder rich with features, inspired by classic MMORPGS and RTS games with indirect control over your hero. The mysterious tower awaits!
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Dino Nest
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?
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Please Subscribe: Streamer Career
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Please Subscribe is the sequel to Gamer Career Tycoon from 2018. Develop your own livestream channel from the ground up. Manage and operate, overcome challenges, learn new tricks in order to rise in the charts, and possibly, become the next big internet superstar.
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Football School
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
Football School - Take control of a sports club in a small town. Train your team, compete and climb the world ranking. Management game made by the developers of Boxing School.
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Boxing School 2
Single-player alternative to Gladiator School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gladiator School.
BOXING SCHOOL 2! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. This is the improved and refined sequel to the management game Boxing School.