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Single-player games like Gamer Career Tycoon

Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Gamer Career Tycoon, 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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    Football School — Steam game cover

    Football School

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    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.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Gladiator School — Steam game cover

    Gladiator School

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

    2017StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Boxing School — Steam game cover

    Boxing School

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    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.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game Corp DX — Steam game cover

    Game Corp DX

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

    2015IndieSimulation2.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Two Point Campus — Steam game cover

    Two Point Campus

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Game Dev Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Game Dev Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tropico 5 — Steam game cover

    Tropico 5

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation and RPG with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

    2014StrategySimulationRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Empire TV Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Empire TV Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Pro Gamer Manager — Steam game cover

    Pro Gamer Manager

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    Compete for stardom in this Esport management tycoon.

    2016SportsIndieSimulation9.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Tower Walker: MMO Grind Simulator — Steam game cover

    Tower Walker: MMO Grind Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    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!

    2023IndieSimulationRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Dino Nest — Steam game cover

    Dino Nest

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Please Subscribe: Streamer Career — Steam game cover

    Please Subscribe: Streamer Career

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    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.

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Boxing School 2 — Steam game cover

    Boxing School 2

    Single-player alternative to Gamer Career Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gamer Career Tycoon.

    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.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →