Single-player games like Gunsmith
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Gunsmith, 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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Cartel Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Gunsmith.
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Production Line : Car factory simulation
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
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Factorio
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
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Drug Lord Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Gunsmith.
Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.
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Blacksmith Master
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gunsmith.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
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Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
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Rise of Gun
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gunsmith.
Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gunsmith.
Create a team with up to 3 friends in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Wildlands and enjoy the ultimate military shooter experience set in a massive, dangerous, and responsive open world.
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Commando Fodder: War Dogs
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Gunsmith.
Commando Fodder: War Dogs is a traditional RTS, where you have to lead your platoon to victory by crushing the enemy using AK47's, rockets and mines!
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Evil Genius
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Gunsmith.
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
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Prospekt
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Gunsmith.
Prospekt begins in the Nova Prospekt prison in the Half-Life universe. Gordon Freeman is slowly being overrun by soldiers in the prison, however unknown to him, his Vortigaunt allies manage to find some help from a forgotten hero.
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JUNKPUNK
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gunsmith.
JUNKPUNK is a factory management, base building, exploration game where a New World Robotics ship has crash landed. You and any survivors must restore this ruined planet and prepare it for habitable life. Craft, build, explore, discover, and grow to terraform the planet.
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Kinetic Edge
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Gunsmith.
Kinetic Edge is a physics platformer based racing game where you have to figure out the best way to overcome obstacle courses with a shape of your choice. Play on your own, with friends or multiplayer!
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Blockville
Single-player alternative to Gunsmith — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gunsmith.
Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.