Single-player games like Shopping Tycoon
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Shopping 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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Hotel Giant 2
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Following its international success, Hotel Giant is back and bigger than ever. In Hotel Giant 2 you will create the hotel of your dreams and manage prestigious locations around the world. Your goal is to attract as many guests as possible and make sure they are satisfied throughout their stay.
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Two Point Campus
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping 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.
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Two Point Museum
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Planet Coaster
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
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Planet Zoo
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
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Project Highrise
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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Moon Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
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?
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Another Brick in The Mall
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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Breakout Invaders
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
"Breakout Invaders" is a fun fusion between two classic game genres: "Breakout" and "Space Invaders".
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Tompi Jones
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
Tompi Jones is a fun platform game in 2.5d inspired in classic platform games. You can play across six worlds between jungles, forests, medieval villages, Aztec pyramids, castles and cemeteries. You must avoid the traps and defeat your enemies with projectile weapons, fighting with the sword or with special items.
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Arkhelom 3D
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
"Arkhelom 3D" is a shoot-em'up inspired by classics of the genre. It combines horizontal, vertical and side-scrolling levels, + 70 enemies types and final bosses across 24 amazing levels.
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Match 3 Revolution
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
"Match 3 Revolution” is an original physics match3/marble game with 100 game levels. Create sets of at least 3 touching balls of the same color. Original game modes, supercharge with combos, a lot of power-ups (electroball, fireball, megabomb, fusionball, missiles,…) and a Top 50 Online World Ranking in every level.
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Piggy Princess
Single-player alternative to Shopping Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
Help Piggy Princess escape from prison! Use physics, water and objects to solve puzzles. Launch Piggy Princess like in Angry Birds games.+ 50 amazing levels. Beautiful graphics.