Single-player games like RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic, 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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RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.
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Planet Coaster
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
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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Parkitect
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
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Thrillville®: Off the Rails™
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Thrillville™: Off the Rails lives up to its name with 20 death-defying rides! Players can build incredible coasters to leap from one track to another, launch through the air like cannonballs, blast through a burning rings of fire and more!
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Parkasaurus
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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The Sims™ Legacy Collection
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
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Caesar™ IV
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
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Startopia
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness their expertise and research new...
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Banished
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
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Prison Architect
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Pharaoh + Cleopatra
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
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Tropico 3
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.