Single-player games like 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder, 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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Frostpunk
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
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Endzone - A World Apart
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
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Spacebase Startopia
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
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Kingdoms and Castles
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
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Anno 2205™
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
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Anno 2070™
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
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Monster Loves You!
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder.
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
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AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
BASE jump through a floating city, creating your own stunts to delight your fans. Use quick reflexes to negotiate the intricate tangle of girders that make up the floating city. Flip protesters off for points!
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The Wonderful End of the World
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
You can't save the whole world. It's going to be eaten by a mythological demon with the head of a fish. But as a puppet that absorbs all it touches, you can try to rescue as much of Earth's greatness as you can before the end arrives. In the beginning, you roam the Earth, capable of absorbing only the tiniest of objects.
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AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
82 remastered levels from the original and 43 brand new ones that are twice as fast!
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Drunken Robot Pornography
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bullet-hell, boss-battle, first-person shooter, with giant-robots, martinis and jetpacks. YES. Drink the cocktails. Fight the titans. Make your own Titans. Drink your friend's cocktails.
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1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby)
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Battle your favorite drum 'n' bass track, or relax as you fly through that trance album. "Ugly Baby" takes your MP3 music library and creates floating cities for you to explore. Ten years after the events in Dejobaan's award-winning AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!
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Elegy for a Dead World
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Explore dead civilizations, write about what you find, and share your stories with the universe: a game about writing fiction.
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Tick Tock Bang Bang
Single-player alternative to 20 Minute Metropolis - The Action City Builder — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
An FPS where you can freeze time. Gunfights, 90-car pileups, and giant robots in slow motion. Make your own levels. From the award-winning creators of Aaaaa! and Drunken Robot Pornography.