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Single-player games like Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game

Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game, 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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    Another Brick in The Mall — Steam game cover

    Another Brick in The Mall

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation8.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator — Steam game cover

    Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Mad Games Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Mad Games Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Academia : School Simulator — Steam game cover

    Academia : School Simulator

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Catizens — Steam game cover

    Catizens

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation17.77 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Planet Coaster 2 — Steam game cover

    Planet Coaster 2

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave? 

    2024StrategySimulation49.99 USDDeck VerifiedSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Parkasaurus — Steam game cover

    Parkasaurus

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    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?

    2020StrategySimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Two Point Museum — Steam game cover

    Two Point Museum

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    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

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Megaquarium — Steam game cover

    Megaquarium

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic — Steam game cover

    RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.

    2017StrategySimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Two Point Hospital — Steam game cover

    Two Point Hospital

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

    2018IndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Theme Park Worker — Steam game cover

    Theme Park Worker

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Theme Park Worker is a recreational park game of a new kind. An open-world game full of possibilities and details awaits you. Choose a attraction to work or just ride with it.

    2019SimulationEarly Access16.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Grand Casino Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Grand Casino Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    The Last Hospital — Steam game cover

    The Last Hospital

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Every decision made influences humanity's fate, with USMLE level medical questions woven into patient care, revealing the mysteries of a dying world.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation16.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Moon Tycoon — Steam game cover

    Moon Tycoon

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    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?

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Unshelved — Steam game cover

    Unshelved

    Single-player alternative to Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game.

    Unshelved is an up to 4-player co-op Work-Life Horror Sim where you manage a cursed library. By day, handle book requests and earn an honest living. But as night falls, you must return books to their shelves and survive the horrors that haunt the halls!

    ActionIndieSingle-playerSimilar games →
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