Single-player games like Crafting Tycoon
Below are 10 single-player Steam games similar to Crafting 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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Warranted Humanity
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
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Villa's Blinds
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
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Weedcraft Inc
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Little Big Workshop
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Crafting Tycoon.
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
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Democracy 3
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
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Sea Explorer
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
Sea explorer is a single player adventure with upgrade/RPG elements about exploration of a big blue sea...
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Sideral
Single-player alternative to Crafting Tycoon — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Crafting Tycoon.
Sideral is a game without instructions, without words, first part is to understand what you need to do, then try to solve so many logic puzles. Only you and your mind will be able to discover the misteries of each part of Sideral Islands.... Sideral has been developed by one single person, with love.