Single-player games like Trains & Things
Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Trains & Things, 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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Art of the Rail
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.
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Lawgivers II
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Lawgivers II is a political sandbox game that features multiple electoral systems, approve/reject bills and govern a country. Start out your career from the very bottom, and perhaps one day, lead your nation to become the most influential in the world.
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Colony Survival
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
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Software Inc.
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
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Mashinky
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
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Satellite Reign
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Satellite Reign is a real-time, class-based strategy game, set in an open-world cyberpunk city. You command a group of 4 agents through rain-soaked, neon-lit streets, where the law is the will of mega-corporations.
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Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.
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Rising Lords
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Trains & Things.
Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!
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Dog Fight
Single-player alternative to Trains & Things — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Trains & Things.
Battle head to head with up to 8 players (cooperatively or versus) or test your skill against waves of ever amassing enemies.