Single-player games like The Con Simulator
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to The Con Simulator, 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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Hotel Architect
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
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Two Point Campus
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
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Spacebase DF-9
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
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Honey, I Joined a Cult
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!
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Two Point Hospital
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Con Simulator.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
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Foundation
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
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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Banished
Single-player alternative to The Con Simulator — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Con Simulator.
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.