Single-player games like Oil Baron
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Oil Baron, 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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Kenshi
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
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 Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
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.
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Door Kickers
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
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Mini Metro
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
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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Ultimate General: Gettysburg
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.
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The Escapists
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
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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Plebby Quest: The Crusades
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Oil Baron.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
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Degrees
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Degrees - racing game with two modes: single and multiplayer mode for 4 players. With a view from above, you control the victim machine on the map, which is pursued by hunters. Escape them and hide in the bushes, so it will be harder for them to find you.
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Underwater hunting
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Oil Baron.
Underwater hunting: Plunge into the underwater world. Your character-a small fish piranha. The glory of these river predators is truly black - river killers, bloodthirsty robbers, river hyenas, sharks. And she always wants to eat.
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Oops!!! Puzzles!!!
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Oil Baron.
We offer you a puzzle game. The meaning of the game – making a mosaic pattern that you want to add up from a variety of fragments of different shapes. The greatest interest in this game will cause thrill-seekers, as it contains scary pictures (horror).
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Laboratory of Nightmares
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Oil Baron.
You are one of the best fighters of the GIBAR unit, and therefore you were sent to destroy a secret laboratory guarded by armed soldiers. This is a dynamic game with a top view in which you have to survive in a secret laboratory and find a way out of it.
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Base Dune
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Base Dune 3D is a first-person shooter in which you have to go through a large secret laboratory destroying enemies. You can simply move around the game world and shoot the weapons that are given in the game.
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MOLOGA
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Description: in 1935, the leadership of the USSR decided to build a new reservoir in one of the regions of the republic. Almost all people left villages and towns, but some refused to leave their homes.
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The House of Big people
Single-player alternative to Oil Baron — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Two Russian students Ivan and Alexander were expelled from the institute, but the knowledge remained with them. One day, while drinking beer, they come up with a brilliant idea - to create a superman who will not need food, and will work 24 hours a day.