Single-player games like Cities: Skylines II
Below are 19 single-player Steam games similar to Cities: Skylines II, 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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Cities: Skylines
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
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Transport Fever 2
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
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Transport Fever
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
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RAILGRADE
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Sweet Transit
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
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Railway Empire 2
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
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Planet Zoo
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
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Cities in Motion 2
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
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RimWorld
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Anno 1800
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Stellaris
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
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Satisfactory
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Victoria
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Join Victoria on her ghost hunt through the USA. Help her fight against supernatural creatures.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
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The Sims™ 4
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Surviving the Aftermath
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
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Ice Lakes
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Cities: Skylines II.
Ice Lakes is a modern ice fishing simulator with different single and multiplayer game modes and sandbox approach to wintertime fishing. Use and customize wide selection of fishing gear and learn how changing season, bottom topology, time of day and weather conditions affects fish behavior.
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Race Arcade
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
The ultimate top down racing game with over 100 tracks, online and local multiplayer, extensive single player and a track editor to create and share your own tracks with the others.
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Premium Pool Arena
Single-player alternative to Cities: Skylines II — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Premium Pool Arena is a modern arcade style pool game with single player, online and local multiplayer modes. If you love a relaxed game of 8 ball, this is the game for you!