Single-player games like Business Magnate
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Business Magnate, 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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Startup Company
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
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Another Brick in The Mall
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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Smart City Plan
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
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Hotel Magnate
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
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Tropico 4
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
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MachiaVillain
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
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Railroad Tycoon 3
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Business Magnate.
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
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Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
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Capitalism 2
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.
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Government Simulator
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Government Simulator is a is a simple economic and political simulation game based on real-world data. Take control of a whole country, like the USA, Germany, France, Russia, or Austria. Change laws, taxes and budgets based on real world statistics and data, and see what happens.
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PostCollapse
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
PostCollapse is a survival simulation game set after the collapse of civilization. Gather items from the ruins, construct tools, grow your own food, go fishing and hunting. Single player only. No Zombies.
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Cargo Company
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.