Single-player games like Business Magnate
Below are 13 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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Production Line : Car factory simulation
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
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Big Pharma
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
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Software Inc.
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
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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Project Hospital
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
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Big Ambitions
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
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Rise of Industry
Single-player alternative to Business Magnate — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
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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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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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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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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.