Games Like Academia : School 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.

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, Management 19.7%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct thematic peer, focusing on building and managing a university with humorous challenges and complex facility requirements.

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Management 14.5%, Building 11.2%, Economy 11%, Education 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly similar school management simulator that emphasizes curriculum design, teacher hiring, and campus expansion.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.1%, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.9%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game for this style of management, sharing the exact same grid-based building and prisoner-needs simulation mechanics.

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.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Management 14.8%, Building 10.2%, Moddable 9.9%, Economy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly detailed facility management experience where you must design efficient layouts to treat patients and manage medical staff.

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!

Why similar: Colony Sim 14.9%, Management 13.7%, City Builder 13.3%, Capitalism 10.9%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of a retail facility, requiring careful planning of store layouts and customer flow.

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.

Why similar: Capitalism 21.3%, Moddable 16.4%, Economy 15.8%, Management 15%, Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines office building construction with complex business management and employee simulation mechanics.

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Moddable 13.2%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for colony-sim management, providing deep simulation of individual character needs and base-building challenges.

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Management 16.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Economy 16.2%, Capitalism 14.3%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Deeply focuses on the business side of management, requiring you to build and expand your game development studio.

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 14.9%, Management 13.4%, Building 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Requires careful planning of airport infrastructure and terminal layout to manage passenger flow and flight schedules.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Building 16.7%, Management 16.6%, Moddable 14.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-based management game that tasks you with designing an aquarium and balancing the needs of visitors and aquatic life.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Moddable 14.7%, Capitalism 12.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 10%, Economy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A complex airport management game that emphasizes logistics, staffing, and facility design.

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!

Why similar: Management 31.7%, Economy 23.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 8.4%, Moddable 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A business management simulation that focuses on building an office and managing a team of developers to create software.

Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!

Why similar: City Builder 15%, Capitalism 13.6%, Economy 13.3%, Moddable 13.1%, Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a robust building system for theme parks that emphasizes management, logistics, and guest satisfaction.

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?

Why similar: Management 16.4%, Economy 13%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and efficiency of a factory floor, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing layouts.

Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.8%, Base Building 18.5%, Economy 15.9%, Management 14.9%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A school management game with a fantasy twist, focusing on building classrooms and managing students' magical education.

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.

Why similar: Management 27.5%, Capitalism 27.4%, Economy 24.6%, Sandbox 9.1%, Simulation 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A business simulator that allows you to build and manage various types of retail and service businesses in a city.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Colony Sim 24.9%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 10.8%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that requires vertical building and water management to ensure your beaver society survives.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 19%, Management 11.3%, Economy 9.5%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on managing a medieval village and the social hierarchy of your inhabitants.

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.

Why similar: Management 19.3%, City Builder 18.8%, Building 15.1%, Economy 12.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers high-fidelity construction tools and deep management systems for running a successful zoo.

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.

Why similar: Management 42.9%, Economy 15.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Moddable 10.4%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that focuses on the growth of a development studio and the economy of game production.

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, City Builder 16.5%, Moddable 13.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that emphasizes building defenses and managing the survival of your settlers in a historical setting.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Economy 9.6%, Management 9.5%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city-builder that focuses on organic growth and the management of a medieval settlement.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Economy 16.2%, Management 13.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that blends political management with economic simulation and infrastructure development.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 33.2%, Colony Sim 27.9%, Building 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game where you must build a city and make difficult moral choices to ensure survival.

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.

Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Building 12.6%, Moddable 11%, Management 10.9%, Economy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive city-builder that offers unparalleled control over infrastructure, zoning, and public services.

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!

Why similar: Base Building 47.6%, Building 25.1%, Sandbox 18.6%, Simulation 4.7%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes automation, logistics, and efficient facility design.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 13.6%, Management 11.4%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: The deepest colony-sim available, offering unparalleled complexity in building, management, and simulation.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.2%, Building 20%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 8.4%, Cute 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim focused on the survival and development of a Scottish clan, emphasizing family management and seasonal planning.

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!

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Capitalism 14.7%, Economy 12.3%, Management 12%, Building 11.3%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38%, City Builder 33.8%, Sandbox 6.2%, Strategy 5.3%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging city-builder that focuses on resource management and the survival of a small group of outcasts.

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.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Economy 17.1%, Management 16.8%, Base Building 11%, Capitalism 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game that focuses on supply chains, production, and economic growth.

Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Economy 13.3%, Management 12.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.9%

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!

Why similar: City Builder 17.2%, Management 12.4%, Capitalism 11.7%, Economy 11.6%, Building 11.3%

Make your dream school in this management simulation game! School got you down?

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 19.6%, Economy 11.7%, Education 10.9%, Management 10.9%

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Capitalism 15.5%, Economy 10.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10%

Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 11.6%, Management 10%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 14.2%, Moddable 10.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Management 9%

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5%, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 11%, Management 10.5%, Building 9.9%

Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 12.9%, Management 10.5%, Economy 9.6%

Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!

Why similar: Capitalism 15.1%, City Builder 14.2%, Moddable 10.7%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%

Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Why similar: Management 20.9%, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 15.9%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.6%

Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Capitalism 14.7%, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11.4%, Economy 11.1%

Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Management 16.6%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.1%

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, Capitalism 16.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.5%, Economy 10.8%

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Capitalism 18.2%, Building 12.7%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.5%

Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.

Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Economy 14.7%, Management 13.5%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 9.5%

A 3D builder management sim. You are the Headmaster: build your wizarding academy floor by floor, train students into accomplished wizards, and keep your school alive through mana droughts, staff drama and rival academies. Your school, your rules.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.4%, Base Building 16.8%, Economy 15.3%, Management 14.4%, Education 11.8%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Management 19.3%, City Builder 16.4%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 6.9%

A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.

Why similar: City Builder 17%, Capitalism 15.6%, Base Building 11.4%, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.6%

Movies Tycoon is a simulation game where you dive into the world of film-making. Start with a humble studio, scout and manage top talent, customize unique characters, and direct blockbuster films.

Why similar: Capitalism 17.8%, Economy 13.3%, City Builder 12.7%, Management 12%, Building 10.5%

In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!

Why similar: Capitalism 24.7%, Building 15.8%, Management 15%, City Builder 11.7%, Economy 11.2%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 19.9%, Capitalism 16.1%, Economy 15%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 11.6%

School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Building 14.3%, Management 12.6%, Economy 11.7%, Base Building 11.2%

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: City Builder 24.8%, Building 15.6%, Management 12.3%, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%

Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!

Why similar: Management 34.7%, Economy 31.9%, Funny 11%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.6%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4%, City Builder 14.6%, Moddable 11.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 9.5%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 28%, Building 22.6%, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

Manage your own esports squad, expand your gaming house, and defeat legendary teams to become the best in the world!

Why similar: Management 20.3%, Economy 19.6%, Building 15.1%, Sandbox 14.4%, Family Friendly 8.1%

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 22.6%, Capitalism 19.5%, Economy 15.7%, Sandbox 13%, Building 12.9%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 19%, Building 15.3%, Economy 14.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 10.4%