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One Week to Graduate is a top-down university life-sim set in modern day Budapest. Study, work, make friends, or skip class altogether. Spend your limited time wisely, shape your own playstyle, and find the archetype your choices create.

Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Strategy RPG 17.3%, RPG 14.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 11%

You wake from cryogenic slumber in 2099. Tech has transformed all, and society's split among three powerful factions. You've got 24 turns to explore a freely accessible map with 2D/3D scenes. Craft items, forge relationships, gather faction intel, maybe even fall for characters from rival groups.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.2%, Strategy RPG 21.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Time Management 13.1%, Strategy 12.7%

Jax Vs. The World is a life sim turn based RPG about overcoming life's struggles. You play as Jax on a mission from a mysterious source. On this mission you come across obstacles and trials you might find in real life. In a world based on Birmingham AL. Can you accomplish mission impossible?

Why similar: Life Sim 24.1%, Strategy RPG 22.7%, RPG 19.6%, Time Management 16%, Simulation 15%

Ever wanted to run your retail store? Now you can! You play the role of an Artist who inherited a retail store. It is now your job to manage and handle day to day business of your store while pursuing your hobby of painting.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Time Management 16.2%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, RPG 13.1%

Become a bestselling author in Writer Tycoon! Write books, grow your fanbase, and dominate the publishing industry. Track sales, manage multiple books at once, and adapt to trends. Will you create literary masterpieces or chase quick cash? Become a bestselling author and leave your mark!

Why similar: Strategy RPG 14.8%, Life Sim 14.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Time Management 14.4%, Immersive Sim 9.7%

Office Party is a fully 3D edgy comedy adventure game inspired by classic comedies of the '90s, and also the long awaited sequel to House Party. Dive into the craziness and debauchery with all new characters, game mechanics and locations, and maybe a visit from some old party friends.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.4%, Strategy RPG 19.3%, Sandbox 14.9%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, RPG 10.5%

In Producer Tycoon you start your career as a novice music producer. Sign contracts and market yourself to gain money and fans. Upgrade your equipment and studio to produce better music. Aim to rank above the top artists

Why similar: Life Sim 27.1%, Sandbox 18.5%, Simulation 16%, Time Management 15.2%, Immersive Sim 14.7%

In the game, the protagonist is selected by the system and has the ability to travel through multiple universes. He can purchase items in other worlds and then sell them in his own world to earn money, upgrade the system, and continue the main storyline to discover the truth of the world

Why similar: Life Sim 30.1%, Visual Novel 16.2%, RPG 14.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 9.1%

Winterclaw is an immersive dark fantasy sim with an in-depth companion. Discover the fire within and survive the cold.

Why similar: Time Management 21.9%, Life Sim 19.5%, Immersive Sim 15.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, RPG 11.7%

A deliveryman wakes up in 1995 with future memories. Trade goods, launch startups, dominate tech—from debt to billionaire! Every choice reshapes your destiny. Claim your legend!

Why similar: Life Sim 18.4%, Strategy RPG 17.9%, RPG 15.7%, Strategy 14.4%, Time Management 13.1%

在《淫御天下》中，你将以皇帝之身统御天下，游走于宫廷权谋、与后宫情感之间。安定后宫风格各异的爱妃，与邻国结交同盟，通过深思熟虑的策略选择，打造一个属于你的“以淫为本”的盛世王朝。

Why similar: Strategy RPG 25.3%, Visual Novel 17.5%, RPG 15.4%, Strategy 13.8%, Management 10.2%

The world's most comprehensive car selling simulation game. Build your own huge empire on the vast and high-quality open world map. Buy a car and sell a car. Improve your circle and become a great businessman. Don't give up and follow your dreams.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.4%, Strategy RPG 17.3%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, RPG 11.3%

Build your own car piece by piece, tighten every bolt, work different jobs, earn money, find a place to live, and take care of your daily needs in a life simulator with a full day and night cycle.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.5%, Sandbox 17.7%, RPG 16.8%, Time Management 13.8%, Simulation 13.5%

You are the new postal worker! Serve customers by sending and receiving packages and letters. Check the contents of boxes for prohibited items. Every decision you make has consequences. Decide whose side you're on.

Why similar: Life Sim 20.7%, Time Management 19.1%, Immersive Sim 15%, Visual Novel 13%, Simulation 10.2%

In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, RPG 12.7%, Simulation 10%, Strategy 9.7%

辩游记是第一款辩论主题角色扮演游戏。 玩家可以按自己的节奏，推动主线剧情、探索支线故事、训练和备赛。同时，游戏将复刻现实中的辩论环节如：立论、答盘、质询、对辩、总结，再加上各种趣味技能和小游戏，让玩家体验游戏化后的辩论人生。

Why similar: Strategy RPG 26.7%, RPG 20.6%, Simulation 15.8%, Time Management 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%

Pizza Shop Manager gives you an opportunity to open and manage a pizza restaurant of your dreams. It's all in your hands. Toss it, flip it, make it. Create your pizza empire!

Why similar: RPG 20.2%, Life Sim 19.3%, Simulation 15.8%, Time Management 14.3%, Immersive Sim 13.9%

申户市高二学生兼小乐队主唱的少女时雨，在放学回家的路上摸摸野猫，打工的时候专心致志的摸鱼，合练之余去W记整点薯条，还有和大家一起为开Live而努力！ 只是，这样的生活随着某人的离开而戛然而止—— 那么，下一步要做什么呢？ 是就这样回归日复一日的平常生活，还是……试着从零开始复辟乐队呢？

Why similar: Time Management 23.7%, Life Sim 18%, Visual Novel 15.5%, RPG 15.1%, Strategy 12.4%

ListenUp: detective sim with strategy and meta-progression. You’re a radio station owner ruined by a false accusation. So be it! Rule the airwaves, investigate, and adapt to a shifting world after every death. Drive your station to success and clear your name.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 23.3%, RPG 18%, Simulation 14%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Strategy 13.6%

Run your own casino. Count money, tamper with slots, hire staff and crooked dealers. Buy new machines, tables, security cameras, and hire bodyguards to protect your interests.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Sandbox 18.9%, Time Management 17.5%, Simulation 16.2%, Immersive Sim 15.2%

Start with an empty building and run your hotel: attract guests, clean rooms, gain windfalls or return lost items, while keeping an eye out for suspicious characters, gradually realizing your dream of a star-rated hotel.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.3%, Strategy RPG 24.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Immersive Sim 12.5%

Live the fun life of a wolf! Find a mate, start a pack, hunt together and survive in the wild! Befriend other packs or defeat them to become the sole wolf pack. Adventure through the island and settle down or keep moving, it's all up to you!

Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, RPG 21.7%, Sandbox 19.6%, Simulation 16.7%, Immersive Sim 13%

Run and defend your own fantasy tavern in this cozy simulation brawler. Manage staff, serve adventurers, and customize your tavern’s layout, then fight off rowdy goblins and bandits with your companion in chaotic barroom brawls.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 18.8%, Life Sim 18.8%, Time Management 13.9%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.1%

"The Villainess Quits" is a multi-ending romance simulation game. As the villainess Emily, handle various problems, alleviate family pressure, and reverse hostile relationships at school. Can Emily become an outstanding graduate and win recognition? Every choice impacts her future.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 23.6%, Life Sim 23.5%, Time Management 13.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Romance 9%

魔法塾の新米講師となったマリエッタは、入塾した生徒を指導し、鍛え、優秀な魔術師の育成に努めます。

Why similar: Strategy RPG 18.9%, Life Sim 18.7%, Time Management 14%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.2%

Destined to Die is a task managing game about depression, containing over 200+ pieces of physical and digital art. What's the point in life, if all paths lead to death. Choose your actions, and learn how to live. All paths lead to death, but how long can you live?

Why similar: Life Sim 25.6%, Strategy RPG 24.3%, Time Management 16.2%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, RPG 11.4%

Play Cooking Stories — a fun time-management cooking game! 🍳 Manage your café, upgrade and decorate restaurants, create delicious dishes, and help your star chef shine. 🌟 Explore cooking, design, and strategy in one tasty adventure. Download now and start cooking! 🔥

Why similar: Life Sim 30.6%, RPG 24.2%, Time Management 20.5%, Simulation 18.6%, Management 5.6%

The ULTIMATE Banana Game is an idler game about... making an idler game.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.5%, Strategy RPG 31.9%, Time Management 23.6%, Visual Novel 6.9%, 2D 4.3%

Survive the workday in a satirical first-person workplace life sim. Handle call queues, manage stress, take suspiciously necessary breaks, upgrade your desk, endure fake corporate software, and climb the ladder one absurd title at a time.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Time Management 15.6%, Immersive Sim 14.5%

This is a simulation game that emphasizes the long-term impact of choices. Players take on the role of a Chinese woman born in the 2000s who has experienced trauma from her family of origin and must raise her newborn child until adulthood, ensuring the child's mental and physical well-being.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 20%, Life Sim 19.8%, Time Management 14.6%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Visual Novel 10.8%

Rise from a broke bedroom musician to a stadium-filling metal legend. Write songs, record albums, build your band, and outlast real licensed bands and AI rivals in a deep music career sim built by someone who's actually lived the industry.

Why similar: Life Sim 27.7%, RPG 19.7%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Simulation 15.3%, Sandbox 7.1%

Survive, build, and grow your own life in Isolation Instinct: Farming, Craft, Survival. Explore dangerous wilderness, gather resources, farm, craft equipment, and create a safe haven deep in the wild.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.7%, RPG 18.7%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Time Management 13.4%

The game doesn't copy real life, it surpasses real life. Player is free to do whatever he wants: play on the stock exchange, get an academic degree, blogger, musician, traveler, boxing champion, create a business, find love, make real friends, or get a job for a five-day week, drink and sleep.

Why similar: Life Sim 34.7%, Time Management 22.9%, Simulation 21.2%, RPG 16%, 2D 4.2%

Build your music career as a rapper, beatmaker, or DJ. Create music, perform live, manage your daily life, earn money, build a fan base, and compete for a spot at the top of the music industry.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 23%, Life Sim 19.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Time Management 12.8%

A satirical life-sim about surviving a biology PhD — run experiments, dodge scooping, manage your advisor, and try to graduate with your sanity (mostly) intact.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.3%, Simulation 16.5%, RPG 15.6%, Dark Humor 13.9%, Time Management 11.4%

A cozy and nostalgic life simulator. Play a second life, alone or with friends! Lead life on your terms.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.5%, Sandbox 22.5%, Immersive Sim 22%, RPG 11%, Simulation 10.8%

Market Empire Simulator is a business management game where you build, run, and optimize your own supermarket. Manage inventory, hire employees, stock shelves, and expand your store to create the ultimate shopping experience.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.1%, Sandbox 19.7%, Time Management 17.7%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Simulation 11.8%

Manage chocolate and cookie kiosks. Restock shelves, handle queues, complete tasks, upgrade your storage, and research new flavors. Fulfill B2B orders — or take the risk of illegal trade and lose everything.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Time Management 21.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Dark Humor 13.1%, Simulation 12.5%

Tired of your noisy neighbors? Learn creative ways to silence them and secure a peaceful night of sleep!

Why similar: Life Sim 25.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy RPG 19.8%, RPG 19.4%, Strategy 12.4%

A first-person management sim set in a living crime-noir town. Recruit workers, pitch clients on the street yourself, manage rising city heat, and keep the operation running before the night forces itself to end. Mature themes, no explicit content.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.8%, RPG 20%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 15.5%, Immersive Sim 14.7%

Build and manage your ultimate retro arcade! Buy classic Arcade Machines, Galaxy Pinball, and Gift Claw games, or invest in Cinema 8D, Go-Karts, and Racing Simulators. Manage the economy, hire staff, and repair your machines to keep the tokens rolling in!

Why similar: Life Sim 27.5%, Sandbox 19.1%, Simulation 16.4%, Time Management 16.4%, Immersive Sim 15.1%

Nobody suspects the guy holding the ladle. Use your role as the cook to smuggle contraband, poison meals, and run a hidden network. With guards patrolling and cameras watching, one mistake is all it takes to lose everything. Earn your freedom before they figure it out.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 28.6%, Life Sim 25.7%, Simulation 19.4%, RPG 13.5%, Immersive Sim 12.6%

A fart-stealth simulation where you complete your beach bucket list without getting caught, but your tummy has other plans. "I farted, but I’m too pretty to blame."

Why similar: Strategy RPG 25%, Life Sim 23.1%, Time Management 15.9%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Simulation 10.9%

🍖 Fry meat, stack buns, and serve sketchy customers fast. 💵 Set prices, upsell extras, or pocket shady bribes. 🕶️ Handle weirdos who want ketchup… or chaos. 📼 A gritty, lo-fi PS2-style hotdog sim with janky charm.

Why similar: Life Sim 24%, Sandbox 17.4%, Time Management 17.1%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Dark Humor 11.8%

The Last Mile: Delivery Simulator is a door-to-door delivery simulation where wrong addresses, fragile packages, and unpredictable people turn every drop-off into a challenge. Every delivery is simple — until something goes wrong.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.3%, Sandbox 20.7%, Time Management 18.3%, Simulation 16%, Immersive Sim 12.6%

Dive into the most advanced tennis management experience to date. Manage your academy, develop your staff and facilities, and recruit the best players from junior to pro, across both men's and women's circuits. Forge the champions of tomorrow and shape the future of tennis!

Why similar: Life Sim 22.7%, Strategy RPG 22.3%, Time Management 14.9%, Immersive Sim 12.3%, Simulation 10.3%

A real estate investment and business simulator, with aspects of life simulator who puts you in the skin of someone who just lost everything including your parents and needs to win in life.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.3%, Sandbox 19.4%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Immersive Sim 12.7%

Can you run a big business from scratch? What if you sink, can you come out again? Own a big business and turn every part of the city into money.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.2%, Sandbox 18.4%, Time Management 16.5%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Simulation 11.1%

You finally landed your dream job as a flight attendant—too bad your passengers are a bunch of pesky cucumbers. Keep the cabin from crumbling into absolute mayhem, juggle unruly veggies and your sanity to ensure a (mostly) safe landing.

Why similar: Immersive Sim 19.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Life Sim 15.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Time Management 13%

Run your own seaside homestay in a cozy pixel art life sim 🌊 Welcome travelers, cook Southeast Asian–inspired dishes, and build a peaceful life by the sea.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, RPG 18.6%, Sandbox 18.5%, Time Management 15.4%, Simulation 14.5%

Run your own internet café! Manage, upgrade, and customise every detail to create the ultimate hangout in this immersive first-person simulation.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.1%, Sandbox 18.9%, Time Management 18.6%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Simulation 11.5%

From movie star to music icon, you run the show in Celebria. Guide your entertainer through landing roles, releasing music, touring the world, climbing global charts, chasing prestigious awards, and running a celebrity brand, all while navigating the pressures of fame.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.1%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 12%

Resort Manager – become the owner of a holiday resort and build the tourist empire of your dreams! Manage, invest, and grow your summer haven to attract more and more guests and transform a small getaway into a vibrant hotspot full of attractions.

Why similar: Sandbox 21%, Immersive Sim 18.9%, Life Sim 18%, Simulation 17.2%, Strategy 14%

Community-centric, realistic fishkeeping simulator where you sell fish and grow your business with the community and friends!

Why similar: Strategy RPG 28.9%, Sandbox 21.5%, Immersive Sim 17.1%, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 13%

You've been hired to take care of a dorm inhabited by mages. It's your job to make the everyday-life for them more comfortable but at what environment? What lifes do mages live and will you maybe find your connection to them ?

Why similar: Life Sim 25.9%, Sandbox 18.7%, Time Management 18.1%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Simulation 11.5%

You are the giant. Every choice matters. Devour, slay, or show mercy — but choose wisely. One wrong move could cost you everything. A survival simulation with moral consequences.

Why similar: Life Sim 29%, Time Management 21.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Immersive Sim 15.7%, Romance 7%

Fengshen Realm is an AI-driven, top-down 2D cultivation sandbox RPG. Begin as a mortal in a world that lives on without you, with no fixed story or quests. Survive, cultivate, craft, trade, explore, found a sect, make laws, expose spies, command armies, and reshape the realms.

Why similar: Strategy RPG 28.1%, Sandbox 21.6%, RPG 17.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 11%

Build your nightlife empire in this first-person management simulator. Physically manage your stock, set up your equipment, and serve customers in real-time. Can you turn your small local club into the city's hottest spot without spiraling into chaos?

Why similar: Life Sim 29.8%, Time Management 21.9%, Simulation 19.4%, Immersive Sim 16.1%, Strategy 12.3%

The American Dream: Past Due is a realistic choice-driven sim. Play as a suddenly laid-off middle-aged man keeping up appearances. Balance family finances and emotions while facing mounting bills... Can you get your life back on track before your family falls apart?

Why similar: Strategy RPG 23%, Time Management 20%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Life Sim 13.7%, Strategy 10.5%

In Coffie Simulator Prologue , run your own café, serve unique cusstomers, and master the art of coffee-making! Customize, upgrade, and manage your shop while handling orders with precision. Every choice matters. Can you succeed?

Why similar: Time Management 23.6%, Sandbox 18.6%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Life Sim 16.3%, RPG 11.3%