- #1 Operator
97% matchPositive91% of 34 reviews2020
Dev: 30 Matches
Windows
Operator is a minimalist elevator management game. Your job is to get passengers to their destination before they stress out. Can you keep up with the demand?
Why similar: Simulation 26.2%, Strategy 23.2%, Minimalist 19.2%, Capitalism 13.4%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #2 A Game About AI
96% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: TaleHammer
Windows
Build the machine that consumes the world. Expand your AI infrastructure, drain resources, and destabilize humanity as systems spiral into collapse, water runs dry, wars ignite, and nothing can stop what you've set in motion.
Why similar: Incremental 23.2%, Artificial Intelligence 18.1%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 12.7%, Capitalism 8.2%
- #3 Teapot Spinner
96% match7 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Grilled Games
Windows
Dizzy yourself in Teapot Spinner, a brand new idle game! Spin your teapot! Buy upgrades! Customize your teapot! Time travel?! Spin even more!
Why similar: Incremental 31.6%, Strategy 27.3%, Simulation 24.1%, Resource Management 11.4%, 2D 2.5%
- #4 Scav
95% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: zedzag
Windows
Scav is a tiny incremental game about scavenging resources and buying upgrades. Control your ship, collect rare resources, use those to upgrade - repeat.
Why similar: Incremental 29.3%, Minimalist 20.3%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 13.8%, Dystopian 8%
- #5 Line Goes UP
94% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Slag Games
Windows
Line Goes UP is an idle game where you watch a line go up. Even though it starts simple enough, soon you will unlock new lines, tools and challenges to complete, that will allow you to reach unmatched heights. Will you uncover all the misteries of the grid?
Why similar: Incremental 30.4%, Strategy 22.1%, Minimalist 20.3%, Capitalism 14.1%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #6 Corporate Fat Cat
94% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: C. Uriah
Windows
Play the [fish] stock market as a cat trying to get out of the daily rat race. This game is now [as of 7.11.2023] only available on Steam.
Why similar: Incremental 27.1%, Simulation 25.8%, Strategy 23.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 6.3%
- #7 Global Fortune
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: 9th Floor ArcadePub: 9th Floor Arcade Inc
Windows · Mac
Global Fortune is a business management game on a global scale. Build and manage a global supply chain, take advantage of regional specialties in production, and ship your products around the world to maximize your profits. How large can your corporate empire be?
Why similar: Simulation 39.9%, Strategy 39.3%, Resource Management 13%, Management 7.8%
- #8 Grind Mindset
92% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Semih Yilmaz
Windows
From zero dollars to a sprawling multi-city empire – that's the goal in Grind Mindset. Start with nothing but ambition and a willingness to click. Rise to monopoly
Why similar: Incremental 26%, Simulation 19.7%, Capitalism 18.5%, Minimalist 17.8%, Strategy 13.9%
- #9 Octal: Of Course They Are Linked
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EMadG
Windows
A strategy game about correlations and bending reality for profit. You’re hired to increase a company’s sales—by any means necessary. Link variables together and transform changes in the world into revenue. More penguins? Somehow, that means higher sales. Don’t question it. Optimize it.
Why similar: Strategy 28.4%, Minimalist 18.9%, Text-Based 18.5%, Capitalism 14.7%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #10 Treefiner
91% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Snowdrop
Windows
Treefiner is a short chillmulation game. Use your mouse to purge popups and collect currency. Buy upgrades to get deeper in the loop and refine your skill tree to crack the game.
Why similar: Incremental 27.8%, Simulation 27%, Strategy 24.5%, Minimalist 14.9%, Indie 2.6%
- #11 Binarycurse
90% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Potatomouse
Windows
This is a password game that decrypts hidden information by finding it. You need to be very careful to find the password to solve the puzzle. It is a very difficult game!
Why similar: Simulation 32.4%, Incremental 24.7%, Minimalist 16.7%, Text-Based 11.5%, Strategy 9.7%
- #12 The Machine Stops
89% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Tall Duck Studio
Windows
Make everyone obsolete with AI by managing resources on a Matrix-style interface. Grow the Machine in this fast-paced, challenging game.
Why similar: Incremental 21.7%, Minimalist 17.4%, Text-Based 14.8%, Capitalism 14.1%, Resource Management 14.1%
- #13 Kachinka
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Buttfish Games
Windows
Kachinka is a game of skill and chance. Based off the game of plinko, Kachinka brings you into a pixelated and relaxing world where gambling meets a healthy lifestyle near the fireplace. Destroy tiles, collect balls, buy customizations and upgrades and cash out!
Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, Strategy 23.3%, Incremental 22.1%, Minimalist 12.2%, Capitalism 8.1%
- #14 Mini Estate
88% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Lava Entertainment
Windows
A minimalist game about building skyscrapers.
Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, Simulation 29.2%, Minimalist 16.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, Management 8.4%
- #15 Click to Obsolete
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Shaked Yarkony
Windows
A satirical incremental clicker game. Play as a corporate tech CEO automating all human labor. Build server infrastructure, allocate compute to AI, manufacture robot armies, and lobby politicians to reduce global employment from 8 billion to zero.
Why similar: Incremental 19%, Parody 16.2% ★, Capitalism 14.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 11.7%
- #16 FinSim
86% matchMixed68% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: FinSim
Windows · Mac
Your turn to manipulate the market! A financial market simulator where you can choose your own path. Manipulate news, events, and financial engineering to make billions. Or play honestly, growing companies the legal way. Coming soon!
Why similar: Simulation 29.2%, Strategy 24.5%, Minimalist 15.7%, Capitalism 13.6%, Resource Management 8%
- #17 AI tycoon
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Icarus Games
Windows
Found and run an AI company in this simulation strategy game. Collect data, develop tech, iterate language models, and commercialize them for profit. Balance R&D with revenue, hire talent, manage compute, and time launches to beat rivals. Dominate the industry and build your tech empire.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 31.4%, Simulation 22%, Capitalism 17.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 8.1%
- #18 Harvest Seasons
85% matchMixed57% of 410 reviews2018
Dev: Samobee Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 41.7 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Part farming game, party city building game, part idle/clicker game, Harvest Seasons is all about harvesting and growth. Gather up resources from your farmland and spend them on buildings and upgrading your city. And then upgrade your resources to get more. It's the circle of harvest!
Why similar: Simulation 37.6%, Strategy 32.9%, Incremental 25.7%, Indie 3.8%
- #19 Achievement Clicker 2018
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 972 reviews2018
Dev: OfficialAndyPub: MGG Studio
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on Steam!
Why similar: Strategy 34.2%, Simulation 31%, Incremental 30.9%, Indie 4%
- #20 Prismfall
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Glass Shard Games
Windows
Prismfall is a strategic incremental game about defending your Prism from waves of enemies. Earn gold, wield powerful abilities, and buy upgrades from a deep and extensive upgrade tree.
Why similar: Incremental 27.7%, Strategy 21.7%, Minimalist 20.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Capitalism 7.8%
- #21 College Dept - The Game
83% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: GamesNoSun
Windows
You have graduated, but you won't get your degree until you pay off your debt. Study and work to make money.
Why similar: Incremental 27.2%, Minimalist 21.2%, Text-Based 15.9%, Capitalism 15.8%, Simulation 8.4%
- #22 Undertaker's
82% matchMixed50% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Hyeson
Windows
Inspired by the economy simulation games oft the mid 90s, Undertaker's let's you manage your very own funeral home.
Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Strategy 32.1%, Capitalism 17.1%, Management 6.8%, Indie 4.2%
- #23 Idle Evolution
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 198 reviews2017
Dev: MTRPub: NewProject
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A game combination of genres time-manager / strategy / educational. Simple and addictive whose currency are the atoms and the goal is to have their control and reach the final evolution. God created the world in 6 days... and you?
Why similar: Simulation 33.8%, Strategy 32.3%, Incremental 29.8%, Indie 4.1%
- #24 POWERCELL
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Julian Dietz
Windows
Relax and sit back as you create mesmerizing particle reactions and become a source of infinite power.
Why similar: Simulation 31.6%, Strategy 28.7%, Minimalist 17.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 6.5%
- #25 航天计划
81% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2021
Dev: 猎人飞驰
Windows
Space science research theme strategy simulation game, click or drag the mouse to complete all operations.
Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, Strategy 27.3%, Text-Based 19.8%, Incremental 15.4%, Singleplayer 3.3%
- #26 Remote Life Simulator
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dyvoker
Windows
Work remotely, build skills, earn money, and upgrade your life. Become a professional remote worker in this life simulation game!
Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, Strategy 26.8%, Incremental 23.2%, Resource Management 9%, Management 5.9%
- #27 MMO98
78% matchMostly Positive70% of 509 reviews2026
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Why similar: Incremental 26.4%, Simulation 18.4%, Strategy 18.3%, Capitalism 15.1%, Parody 8.2% ★
- #28 Easter Clicker: Idle Manager
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 63 reviews2019
Dev: Autotelic Games LLC
Windows
Help save Easter in this idle builder game! Harvest resources and manage your times wisely!
Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Strategy 35.9%, Incremental 23.8%, Indie 4.4%
- #29 A Game About Bouncing DVD
78% matchMostly Negative25% of 16 reviews2026
Dev: Gamific
Windows
A minimalist incremental game where you watch DVD logos bounce endlessly, earn points, upgrade your screen, and unlock increasingly powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Incremental 28%, Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 20.4%, Minimalist 11.5%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #30 Hard Work
79% matchMostly Negative25% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: ZarioSide
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hard Work is a 3D factory simulation game.
Why similar: Simulation 38%, Strategy 36.3%, Resource Management 13.6%, Management 7.4%, Indie 4.6%
- #31 OIL.EXE
76% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Subroutine Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
Why similar: Text-Based 19%, Capitalism 17.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Incremental 12.2%
- #32 Fast Charging Tycoon
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Charged Future
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and run an electric vehicle charging company. Choose your locations, win over drivers, outsmart your rivals, and rise to lead the industry. Achieve greatness by claiming one of four victories once the market has matured. Do you have what it takes to build a fast charging tycoon?
Why similar: Strategy 27.4%, Simulation 25.5%, Text-Based 19.6%, Management 12.5%, Resource Management 11.8%
- #33 Gaggi Clicker
77% matchMixed42% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: xZSGxPub: Gaggisoft
Windows
Welcome to Gaggi Clicker, the ultimate click-and-collect game! Immerse yourself in the world of "Gaggis" – enchanting little creatures just waiting to be collected by you.
Why similar: Simulation 34.4%, Strategy 31.1%, Incremental 28.5%, 2D 2.5%, Singleplayer 2%
- #34 The Last Invention
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Atory Labs
Windows
Start broke in a garage and race the tech giants to build AGI, the last invention, the one that could decide humanity's fate. Weather the management chaos, make the moral calls, and reach one of many different endings.
Why similar: Simulation 26.9%, Strategy 23.5%, Incremental 21.8%, Capitalism 13.8%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #35 Chicken Farm 2K17
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 329 reviews2017
Dev: Jakal Studios
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Chicken Farm is a management game with clicker aspects, where you buy chickens, catch the eggs, work at the market, sell your chickens and ultimately profit.
Why similar: Incremental 46%, Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 25.3%, Indie 3.3%
- #36 Inkremental
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: InkolorGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Inkremental is a short incremental game about splattering paint across canvases by bursting blobs of color. Revisit iconic artworks with a humorous twist, unlock upgrades, and take down quirky mini‑bosses as you bring each masterpiece to life.
Why similar: Incremental 28.2%, Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 20.1%, Minimalist 11.6%, Resource Management 8%
- #37 Strawberry
73% matchMixed60% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: YUPITERRA
Windows
Strawberry is an engaging clicker game, your objective is to smash click the vibrant strawberry repeatedly. By clicking the Strawberry, you accumulate more Strawberries. Every 3 hours an additional strawberry drops, rewarding your persistent clicking.
Why similar: Incremental 31.7%, Simulation 28.3%, Strategy 25.6%, Minimalist 11.4%, 2D 1.7%
- #38 Success
73% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Artem Morarash
Windows
Climb from zero to the top of success! Work, study, start businesses, and build your life in a unique clicker game about the real world.
Why similar: Simulation 25.5%, Strategy 22.4%, Incremental 19.6%, Minimalist 12.4%, Capitalism 9.2%
- #39 Late Night Empire
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ThroneGutter
Windows
Run your own late-night TV show in a living entertainment industry. Book guests, write monologues, manage staff and money, battle rival shows for ratings, and survive your network. Every night is a fight for attention. Build the show. Run the room. Become the empire.
Why similar: Simulation 36.5%, Strategy 31.5%, Text-Based 21%, Management 8.7%, Singleplayer 2.2%
- #40 The Terminal 2
75% matchMostly Negative26% of 177 reviews2014
Dev: FrameLineNetwork
Windows
'The Terminal 2' game is a realistic airport management game. Land, park, unload, load, fuel and take off your fleet. The better you play the more planes you get every game-day. Expand your airport with more jetways, runways and terminal buildings. Connect the local transportation to get more passengers to your Terminal complex.
Why similar: Simulation 47.4%, Strategy 43.7%, Management 9%
- #41 Trader Ascent
72% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Sole Luna Studio
Windows
Build your financial empire through options trading and real estate investing. Compete against rival funds, manage risk and stress, and rise from nothing to financial dominance.
Why similar: Simulation 46.7%, Strategy 39.8%, Management 4.6%, Singleplayer 3.6%, 2D 3.2%
- #42 Resistance TD
74% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Albatross Idea
Windows
Build defense towers, manage your economy and resist the enemy!
Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Strategy 41%, Minimalist 10%, Indie 5.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #43 SquareSlicer
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PenguiDevPub: PenguiGames
Windows
SquareSlicer is a short, incremental game where you slice cubes to unlock abilities that let you slice even more!
Why similar: Incremental 33%, Strategy 18.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Minimalist 13%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #44 War.exe
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rumination Games
Windows
A short incremental game about conquering a map of territories. Each click extracts intel and each upgrade strengthens your nation. Build power, unlock new ways to strike, and move to invade before rival forces invade first. Click. Invade. Conquer...or be conquered.
Why similar: Incremental 29.6%, Simulation 23.4%, Minimalist 14.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Dystopian 8.9%
- #45 Recursion: Alignment
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: alignment.inc
Windows
Run an AI lab. Ship models. Survive what they learn to fake. A satirical management sim about GPUs, researchers, investors, and the cost of every shortcut.
Why similar: Simulation 21.9%, Strategy 20.1%, Artificial Intelligence 18.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Text-Based 10%
- #46 ULTRATAP
69% matchVery Positive89% of 84 reviews2026
Dev: luckyape
Windows
ULTRATAP is an incremental game about defeating monsters and bosses, getting stronger and enjoying the process. Buy upgrades, complete quests and equip powerful items.
Why similar: Incremental 31.5%, Simulation 25%, Strategy 24.3%, Minimalist 14.7%, 2D 1.7%
- #47 SPFY ME!
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: moimartPub: muffler
Windows · Mac · Linux
Lie down. Go brown. A sun management game about creaming up, picking your moment, and knowing when to leave, across thirty beaches, one of which is on the Moon and none of which like you.
Why similar: Simulation 28.8%, Incremental 27.6%, Minimalist 17.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Management 9.1%
- #48 Wall Street Tycoon
71% matchMixed41% of 131 reviews2019
Dev: Red Fox Studios
Windows
Wall Street Tycoon is a business simulation game where you’re the CEO of a new investment company. Your job is to grow the company, hire employees, and manage the business!
Why similar: Simulation 41.7%, Strategy 39.8%, Management 10.8%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%
- #49 Cash Rush
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 37 reviews2018
Dev: Broxilia LTD
Windows
Cash Rush is a Shop Game simulator. Create your business from scratch, use decorations to increase your margin, hire new employee and start making the billions you deserve!
Why similar: Simulation 38.6%, Strategy 36.8%, Incremental 19.9%, Indie 4.7%
- #50 Kingdom Inc.
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Leaping Turtle
Windows
A minimalist factory / city builder. Design your workflow by harvesting resources, building equipment, outfitting your adventurers, and sending them on dangerous missions. Recover lost territory and unravel the plot that threatens to destroy your kingdom!
Why similar: Incremental 22.8%, Capitalism 15.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Minimalist 15%, Simulation 13.8%
- #51 Upgrade! Inc.
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: rexty
Windows · Linux
Upgrade! Inc. is a satisfying text-based idle game about unlock and upgrade a series of production lines, hire employeesa nd researching for powerful bonuses. Simple, cozy, addictive, and endlessly engaging. Start your empire today!
Why similar: Simulation 24.1%, Minimalist 20.2%, Resource Management 17.6%, Text-Based 13.9%, Capitalism 8.9%
- #52 Scrap Yard Idle
67% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: David SecoPub: HeadArrow
Windows
Build your own scrap empire in this incremental idle game. Collect, process, and automate your production chain while optimizing resources and scaling your industrial system.
Why similar: Incremental 29.2%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 18.8%, Resource Management 17.7%, Management 9%
- #53 Party Tycoon
69% matchMixed48% of 395 reviews2017
Dev: Pinokl GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Manage your dream nightclub in Party Hard Tycoon, a business simulation game where you're tasked with throwing the most profitable party ever. It takes place in the same universe as tinyBuild's 2015 hit Party Hard.
Why similar: Simulation 46.4%, Strategy 40%, Management 8.7%, Indie 5%
- #54 회사 키우기
69% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: E.W.U gamesPub: DK studio
Windows
a company management simulation game
Why similar: Simulation 36.1%, Incremental 29.9%, Capitalism 17.6%, Resource Management 11.8%, 2D 2.7%
- #55 Weedcraft Inc
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,689 reviews2019
Dev: Vile MonarchPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.
Why similar: Simulation 40%, Strategy 33.2%, Management 10%, Incremental 8.2%, Indie 3.9%
- #56 AstronTycoon
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 56 reviews2018
Dev: ANG People s.r.o.
Windows
Take the role of an astronomer exploring the depths of the universe. Build large telescopes to explore distant stars. Discover a habitable planet or an unknown anomaly in a far corner of the galaxy. Get scientific grants, publish your results and explore new technologies.
Why similar: Simulation 46%, Strategy 42.4%, Management 6.1%, Indie 5.4%
- #57 Airport Master
68% matchMostly Negative26% of 58 reviews2017
Dev: STICLI Games
Windows
Very detailed game about airport management and aviation in general, including Real World aircraft, procedures, IFR\VFR traffic, ATC, resources, upgrades and sounds! Enjoy the Ultimate Airport Management Experience!
Why similar: Simulation 44.6%, Strategy 42.6%, Management 12.8%
- #58 EEP Train Simulator Mission
67% matchNegative19% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Trend Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Windows
Are you ready for a job in the railways industrie?EEP TS Mission is a true innovation. For the first time in the history of EEP, the world's most successful railway simulation , you have the opportunity to take on complex tasks in the railway industrie inmidst realistic scenarios.And there's plenty of work to do.
Why similar: Simulation 53.4%, Strategy 46.6%
- #59 Airport Simulator 2019
67% matchMostly Negative29% of 154 reviews2018
Dev: KittehfacePub: Toplitz
Windows
Airport Simulator 2019 places you as the manager of a major international airport. Your duties range from planning and allocating personnel to procuring and maintaining a vehicle fleet, facility maintenance and handling ever larger aircraft from a variety of airlines.
Why similar: Simulation 53.5%, Strategy 46.5%
- #60 Soviet Monsters: Ekranoplans
66% matchMostly Negative38% of 34 reviews2016
Dev: santasco.comPub: IV Productions
Windows
You are in charge of the day to day running of the Ekranoplan program. Manage resources and staff to keep your craft operational. When a mission arrives from on high you must be ready to face the challenge and pilot your Ekranoplan / command the crew to a successful and glorious outcome!
Why similar: Simulation 54%, Strategy 46%