Games Like Another Brick in The Mall

The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 23% ★, Management 16.2%, Capitalism 15%, Building 14.5%, Economy 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most direct experience to managing a retail store, focusing on inventory, staff, and customer satisfaction.

Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!

Why similar: Management 18.4%, Building 17.6%, Capitalism 16.7%, City Builder 15.2%, Economy 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated mall-building simulator that mirrors the core loop of designing and managing a multi-purpose shopping center.

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

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 25.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Economy 7.9%, City Builder 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same grid-based vertical building and tenant management mechanics found in mall construction games.

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: City Builder 15.2%, Management 15.1%, Colony Sim 14.9%, Building 13.5%, Economy 11%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the challenges of vertical construction and managing the complex needs of various tenants within a single building.

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: Management 17.7%, Automation 16.9%, Capitalism 15.3%, Building 14.5%, Economy 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep building and management mechanics where you must design efficient office layouts and manage staff productivity.

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 15.5%, Management 12.9%, Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for grid-based building and management, sharing the same visual style and complex simulation depth.

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 36.4%, Economy 22.7%, Capitalism 22.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Sandbox 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: An expansive business simulator that allows you to manage various retail shops and offices within a living city environment.

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

Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Management 19.5%, Building 14.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management game that tasks you with organizing a factory floor and optimizing production lines.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Building 26%, Simulation 16.4%, City Builder 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features highly polished building and management gameplay with a focus on optimizing room layouts and staff flow.

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: Automation 20.8%, Management 20%, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.1%, Base Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the automation and efficiency aspects of management, similar to the logistics required in a large mall.

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 17%, Management 14.3%, Building 13.9%, Capitalism 13.8%, Economy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines building and management mechanics with a focus on economy and customer flow within a large commercial space.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Management 13.4%, Building 11%, City Builder 10.4%, Capitalism 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex management and logistics simulation that requires careful planning of building infrastructure and staff.

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 37%, Economy 19.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Building 9.3%, Real-Time with Pause 5.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Provides a focused management experience where you build and scale a business while balancing economy and staff needs.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

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

Why You'll Like It: A grid-based management game that tasks you with building a school and managing both staff and students.

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 18.1%, Management 17.6%, Building 15.7%, Capitalism 13.2%, Economy 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the architectural and operational challenges of building and running a large-scale hospitality business.

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Management 30.2%, Economy 21.3%, Simulation 17.5%, Building 12.3%, Capitalism 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hands-on retail management game that captures the day-to-day operations of running a shop.

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: Management 24.7%, Building 23.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 10.8%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that requires careful layout planning and visitor flow optimization to keep your business profitable.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 22.2%, Colony Sim 13.1%, City Builder 12.4%, Management 12%, Base Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep focus on automation and resource management within a building-centric environment.

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: Management 28.3%, Building 20.3%, City Builder 20.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on building and management mechanics with a focus on designing functional educational spaces and managing student needs.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Management 15.1%, Building 13.5%, Economy 11.9%, City Builder 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a strong focus on automation and logistics within a building and management framework.

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Management 24%, Building 20.8%, Economy 19.4%, Simulation 15.8%, Base Building 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A retail-focused management game that involves renovating, expanding, and running a busy roadside business.

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: Management 18.3%, Building 16.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Economy 14.1%, Capitalism 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines creative building tools with deep management systems, focusing on the guest experience and operational efficiency.

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 23.8%, Management 23.6%, Building 15.6%, Economy 10.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed management simulation that emphasizes the importance of room placement and efficient staff workflows.

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: Management 18.6%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 15.7%, Economy 14%, Base Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building and managing an entertainment venue, mirroring the shop-keeper and layout-optimization aspects of the seed game.

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 51.3%, Simulation 18.5%, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 4.3%, Moddable 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation that focuses on the growth and economy of a business over time.

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 26.4%, Building 14.7%, Economy 13.8%, Capitalism 13%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive management game that allows you to build your own office and scale your business operations.

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 16.5% ★, Automation 10.8%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Capitalism 9%

Why You'll Like It: A vertical management simulator that tasks you with building and running a successful casino and hotel business.

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Building 26.5%, Management 24.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Economy 12%, Sandbox 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most advanced building tools for creating detailed, custom environments while managing guest satisfaction.

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 19.2% ★, Automation 17.1%, Management 15.9%, Building 12.1%, Capitalism 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines shop-keeping and management with a focus on production and resource optimization.

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 17.1%, Management 16.3%, Capitalism 14%, Building 13.7%, Economy 10.7%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Management 21.5%, Capitalism 18.1%, Economy 15.9%, Building 14.4%, City Builder 12.9%

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 19.5%, Management 18.1%, Building 15.8%, Economy 14%, Base Building 12.8%

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: Management 15.6%, Capitalism 13.7%, City Builder 13.7%, Building 13.5%, Economy 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the building and management of a workspace, requiring players to balance budget and staff needs.

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 21.4%, City Builder 17.8%, Management 16.4%, Building 12.9%, Economy 9.6%

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Management 26.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%

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: Management 18.2%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 15.8%, Economy 11.9%, Capitalism 10.5%

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Automation 26.8%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.8%, Economy 8.7%

Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.2% ★, Management 17.1%, Capitalism 15.6%, Building 12.6%, Economy 12.5%

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: Management 16%, City Builder 14.9%, Building 14.8%, Capitalism 12.6%, Economy 10.9%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Colony Sim 15.1%, City Builder 13.7%, Management 11.3%, Building 11.1%

Run your mall. Open new stores, sign contracts with leading brands, hire teammates, and meet customer needs. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your mall.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.3% ★, Management 22%, Capitalism 14.9%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 10%

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

Why similar: Management 26.1%, City Builder 15.9%, Building 15.2%, Economy 13.9%, Simulation 12.6%

Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.

Why similar: Management 21.6%, City Builder 20.8%, Building 17.3%, Base Building 10.7%, Economy 9.1%

Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!

Why similar: Management 23.2%, Capitalism 19.9%, Economy 16.5%, Building 15.8%, Sandbox 9.4%

Take full control as you turn a quiet, empty shopping center into a thriving hub of life and profit. Stock shelves, set your own prices, handle payments, hire and train staff, and manage everything down to the finest detail. Every decision counts — and every success is truly yours.

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Management 19.9%, Capitalism 19.8%, Economy 16.4%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 20.6%, Building 20.6%, Management 20.5%, Economy 10.7%, City Builder 10.4%

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: Automation 21.2%, Management 14.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Building 10.6%

Build a retail empire across dozens of locations with hundreds of employees. Design every inch of your stores with a deep building tool, then fine-tune pricing, staffing, and product mix to stay profitable. Scale up, customize everything, and manage the details that make or break your bottom line.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.4% ★, Capitalism 16.9%, Building 16.9%, Management 16.4%, Economy 13.3%

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 23.3%, Building 21.5%, Management 17.9%, Economy 11.7%, Simulation 10.7%

Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Economy 22.5%, Moddable 14.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 6.5%

Design a towering mega mall in this mall management simulation game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 18.1%, Management 16.5%, Building 15%, Economy 12.7%

Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Why similar: Management 43%, Economy 21.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Building 9.5%, Sandbox 4.4%

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 15.2%, City Builder 14.9%, Management 14.7%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 10.5%

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 22.5%, Economy 15.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 12.3%, Capitalism 11.7%

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 16.3%, City Builder 14.9%, Management 13.6%, Building 12.5%, Economy 10.4%

Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?

Why similar: Management 21.3%, City Builder 18.7%, Economy 15.4%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 9.9%

Open your own bookshop! Order books, stock your shelves, and earn revenue. Use your profits to decorate, expand, and hire staff. Collect rare books that give powerful abilities. Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company along the way!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 21.4% ★, Management 18.6%, Capitalism 16.4%, Economy 14.7%, Building 11.7%

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: Management 20.6%, Building 19.2%, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 15.6%, Sandbox 8.2%

Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.5% ★, Management 22.3%, Economy 14.4%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 10.3%

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!

Why similar: Management 22.7%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 9.2%