Games Like Arcade Paradise

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 34.4%, Simulation 18.1%, Realistic 17.6%, First-Person 14.4%, Funny 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same satisfying first-person gameplay loop of managing a rundown business, cleaning up, and upgrading services to attract more customers.

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 40.7%, Simulation 18.9%, First-Person 9.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the engaging hands-on retail management and stocking mechanics that make running a storefront so addictive.

Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.

Why similar: Management 58.7%, Simulation 24.5%, First-Person 9.3%, 3D 5.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar business-building experience where you manage inventory, serve customers, and expand a specialized nerdy storefront.

Internet Cafe Simulator is an internet cafe business simulation game. Build the best internet café in the world!

Why similar: Management 35.8%, Simulation 21.1%, First-Person 13.1%, Funny 10.8%, Adventure 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a tech-focused storefront, handling customers, upgrading equipment, and balancing daily operations from a first-person perspective.

Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.

Why similar: Management 30.8%, Simulation 18.9%, Realistic 16.4%, First-Person 13.5%, Funny 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It taps into the same hands-on, component-level interaction and workshop-based progression found in maintaining arcade cabinets.

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

Why similar: Management 27.6%, Simulation 20%, Realistic 15.7%, First-Person 13.7%, Multiplayer 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the rewarding loop of rolling up your sleeves, cleaning up messes, and renovating properties to build a profitable venture.

Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.

Why similar: First-Person 20.8%, Realistic 19.7%, Funny 19.3%, Simulation 15.6%, 3D 12%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the deeply satisfying, meditative chore-clearing satisfaction found in scrubbing toilets and cleaning the laundromat.

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

Why similar: Management 50.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Comedy 13.7%, Funny 11.7%, Retro 3%

Why You'll Like It: It combines humorous management simulation with layout planning and quirky staff optimization.

A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.

Why similar: Simulation 22.2%, Realistic 19.9%, Management 16.7%, Funny 12.9%, First-Person 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a frantic, physics-driven, first-person workstation experience that matches the high-paced multitasking of arcade management.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Simulation 28.2%, First-Person 23.9%, Realistic 16.8%, Funny 15.2%, Adventure 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a first-person interactive environment where you plan and execute tasks within structured daily time loops.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Realistic 36.3%, Simulation 28.7%, First-Person 16.2%, 3D 11.4%, Adventure 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: The detailed, hands-on mechanical interaction mirrors repairing and maintaining arcade cabinets in your back room.

Unleash your inner designer and renovate the hotel of your dreams! Embark on a makeover journey to turn this worn-out place into a successful getaway. Play with thousands of furniture pieces and accessories, and manage the hotel to get 5-star reviews!

Why similar: Management 28.2%, Resource Management 14.4%, Funny 13.9%, Realistic 13.4%, Simulation 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It lets you tear down, rebuild, and design a dilapidated property from the ground up into a thriving business.

Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

Why similar: Management 53.9%, Resource Management 25.9%, Simulation 18%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: You handle both the business management and hands-on preparation aspects of running a lively commercial establishment.

Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW

Why similar: Simulation 25.1%, Management 23.9%, Resource Management 15.2%, Realistic 11%, First-Person 11%

Why You'll Like It: Though different in tone, it shares the gritty first-person hustle of building up a small-time operation into a massive empire.

Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

Why similar: Management 82.5%, Simulation 16%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a property and business management sim with a colorful modern aesthetic and deep progression mechanics.

Emulate your favorite arcade games in an environment engrossed with retro realism and extremely detailed surroundings. Be filled with nostalgia and realise what arcade life felt like back in the 80’s/early 90’s.

Why similar: Retro 35.9%, Arcade 28.8%, Simulation 21.3%, Adventure 10.5%, Multiplayer 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: It immerses players directly into a 90s virtual arcade atmosphere filled with neon lights and playable cabinets.

Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Why similar: Management 25.1%, Realistic 18%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 13.2%, First-Person 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It revolves around transforming trash and neglected items into a functioning, profitable salvage business.

Search for valuable items stashed in abandoned barns. Take part in storage auctions, bid high and buy yourself a chance to find exclusive items hidden in the past.

Why similar: Management 32.2%, Simulation 19.4%, Realistic 13.5%, First-Person 13.4%, Funny 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends treasure hunting, retro garage culture, and running a quirky storefront business.

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.

Why similar: Management 30.5%, Realistic 21.6%, First-Person 18.6%, Action-Adventure 14.6%, Simulation 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a checkpoint business while engaging in hands-on inspection tasks and day-to-day progression.

Turn your entire digital life into a game. AArcade is a 3D desktop that launches shortcuts to absolutely anything you like. Join the anarchy of the persistent online metaverse, or remain in your own private reality. Casual in-game building features, plus hundreds of thousands of addons.

Why similar: Arcade 27.9%, Funny 16.2%, Simulation 15.7%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Comedy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox environment designed specifically to let you play your games inside a customizable 3D arcade space.

Experience the beauty and detail of mowing the Great British countryside in Lawn Mowing Simulator, the only simulator that allows you to ride an authentic and expansive roster of real-world licensed lawn mowers from prestigious manufacturers; Toro, SCAG and STIGA as you manage your business.

Why similar: Management 38%, Realistic 25.2%, Simulation 16.2%, First-Person 10.3%, 3D 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on methodical, satisfying chore completion that acts as a relaxing precursor to big business management.

As an Engineer - crew member of one of the first Mars colonies - you are responsible for repairing and maintaining Mars Rovers. In this advanced simulator you will learn the internal details of various Mars Rovers and their components.

Why similar: Realistic 60%, Simulation 35.6%, Singleplayer 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same intimate, diagnostic-heavy repair work required to keep complex machinery functioning.

Your favorite pawn shop experience is finally getting a sequel! Haggle like your life depends on it in this funny tycoon game. You never know WHAT is gonna stumble through that door!

Why similar: Management 65.6%, Funny 20.3%, Simulation 12.7%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pawn shop management game that captures the buying, selling, and customer interaction loops of a retail store.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Management 28.9%, First-Person 24.9%, Funny 17.1%, Adventure 16.8%, Simulation 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the cozy, colorful exploration combined with daily ranch management and economic expansion.

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: Management 31.5%, Resource Management 15.2%, Retro 12.6%, 1990's 12.2%, Simulation 11.6%

Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Management 33%, Comedy 18.4%, Funny 11.9%, First-Person 10.9%, Simulation 10.5%

In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.

Why similar: Simulation 24.1%, First-Person 21.6%, Comedy 20.7%, Funny 18.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It takes the mundane custodial duties of Arcade Paradise and turns them into a quirky sci-fi janitorial job.

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Management 52.1%, Resource Management 27.8%, Simulation 17.8%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines quirky management gameplay with a laid-back storyline and cozy aesthetic.

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 56.7%, Simulation 38.2%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the satisfying, tactile sense of organizing spaces and reflecting on passing decades through retro items.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Management 47%, Pixel Graphics 27.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Adventure 8.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: A darkly comedic management sim centered around handling tedious daily chores while building up a weird enterprise.

In Laundry Store Simulator, you'll start small and work your way up, upgrading your equipment, designing a stylish store, and expanding your services! Are you ready to own the best Laundry Store in the world?

Why similar: Management 24.8%, Comedy 19%, Realistic 14.2%, First-Person 11.1%, Funny 11.1%

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: Arcade 29.9%, Management 20.3%, Simulation 19.9%, First-Person 13.3%, 3D 8.6%

You're the last remaining video rental store. From humble VHS clerk to rental racketeer - run your video store and explore Reshoot Springs, building an underground empire. Expand with upgrades, side hustles, store membership, and more. Whatever it takes to survive - solo or in up to 4-player co-op.

Why similar: Management 29.8%, 1990's 23.9%, Simulation 17%, First-Person 14.9%, Funny 8%

Manage your very own comic book store! You can unlock over 70+ unique comic licenses, each having 5 volumes for you to sell to your customers! Upgrade your tools, hire staffs, and expand your store so you can have the best comic book store in the world!

Why similar: Comedy 19.7%, Management 18.7%, Realistic 14.9%, First-Person 12.7%, Simulation 10.9%

Dooms Hair Salon is a comedy simulation game about running a hair salon in a chaotic town. Survive by operating the salon alone or with friends!

Why similar: Management 22.7%, Comedy 22.5%, Funny 13.3%, Local Co-Op 9.7%, First-Person 9.6%

Relive the golden age of old-school video game stores! Sell hit games, deliver orders, trade and collect retros, hire staff, decorate and grow your store to be the best in town! Disclaimer: some game title parodies might crack you up!

Why similar: Management 33.6%, Resource Management 17.4%, Old School 15.6%, First-Person 13.3%, Simulation 10.6%

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: Management 40.6%, Funny 18.3%, First-Person 16.3%, Simulation 13%, 3D 10.2%

Manage renovations in 90s apartment blocks! Focus on quick profit and cut costs wherever possible. Client notices defects? Tough luck, the money's already in your pocket. Every day brings new challenges and decisions that can lead to fortune... or trouble!

Why similar: Realistic 20.4%, Funny 20.1%, First-Person 17.6%, Simulation 12.7%, 3D 10.6%

Laundry Simulator is a chill, ASMR laundry cleaning, and shop management game. Open your own Laundromat, and deal with dirty clothes and customers. Clean and manage your shop, upgrade your equipment, unlock new skills and hire workers. Your laundry empire awaits!

Why similar: Management 48.8%, Resource Management 20%, First-Person 15.6%, Simulation 14.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 29.6%, Comedy 22.1%, Arcade 19.3%, Funny 10.3%, Simulation 9%

Laundering Simulator puts you in charge of a two-faced enterprise – a hidden counterfeiting workshop with a laundromat as its front! Help Eddie Wiser run this crazy show and deal with small-business management, a criminal underground, nosy authorities, and a rage-inducing grandmother!

Why similar: Management 42.9%, Funny 22.2%, First-Person 21.1%, Simulation 13.8%

Furnish, Manage, and Maintain multiple stores in Laundromat Simulator! Collect and Count your hard-earned pennies and improve your stores to keep customers happy and maximize your profits. Expand your business, improve customer experience, and make your laundromat the best in town!

Why similar: Management 23.1%, Simulation 20.9%, Realistic 17.3%, First-Person 16.6%, 3D 10.7%

Build a local car wash into a massive detailing empire! Master advanced cleaning techniques with vibrant active foams, beat the clock for extra tips, and buy or lease new properties. Play it clean or risk everything with high-paying shady deals and secret backroom plantations.

Why similar: Management 23.9%, Realistic 22.1%, Resource Management 17%, First-Person 12.1%, Simulation 12%

Enter the exciting world of Arcade ownership! Play through the 1980's arcade revolution by buying arcade machines for your customers to play! Customize your arcade to increase its popularity! Manage your finances, capitalize on newly released games, but beware the pitfalls that could bankrupt you!

Why similar: Management 60.7%, Simulation 39.3%

Congrats, you're hired! Serve customers and maintain the Happy's Humble Burger Farm restaurant alone on the overnight. But be careful; things fall apart if you mess up! After work, head home and keep your eyes open for a way to escape the Barnyard Buds and their fast food fever-dream.

Why similar: 1990's 23.6%, Management 19.3%, Old School 10.7%, First-Person 9.9%, Action-Adventure 9.3%

Revive a closed-down gaming café and build it into the ultimate gaming hub! Manage rentals, sell gaming merch, and expand with PCs, consoles, and an in-house café to prepare and sell fresh food. Attract customers with unique gaming sections. Can you turn your dream café into a bustling success?

Why similar: Management 33.8%, Realistic 20.3%, Arcade 14.7%, Simulation 12.1%, First-Person 9.1%

🏢Renovate and manage a ruined office building🔨 Clean, repair, and furnish rooms, rent them to picky tenants, fix printers and coffee machines, enjoy an exaggerated office joke system, and survive daily chaos. Turn neglect into profit — money doesn’t print itself, even if the printer tries.

Why similar: Management 28.7%, Realistic 12.6%, Funny 12%, First-Person 11.5%, Resource Management 11.3%

Rebuild an abandoned theme park in this first-person simulation. Build rides, shops, and decorations, keep guests happy, earn stars, unlock upgrades, hire staff, stop troublemakers, and turn your park into a famous attraction.

Why similar: Management 45.4%, Funny 25.1%, Simulation 14.9%, 3D 14.6%

Manage your very own gaming cafe!

Why similar: Management 25.5%, Comedy 21.5%, Funny 12.7%, First-Person 12.6%, Resource Management 11%

The breakout title from Summitsphere, Antonball Deluxe is a retro, high-octane smorgasbord of ballbusting arcade action! Antonball Deluxe quite literally turns the breakout genre on its head, blending traditional brick-breaking gameplay with tight, intense platforming.

Why similar: Arcade 20.8%, Comedy 18.2%, Old School 13.3%, Retro 11.5%, Funny 9.6%

Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.

Why similar: Management 31.3%, First-Person 17.7%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 13.7%, 3D 11.3%

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 28.4%, 1990's 16.5%, Arcade 14.7%, Comedy 12%, Funny 9.5%

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Management 41%, Resource Management 18.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Realistic 8%, Multiplayer 7.7%

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

Why similar: Management 70.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Comedy 6.6%, Funny 5.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Buy cooking equipment, prepare delicious meals, and serve hungry customers. Upgrade your setup, read customer reviews, and expand your business to become the top fast-food joint in the city.

Why similar: Management 22.7%, 1990's 18.7%, Arcade 13.7%, Realistic 12.9%, Resource Management 11.5%

Compete with up to 4 players to build the most successful hardware store! Design your shop, manage inventory, hire employees, and influence market prices in this detailed business simulator. Master retail management as you expand your store empire.

Why similar: Management 30.9%, Funny 13.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, First-Person 13%, PvP 11.3%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Management 46.1%, First-Person 20.6%, Resource Management 20%, Simulation 11.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Cosmo’s Quickstop simulates the fast-paced thrill of managing a gas station… IN SPACE! Upgrade your services, please alien customers, and complete your daily chores through simple minigames that add up to a hilariously frantic experience with solo or couch co-op play.

Why similar: Management 33.7%, Arcade 19%, Local Co-Op 13.5%, Funny 13.1%, 3D 9.8%

A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system and silly prizes. Featuring 50+ modern inspired arcade machines and a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The Coin Game is made by a solo developer.

Why similar: Arcade 28.2%, Realistic 16.9%, First-Person 16%, Funny 15.8%, Simulation 10.6%