Games Like Archeo: Shinar

Explore tea production intricacies with real-world research, select ideal terroir and clones, master plucking and processing, and create specialty teas for your unique brand. Unravel new flavors, unleash your inner tea scientist, experiment with endless creative ideas, and grow your Tea empire.

Why similar: Simulation 41.8%, Management 31.9%, Strategy 16%, Indie 6%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: Strategy 27.3%, Economy 24.8%, Simulation 24%, Management 18.4%, Indie 5.6%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Strategy 34.4%, Simulation 32.2%, Management 29.6%, Singleplayer 3.7%

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: Strategy 38.5%, Simulation 38.3%, Indie 14.7%, Management 8.5%

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Strategy 41.2%, Economy 23.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.8%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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: Simulation 30.1%, Management 29.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Economy 14.4%, Indie 7.3%

Economic strategy about managing your own brewery and pubs. Brew and sell beer. Ruin your competitors. Become a monopolist in the beer market of the city!

Why similar: Economy 27%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 22.1%, Management 18.4%, Indie 8.1%

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: Economy 25.4%, Strategy 19%, Management 18.4%, Simulation 17.8%, Dark Humor 17.6%

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 35.2%, Strategy 32.3%, Management 14.8%, Indie 11.4%, Great Soundtrack 2.8%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Economy 29.7%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 22.9%, Management 20.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: Simulation 24.8%, Strategy 23.6%, Economy 21.2%, Management 11.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.3%

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: Simulation 31.1%, Strategy 27.5%, Economy 23.1%, Management 17.7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.

Why similar: Economy 22.4%, Strategy 21.1%, Management 19.5%, Simulation 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.2%

Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.

Why similar: Strategy 41.1%, Indie 15.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Dark Humor 14%, Great Soundtrack 13.1%

Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.

Why similar: Simulation 25.7%, Strategy 25.3%, Real-Time 20.5% ★, Economy 14.4%, Management 9.4%

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 26.2%, Economy 25.8%, Simulation 24.6%, Strategy 16.6%, Indie 4.4%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Strategy 28.7%, Simulation 25.3%, Management 23.3%, Dark Humor 22.7%

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: Economy 31%, Management 24.6%, Simulation 23%, Strategy 21.4%

Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

Why similar: Simulation 31.8%, Strategy 30.8%, Management 14.6%, Indie 11.2%, Great Soundtrack 10.2%

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Why similar: Economy 33.2%, Management 23.6%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 19.8%

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Simulation 28.5%, Management 24.6%, Strategy 24.6%, Economy 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 5.8%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Strategy 35.7%, Simulation 33.4%, Management 15.3%, Indie 7.3%, Great Soundtrack 7%

Forge gear, run a shop, and send mercenaries into danger so you don’t have to. A cozy-but-clever crafting sim where business booms, heroes bicker, and dungeons provide all the “supply chain” problems you’ll ever need.

Why similar: Simulation 31.4%, Economy 27.3%, Management 21.9%, Strategy 17.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Manage a team of ghosthunters and free London from paranormal terror in turn-based battles. Develop your own strategy and build your business well.

Why similar: Strategy 24.7%, Management 24.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 21.4%, Indie 5.1%

Take over a small dungeon that no adventure is interested in as a new manager. You'll start with almost nothing and recruit minions, accumulate money, construct facilities, develop technology, explore the realm, have the dungeon's name up, defeat other dungeons and win the championship of the Dungeon League.

Why similar: Strategy 44%, Simulation 39.7%, Indie 16.3%

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: Economy 29.1%, Simulation 24.5%, Management 20.5%, Strategy 16.5%, Indie 7%

Run a fantasy town for adventurers. Save it from monsters. Save it from itself. Watch it crumble to dust. Do it all again.

Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.4%, Management 20.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Indie 6.1%

Recruit Ninjas, Hire Workers, build your base, train your Ninjas and send them on Missions!

Why similar: Simulation 31.4%, Strategy 23.4%, Economy 20.1%, Management 16.5%, Indie 8.6%

An HR management simulator about navigating workplace dynamics, hiring and training a diverse workforce, and balancing professional growth with personal life in a bustling cityscape.

Why similar: Simulation 47.9%, Economy 35.5%, Management 15.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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: Economy 28.4%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 20.5%, Management 19.7%, Indie 7%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Strategy 27.8%, Economy 25.3%, Simulation 21.5%, Management 19.7%, Indie 3.5%

Dive into the exciting world of finding long forgotten treasures. Grab your metal detector and set off to explore the countryside. What today looks like a peaceful meadow might have been the scene of a fierce battle in the past, hiding now the valuable artefacts. Ready to dig in the past?

Why similar: Simulation 59.6%, Great Soundtrack 21.9%, Indie 15.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Lost Artifacts — Restore the ancient city and defeat the dark priest!

Why similar: Strategy 28.8%, Management 24.9%, Real-Time 23.3% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Indie 7.2%

We live in a troubled world. Viruses, military conflicts - you never know what danger the world will face tomorrow. It's time to get ready now! Lead a bunker network and start developing society after a global disaster.

Why similar: Economy 29%, Simulation 21.6%, Management 17.8%, Strategy 17.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%

An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

Why similar: Economy 27.9%, Strategy 23.8%, Management 20%, Simulation 10.6%, Indie 8.8%

Play your cards right to conquer the world in the Roguelite 4x. Explore mysterious lands, survive against the barbarian horde, and grow your stone age empire into the stars!

Why similar: Strategy 34.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 20.5%, Management 19.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: Strategy 33.4%, Simulation 28.8%, Economy 13.5%, Indie 11.8%, Management 11%

Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?

Why similar: Simulation 28%, Strategy 23.3%, Economy 16.4%, Management 15.8%, Indie 8.7%

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 50.7%, Strategy 44.8%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.

Why similar: Simulation 32.5%, Strategy 32.3%, Management 23.1%, Indie 9.8%, Singleplayer 2.3%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Management 36.2%, Strategy 32.6%, Simulation 28.2%, Singleplayer 3%

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: Strategy 41.7%, Economy 16%, Simulation 15.5%, Management 14.3%, Great Soundtrack 10.5%

Strategy, trade and empire building on the old Silk Road. Spice Road is a town building, social and economic simulation game full of original challenges.

Why similar: Strategy 34.4%, Simulation 31.5%, Economy 15.8%, Indie 10.8%, Management 7.6%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Economy 29.3%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 23.1%, Management 20.6%, Singleplayer 2.4%

SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.

Why similar: Economy 43.4%, Strategy 27.2%, Management 25.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.

Why similar: Real-Time 33.7% ★, Economy 19.3%, Strategy 17.4%, Management 16.7%, Simulation 11.8%

In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.

Why similar: Strategy 25.8%, Simulation 24.1%, Economy 23.1%, Management 17.1%, Indie 9.8%

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: Economy 22.9%, Dark Humor 21%, Strategy 19.5%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 11.7%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Strategy 29.2%, Simulation 26.2%, Management 19.4%, Economy 18.1%, Indie 7%

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, Economy 24%, Simulation 23.1%, Management 20.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%

CoffeeBiz tycoon is a mix of entrepreneurship fun and complicated business simulation. Start your first coffee kiosk, brew, expand, hire, deal with competitors, build a well-known brand, risk, and do everything else needed to build prosperous and profitable business.

Why similar: Simulation 26.9%, Strategy 24.3%, Economy 19.4%, Management 19.4%, Indie 9%

The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space, and the gentle Meeps are the only ones on a quest to save it. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder.

Why similar: Economy 31.9%, Strategy 27.6%, Management 19.1%, Simulation 18.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Strategy 41.6%, Simulation 28.7%, Economy 18.7%, Indie 4.9%, Management 4.3%

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: Management 27.7%, Simulation 26.9%, Economy 25.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Indie 6%

Disco Simulator is a tycoon type game based on club management. Your task will be to set up the club from scratch, put up walls, arrange furniture, hire staff, plan events, invite artists, put on concerts. Create your own club!

Why similar: Economy 24.2%, Simulation 21.7%, Management 18.8%, Strategy 16.9%, Great Soundtrack 9.6%

A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.

Why similar: Economy 31.7%, Strategy 27.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

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: Dark Humor 25.3%, Simulation 24.6%, Management 24.2%, Strategy 23.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Run your fantasy RPG tavern - let travellers take shelter for the night and serve 'em the best mead of their life with a good dose of humor.

Why similar: Simulation 32.7%, Management 30.6%, Strategy 27.6%, Indie 9%