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 42%, Management 31.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Indie 6.1%, 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 27.7%, Simulation 24.4%, Economy 23.9%, Management 18.3%, Indie 5.8%

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 34.7%, Simulation 32.4%, Management 29.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Lead the emergency services, manage vehicles, coordinate various rescue workers and keep regular citizens safe.

Why similar: Strategy 59.1%, Management 37.3%, 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 38.6%, Simulation 38.2%, Indie 14.9%, Management 8.3%

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 41.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 22.3%, Economy 21.9%, Indie 11.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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 24.5%, Strategy 19.2%, Management 18.3%, Dark Humor 18.1%, Simulation 18%

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 26.2%, Simulation 22.5%, Strategy 22.5%, Management 18.3%, Indie 8.4%

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 30.3%, Management 29.3%, Strategy 15.4%, Economy 14%, Indie 7.4%

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 35.3%, Strategy 32.1%, Management 14.5%, Indie 11.4%, Great Soundtrack 3%

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 28.7%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 23.4%, Management 20.4%, Singleplayer 2.4%

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 24.9%, Strategy 23.8%, Economy 20.3%, Management 11.7%, Great Soundtrack 10%

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 31.4%, Strategy 27.5%, Economy 22.2%, Management 18.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 40.6%, Indie 15.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Dark Humor 14%, Great Soundtrack 13.9%

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 21.5% ★, Economy 13.7%, Management 9.2%

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 31.6%, Strategy 30.6%, Management 14.2%, Indie 11.2%, Great Soundtrack 11%

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 21.6%, Strategy 21.4%, Management 19.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%

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 30.1%, Management 24.5%, Simulation 23.5%, Strategy 21.9%

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 28.8%, Simulation 25.4%, Dark Humor 23%, Management 22.9%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Economy 34.1%, Strategy 22.9%, Management 22%, Simulation 21%

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%, Simulation 25.1%, Economy 25%, Strategy 16.9%, Indie 4.5%

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 28.7%, Strategy 24.8%, Management 24.2%, Economy 13.8%, Great Soundtrack 6.3%

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 32.3%, Strategy 23.9%, Management 23.7%, Simulation 20.2%

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 39.5%, Indie 16.5%

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 35.6%, Simulation 33.3%, Management 14.9%, Great Soundtrack 7.5%, Indie 7.4%

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 31.9%, Economy 26.5%, Management 21.8%, Strategy 18.2%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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

Why similar: Simulation 31.8%, Strategy 23.7%, Economy 19.4%, Management 16.3%, Indie 8.8%

Build and manage your underground scam empire in a city ruled by chaos. Expand your operation through illegal means, grow your workforce, automate your schemes, and uncover the dark mysteries hidden beneath the town.

Why similar: Simulation 28.6%, Strategy 24.2%, Management 23.9%, Dark Humor 23.3%

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 28.1%, Simulation 25%, Management 20.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Indie 7.2%

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 48.9%, Economy 34.5%, Management 15.3%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 28.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 27.6%, Management 19.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Indie 6.2%

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 24.8%, Management 23.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 21.4%, Indie 5.2%

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 28.3%, Economy 24.4%, Simulation 21.8%, Management 19.6%, Indie 3.6%

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

Why similar: Strategy 28.6%, Real-Time 24.2% ★, Management 24.2%, Simulation 13%, Indie 7.3%

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 34.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 23.8%, Simulation 20.3%, Management 19.1%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 28.1%, Simulation 21.9%, Management 17.8%, Strategy 17.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%

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 33.7%, Simulation 29%, Economy 12.9%, Indie 12.1%, Management 10.9%

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 50.8%, Strategy 44.7%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Exark is a run-based engine builder where you command a gigantic ark-ship. Construct buildings, hire crew with unique skills, and exploit powerful synergies to survive your voyage to the rim of the world.

Why similar: Strategy 44.1%, Management 43.3%, Indie 8.3%, Singleplayer 4.2%

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 35.7%, Strategy 32.8%, Simulation 28.4%, Singleplayer 3.1%

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 32.7%, Strategy 32.5%, Management 22.6%, Indie 9.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

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 26.9%, Strategy 24.1%, Management 19.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Indie 9%

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 28.1%, Strategy 23.5%, Economy 15.6%, Management 15.6%, Indie 8.9%

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 54.8%, Great Soundtrack 20.8%, Indie 14.6%, Management 7%, Singleplayer 2.8%

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 41.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Economy 15.4%, Management 14%, Great Soundtrack 11.3%

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 28.7%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 23.5%, Management 20.5%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Embark on an e-commerce startup journey in E-Shop Tycoon! Optimize warehouse logistics, hire and train staff, and design unique office spaces as your business grows. Handle industry events and marketing crises. Come grow your startup into an e-commerce giant!

Why similar: Simulation 32.6%, Strategy 25%, Economy 24.2%, Management 15.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%

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 22.1%, Dark Humor 21.5%, Strategy 19.7%, Management 18.7%, Simulation 11.9%

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 42.5%, Strategy 28%, Management 25.9%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: Economy 29.5%, Simulation 22.8%, Strategy 22.6%, Management 21.5%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Why similar: Economy 26.3%, Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 17.1%, Management 14%

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 27.2%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 20.6%, Management 20.4%, Indie 6.5%

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 29.6%, Simulation 26.5%, Management 19.3%, Economy 17.5%, Indie 7.2%

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 26.1%, Simulation 24.5%, Economy 22.3%, Management 17%, Indie 10.1%

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 28.1%, Simulation 27.3%, Economy 24%, Strategy 13.1%, Indie 6.1%

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 27.2%, Strategy 24.6%, Management 19.2%, Economy 18.7%, Indie 9.2%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: Economy 30.8%, Strategy 25.5%, Simulation 24%, Management 17.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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 31%, Simulation 23.4%, Economy 23.1%, Management 20.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%