Games Like Bear and Breakfast

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.3%, Crafting 20.5%, Management 18.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, RPG 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Bear and Breakfast, this game centers on the management and expansion of a hospitality business in a cozy, fantasy-inspired setting.

Travel to the sleepy village of Caterwaul Way and rebuild your grandmother's cat cafe. Renovate your restaurant, befriend the local cats and townsfolk, forge lasting friendships, unravel catty mysteries, and build a home for dozens of unique felines!

Why similar: Life Sim 24.4%, Cartoon 21.7%, Management 17.9%, Relaxing 11.3%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title mirrors the management and decorating loop of running a shop while focusing on building relationships with both customers and cute animals.

Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the internet!

Why similar: Decorating 41.7% ★, Economy 12.1%, Life Sim 11%, Relaxing 8%, Family Friendly 6%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the creative, relaxing side of running a small business where customization and customer satisfaction are the primary goals.

Welcome to Amber Isle - a quaint, friendly village of prehistoric residents who are in need of a new shopkeep... That’s you! Craft and sell items, upgrade your shop, befriend your Paleofolk neighbours and customise the island to bring the village back to life and welcome even more prehistoric pals!

Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Life Sim 20.9%, Management 14.4%, Relaxing 8.7%, Family Friendly 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Players manage a shop in a world populated by prehistoric creatures, blending business simulation with the charm of a cozy life-sim.

Leave everything behind and open a tiny bookshop by the sea in this cozy narrative management game. Stock your tiny bookshop with different books and items, set up shop in scenic locations, and run your cozy second-hand bookshop while getting to know the locals.

Why similar: Life Sim 18.1%, Management 12.5%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Nature 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly relaxing management experience where you curate your own shop and engage with a charming community.

Welcome to Minami Lane! Build your own street in this tiny cozy, casual management sim! Unlock and customize buildings, manage your shops, and maximize the happiness of your villagers to complete quests and fill your street with love!

Why similar: Life Sim 22.1%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 12.7%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Relaxing 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A short, sweet management game that focuses on building a cozy street and keeping your customers happy through thoughtful design.

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: Economy 26.7%, Crafting 20.3%, Life Sim 18.3%, Management 14.1%, Family Friendly 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses heavily on the shop-keeping and inventory management aspects that fans of the building mechanics in Bear and Breakfast will enjoy.

Travel to the desert community of Sandrock and take on the role of a fledgling Builder. Use your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and turn your run-down workshop into a well-oiled production facility to save the town from the jaws of economic ruin!

Why similar: Life Sim 44.2%, Crafting 35.1%, RPG 10.3%, Simulation 5.7%, Casual 3%

Why You'll Like It: This life-sim features deep crafting and building mechanics that allow you to transform a space while interacting with a vibrant cast of characters.

Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.2%, Crafting 30.2%, Relaxing 15%, RPG 8.8%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines life-sim elements with town-building and management, allowing you to design your own island paradise.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 25.3%, Life Sim 24.8%, Relaxing 10.9%, Colorful 9.7%, Cute 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This life-sim features crafting and community-building elements that feel very similar to the progression found in a cozy management game.

Welcome to Cozy Grove, a game about camping on a haunted, ever-changing island. As a Spirit Scout, you'll wander the island's forest each day, finding new hidden secrets and helping soothe the local ghosts. With a little time and a lot of crafting, you'll bring color and joy back to Cozy Grove!

Why similar: Life Sim 20.1%, Relaxing 18.1%, Crafting 13%, Management 10.9%, Cute 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing life-sim that focuses on helping spirits and decorating your island, perfect for players who enjoy the slower pace of Bear and Breakfast.

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: Cute 30.3%, Management 19.1%, Colorful 15.9%, Family Friendly 12.8%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar blend of exploration, creature interaction, and base management in a colorful, whimsical environment.

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, Crafting 18.8%, Management 15.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, RPG 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines restaurant management with life-sim elements, allowing you to explore, gather ingredients, and build your culinary reputation.

Hey human, we've got problems! This town is crawling with troublesome spirits, and you're the only one who can see them. You'd better get that old bathhouse up and running, maybe that'll help them chill out!

Why similar: Life Sim 31.3%, Relaxing 13.4%, RPG 11%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 10%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a bathhouse for spirits, which provides a very similar 'hospitality management' feel to running a bed and breakfast.

DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

Why similar: Management 24.3%, Crafting 23.1%, Relaxing 16%, RPG 10.2%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly balances exploration with the high-stakes management of a restaurant, echoing the dual gameplay loop of Bear and Breakfast.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: Management 21%, Economy 21%, Simulation 13.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Animals 11.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistical and creative aspects of managing a facility, offering plenty of customization and management depth.

Coral Island is a vibrant, laid-back farm sim reimagined with multiplayer! Experience enchanting island life at your own pace: farm with friends, nurture animals, build relationships, hang out with a diverse cast of characters, and dive into the magical Merfolk Kingdom.

Why similar: Life Sim 36.9%, Crafting 25%, Relaxing 15.1%, Simulation 8.8%, RPG 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A polished life-sim that offers extensive decorating and community-building features alongside traditional farming mechanics.

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

Why similar: Management 56.2%, Simulation 31.7%, Family Friendly 4.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%, Casual 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more comedic, it provides the same satisfying feeling of designing and optimizing a building layout to handle customer flow.

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Economy 19.7%, Management 17.3%, Animals 15.8% ★, Nature 14.2%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: For those who enjoyed the animal-themed management of Bear and Breakfast, this offers a deeper, more detailed approach to habitat design and animal care.

Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!

Why similar: Crafting 32%, Family Friendly 15%, Relaxing 14.2%, RPG 11.9%, Cute 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends creature collection with town management and decorating, maintaining a lighthearted and cute aesthetic throughout.

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: Relaxing 23.7%, Life Sim 20.6%, Cute 12.7%, Story Rich 9%, Family Friendly 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the zen-like satisfaction of organizing and decorating spaces, which is a core component of the Bear and Breakfast experience.

Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!

Why similar: Life Sim 33.2%, Crafting 21.7%, Relaxing 13.1%, RPG 11.8%, Cute 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming life-sim that emphasizes character interaction and decorating, capturing the cozy aesthetic of the genre perfectly.

Escape to the magical life of your dreams in Fae Farm, a farm sim RPG for 1-4 players. Craft, cultivate, and decorate to grow your homestead, and use spells to explore the enchanted island of Azoria!

Why similar: Crafting 17.9%, Relaxing 16.2%, RPG 14.1%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Cute 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a magical take on the life-sim genre with strong emphasis on home decoration and cozy, collaborative play.

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: Decorating 53% ★, Economy 13.7%, Relaxing 9%, Simulation 7.5%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoyed the decorating and renovation aspects of Bear and Breakfast, this game is entirely dedicated to the satisfaction of fixing up properties.

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: Crafting 48.7%, Management 20.4%, RPG 13.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Story Rich 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a darker, more humorous take on the management and crafting genre, requiring you to maintain and improve your facility.

The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.

Why similar: Crafting 29.5%, Life Sim 28.5%, Relaxing 13.8%, RPG 9.4%, Cute 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This prehistoric life-sim focuses on community development and crafting, offering a rewarding sense of progression and building.

Winter Burrow is a cozy woodland survival game about a mouse returning home to restore their childhood burrow. Explore, gather resources, craft, knit warm sweaters, bake pies and meet the locals.

Why similar: Crafting 20.7%, Life Sim 14.4%, Nature 13.3%, Cartoon 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.1%

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: Economy 27.8%, Life Sim 18.1%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 13.1%, Family Friendly 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a direct match for the 'renovation' aspect of the seed game, focusing on transforming dilapidated hotels into luxury destinations.

Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!

Why similar: Nature 31.4%, Relaxing 19.6%, Family Friendly 16.3%, Cute 15.7%, Colorful 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, minimalist game focused entirely on the creative joy of decorating and expanding a garden space.

In Animal Shelter, your main target is to make your four-legged friends happy. Pet them, hand out treats, play with toys - and they will pay you back with great trust. Get to know the animals well enough to find them the best home! Don't wait any longer, open your animal shelter now!

Why similar: Life Sim 31.7%, Family Friendly 13.7%, Management 13.1%, Relaxing 9.2%, Cute 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This management game tasks you with caring for animals and improving your facility, mirroring the animal-centric management of the seed game.

Teddy’s Haven is a cozy shop sim filled with magic and charm. Sell over 400 items, decorate with 250+ decorations, and create the shop of your dreams. Meet mythical creatures, level up your skills, harvest the land, and uncover the peaceful wonders of life on Ursa.

Why similar: Decorating 38.1% ★, Crafting 14.2%, Life Sim 13.3%, Management 8.4%, Relaxing 6.8%

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Management 49.4%, RPG 25.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Singleplayer 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a satisfying shop-management loop where you sell items you've gathered, bridging the gap between adventure and business.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Crafting 27.8%, Relaxing 13.7%, RPG 9.5%, Simulation 8.9%

Build your own capybara spa in this relaxing point and click simulation game! Grow fruits, craft soaps and clean towels to pamper the capybaras during their visit. Furnish the mountain with gardens, baths and decorations to design the best capybara spa!

Why similar: Management 20.1%, Family Friendly 16.6%, Nature 14.2%, Relaxing 12.5%, Simulation 11.5%

Driven away by the cost of living, you and your childhood friend set off with the goal to turn things around and start a new life. Explore, gather, and build up the town from scratch into a place you'll be proud to call "home"!

Why similar: Crafting 22.8%, Life Sim 20.8%, Family Friendly 13.7%, Cute 10.7%, Relaxing 9.4%

Grab your backpack and climb on in, it’s time to hit the road! Head out on a gentle journey in your reliable old caravan, crafting hearty meals, running market stalls and sharing goodies with local townsfolk. Spread kindness, share, and help prepare for the annual Whizz Bang Fair!

Why similar: Crafting 36.5%, Life Sim 24.3%, Cute 13%, Story Rich 10.6%, Colorful 8.6%

Run your own cozy café in Tailside! Brew coffee, decorate your café, and follow small stories in the daily newspaper. Progress through days and levels to unlock new items, skills, villagers, and creature visitors.

Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Life Sim 17.6%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10%, Hand-drawn 9.8%

Restore an abandoned bakery and prepare pastries from farm to table! Grow fresh ingredients in the greenhouse, cook pastries & sweets in the kitchen and serve your baked goods to hungry customers in your own shop!

Why similar: Life Sim 19.1%, Management 16.8%, Crafting 11.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Cute 9.7%

Welcome to your Critter Café! Rescue and bond with adorable, fantasy critters in need of your help and build a new home together. Design and run your own café, care for your critters, uncover the secrets of mysterious portals, and create a wholesome café for all to enjoy!

Why similar: Life Sim 27.5%, Management 16.7%, Relaxing 12.3%, Family Friendly 12%, Cute 9.4%

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: Economy 23.6%, Life Sim 22.1%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Family Friendly 7.3%

Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!

Why similar: Life Sim 25.2%, Cute 16%, Relaxing 14.8%, Family Friendly 12.7%, Simulation 11.4%

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: Life Sim 23.2%, Management 16%, Resource Management 14.8%, Family Friendly 12.1%, Relaxing 11.7%

You have inherited your grandparents farm as they set off to travel the world. Work with Frank at the local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home. Aid Frank and Mayor Wilson in building up the town so it may reach it's full potential.

Why similar: Crafting 36.3%, Relaxing 14.4%, Family Friendly 14.2%, Cute 11.4%, RPG 10.2%

Embark on a cozy, open-world adventure with Hello Kitty and Friends. Befriend beloved characters as you explore and restore a mysterious island, solve ancient puzzles, cook delicious dishes, customize yourself and your cabins, and so much more.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.7%, Crafting 20.8%, Relaxing 10%, Family Friendly 9.7%, Cute 9.6%

Find inner peace in a small, open-world game. On these carefully handcrafted islands, you can take a nap on a giant monster, feed baby dragons, take care of the fauna and flora... ...but demons from your past might come back to remind you what you want to forget.

Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Crafting 18.6%, Nature 12.7%, Relaxing 8.7%, Hand-drawn 8.6%

Manage your very own Witchcraft Shop! Witchy Business is a job simulator game where you brew potions for your customers, collect oddities, grow flowers in your garden, upgrade your alchemy station, and thrive. Make sure you are quick to take care of customers and hex thieves!

Why similar: Crafting 25.5%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Relaxing 9.5%, Family Friendly 9.3%, Simulation 9.3%

Become a cat! In this cozy life sim RPG, you'll lead your colony into the mysterious Wildwood. Hunt prey, harvest herbs, collect magical treasures, & defend your new home from intruders. Build a thriving town to recruit new cats. Get to know the residents, fall in love, & raise a litter of kittens!

Why similar: Animals 40.4% ★, Life Sim 17.3%, Nature 12.1%, Family Friendly 7.8%, Cute 6%

Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?

Why similar: Life Sim 26.5%, Crafting 19.9%, Relaxing 9.6%, Family Friendly 9.6%, Simulation 8%

Pawsome Resort is a cozy life sim where you run an animal hotel in a charming pixel-art village. Design your resort, care for cute animals, grow crops, craft things, complete quests, and bond with villagers. With farming and RPG elements, it's a perfect cozy escape.

Why similar: Crafting 25.7%, Life Sim 24.1%, Relaxing 11.8%, Family Friendly 11.1%, Cute 8.4%

A wholesome, cosy shopkeeping game with no pressures, no stress, and endless good vibes! Uncover and clean trinkets then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful and quirky customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy better tools, plus expand and customise your space.

Why similar: Decorating 39.6% ★, Crafting 15.7%, Life Sim 14%, Relaxing 7.2%, Family Friendly 6.3%

Build and manage your own hotel, from a small property to a luxury resort. Design rooms, maintain cleanliness, develop amenities, and offer guests unforgettable experiences at your hotel!

Why similar: Life Sim 23.5%, Management 14.7%, Economy 12.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Relaxing 9.9%

Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?

Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Management 15.9%, Relaxing 11.8%, Simulation 10.8%, RPG 9.4%

Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.

Why similar: Economy 33.1%, Life Sim 22%, Management 15.5%, Relaxing 8.1%, Cute 6.5%

A new life awaits in Honeywood! Build a thriving community that will last generations in this cozy farm simulator. Farm, socialize, make friends, cook, craft, forage and uncover the secrets of the island! If someone doesn’t want to be friends? There are always other means.

Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Life Sim 19.4%, Management 12.9%, Hand-drawn 11.7%, Family Friendly 8.8%

From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!

Why similar: Decorating 47.2% ★, Economy 17.7%, Management 10.2%, Family Friendly 6.7%, Story Rich 5.1%

Gather exotic ingredients, brew complex mixtures, and expand your magically automated production lines -- keeping your shelves stocked, your customers happy, and your pockets full.

Why similar: Crafting 19.8%, Life Sim 19.5%, Management 18.7%, Nature 14.3%, Relaxing 9.7%

Whisper of the House is a cozy game about organizing and decorating. You'll take on various tasks from the townspeople—helping them move, organize, and clean their spaces. In the process, your gentle touch might make a difference in their lives, and perhaps uncover some hidden stories...

Why similar: Life Sim 30.6%, Relaxing 20%, Story Rich 11.5%, Cute 10.8%, Simulation 10%

Start an epic world-building adventure with Nekokami! Architect beautiful, peaceful worlds in a far-future universe ruled by Cats. Befriend wondrous yet whimsical spirits of nature. Restore and manage extinct Humans. With Cats in charge, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

Why similar: Animals 33% ★, Life Sim 14.4%, Nature 12.4%, Hand-drawn 6.8%, Cute 6.3%

A DEMO of "Sincerely, Robin" -- our upcoming management, cooking, and narrative game currently in development! Play as Robin and return to your hometown to regrow your late grandfather's bed and breakfast. Cook meals, connect with the community, and forge lasting relationships!

Why similar: Crafting 16.7%, Management 14.4%, Cartoon 13.9%, Hand-drawn 13.4%, Nature 11.5%

Customise and manage your train, tend to quirky passengers, gather resources, craft decorations, and upgrade your conductors style all accompanied by soft lo-fi tunes. Become a conductor and save your hometown Barrenpyre from environmental disaster!

Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Life Sim 20.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Relaxing 9.8%, Hand-drawn 8.1%