Games Like Big Ambitions

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 44.9%, Economy 31.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 5.5%, Capitalism 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the essence of growing a small tech business into a massive corporation through strategic hiring and product development.

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: Capitalism 26.1%, Management 24.1%, Economy 24.1%, Time Management 8.8%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, complex business management experience where you build your own offices and manage every aspect of software development.

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 32.5%, Economy 29.7%, Capitalism 21.2%, Simulation 7.9%, Sandbox 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed simulation of the game development industry, allowing for extensive customization of your business operations.

A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.

Why similar: Capitalism 23.5%, Economy 20.3%, Management 14.4%, Life Sim 13.9%, Time Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly mirrors the life-sim and economic management aspects of Big Ambitions by forcing you to balance personal finances with career growth.

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 25.1%, Economy 24%, Capitalism 12.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Life Sim 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers the same hands-on retail management experience found in Big Ambitions, focusing on stocking shelves and managing customer service.

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: Capitalism 26%, Economy 23.8%, Management 22.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Immersive Sim 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the retail experience, requiring you to manage store layout, inventory, and staff to succeed.

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 29.5%, Economy 25.5%, Capitalism 18.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Life Sim 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying loop of managing a retail storefront, handling inventory, and scaling your business operations.

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 26%, Economy 23.8%, Life Sim 17.3%, Time Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a property management simulation that allows you to renovate and rent out buildings, similar to the real estate expansion in Big Ambitions.

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Why similar: Capitalism 23%, Economy 21.8%, Management 21.5%, Life Sim 11%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a comprehensive look at running a game studio with a focus on market trends and business expansion.

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: Economy 37.9%, Management 34.6%, Simulation 17.6%, Open World 7.9%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a highly interactive management experience where you must physically handle tasks while expanding your business infrastructure.

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 29%, Capitalism 19.1%, Economy 19.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Time Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges you to manage a newspaper empire, balancing editorial decisions with the physical expansion of your office tower.

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 58.3%, Economy 20.3%, Simulation 16.2%, Sandbox 3.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management sim that captures the progression of starting in a garage and expanding into a global development powerhouse.

What turns a drug dealer into a drug lord? Find out in DDS2, a first-person co-op sim set in a dynamic open world. Make contacts, cook drugs, and manage your cartel on Isla Sombra, where power is the only law.

Why similar: Management 28.6%, Inventory Management 17.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features a large open-world sandbox environment where you manage a business empire while navigating the risks of a criminal economy.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Management 22.5%, Capitalism 21.6%, Economy 19.3%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep resource management and infrastructure planning, perfect for players who enjoy the logistical side of Big Ambitions.

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: Capitalism 19.6%, Economy 18.7%, Management 18.6%, Life Sim 11.1%, Inventory Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a focused retail management experience centered on the development and operation of a large shopping center.

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

Why similar: Management 55.2%, Economy 18.1%, Simulation 16.3%, Sandbox 9%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the architectural and economic management of skyscrapers, which aligns with the property development goals of Big Ambitions.

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

Why similar: Management 63.9%, Simulation 22.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Isometric 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines complex management mechanics with a humorous, personality-driven approach to running a large-scale facility.

Megastore Simulator is a first-person management & tycoon game. Start small and grow into a massive two-floor megastore with forklifts, pallet jacks, and staff. Unlock and manage departments like Bakery, Clothing, Electronics, Sports, Music, Toys, Grocery, Seafood, and Vending Machines

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Economy 20.6%, Capitalism 16.1%, Life Sim 15%, Simulation 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to scale up your retail operations to a massive level, mirroring the late-game expansion of Big Ambitions.

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: Economy 31.4%, Management 29.4%, Sandbox 12%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the manufacturing and logistics side of business, allowing you to design production lines for your products.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Management 31.1%, Economy 29.9%, Capitalism 13.6%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the macro-economic side of business, requiring you to manage supply chains and production lines across a large map.

Computer Tycoon is a highly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Why similar: Capitalism 23.1%, Economy 21.2%, Management 17.9%, Time Management 9.3%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy approach to business management that spans decades of technological evolution.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Economy 36.5%, Management 31.1%, Resource Management 20.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on heavy industrial management and logistics, ideal for those who enjoy the complex systems of Big Ambitions.

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Management 28.6%, Economy 28.3%, Resource Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a complex business management experience set within a criminal underworld, requiring strategic logistics and expansion.

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Why similar: Management 29.1%, Economy 29%, Sandbox 12.6%, Immersive Sim 9.1%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique sandbox experience where you design and manage a virtual world for your AI players.

In Business Simulator 2026, you start with a small capital and aim to build a business empire in the city by deciding which business to start in which shop and deciding the prices. Business Simulator 2026 is a business simulation that will test your business acumen and strategic planning skills.

Why similar: Capitalism 23.8%, Economy 23.2%, Management 19.4%, Life Sim 11.5%, Time Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward business management experience that focuses on the core mechanics of entrepreneurship.

In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.

Why similar: Management 29.3%, Economy 24.1%, Capitalism 14.1%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building a business network through resource management and strategic territory control.

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 63.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Top-Down 11%, RPG 8.2%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends shop management with an adventure loop, providing a unique perspective on the economics of running a retail business.

Build your supermarket empire in Miami Beach! Start in a tent, drive to pick up wholesale cargo, and physically stock shelves. Survive the street economy, use your family to gather extra cash, and expand to two stores in this realistic business management and life sim.

Why similar: Economy 21.1%, Capitalism 19%, Management 18.3%, Life Sim 9.4%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a casual yet engaging retail management loop set in a vibrant, open environment.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: Capitalism 68.5%, Management 18.5%, Simulation 6.5%, RPG 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational shop management game that forces you to master the economy to pay off your debts.

Manage your product company ! Design concept and sell product on the market ! Dodge bankruptcy and rise to the top by making the best concept, the best pricing strategy and applying the best management ! Beat all those damn competitors !

Why similar: Capitalism 20.5%, Economy 19.9%, Management 17.3%, Life Sim 11.1%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox approach to business management with a focus on modern digital and physical storefronts.

Welcome to Biztopia! A unique trading city full of business and opportunities awaits you! Start with a small delivery, build your own trading world, and team up with friends to shape the city and discover the next big venture!

Why similar: Capitalism 19.4%, Economy 17.1%, Management 14%, Life Sim 12.1%, Inventory Management 8.1%

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 30.9%, Economy 22%, Capitalism 19%, Simulation 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%

Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.

Why similar: Capitalism 27.9%, Economy 26.4%, Management 21.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Simulation 6.8%

Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.

Why similar: Economy 20.4%, Capitalism 19.9%, Management 18.2%, Life Sim 12%, Sandbox 7.9%

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!

Why similar: Economy 26.6%, Management 25.8%, Capitalism 23.6%, Simulation 9.2%, Time Management 6.8%

Uncover a goldmine in the used car market! Sniff out deals, buy low, modify, and sell high. Your journey from amateur grease monkey to car dealer magnate awaits. How fast will you rise in this lucrative venture?

Why similar: Management 26.5%, Life Sim 20.8%, Inventory Management 13.4%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, Simulation 10%

Shape the history of the Hollywood movie industry in this sandbox business simulation game. Create the movies you've always wanted to see, hire the best team, research cutting-edge technologies, and dominate the Box Office. Can you rise from a small studio to a Hollywood giant?

Why similar: Management 28.8%, Capitalism 25.2%, Economy 24.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 7.6%

You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.

Why similar: Capitalism 19.2%, Economy 18.4%, Management 17.6%, Life Sim 13.4%, Time Management 7.9%

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: Management 34.8%, Economy 21%, Life Sim 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 9.4%

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: Management 24.8%, Economy 24.2%, Capitalism 23.1%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 7.6%

Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

Why similar: Management 19.6%, Economy 16.5%, Capitalism 16%, Life Sim 13.2%, Time Management 9.3%

A life simulator that leans heavily into the personal finance aspect. Pay taxes, take out mortgages, trade stocks, buy real estate, start businesses, or grind your way to victory as an employee.

Why similar: Capitalism 24.6%, Economy 21.5%, Management 19.2%, Life Sim 13.3%, Time Management 11.4%

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Economy 32.2%, Management 29.8%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: Management 31.4%, Economy 30.3%, Simulation 14%, Sandbox 13.9%, Resource Management 6.5%

"Internet Cafe & Supermarket Simulator 2024" is a comprehensive simulation game that combines the management of both an internet cafe and a supermarket. Step into the role of a shop owner, apply your business acumen, and expand your empire step by step.

Why similar: Management 21%, Economy 19%, Life Sim 15.7%, Time Management 11.3%, Inventory Management 8.9%

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: Economy 18.6%, Management 18.2%, Life Sim 12.4%, Capitalism 10.3%, Inventory Management 9.1%

A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich

Why similar: Economy 23.1%, Management 21.1%, Life Sim 18%, Time Management 12.3%, Sandbox 9%

Build and manage your financial empire from a small bank to a global powerhouse. Approve loans, trade bonds, hire staff, and master the market in Bank Simulator a business management sim and banking tycoon where every economic decision impacts your bottom line

Why similar: Capitalism 22%, Economy 21.4%, Management 19.6%, Life Sim 13.7%, Sandbox 7.5%

Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!

Why similar: Management 25.4%, Economy 22.4%, Capitalism 19.3%, Resource Management 8.2%, Sandbox 7.2%

Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.7%, Economy 18%, Management 17%, Life Sim 9.9%, Inventory Management 8.4%

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: Capitalism 24.6%, Management 23%, Economy 22.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Resource Management 7.8%

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Economy 37.7%, Life Sim 25.7%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 9.3%, Sandbox 6.3%

Build your empire from a basement. Trade stocks, run companies, date, raise kids, dodge the SEC, and retire a legend — or go broke trying.

Why similar: Capitalism 24.4%, Economy 19.9%, Life Sim 18.7%, Management 14.3%, Simulation 9%

DESIGN, SELL & EXPAND – YOUR SUCCESS IS IN YOUR HANDS. Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in Shop Simulator: Supermarket. Immerse yourself in the world of retail and start your own business today!

Why similar: Economy 19.1%, Management 17.9%, Capitalism 17.6%, Life Sim 12.2%, Inventory Management 7.3%

A business simulation has never felt this epic. Trade stocks, build companies, take them public, unleash financial tidal waves, sit at the table of a high-stakes gambler’s night, and climb the Rich List. Then you realize: the other side of the board is called The Order.

Why similar: Capitalism 33.7%, Economy 29%, Life Sim 19.1%, Inventory Management 7.8%, Simulation 5%

Build your business! control every aspect of a thriving vending machine business. Buy, place, and restock machines to increase profits. Do you have what it takes to manage, expand, and dominate the vending industry?

Why similar: Capitalism 20.4%, Economy 17.7%, Management 17.4%, Life Sim 9.2%, Inventory Management 6.9%

Manage your own supermarket, serving different types of customers and making the most profit you can! 🛒 Order products, restock shelves, play with your friends in co-op mode, chase thieves, hire employees, and grow your empire!

Why similar: Capitalism 18%, Economy 16.5%, Management 14.7%, Life Sim 10.7%, Time Management 9.2%

Build a criminal empire from the streets up. Commit crimes in third-person, run and automate illegal businesses, recruit your own crime family, fight rival organizations, and take control of a seamless open-world city.

Why similar: Management 31.8%, Economy 23.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 9.7%

Storage Hustle is a Simulation RPG where you go into storage auctions to buy different mysterious storages. Discover and sell many items, join Yard Sales and haggle your way for profit!

Why similar: Economy 21.9%, Capitalism 19%, Management 14.5%, Life Sim 10.3%, Sandbox 8.3%

Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.

Why similar: Economy 25.4%, Capitalism 23.7%, Management 21%, Sandbox 9.3%, Simulation 7.6%