Games Like Brew & Boom

The Last Helm is a management and trading simulation where you build and run your own shop in a fantasy world. Start from scratch, purchase goods, craft weapons and potions, hire employees, and organize expeditions to expand your shop.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.2% ★, Time Management 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Inventory Management 8.5%

Manage a space pawn shop in Spacepawn! Buy and sell goods with quirky galactic customers in a universe with no set prices. Discover the true value of items, combine various objects to craft unique new ones, and carefully manage your inventory space to become the richest merchant!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.5% ★, Inventory Management 13.8%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Economy 8.7%

Run a chaotic potion shop for one week in this cozy roguelike. Discover recipes through experimentation, serve unpredictable customers, and balance gold and reputation—while your snarky cat keeps watch.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.7% ★, Crafting 8.4%, Simulation 8.1%, Choices Matter 6.7%, Cartoony 6.7%

Run a witch's shop in this cozy fantasy store simulator while brewing potions, fulfilling orders, and organizing your tower to your liking!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.4% ★, Crafting 12.7%, Simulation 9.8%, Inventory Management 8.6%, Resource Management 7.7%

Welcome to Space Salvage Simulator. Saddled with an unfair debt, you're locked in a forced labor camp on the edge of the galaxy. Scavenge and craft from an endless stream of trash to earn an honest living, or bet it all in the underground arena for a quick jackpot. Pay your debt, buy your freedom!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.4% ★, Inventory Management 18.2%, Crafting 16.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Resource Management 9.3%

Run a cozy potion shop in a living magical economy. Brew remedies, read customer needs, manage workers and supplies, grow ingredients, and turn each day's results into a smarter plan for tomorrow.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.8% ★, Time Management 19.6%, Crafting 13%, Economy 9.4%, Choices Matter 5.3%

A slow-burn cigar-shop management game for quiet weekends. Stock a warm wooden humidor, learn the leaf, craft house blends, and build a reputation—an old-school, low-stress tycoon for players who enjoy atmosphere over hurry.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.2% ★, Time Management 20.6%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 7.4%, Crafting 5.5%

Run your own hookah lounge! Seat guests, pack the bowl, keep the coals burning, put out fires (literally) and grow your business from a tiny spot to a place worth staying for.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.6% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Time Management 10%

Run a kiosk in 1980s communist Poland. Check ration cards, distribute rationed goods, and dabble in illegal trade to support your family. Every decision can bring profit or trouble.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 50.6% ★, Resource Management 16.8%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Story Rich 6.9%

Start your own desktop manufacturing empire! Manage 3D printers, buy colorful filament, and dial in the perfect settings. Fulfill custom orders, physically stock your shop's shelves for walk-in customers, and even import your own .obj files to print and sell in-game!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.6% ★, Time Management 19.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Crafting 9.6%, Resource Management 6.3%

A blacksmith shop sim where every sale changes a life. Forge magic swords as an undying elf, read each customer's ambition and ethics, and choose who gets the blade, then watch it make them a hero or a tyrant. When they die, the sword returns to your anvil to be reforged into the next.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.2% ★, Time Management 12.2%, Crafting 12.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.3%

Onaka and the Witch’s Intern is a casual, singleplayer shop sim that explores the magical world of Obojima through the eyes of a young witch. Join our main character as she opens her potion shop for the first time, works to befriend the locals, and breathes life back into the small town of Onaka.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.6% ★, Crafting 12.5%, Resource Management 10.2%, Inventory Management 8.8%, Magic 6.5%

Run a weaponsmith shop in dark medieval city of Greyhaven. Sell weapons, manage gold, debt, materials, and fame, while customers, beggars, bandits, and rumors reveal the consequences of every choice.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 49.6% ★, Choices Matter 13.2%, Story Rich 8.4%, Economy 6.8%, Simulation 6.6%

An incremental game of spell-driven gathering and alchemy shopkeeping. Summon skeletons and goblins, gather materials, craft goods and run your shop. Unlock recipes, expand the shop and follow the talent tree to relearn elemental magic and regain your powers as an archmage.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.3% ★, Resource Management 15.7%, Economy 8.4%, Simulation 7.9%, Crafting 6.8%

Run a medieval blacksmith shop in co-op. Gather resources, forge tools, stock your shelves, and grow a thriving business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.7% ★, Crafting 13.9%, Resource Management 12%, Inventory Management 11.5%, Time Management 10.3%

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: Shop Keeper 35% ★, Crafting 16.5%, Inventory Management 14.6%, Time Management 13.5%, Simulation 7.8%

In a postwar world where even memories can be used as collateral, you become the owner of a small pawnshop. Speak with customers, judge the value of their memories and belongings, and over 30 days of running the shop, uncover forgotten truths and the story of the protagonist.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 59% ★, Simulation 13.1%, Choices Matter 12.9%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Atmospheric 2.3%

Build your own medieval fantasy shop and sell armor, weapons, potions and more to earn money. Send out adventurers to gather goods and combine them to create more powerful and more valuable goods.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.8% ★, Crafting 12.6%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Economy 7.8%

As a new Merchant in the bustling city of Rosewall you'll manage your own shop, craft artisan goods, hire Companions, and even unravel a mystery of the city! Immerse yourself in a fantasy world where conflict is a thing of the past in this visual novel meets shopkeeper simulator.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.5% ★, Crafting 13%, Resource Management 11.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%, Inventory Management 8.2%

You run a parcel locker on a rainy street. You also work for an agency that prevents global disasters, using whatever happens to be in your cells. Save the world with someone's socks.

Why similar: Time Management 18.1%, Inventory Management 18.1%, Shop Keeper 15.9% ★, Resource Management 15%, Economy 10.9%

Build, manage, and expand your own supermarket from scratch! Stock shelves with popular products, set strategic prices, handle checkout payments, hire staff, and build the ultimate supermarket empire in town.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 56.8% ★, Crafting 20.5%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Build and run your own bakery in space as orders start stacking up. Keep the machines moving, prepare sweet treats, manage your robot helpers, and turn your little shop into the galaxy’s busiest bakery — solo or with friends.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.5% ★, Time Management 16.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Inventory Management 10.7%

As a merchant in a city caught between warring powers, build relationships with unique characters, expand your store, and discover the true price of doing business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Story Rich 8.9%, Multiple Endings 8.6%

You are running an item shop and selling items to pay off your debt. Experience a blend of relaxing shop management and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling in this UI-driven adventure!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.2% ★, Time Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Inventory Management 9.1%

Build a basement hosting empire solo or in co-op. Buy and place servers, install server apps, set your prices, accept time-limited customer contracts, and balance power, internet, heat, and hardware failures as you expand your operation.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.5% ★, Time Management 17.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Crafting 9.1%, Inventory Management 7.9%

1889 Trade is a resource-market trading & management game. Start with Wood and Cereals, expand into new commodities, upgrade production, and survive SHOCKS/CRASHES, fees, and taxes as prices evolve.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.6% ★, Time Management 22.1%, Simulation 13.6%, Resource Management 10%, Economy 7.1%

Run your own blacksmith shop in this immersive simulation game! Craft and sell swords, shields, armor, and more to satisfy your customers, earn profits, and expand your business. Manage your forge with a dynamic day-night cycle and become a legendary blacksmith!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36% ★, Time Management 18.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Economy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.3%

"Tokatonton: One-Armed Blacksmith" is a medieval forge management sim. Craft unique weapons, satisfy demanding customers, or take risky deals for profit. Rebuild a crumbling forge with two struggling blacksmiths.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.3% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Resource Management 10.6%, Inventory Management 10.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%

Build and run your own hobby shop in this first-person store management sim. Order stock, fill shelves, set prices, match kits with paints through the Hobby Basket System, and let customers bring their projects to life at Build Tables.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.8% ★, Resource Management 17.6%, Time Management 17%, Economy 10.9%, Simulation 6.9%

Search the town's trash for hidden valuables. Clean and restore promising finds or dismantle them for raw materials. Put your goods up for sale, haggle with customers, and turn someone else's trash into profit.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.1% ★, Time Management 17%, Crafting 11.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 7.9%

Run the motel by day. Solve the paranormal cases by night

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.5% ★, Time Management 20.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Economy 5%

A calm, story-driven simulator where every crafted part matters. Run your tiny workshop, meet other robots, and discover how even the smallest detail can change a life in this forgotten city of machines.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.3% ★, Crafting 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.7%, Simulation 11%, Story Rich 5.4%

Grab your tools and start mowing! A Game About Cutting Grass is a cozy, relaxing mowing sim where you cut lawn after lawn, upgrade your tools, unlock new zones, and play at your own pace. Relax, or chase your best times and become the fastest grass cutter!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.2% ★, Time Management 22.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Economy 6.2%, Resource Management 6.1%

Become a rising merchant in Shopkeeper’s Legacy, a shopkeeping sim where adventurers rely on your crafted weapons and gear. Gather rare materials, unlock powerful crafting stations, and manage your growing business. Earn reviews, master the market, and prove yourself worthy of the Merchants Guild.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 51.3% ★, Time Management 26.7%, Simulation 6.1%, Economy 4.4%, Fantasy 3.9%

Run a cozy neighborhood malatang shop. Pick, weigh, slice and cook each bowl yourself, balance broth and heat, and serve every customer exactly what they like. Restock, price, survive the rush and grow your shop with 16 recipes to unlock. Play solo or team up with up to 4 players in LAN co-op.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.2% ★, Time Management 20.5%, Crafting 15.8%, Inventory Management 7%, Resource Management 7%

SpellSimmer is a cozy fantasy cooking game where customers hide what they want behind clues. Decode their requests, combine ingredient properties, cook the right dishes, shape a light or dark reputation, and build your kitchen through talents, helpers, and upgrades.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.1% ★, Inventory Management 14.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Run your own Leberkäse restaurant in Vienna! Prepare Leberkäse sandwiches, deal with grumpy customers, and grow your place into a thriving restaurant in the heart of the city.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 51.5% ★, Time Management 19.3%, Crafting 14.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Economy 5.6%

Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk shopkeeping simulator set in a dystopian space station. Craft, trade, and smuggle goods of questionable origin, navigate faction loyalties, and stop rampant AI by killing those it controls. Earn enough to buy out your shop before rising rent forces your hand.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Inventory Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.2%, Choices Matter 8.3%

Run your own perfume shop in first person. Blend essences, bottle scents, age them in the vault, and sell to customers with exact tastes. Order stock, furnish the store, take commissions, and grow your reputation one bottle at a time.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.5% ★, Time Management 13.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 9.4%

Coin & Steel is a top down fantasy RPG blending blacksmithing, shop management, quests, and action combat. Forge and sell equipment, explore dangerous lands, battle monsters, expand into new businesses, and play card games at the local tavern.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.5% ★, Crafting 16.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 9.1%, Inventory Management 6%

Privacy Not Included is a first-person motel business simulator where you renovate and expand a rundown property into a full hotel—while using surveillance to uncover crime and decide to stay clean, stay neutral, or profit from it.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.5% ★, Time Management 15.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Inventory Management 10.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%

People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 51.1% ★, Choices Matter 13.7%, Simulation 9.9%, Story Rich 8.7%, Multiple Endings 5.4%

Run your own cozy garage workshop—craft handmade products, prepare customer orders, and deliver them to your neighbors while growing your small business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.4% ★, Crafting 16.7%, Resource Management 14.4%, Inventory Management 12%, Simulation 7.6%

Inherit your grandmother's potion shop and make it your own. Chop, squeeze, and grind ingredients to brew potions — stick to the recipe, or experiment and discover new formulas. Build your reputation, attract mighty heroes bearing rare ingredients, and decorate your shop with curious trophies.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.7% ★, Crafting 16.9%, Time Management 11.8%, Simulation 9.5%, Resource Management 9.2%

Manage your very own tavern as a wizard! Host guests from diverse races. Brew special magical drinks with potions and herbs, and serve delicious meals. Keep your customers happy with quick and quality service. Build your reputation, earn money, and take your tavern to the top!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.4% ★, Resource Management 14.8%, Crafting 14.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Magic 8.2%

Build, manage, and expand your own trading outpost on the harsh Silk Road. Draw water from the well, care for merchants' camels, trade goods, and upgrade your caravanserai from a dusty camp into a thriving desert empire.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.1% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Economy 13.3%, Resource Management 8.8%

Gossip & Potions is a potion-brewing and gossip-listening simulator about a witch named Owi, the small town she just moved to, and the very specific potions its very specific inhabitants need. Help them. Or don't. Watch what happens.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%

Dispatch drivers, manage fuel and inventory, and save your grandfather's delivery business from Sterling, the rival who's spent thirty years trying to put you out of business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.8% ★, Time Management 17.1%, Economy 8.3%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Resource Management 7.1%

Ye Old Seadog is a frantic tavern manager where you run a bar for thirsty pirates. Manage resources, serve drinks, and survive the chaos of a busy night. Will you become the legendary tavern of the Evenkeel Harbor, or walk the plank? Arrrgh!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.9% ★, Time Management 15.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Resource Management 6.1%, Inventory Management 5.9%

Take charge of your own bakery and serve freshly baked goods to your customers! Manage ingredients, knead dough, adjust baking times, and grow your business. Experience the art of baking with realistic production processes and detailed store management.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.8% ★, Time Management 16.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Crafting 10.5%, Simulation 10.2%

Chase rumours, read the market, and stay one step ahead of your rivals. Buy low, sell high, run your travelling stall, haggle with customers, adapt to changing laws, and use each day’s results to plan your next route.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.5% ★, Time Management 18.1%, Resource Management 17%, Economy 11.8%, Simulation 9.8%

You made a demonic deal to open your bar. With your friends, prepare cocktails, manage the chaos, and pay off your debt as you build your own bar empire.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39% ★, Time Management 14.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Inventory Management 10.1%

Infusion is a cozy, narrative-focused, coffee-making sim with branching storylines that takes place in a fantasy world full of magic and intrigue. Make different types of coffee, get to know your patrons, help them solve their dilemmas and become the best barista the Cordara has ever seen!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Choices Matter 5.4%, Magic 5.1%

A character focused, flower shop, dating sim where YOUR choices shape the town's future.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.3% ★, Time Management 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.4%

Step behind the counter of your very own sorcery shop. Witch Shop Simulator is a cozy first-person shop management game where you invent and brew custom potions, manage your stock, and keep your shelves full of magical wonders for customers to buy.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 54.1% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Simulation 12.3%, Funny 4.5%, Magic 4.5%

Can you earn a 5-star review? In this 90’s mall print shop simulator, race the clock, juggle broken printers, and survive impatient customers. The boss is out golfing, nothing works, and every mistake costs you. Work faster, think sharper, and keep it together.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.7% ★, Economy 12.2%, Time Management 12.1%, Simulation 11.7%, Resource Management 11.3%

Izakaya Diaries is a cozy sushi restaurant game. Alongside serving incoming orders, managing your restaurant, and progressing to experience new content with the money and fame you earn, you will also witness the historical events of the Edo period

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.6% ★, Time Management 22.5%, Crafting 17%, Resource Management 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%

Run the last shop of a post-apocalyptic town. Stock shelves by hand, price scarce goods, fill contracts — and haul what you don't sell down to your bunker, because surviving the night is the other half of the job.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.7% ★, Resource Management 13.8%, Inventory Management 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Time Management 7.8%

Embark on a Magical Shopkeeper RPG! Make strategic choices and face various challenges as you establish your store in Flame Plaza. Craft any type of potion. Fight enemies and complete quests to find new resources. Get ready for twists, and discover new ways of profit.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Economy 10.2%, Choices Matter 9%, Simulation 8.5%

Did you ever think, 'I want to make my own spells'? Then this game is for you. In a fantasy world full of magic, you're both a new mage and a new shop owner who is trying to advance as both. Buy new components, make new spells, and sell those spells to the customers who enter your spell shop.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.1% ★, Crafting 19.9%, Simulation 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 6.9%, Magic 5.1%