Games Like Business Empire

Open a restaurant on a fantasy continent and build a culinary empire, one dish at a time. Explore, gather, cook, and expand — while six rival empires plot their own rise. Survive crises, seize opportunities, and carve your own path to victory.

Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Building 7.6%

BoC is a historical 4X strategy game. Play on diverse planets with climate simulation and non-linear progression over the last 60,000 years of human evolution. Develop your own ancient civilization starting as a nomadic tribe from the last Ice Age.

Why similar: 4X 28.4% ★, Management 9%, Building 9%, City Builder 8.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

Bonanza Burger: Build, manage, and compete! Design your restaurant, hire a top-notch team, and battle rival managers. Conquer challenges, expand, and prove you're the ultimate fast-food mogul!

Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Capitalism 16.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Cooking 9.2%, Building 9%

You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Capitalism 19.1%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 10.6%

Build thriving cities in the Holy Roman Empire! Manage resources, production, and trade in a complex economy. Plan defense and siege. Expand your empire through military might or diplomacy and claim the imperial crown!

Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Capitalism 13%, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: Capitalism 19.1%, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 11%, Building 10.2%, Management 10%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: 4X 28.7% ★, City Builder 27.1%, Economy 10.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.3%

A tycoon game where you build and manage a courthouse. From small-town traffic courts to high-profile criminal cases you are the one in control. Build your courthouse, hire and manage staff, schedule cases and balance the pressures of efficiency and reputation.

Why similar: Capitalism 21.5%, Management 13.9%, Economy 13.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Building 12.5%

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Capitalism 22.4%, Building 13%, Economy 12.8%, Management 10.7%

Turn-Based 4X-like Strategy: Build the peaceful kingdom of Atlantis into a flourishing civilization. Plan carefully or be ready to adapt as the ancient Gods of Olympus rain down floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and all types of disaster.

Why similar: 4X 31.3% ★, City Builder 15%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Economy 9.2%

Chains of Acquisition is a multiplayer turn-based economy simulator where you strategically manage your corporate empire, grounded in real-world economic principles. Expand your supply chain, manipulate shares, master industries, patent products, and more to dominate the competition.

Why similar: Capitalism 19.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Economy 11.3%, Level Editor 10.6%, Building 10.3%

Apoikia is a city-building and economic simulation where you grow a settlement into a thriving hub by mastering supply chains, regional markets, and legal policy, with upcoming combat and free-market investment systems.

Why similar: 4X 23.6% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Capitalism 13%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10%

Lead a campaign of glory as you mine, trade, spy, & sabotage your way to victory. Your guild of dwarves must vanquish its rivals and conquer the realm in this turn-based economic strategy game. Lead your capitalist dwarves across new lands in search of gems and gold. For the Guild!

Why similar: 4X 28.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 10.4%, City Builder 9.7%, Resource Management 9%, Economy 8.6%

Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!

Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, City Builder 17%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.4%, Management 6.9%

Build. Grow. Dominate. A deep CEO simulator for finance professionals and ambitious founders, run your own finance firm and turn it into a formidable giant in the world of finance!

Why similar: Capitalism 26.7%, 4X 16.4% ★, Economy 12.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.6%

Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.

Why similar: 4X 20.1% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.7%, Building 9.7%, Economy 8.6%

CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

Why similar: 4X 28% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Capitalism 9.8%, Management 9.2%, Base Building 9.2%

A retro 4X game inspired by classic versions of the genre. Lead your people from a small nomadic tribe into a globe-spanning space-fairing civilization. Can your empire survive the Crucible Of Time?

Why similar: 4X 23.1% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Economy 10.6%, Building 8.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 8.7%

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Why similar: 4X 19.9% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%, Building 9.6%, Economy 8.7%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: 4X 23.9% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Economy 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.9%

Explore the galaxy, discover and colonize new planets to acquire enough resources. Design your ships, choosing from different hulls, weapons, shields, and several devices. Once you advance with technologies, new systems will be available, and you will have to update your designs.

Why similar: 4X 30.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.4%, Management 12.2%, Base Building 11.6%, Strategy 11.1%

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

Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Capitalism 13.9%, Economy 11%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 8.7%

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: City Builder 18.6%, Economy 15.2%, Management 14.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Capitalism 10.2%

Space Empires I is the first chapter of the Space Empires series. A classic galactic conquest and turn-based strategy video game where you are the leader of a race of intelligent beings building large spaceships for interplanetary and interstellar travel through warp points between star systems.

Why similar: 4X 35.1% ★, Management 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Strategy 10.9%, Economy 9.2%

The third game within the Space Empires series brings the dawn of a new age of exploration. Your race keeps running through the fabric of space and moves to other solar systems beyond your own.

Why similar: 4X 35.5% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Strategy 11%, Turn-Based Tactics 11%, Management 8.2%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Capitalism 15.1%, Management 13.2%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 12.2%

Guide a neolithic tribe using natural language. Teach hygiene, craft tools, discover agriculture, found religions. Every person is individually simulated — births, deaths, diseases, and famines emerge from 12 interconnected systems. Your words shape civilization.

Why similar: 4X 31.4% ★, Capitalism 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.1%, Economy 9.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.1%

What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!

Why similar: 4X 23.2% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.9%, Economy 9.8%, Building 9.7%

It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.

Why similar: 4X 25.4% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 10.5%, Building 9.4%, Base Building 8.7%

It is a city building game of Chang'an, the capital city of Tang dynasty in 8th century AD. Players will build the ancient city in an 1:1 proportion sandbox. Based on researches of history and ancient architecture, you will see a Chang'an city reconstructed in reality.

Why similar: 4X 25.8% ★, City Builder 21.1%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 9.7%

Build a living civilization from a single village. Guide your people across a dynamic landscape of rivers, farms, trade routes, and rival kingdoms as your society rises from the dawn of history.

Why similar: City Builder 21.6%, 4X 17.5% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.4%

Timeline is a turn-based strategy game where you can play through the human history from stone age to modern times. In the game you command wide range of units, make them collect resources and build buildings, towns and cities, explore the map and meet other players controlled by AI.

Why similar: 4X 27.7% ★, Level Editor 11.9%, Economy 10.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%, Management 9%

Fight for your people’s survival in this turn-based strategy game as you compete against other refugees for land. Expand tile by tile, defend your borders, and sustain your people through gathering or force. A streamlined 4X experience designed to finish in one sitting.

Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.5%, Resource Management 7.9%, Base Building 6.8%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: 4X 19.9% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Building 10.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Management 9.7%

Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!

Why similar: Capitalism 24%, City Builder 16.3%, Building 13.5%, Economy 13.3%, Management 13.2%

Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.

Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 9.8%, Economy 9.6%

Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.

Why similar: 4X 31.8% ★, City Builder 16%, Resource Management 12.3%, Base Building 10.4%, Strategy 6.5%

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 27.2% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Economy 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 10%, Management 8.8%

A fresh, modern city builder with charming aesthetics. Detailed agent-based simulation and scheduling. See inside buildings. Design and customize almost anything. Business-specific zoning, and mixed use zones too!

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Capitalism 18.5%, Economy 12.5%, Management 12%, Building 11.8%

Chinese Empire is an economic city-building strategy taking place in the picturesque areas of China. The prologue will introduce you to the world of Chinese Empire!

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Economy 14%, Building 13.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 10.2%

Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!

Why similar: Capitalism 18.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Management 14.6%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 13.3%

A New World: Kingdoms is a turn-based strategic 4X game. Carefully expand your kingdom by constructing buildings and managing your resources. Building your own empire is not easy; there will be challenges along the way, from mountains to navigate to your rival and his warriors.

Why similar: 4X 34.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.9%, Management 7.6%

Shape your civilization’s destiny in this epic turn-based strategy game. Manage resources, advance technology, and conquer through the ages. Every choice transforms history—will your empire rise to greatness or fall to obscurity?

Why similar: 4X 23.8% ★, Capitalism 14.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Economy 8.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.6%

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Why similar: 4X 36.8% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 15.4%, Strategy 10.9%, Historical 8.1%

Build a medieval trading empire across Northern Europe. Establish trade routes, influence politics, expand your cities, and compete with rival merchants for wealth and power in a dynamic economic strategy game.

Why similar: Capitalism 26%, Economy 17.8%, City Builder 14%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 9.4%

A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it all online through power cuts, heatwaves and hardware failures as your empire grows.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.9%, Economy 15.1%, Management 15%, Building 13.9%, Base Building 9.4%

A restaurant, a small local cafe, or a van with glowing hot dogs? In Nyako Restaurant, you can create your own business empire and conquer the restaurant world.

Why similar: Capitalism 18.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Level Editor 12%, Management 11.8%, Building 11.1%

Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Management 17.4%, Economy 11.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 9.8%

Lands of Rumour is a turn-based 4X game about hiding and gossip. Embrace the atmosphere of Robin Hood, develop villages, gather resources, recruit your men and defend your homeland in tactical combat, where every unit has unique abilities.

Why similar: 4X 32.7% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.3%, Management 9.5%, Building 7.4%

Cities Domination is a city builder, resource management and strategy game. Gestion all the units and resources between cities for create an empire, attack enemies cities, build, defend and expand your cities and dominate the castles... or lose yours.

Why similar: 4X 32.1% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Level Editor 13.5%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 7%

Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. Remember, war is money.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Capitalism 22.1%, Economy 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Management 9.1%

What happens when a Viking meets a Cowboy? He fights him, of course! The World is not big enough for both of them. World of Asgabas is a turn-based strategy game opposing multiple factions fighting to dominate the world!

Why similar: 4X 39.4% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.5%, Management 11.2%, Building 10.6%

The Archaeologists is a single-player settlement builder. Establish multiple settlements through manufacturing and trade. Raise great structures across the mountain to link them into one interconnected economy. Dig into the rock to unearth valuable artifacts and uncover a forgotten past.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Economy 14.6%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: 4X 23.7% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 10.4%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%

Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.

Why similar: Management 18.7%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 15%, Building 14.9%, Strategy 10.7%

Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?

Why similar: 4X 28.9% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%, Economy 10.2%, Management 8.7%

Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.

Why similar: City Builder 27.3%, Economy 15.2%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 11.9%

In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!

Why similar: Capitalism 29%, Building 15.5%, Management 14.5%, Economy 11%, City Builder 10.9%

Become the Landman of a fog-light station. Expand your hearth, harvest resources from the dark forest, and build production chains based on available permits. Attract tourists and traders — trade, feed, and entertain them. Develop your settlement according to decrees. Turn a profit in your new home.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, 4X 16.8% ★, Capitalism 15.9%, Base Building 10%, Strategy 9.5%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: 4X 25.3% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Economy 10%, Management 9.2%, Resource Management 9%