- #1 Music Wars Empire
97% matchMixed46% of 179 reviews2016
Dev: Antuan JohnsonPub: Music Wars
Windows
Take the role of a manager or CEO of a record label, and try to make your mark on the music industry!
Why similar: Music 38.7%, Simulation 24.1%, Management 19.2%, Strategy 16.6%, Indie 1.5%
- #2 Startup Company
96% matchVery Positive81% of 6,217 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 35.6%, Economy 25.4%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 9%, Sandbox 4.8%
- #3 Music Band Manager
96% matchMixed54% of 361 reviews2017
Dev: Hamsters Gaming
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Always dreamed of creating your own music band? We will realize your dream! Record songs, release albums and manage group activities! With the advancement of the group, managers will help you, and you will also have to face more than one difficult choice. Compete for a place in the top 100! Conquer the whole world!
Why similar: Music 42.1%, Management 19.9%, Simulation 15.2%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 8.1%
- #4 Game Dev Tycoon
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 45,058 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 43%, Simulation 26.2%, Economy 15.3%, Strategy 8.8%, Sandbox 2.7%
- #5 Disco Simulator
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Disco Simulator is a tycoon type game based on club management. Your task will be to set up the club from scratch, put up walls, arrange furniture, hire staff, plan events, invite artists, put on concerts. Create your own club!
Why similar: Music 35.1%, Management 18.7%, Economy 17.5%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 6.7%
- #6 Game Builder Tycoon
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
Why similar: Capitalism 25.5%, Economy 19.4%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #7 Mad Games Tycoon
93% matchVery Positive91% of 4,423 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 26.2%, Capitalism 21.3%, Economy 19%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 7.8%
- #8 Game Dev Studio
92% matchVery Positive85% of 685 reviews2018
Dev: Explosive Squat Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 27.5%, Management 26%, Economy 19.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #9 Rising Star 2
91% matchVery Positive94% of 692 reviews2020
Dev: Gilligames
Windows · Mac
Start a band, and take on the world in this music industry simulation/role-playing game. Success doesn't come without hard work, and making connections in your local music scene is the only path to stardom.
Why similar: Music 47.6%, Management 24.1%, Simulation 15.2%, Economy 10%, Resource Management 1.7%
- #10 Wall Street Raider
90% matchVery Positive93% of 210 reviews2026
Dev: Ronin SoftwarePub: Hackjack Games
Windows
Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!
Why similar: Capitalism 27.1%, Economy 18.5%, Management 16.2%, Text-Based 11.4%, Simulation 11.2%
- #11 CoffeeBiz Tycoon
91% matchMixed64% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: The Sociopath Software
Windows
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: Management 23.6%, Simulation 19.6%, Economy 17.1%, Capitalism 14.2%, Strategy 11.7%
- #12 City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
89% matchVery Positive92% of 1,885 reviews2021
Dev: Binogure Studio 🐺
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 26.8%, Economy 19.5%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #13 News Tower
86% matchVery Positive94% of 4,544 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 26.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 22.9%, Capitalism 20.2%, Economy 15.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 8%
- #14 Movies Tycoon
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 531 reviews2024
Dev: PixelCraze s.r.o.
Windows
Movies Tycoon is a simulation game where you dive into the world of film-making. Start with a humble studio, scout and manage top talent, customize unique characters, and direct blockbuster films.
Why similar: Capitalism 26.9%, Economy 19.2%, Management 17.9%, Simulation 12.3%, 1990's 8.1%
- #15 Rock God Tycoon
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 316 reviews2017
Dev: Fern NigroPub: EmberWulf
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Create, manage, and guide your very own band to success!
Why similar: Music 49.3%, Management 30%, Simulation 19.6%, Indie 1.1%
- #16 Music Store Simulator
87% matchMixed55% of 198 reviews2023
Dev: Crystalia GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
With Music Store Simulator you can lead a musical instruments manufacturing company. Create, sell, earn and reinvest improving and developing your business. Expand your Brand and climb to success in order to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments!
Why similar: Simulation 31%, Management 27.3%, Economy 27.3%, Immersive Sim 9%, Sandbox 4.9%
- #17 Ad Agency Tycoon
85% matchMixed68% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: BarCoffee Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ad Agency Tycoon is an Advertising Agency simulator set in the 60's. Choose the perfect combination for your propagandas, develop your company and conquer the golden age of publicity! Your advertising will come to life and face the tough market and the most feared of all: the public.
Why similar: Capitalism 23.9%, Economy 18.3%, Management 18.1%, Simulation 12.1%, 1990's 8.9%
- #18 March to a Million
86% matchMixed69% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run a music talent agency and make platinum-selling records!
Why similar: Simulation 35.3%, 1990's 21.6%, Pixel Graphics 13.6%, Management 13.3%, Strategy 11.1%
- #19 The Executive - Movie Industry Tycoon
84% matchVery Positive80% of 1,098 reviews2025
Dev: Aniki GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Capitalism 25.3%, Management 21.8%, Economy 18.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 7.5%
- #20 Hollywood Mogul 4
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: HMdesignerPub: My Indie Game Company LLC
Windows
Own the studio. Run the studio. Make the movies. Play Hollywood Mogul 4 and run your own Hollywood movie studio in a complex, immersive, business strategy simulation that is TEXT-BASED with NO GRAPHICS and MINIMAL SOUND.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.9%, Management 21.5%, Simulation 20.1%, Text-Based 18.8%, Immersive Sim 5.5%
- #21 MMO98
82% matchMostly Positive71% of 506 reviews2026
Dev: BiteMe Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Why similar: Capitalism 28.9%, Simulation 18.4%, Economy 14.7%, Strategy 13.3%, Management 12.4%
- #22 Pixel Shopkeeper
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 160 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel Prototype
Windows · Mac · Linux
Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!
Why similar: Capitalism 22.7%, Management 20.6%, Economy 14.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Point & Click 6.7%
- #23 STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,132 reviews2023
Dev: TERNOX
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
Why similar: Economy 24.9%, Management 17.9%, Capitalism 17.9%, Simulation 14.5%, Text-Based 12.2%
- #24 Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
79% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,010 reviews2026
Dev: Blood Pact Studios
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!
Why similar: Management 27.2%, Economy 24.3%, Simulation 20.8%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Resource Management 8%
- #25 Capital Simulator
82% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: chenjd
Windows · Mac
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Why similar: Simulation 24.4%, Management 21.6%, Capitalism 18.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Economy 15.1%
- #26 Mad Smartphone Tycoon
80% matchMostly Positive71% of 637 reviews2024
Dev: MiradilPub: Gamersky Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!
Why similar: Management 27%, Capitalism 16.7%, Simulation 15.2%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 9.6%
- #27 Music Store Simulator Prologue
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 360 reviews2023
Dev: Crystalia GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
With Music Store Simulator Prologue you can lead a musical instruments manufacturing company. Create, sell, earn and reinvest improving and developing your business. Expand your Brand and climb to success in order to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments!
Why similar: Simulation 23.7%, Economy 22.9%, Management 18.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Immersive Sim 14.1%
- #28 Industry Manager: Future Technologies
81% matchMixed58% of 314 reviews2016
Dev: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
INDUSTRY MANAGER: Future Technologies is a classic economy simulation in which you can build your own empire, research new sustainable products, and sweep aside the competition on your way to fame and success.
Why similar: Simulation 38.4%, Management 31.4%, Economy 30.2%
- #29 Rise of Industry 2
77% matchMixed64% of 215 reviews2025
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Why similar: Capitalism 26.5%, Management 19.8%, Economy 19.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 7.9%
- #30 SimCasino
78% matchMostly Positive74% of 757 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 28.7%, Economy 18.8%, Management 18%, Simulation 13.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #31 City Bus Manager
75% matchVery Positive91% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 38.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Capitalism 25.9%, Economy 22.4%, Management 21.4%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 6.9%
- #32 Market Simulator: Miami Beach
76% matchMixed45% of 76 reviews2026
Dev: Yusuf Islam SeyhanPub: Inspector Studios
Windows
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: Capitalism 25.2%, Economy 21.5%, Simulation 19.5%, Management 18.3%, Immersive Sim 8.2%
- #33 Epic Car Factory
78% matchMixed64% of 280 reviews2018
Dev: Zwetan LetschewPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Epic Car Factory puts you in the drivers seat of your very own car company. Build, market, hire, fire, and more in this fast paced business simulation. The failure and success of the company depends entirely on your decisions and how you react to the ever changing market place.
Why similar: Economy 32.6%, Simulation 23.6%, Management 21.9%, Strategy 11.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
- #34 Game Store Chronicle
74% matchMostly Positive72% of 60 reviews2026
Dev: Imponix Game Studio
Windows · Linux
If you grew up in the 80s and 90s and love video games, you’ll want to relive those days. Check the store reports, follow demand, stock the right products, set prices, and grow your shop into a thriving business.
Why similar: Capitalism 29.8%, Economy 20.2%, Management 17.6%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, 1990's 8.5%
- #35 Shopping Empire Tycoon
76% matchVery Positive96% of 72 reviews2021
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
This Game is Basically a Market Management Simulator. Make Your Store Get The Best Profit With Various Upgrades and Unlocks. Including Basic Clicking stuff, Managing Your Own Market , Upgrading and A game with the theme of reaching to going to next level.
Why similar: Economy 28.6%, Management 27.1%, Simulation 18.8%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #36 Festival Tycoon 🎪
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 230 reviews2022
Dev: Johannes GäblerPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Why similar: Capitalism 28.4%, Economy 19.5%, Management 17.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 8.6%
- #37 Gym Manager
73% matchMostly Positive80% of 324 reviews2024
Dev: Han GAMESPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.
Why similar: Capitalism 26.1%, Economy 20.9%, Management 18.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Immersive Sim 8.4%
- #38 Market Tycoon
77% matchMixed55% of 412 reviews2017
Dev: Protection GamesPub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Market Tycoon is a Tycoon game where you Grow your Market from a small Mini Market all the way up to a Hyper Market. Manage, create, and customize your market from wall paint to placing cashiers, shelves, and fridges.
Why similar: Management 39.2%, Simulation 31.8%, Strategy 18.9%, Sandbox 7.7%, Indie 1.8%
- #39 Game Corp DX
74% matchVery Positive88% of 3,083 reviews2015
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Management 38.4%, Economy 27%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 6%, Sandbox 4.1%
- #40 Tech Market Simulator
72% matchMixed64% of 81 reviews2025
Dev: Clap GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build and manage your own tech store! Sell products like keyboards, mice, and gaming chairs. Hire employees, grow your shop, and make it the best place for gamers to shop. Can you become the top tech store?
Why similar: Economy 36.3%, Management 26.6%, Simulation 20.4%, Immersive Sim 15.6%, Indie 0.7%
- #41 Wild West Supermarket Simulator
71% matchMixed67% of 201 reviews2026
Dev: SunDustPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Run a General Store in the Wild West. Customize and expand your shop. Make sure that your customers’ constantly changing needs are satisfied. Work every job yourself or let your employees stack the shelves and work the till. Find out what it feels like to own a Wild West Supermarket.
Why similar: Capitalism 26.8%, Economy 20.5%, Management 19.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Immersive Sim 5.9%
- #42 Computer Tycoon
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,015 reviews2017
Dev: Progorion
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 25.9%, Economy 18.2%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 10.2%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #43 Megastore Simulator
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,885 reviews2026
Dev: Yolo Games Studio
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 34.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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%, Capitalism 21.4%, Economy 21%, Simulation 16%, Immersive Sim 8.9%
- #44 This Grand Life 2
70% matchVery Positive88% of 310 reviews2025
Dev: Poking Water Games
Windows
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 30%, Economy 20%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #45 GamersGoMakers
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 399 reviews2014
Dev: gnifrebel Games UG
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.
Why similar: Simulation 35.5%, Management 34.9%, Strategy 16.7%, Economy 11.3%, Indie 1.7%
- #46 Banker Simulator
69% matchMixed60% of 780 reviews2026
Dev: Red Axe Games
Windows
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: Capitalism 25.5%, Economy 20.1%, Management 17.6%, Immersive Sim 8.8%, Simulation 8.5%
- #47 PUSHER - Drug Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive85% of 124 reviews2023
Dev: P4 GAMES
Windows
Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. Get ready for a experience where you'll combine strategy, risk-taking, and decision-making to build your criminal empire.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.5%, Economy 23.9%, Management 16.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Immersive Sim 7.3%
- #48 FACEMINER
67% matchVery Positive90% of 1,500 reviews2025
Dev: WristworkPub: Wristwork Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a biometric data harvesting empire from scratch in FACEMINER, the hardcore thriller clicker set in 1999. Classify data, upgrade mining infrastructure, and scale up your A.I. surveillance empire to obscene ends in this creepy narrative-driven incremental management sim with a dystopian twist.
Why similar: Capitalism 16.8%, 1990's 16.8%, Economy 16.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Management 12.5%
- #49 Showbiz Tycoon
71% matchVery Positive81% of 69 reviews2022
Dev: Olie Games
Windows
Own a movie studio, negotiate with talents, schedule releases, make money, expand your business and become the biggest in the industry.
Why similar: Simulation 42.2%, Text-Based 22.2%, Immersive Sim 15.9%, Strategy 13.7%, 2D 3.7%
- #50 Empire TV Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 900 reviews2015
Dev: Dreamsite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!
Why similar: Management 28.8%, Economy 25.5%, Simulation 12.1%, 1990's 11.2%, Strategy 9.2%
- #51 OFFBEAT
66% matchVery Positive98% of 401 reviews2026
Dev: Whetstone GamesPub: Pantaloon
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 56%
OFFBEAT is a music-tycoon game where you build the recording studio of your dreams. Collect and upgrade increasingly strange musical objects, complete jobs for cash, and record real, actual music.
Why similar: Music 40.8%, Management 18.1%, Electronic Music 11.3% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Immersive Sim 8.5%
- #52 Startup Freak
72% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: PulPul Games
Windows
In Startup Freak you take the role of a budding entrepreneur, and grow your very own software startup from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar company. Along the way you will have to overcome countless challenges. But the ultimate question you must answer: are you a Startup Freak?
Why similar: Simulation 28.6%, Management 26.2%, Strategy 18.6%, Economy 18%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #53 Rise of Industry
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,191 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 24.9%, Economy 24.4%, Capitalism 14.5%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 10.4%
- #54 AirlineSim
68% matchMostly Positive80% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: simulogics
Windows
Manage and grow your own virtual airline in this business simulation. Plan operations by acquiring aircraft and scheduling flights. Monitor finances using realistic tools as you cooperate and compete with other players on a real-time market and turn your company into a flourishing business.
Why similar: Economy 21.7%, Capitalism 20.4%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Text-Based 8.8%
- #55 SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim
67% matchPositive83% of 51 reviews2026
Dev: Billmeade Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 30.3%, Economy 19%, Simulation 18.5%, Management 13.4%, Strategy 11.7%
- #56 Grocery Store Tycoon
67% matchVery Positive84% of 121 reviews2025
Dev: Spyder Lab Gaming
Windows
Build and manage your own grocery store in first person. Run the register, stock inventory, hire employees, and expand your business from a small market into a thriving retail operation.
Why similar: Economy 32.6%, Management 29.5%, Simulation 21.6%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #57 Super Movie Tycoon
66% matchMostly Positive75% of 337 reviews2025
Dev: Yuedong Game
Windows · Mac
Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!
Why similar: Capitalism 24.6%, Economy 18.9%, Management 17.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 8%
- #58 Mall Simulator
65% matchVery Positive84% of 3,219 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.1%, Economy 19.9%, Management 19.5%, Simulation 13.3%, Immersive Sim 7.9%
- #59 Supermarket Simulator
62% matchVery Positive92% of 83,691 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 23.9%, Economy 23.4%, Simulation 23.3%, Capitalism 16.2%, Immersive Sim 5.5%
- #60 Corner Market
65% matchVery Positive88% of 120 reviews2026
Dev: Tiny OrbitPub: Crow Interactive
Windows
A relaxing idle market simulator that sits at the corner of your screen while you do other things.
Why similar: Economy 25.9%, Management 19.2%, Simulation 18.2%, Point & Click 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%