
Trade illicit cheese in a dystopian cyberpunk city filled with police killbots trying to hunt you down in this ASCII Art text-based early 80s retro trading game. Like a fine blue cheese, this isn't for everyone.
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Trade illicit cheese in a dystopian cyberpunk city filled with police killbots trying to hunt you down in this ASCII Art text-based early 80s retro trading game. Like a fine blue cheese, this isn't for everyone.

DopeNet
DopeNet is a stupidly fun, dark web fantasy drug dealing simulator. Buy low, sell high, FREE OUR CEO.

Narco Wars
The cult-classic drug economy game everyone has played is back... in 3D! 👀 You're a dealer in 1990s NYC with one goal: get as rich as possible in a month ⌛💰 Cocaine, LSD, weed, whatever's hot 🔥 Buy low and sell high for huge profit 📈 Get in a police shootout👮🔫 Or meet a hooker 🫦 Wishlist now!
DopeNet is a stupidly fun, dark web fantasy drug dealing simulator. Buy low, sell high, FREE OUR CEO.
Why similar: Crime 22.5%, Trading 19.9%, Capitalism 14.8%, Dark Humor 13.6%, Text-Based 12.4%
The cult-classic drug economy game everyone has played is back... in 3D! 👀 You're a dealer in 1990s NYC with one goal: get as rich as possible in a month ⌛💰 Cocaine, LSD, weed, whatever's hot 🔥 Buy low and sell high for huge profit 📈 Get in a police shootout👮🔫 Or meet a hooker 🫦 Wishlist now!
Why similar: Trading 24.4%, Crime 22.9%, Dark Comedy 16.8%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Management 8.6%
MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.
Why similar: Trading 25.3%, Capitalism 20.9%, Text-Based 15%, 1980s 14.1%, Management 9.2%
Wall Street is a casino. Literally. In this trading sim, the stock market is controlled by a 5x3 slot machine. Invest, spin, upgrade your system and manipulate the market to turn the odds in your favor.
Why similar: Capitalism 21.1%, Trading 21%, Cyberpunk 15%, Minimalist 11.5%, Management 10.1%
The Copperfield Department is a text-based puzzle game where players take over the role of a social media detective. As tasked by Big Business Inc., a company controlling the country, your job is to hunt for social media accounts that could prove harmful to their image.
Why similar: 1980s 15.5%, Crime 15%, Text-Based 13%, Capitalism 12.7%, Dystopian 12.6%
Late Stage is a stealth action game where you play as a mercenary, completing missions for megacorporations
Why similar: Capitalism 19.4%, Conspiracy 19% ★, Dark Comedy 18.8%, Dystopian 15.9%, Cyberpunk 13.3%
A Freaky Retro Platform Game
Why similar: 1980s 22.6%, Cyberpunk 21.8%, Dark Comedy 21.1%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Dystopian 11.9%
Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
Why similar: Trading 26.2%, Text-Based 22.8%, Capitalism 21.4%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 5.6%
Each person’s family name in the Continuum is given a debt which they must pay back, or they risk being wiped by the Grid.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 20.7%, Crime 20.6%, Text-Based 18.2%, Capitalism 17.4%, Dystopian 13.4%
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: Trading 28.5%, Crime 26.5%, Capitalism 16.9%, 1980s 12.8%, Management 9.4%
Unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of Druhyus' favorite celebrity playboy, Walker Kahmenos. Join investigative journalist Verity Lux, in this interactive fiction title and follow leads, conduct interviews, and submit your findings as you seek out the truth - before it's too late.
Why similar: Crime 25%, Dark Humor 17.4%, Cyberpunk 14.1%, Conspiracy 13.8% ★, Dystopian 10.2%
The world is over. Can you manage to rebuild? The nuclear apocalypse has finally happened leaving you in charge of a bunker. Accept or reject characters from your bunker to assemble the best group in order to rebuild when you finally resurface.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21.1%, Capitalism 19.1%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Dystopian 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%
In this rogue-like game, you embark on your journey as a captain during the tumultuous American Prohibition. Overcome challenges like inclement weather, relentless Coast Guard pursuit, shrewd Mafia dealings, and your own financial pitfalls, all while ensuring your path to wealth remains unhindered.
Why similar: Trading 33.5%, Crime 27.6%, Management 13.1%, Retro 7.3%, Stylized 6%
Laundering Simulator puts you in charge of a two-faced enterprise – a hidden counterfeiting workshop with a laundromat as its front! Help Eddie Wiser run this crazy show and deal with small-business management, a criminal underground, nosy authorities, and a rage-inducing grandmother!
Why similar: Trading 21%, Crime 20.1%, Dark Comedy 18.5%, Capitalism 15.6%, Dark Humor 14.3%
Get dice, use abilities, make deals- then profit! Cubic Currency is a game all about trading dice for cash- chasing after an ever increasing rent payment week-after-week, and dealing with all the insanity the future has to offer! From aliens, to tech, to cultish corporate leaders!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.5%, Cyberpunk 19.3%, Capitalism 17%, Dystopian 15.3%, Management 11.6%
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 29.9%, Text-Based 23.6%, 1980s 19.6%, Management 16.2%, Strategy 7.3%
Welcome to Shareholders an economy \ strategy \ simulator. Explore the depths of a simulated economy that is rich with mechanics and activities: from production and stock market manipulation to managing consumer demand and influencing global trade through exports and imports.
Why similar: Trading 28.5%, Crime 21.7%, Capitalism 21%, Conspiracy 16.1% ★, Minimalist 7.4%
Found a company, spread fake news, start riots and become immortal. In this cyberpunk management sim, wealth is power and corporations are king. Can you monopolize the globe and build a corporate empire that will stand forever?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 32.9%, Capitalism 21.6%, Dystopian 18.8%, Management 16.7%, Strategy 9.9%
Black Market is an item shop simulator where you are a shopkeeper that pawns items and strikes deals with your villainous customers in order to make rent. It’s a cutthroat world out there.
Why similar: Trading 23.2%, Crime 21.9%, Dark Comedy 16.6%, Text-Based 13.8%, Dark Humor 12.7%
Then They Came For Me is a fascism survival RPG set in an isolated neighborhood during the reign of a totalitarian regime. Take care of your neighbors, try to stay fed and sane, and make your choices carefully. Resist the regime or lick the boot, every decision you make has consequences.
Why similar: Crime 21.1%, Capitalism 18.9%, Conspiracy 18% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Dystopian 11.6%
Take the role of Redactor at Liaise, the world’s largest social media firm in the year 2062. Deal with noisy chat bots, hateful messages, fake news, and anything else that disrupts the fragile social ties in a dystopian world. Can you keep people engaged on the platform without losing your sanity?
Why similar: Cyberpunk 26.6%, Dystopian 21.8%, Capitalism 20.5%, Conspiracy 14.9% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%
You are VatBorn™ -- an artificial consciousness uploaded into a disposable memetic plasmid body. Your purpose: to provide frontline customer service at mega-bank Multiverse Mutual. BANKWAVE is narrative document / customer service simulation with escape room elements.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 28.5%, Dark Humor 19.8%, 1980s 18.1%, Capitalism 15.7%, Retro 12.4%
Dominate during the 80s arcade boom in this Grand Strategy Tycoon. Engineer hit games, control the streets and weaponize the stock market. Money is a physical object on the map; hire a Bagman to collect profits or Enforcers as muscle. Destroy the competition in a neon-noir financial war.
Why similar: Crime 20.3%, Trading 19.4%, Capitalism 16.5%, Cyberpunk 15.4%, 1980s 14%
Buy low, sell high, maximize your profits, but don't get caught in this cyberpunk arbitrage simulator roguelite!
Why similar: Cyberpunk 31.3%, Text-Based 18.7%, Dystopian 12.4%, Capitalism 10.8%, Strategy 10.4%
Stalks Stalks Stalks is a turned based, competitive, "stock simulation" where you hope to make more money than every one else. If you play by yourself, you'll always win! Try your luck against friends or strangers, and you'll likely lose!
Why similar: Trading 31.4%, Capitalism 23.4%, Text-Based 14.4%, Management 11.5%, Minimalist 10.9%
As Kiran Deshmukh, survive a decaying monolith in this classic survival horror. Uncover the psychological rot of a corrupt mega-corp and the grisly crimes of its Board. In this dystopian thriller, the bottom line is written in blood. Profit is temporary. Pain is eternal.
Why similar: Crime 23.2%, Cyberpunk 18.2%, Conspiracy 17.3% ★, Capitalism 17.3%, Dystopian 17.1%
Hack into the retro-futuristic world of Payload! A 3D isometric puzzle-oriented game played on a cube. Its striking graphics and gripping narrative offer a noteworthy experience.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 21.7%, 1980s 19.3%, Capitalism 19.1%, Conspiracy 13.9% ★, Minimalist 11.7%
Dive into the world of day trading with 'Simple Stock Trading Simulator.' Easy-to-play, yet challenging. Test your skills, reach goals, and experience the thrill!
Why similar: Trading 45.8%, Text-Based 24%, Minimalist 17.2%, Retro 6.8%, Strategy 4.3%
Help Shadowbro overcome a computer worm come to life and save the multiverse from colliding! Collect items, talk to employees, solve puzzles and explore the secrets of a company that caused everything to happen!
Why similar: Dark Comedy 21%, Capitalism 20%, Conspiracy 19.3% ★, Dark Humor 15.8%, Dystopian 14.1%
Botnet of Ares is an incremental hacking roguelite set in a cyberpunk world where everything is connected. Unlock upgrades, expand your botnet, exploit millions of devices, optimize your network & decide the future of humanity.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 25.1%, Crime 19.3%, Dystopian 19.3%, Management 12.5%, Dark 7.6%
Manufacture the tools and assemble the bombs that will raise our great nation above all others. You and your comrades will expand our new munitions factory in the eastern block.
Why similar: Trading 26.6%, Capitalism 21.1%, Dystopian 20.8%, Management 10.3%, Minimalist 8.5%
Distant Dials is a science-fiction MUSH (multi-user shared hallucination). It’s a multiplayer game requiring the player to create parts of the experience with others.
Why similar: Text-Based 15.7%, Capitalism 15.7%, Cyberpunk 15.3%, Conspiracy 15.2% ★, Dystopian 11.9%
A PvP spaceship management auto battler! Build a custom spaceship layout and compete against other players. Play your way and be a bounty hunter, space pirate, or merchant trader.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 22.7%, Trading 17.3%, Dystopian 13.4%, Retro 10.7%, Minimalist 9.3%
Interpret the crystal ball's prophecies to find tomorrow's soaring stocks and bet your entire fortune. Survive the madness of skyrocketing and crashing prices to become rich. You need to take revenge on the Fortune Teller Corp that fired you just for a little bit of embezzlement!
Why similar: Trading 35.3%, Capitalism 26.8%, Dark Humor 20.7%, Management 8.4%, Strategy 6.1%
Future? No Thanks! is a narrative-driven, open-world adventure set in an ecosocialist utopia. You're old, bitter, and scheduled for euthanasia. Enjoy your last day in a future that works for everyone but you.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 23.8%, Cyberpunk 22.9%, Capitalism 22.5%, Dystopian 15.6%, Dark Humor 13.3%
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: Crime 25.1%, Trading 23.4%, Capitalism 18.8%, Dark Humor 16.4%, Management 12.1%
Step into the gritty streets of the 90s Bronx, Fence is an economic management Simulation RPG where you barter, trade, and outsmart the streets as you fight daily to keep out of poverty and ambitiously journey to the top.
Why similar: Trading 32.8%, Crime 28.8%, Capitalism 18.3%, Management 11.2%, Stylized 5.5%
A satirical political sim where you start as president with $1,000,000 and one term to become a billionaire. Move markets with a single post, front-run the crash, rug your own memecoin, and bet on disasters you cause - while the auditors build a file on you.
Why similar: Trading 36.1%, Capitalism 20.3%, Crime 17.8%, Dark Humor 12.5%, Management 8.7%
The printer is bleeding, the Wi-Fi is haunted, and Ticket #666 just came in. As the latest hire for a company run by cosmic horrors, your job is simple: Swipe to survive. Make binary decisions to survive the night shift in this dark comedy desktop simulator. I.T truly never ends.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 22.9%, Dark Humor 18.8%, Dystopian 18.1%, Capitalism 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%
You’re trapped in a malfunctioning virtual reality with no memories—except of every video game you’ve ever played. Jack into a wild dream in cyberspace.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 29.8%, Text-Based 28.5%, Dark Humor 23.5%, Retro 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.5%
Invest into promising startups with sometimes wacky ideas. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.
Why similar: Trading 37.6%, Capitalism 32.6%, Management 14.3%, Minimalist 7.6%, Colorful 4.5%
Pay off your debts by working part-time in the nightlife district of Smile Town! Buy items from your friend Apple Ginger's shop to get an advantage at your part-time job.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 30.5%, 1980s 28.7%, Dystopian 18.6%, Retro 17.3%, Casual 4.9%
Acclaimed artist and solo developer Mitchell F. Chan tells six funny, gripping, and heart-breaking stories about a fictional video game, the ambitious CEO driven to make it the most valuable platform in the world, and the would-be millionaires who are pulled into its orbit.
Why similar: Capitalism 30.2%, Trading 20.1%, Dark Comedy 16.1%, Dark Humor 12.1%, Stylized 9.7%
A real-time crime management sim where you build a black market empire from a single hustle to a global operation. Buy fronts, launder money, smuggle contraband, set prices, and outrun the Police, FBI, and INTERPOL as your heat rises. Every deal is a gamble between profit and prison.
Why similar: Crime 44.9%, Minimalist 13.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Capitalism 11.2%, Dark 7.1%
Afterslave is a short visual novel about a boy that have reached culmination of his life in a totalitaristic country
Why similar: Crime 38.4%, Dystopian 33.1%, Conspiracy 26.2% ★, Casual 2.3%
You're James, a middle-aged office worker who just so happens to be a vampire. Someone stole your lunch. Find the thief, feed your goldfish, explore the building and DO. NOT. KILL. ANYONE. Easy!
Why similar: Dark Humor 24.1%, 1980s 23.4%, Dark Comedy 22.4%, Retro 12.4%, Text-Based 10.3%
Hum is a dark 2D adventure game with stealth and horror elements set in the bleak, retro-futuristic world of Postapoland. You discover that you cannot die, forever trapped in a nightmarish reality. Explore the world in ever shifting perspectives, reach the reality engine and finally die.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.1%, Dystopian 21%, Capitalism 20.5%, Dark Humor 18%, Dark 8.8%
Investigate the evidence, expose the lies and bring the perpetrator to justice! In Crime Investigator, you take on the role of an experienced investigator who has to solve brutal murders and complex crimes.
Why similar: Crime 58.1%, Text-Based 21.7%, Dark 12.5%, Casual 7.6%
Trade by day. Eat, sleep, and survive by night. Lose everything with a single bad decision. Neo Capitalist is a financial survival roguelite where the richer you get, the harder the system fights back. Play in a realistic stock market simulation or in a dystopian cyber-punk world.
Why similar: Trading 34.5%, Capitalism 21.6%, Text-Based 14.7%, Cyberpunk 14%, Minimalist 8.9%
YOU ARE NOT ALICE is a social engineering sandbox game where you play the role of a hacker who has taken over Alice's work computer. Your goal is to spread through her company by talking to her coworkers and convincing them to run a virus file you can send them.
Why similar: Crime 24.5%, Cyberpunk 23.1%, Text-Based 19.9%, Capitalism 18.9%, Strategy 5.8%
In Console Store Simulator, turn a small second-hand game shop into the most popular store in town. Buy and sell games and consoles, negotiate with customers, repair devices, open a game café, and grow your business with black market opportunities.
Why similar: Trading 37.9%, Capitalism 31.3%, Management 16.7%, Retro 5.8%, Casual 4.2%
From broke donor to city powerbroker earn money through unconventional private clinics, expand your influence, and shape population growth as the city shifts between love, fear, and chaos.
Why similar: Crime 38.8%, Dark Comedy 26.5%, Management 21%, Strategy 13.7%
Build, customise, and grow your cannabis empire from a tiny shop to a booming city-wide business! 🌿💼
Why similar: Crime 33.5%, Trading 25.3%, Capitalism 19.6%, Management 15.7%, Strategy 4.5%
As a Chicago mob boss at the start of Prohibition, you must make tough decisions to manage your crime empire. How many hoods to employ? How many clients to squeeze? How much to kick back to the cops? Don't be a schmuck, or you'll find yourself at the wrong end of a Chicago Typewriter.
Why similar: Crime 43.3%, Management 17.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Retro 14.8%, Strategy 8.9%
Build an investment firm, trade fictional markets, acquire income-producing property, and create your own ETFs as you grow from a small office into a financial empire in this player-paced management simulation.
Why similar: Trading 34.5%, Capitalism 28.4%, Management 19.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Minimalist 7%
Start your adventure in a game where you run a tavern at the heart of a fantasy world. Team up with guilds, beat your rivals, and uncover hidden secrets. Your decisions shape the story of a thrilling fantasy world, with surprises around every corner.
Why similar: Trading 29.8%, Dark Humor 18.8%, Text-Based 18.3%, Management 15%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%
N1NE: The Splintered Mind is a Cyberpunk narrative-driven game, designed for VR. In the year 2099 you play a resourceful detective as you explore, interact, investigate and interrogate your way to the bottom of a suspicious murder that will take you through the real world as well as Nu.Real.
Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.2%, Crime 22%, Conspiracy 18.8% ★, Dystopian 16.6%, Dark Humor 13.1%
A cyberpunk sci-fi adventure of epic scope. A galactic empire enriches CEO-Kings, yet leaves Les Misérables hungry. An ex-robo-marine turned dancer, goth alien hacktivist, and billion-year-old mentor struggle to free e-minds, organize resistance, & overturn the cosmic Neofeudal chessboard for good.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 20.7%, Cyberpunk 19.1%, Capitalism 17%, Dark Humor 16.6%, Dystopian 15.5%
👁️ Loop of Command is a cute automation puzzle about small horrors of corporate culture. Program obedient robots to survive your next performance review.
Why similar: Dark Comedy 26.6%, Capitalism 23.3%, Dark Humor 18%, Dystopian 13.2%, Minimalist 9.7%
Can you survive a night in St Fiacre's at tiny size? This feature-length interactive visual novel returns to the world of Sensus Supra, with better visuals, dozens of animations, more complex puzzles and even more dangerous giantesses hunting for your blood. Every action has consequences...
Why similar: Text-Based 21.5%, Dark Comedy 20.7%, Dark Humor 20.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Dark 7%