- #1 Constructor Plus
97% matchVery Positive89% of 466 reviews2019
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!
Why similar: City Builder 36%, Strategy 24.1%, Simulation 20.1%, Building 10.1%, Comedy 9.7%
- #2 Constructor Classic 1997
96% matchVery Positive89% of 88 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Constructor is an exciting game of strategic action and ruthless acquisition where you’re constantly having to watch your back! You might be a small property developer but you fully intend to control the city…by whatever means necessary! Manage your resources and workforce with an iron fist, just don’t forget to keep your enemies at bay…
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #3 Basement
96% matchMostly Positive70% of 2,230 reviews2019
Dev: Halfbus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.
Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, Building 28.5%, Simulation 25.1%, RTS 16.2%
- #4 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
95% matchMixed69% of 13,234 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Building 25.7%, Simulation 24.5%, Violent 5.7%, RTS 4.1%
- #5 Cartel Tycoon
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,802 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 40.2%, Building 16.8%, Strategy 15.3%, RTS 14.4%, Simulation 13.2%
- #6 Evil Genius
94% matchVery Positive93% of 3,606 reviews2009
Dev: Elixir StudiosPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Comedy 20.7%, Simulation 14.7%, Building 9%, RTS 8.8%
- #7 Omerta - City of Gangsters
93% matchMixed67% of 2,397 reviews2013
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.
Why similar: Strategy 64.9%, Simulation 35.1%
- #8 Tropico 4
92% matchVery Positive92% of 12,733 reviews2011
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Why similar: City Builder 55.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 14.1%, Comedy 9.2%, Building 4%
- #9 Mob Rule Classic
91% matchVery Positive83% of 272 reviews2017
Dev: System 3
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 26%
This is a dog-eat dog world of corruption, murder and sex – and as the new kid on the block you’re looking a little like ‘milk on the bone’!
Why similar: Simulation 58.5%, City Builder 21.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Classic 8.7% ★
- #10 City of Gangsters
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,559 reviews2021
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Strategy 69.8%, Simulation 30.2%
- #11 Mad Games Tycoon
90% 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: Simulation 34.1%, Building 33.5%, Strategy 32.5%
- #12 Prison Architect
89% matchVery Positive89% of 73,696 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: City Builder 43%, Building 21.5%, Simulation 17.8%, Strategy 17.7%
- #13 REAL ESTATE Simulator - FROM BUM TO MILLIONAIRE
89% matchMixed44% of 216 reviews2024
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
Ready to transform from Broke to Rich while forging your real estate empire? Start small, strategize for tycoon status. Engage with diverse NPC clients, oversee properties from affordable to luxurious, and conquer challenges. Ready to dominate the real estate world?
Why similar: City Builder 58.9%, Simulation 21.2%, Building 15.4%, RTS 4.6%
- #14 Software Inc.
88% matchVery Positive94% of 7,806 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Building 40.3%, Simulation 32.8%, Strategy 26.9%
- #15 Tropico 6
87% matchVery Positive88% of 29,404 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Why similar: City Builder 56.7%, Strategy 20.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 8.3%
- #16 Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom
86% matchMostly Positive75% of 170 reviews2026
Dev: Jiao Games
Windows
Build and manage your underground scam empire in a city ruled by chaos. Expand your operation through illegal means, grow your workforce, automate your schemes, and uncover the dark mysteries hidden beneath the town.
Why similar: Building 35.8%, Simulation 33.4%, Strategy 30.8%
- #17 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,559 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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: Simulation 25.8%, Building 25.7%, Strategy 24.6%, Comedy 23.9%
- #18 Another Brick in The Mall
85% matchVery Positive83% of 2,448 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: City Builder 43.5%, Building 24.5%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 11%
- #19 Game Dev Story
84% matchVery Positive90% of 1,492 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 20.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Why similar: City Builder 49.8%, Building 21.2%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 12.7%
- #20 Tropico 3
84% matchVery Positive89% of 1,943 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?
Why similar: City Builder 53%, Simulation 20.8%, Strategy 20.7%, Comedy 5.6%
- #21 Sintopia
82% matchVery Positive81% of 1,065 reviews2026
Dev: Piraknights GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.
Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Building 16.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Comedy 12.9%
- #22 Scam Center Simulator: Prologue
81% matchVery Positive83% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Jiao Games
Windows
Run your own scam centre and pay off your debt. Expand your business by recruiting workers through shady means. Bribe the police, trade with others, and use every strategy to survive in this city. Will you rise to power or fall under the pressure? The choice is yours.
Why similar: Simulation 42.9%, Strategy 27.3%, Building 21.7%, Violent 8.2%
- #23 Office Management 101
83% matchMixed64% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: City Builder 44.6%, Building 21.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 16.6%
- #24 Game Corp DX
82% 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: Simulation 47.7%, Strategy 25.1%, Building 19.6%, Comedy 7.7%
- #25 Drug Lord Tycoon
81% matchVery Positive83% of 1,708 reviews2024
Dev: Duhndal
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.
Why similar: Building 34.2%, Simulation 33.6%, Strategy 32.2%
- #26 Low-Budget Repairs
78% matchMixed66% of 2,003 reviews2026
Dev: Gray2RGBPub: Simplicity Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Manage renovations in 90s apartment blocks! Focus on quick profit and cut costs wherever possible. Client notices defects? Tough luck, the money's already in your pocket. Every day brings new challenges and decisions that can lead to fortune... or trouble!
Why similar: Building 51.3%, Simulation 48.7%
- #27 Hell Architect
80% matchMixed69% of 451 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: City Builder 48.3%, Building 17.3%, Strategy 14.9%, Comedy 11.3%, Simulation 8.2%
- #28 Industry Giant 2
79% matchVery Positive86% of 1,022 reviews2015
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!
Why similar: Strategy 55.1%, Simulation 44.9%
- #29 Rise of Industry
78% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 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: City Builder 46.9%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 10.2%, RTS 6%
- #30 Project Hospital
77% matchVery Positive89% of 9,301 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: City Builder 52.5%, Building 16.5%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 14.9%
- #31 Game Dev Tycoon
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 45,066 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: Simulation 62.3%, Strategy 34.4%, Comedy 3.3%
- #32 Police Tactics: Imperio
79% matchMixed62% of 423 reviews2016
Dev: CyberphobX Ltd.Pub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In POLICE TACTICS: IMPERIO you start your career as an aspiring police chief in Newport Falls, a city that is dirty and corrupt to its core. You are responsible for upholding law and order. Coordinate the emergency vehicles and personnel of the municipal precinct and put a stop to crime.
Why similar: Strategy 54.9%, Simulation 45.1%
- #33 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
73% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: City Builder 48.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Building 17.3%, Simulation 15.8%
- #34 Empire TV Tycoon
76% 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: Strategy 40.5%, Simulation 32.3%, Comedy 27.2%
- #35 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 932 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Comedy 17.7%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 17.1%, Building 16.2%
- #36 Dungeon Tycoon
73% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,918 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: City Builder 46.7%, Strategy 19%, Building 17.9%, Simulation 16.3%
- #37 Build-A-Lot
76% matchVery Positive90% of 77 reviews2009
Dev: Hip SoftPub: Next Game
Windows
Send the housing market through the roof as you build, buy, and sell houses in the new strategy game, Build-a-lot! You can flip houses for quick cash or sit back and watch the rental income pile up. Become a real estate mogul as you visit scenic towns, earn huge profits and perform special favors for the colorful local mayors.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #38 Hollywood Animal
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,179 reviews2025
Dev: Weappy WholesomePub: Weappy Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 20.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Make movies, even if someone has to die. Take the helm of a major Hollywood studio at the dawn of sound cinema, and guide it through decades of creative achievements and glamor, debauchery and dark deeds, tough choices and unpleasant compromises.
Why similar: City Builder 44.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 15.2%, RTS 6%
- #39 News Tower
69% matchVery Positive94% of 4,551 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 27.1 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: Strategy 29.5%, Simulation 29%, Building 26.5%, Comedy 15%
- #40 Tropico Reloaded
74% matchVery Positive88% of 990 reviews2009
Dev: PopTop SoftwarePub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.
Why similar: City Builder 52.4%, Strategy 17.1%, Simulation 17.1%, Classic 8.1% ★, Comedy 5.2%
- #41 Toilet Tycoon
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 225 reviews2015
Dev: Anvil-Soft
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Toilet Tycoon is an unusual economic simulation in which you can prove your skills as a leader of the sanitarian installations of a whole town! On your way to the top, you have calculate wisely and should always keep an eye on your opponents - else you simply will be flushed...
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #42 Beholder
71% matchVery Positive92% of 31,023 reviews2016
Dev: Alawar Stargaze (Warm Lamp Games)Pub: Alawar
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Strategy 50.6%, Simulation 41.9%, Violent 7.5%
- #43 Tropico 5
72% matchMostly Positive79% of 14,408 reviews2014
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
Why similar: City Builder 54.6%, Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 16.2%, Comedy 3.8%, RTS 2.2%
- #44 Garbage
71% matchMixed66% of 1,217 reviews2021
Dev: HomebasedPub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Experience the struggle which a homeless man goes through in a humorous manner. Primitive elements of contemporary life that we take for granted, such as staying warm, well-nourished, and hygienic, will become an issue.
Why similar: Strategy 31.3%, Simulation 29.6%, Comedy 24.2%, Violent 14.9%
- #45 Caesar™ 3
71% matchVery Positive93% of 2,241 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
Why similar: City Builder 56.8%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Classic 11.2% ★
- #46 War for the Overworld
70% matchVery Positive86% of 8,111 reviews2015
Dev: Brightrock GamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Why similar: City Builder 45.8%, Simulation 23.8%, Strategy 17.2%, RTS 13.3%
- #47 Two Point Hospital
68% matchVery Positive92% of 34,907 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Simulation 31.4%, Building 26.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Comedy 9.3%
- #48 Chaotic Airport Construction Manager
70% matchVery Positive89% of 260 reviews2020
Dev: Illusive ReflectionPub: Steckenpferd Enterprises
Windows · Mac · Linux
A simulation game making fun of Germans needing 16 years to build an airport. Are you able to do better?
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Strategy 17.1%, Building 16.7%, Comedy 16%, Simulation 15.4%
- #49 Academia : School Simulator
69% matchVery Positive86% of 3,073 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: City Builder 50%, Building 19.1%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 15.3%
- #50 Hotel Architect
65% matchVery Positive94% of 2,276 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: City Builder 47.9%, Building 19.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 15.9%
- #51 Caesar™ IV
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 871 reviews2016
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.Pub: Activision
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
Why similar: City Builder 59.7%, Strategy 24.9%, Simulation 15.4%
- #52 Gym Manager
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 328 reviews2024
Dev: Han GAMESPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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: Simulation 52.3%, Building 47.7%
- #53 Demolish & Build 3
69% matchMixed40% of 265 reviews2024
Dev: Demolish Games S.A.
Windows
Step into the boots of a demolition company owner. Accept and complete contracts to earn money, allowing you to buy new equipment and upgrade your business. Use powerful tools, from sledgehammers to giant excavators, and experience the realism of a true construction site, where every brick matters.
Why similar: Simulation 56.1%, Strategy 43.9%
- #54 Mad Tower Tycoon
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 444 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: City Builder 46%, Building 19.6%, Strategy 18%, Simulation 16.5%
- #55 Battle Royale Tycoon
68% matchMixed69% of 516 reviews2019
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!
Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, Simulation 24.6%, Strategy 24.6%, Building 15.9%
- #56 Casino Resort Tower
66% matchVery Positive94% of 135 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: City Builder 37.7%, Building 22.4%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 19.1%
- #57 SimAirport
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,044 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 50.5%, Building 19.6%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 13.8%
- #58 PUSHER - Drug Tycoon
66% 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: Simulation 61%, Strategy 39%