- #1 City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
97% matchVery Positive92% of 1,841 reviews2021
Dev: Binogure Studio 🐺
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Game Development 30.8% ★, Programming 27.1% ★, Management 10.9%, Life Sim 9.7%, Grand Strategy 7.6% ★
- #2 Dev Inc
96% matchMixed60% of 86 reviews2021
Dev: Huntah
Windows
An in depth game development simulation game
Why similar: Game Development 44.6% ★, Time Management 18.8%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 7.4%, Point & Click 5.9%
- #3 Software Inc.
96% matchVery Positive94% of 7,733 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 45.8 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: Game Development 28.6% ★, Programming 23.3% ★, Time Management 12.6%, Management 11.5%, Building 10.5%
- #4 I Wanna Be A Game Dev!
95% matchVery Positive95% of 231 reviews2024
Dev: Lyko Studio
Windows · Mac
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: Game Development 45.9% ★, Time Management 25.8%, Life Sim 20%, 3D 4.1%, Simulation 2.2%
- #5 Game Dev Story
94% matchVery Positive90% of 1,452 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Why similar: Game Development 30.9% ★, Programming 28.9% ★, Life Sim 12%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.7%
- #6 Mad Games Tycoon 2
93% matchVery Positive94% of 7,699 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Game Development 36.5% ★, Programming 24.3% ★, Management 15.2%, Building 9.3%, Character Customization 6.3%
- #7 Game Dev Masters
92% matchVery Positive83% of 199 reviews2022
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
It's time to become the Game Developer you always wanted to be. Make use of a large array of features, and player skills to create stunning 10 / 10 games. Compete with and eventually acquire other dynamic Ai Studio's. Raise the talent of your team and studio's in an effort to dominate the market.
Why similar: Game Development 39.1% ★, Time Management 15.5%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 12%, Character Customization 6.5%
- #8 我16岁辍学做游戏!
91% matchMixed46% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: 好好回去读书
Windows
《我16岁辍学做游戏!》是一款双结局的游戏开发模拟游戏。讲述一位16岁学生在辍学游戏开发和正常上学导致的不同结局。 制作目的是为了给对独立游戏行业一无所知的人指引一条正确的道路。
Why similar: Game Development 40.4% ★, Life Sim 15.8%, Time Management 12.7%, Resource Management 10%, Point & Click 5.3%
- #9 Youtubers Life
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 15,450 reviews2017
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!
Why similar: Time Management 24%, Life Sim 20.7%, Management 16.7%, Character Customization 14.4%, Resource Management 14%
- #10 Game Builder Tycoon
90% matchMostly Positive77% of 162 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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: Game Development 47.6% ★, Management 14.4%, Character Customization 11.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Point & Click 4.4%
- #11 Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story
89% matchMixed67% of 332 reviews2021
Dev: DarkKnightPub: 2P Games
Windows
From nobody to famous game producer in 3 years: that’s the journey you will live! Experience the trials and tribulations of game development in this life simulation game: live through the process of founding a small team and learning how to work together to develop a successful game.
Why similar: Game Development 31.4% ★, Time Management 24.5%, Life Sim 20.1%, Management 15.2%, Simulation 4.1%
- #12 GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹
89% matchMixed58% of 152 reviews2023
Dev: Octo Games studio
Windows
In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of one developer.
Why similar: Life Sim 44.2%, Management 35.4%, 3D 9.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Singleplayer 3%
- #13 Web Host Simulator
87% matchMostly Negative35% of 77 reviews2025
Dev: Chibum
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Web Host Simulator, you'll start your web hosting company in your small apartment, aiming to become the world's leading provider. But to do so, you must win clients, outperform competitors, and deal with cyber threats, disruptions, and challenges from an ISP!
Why similar: Programming 39.6% ★, Life Sim 17.6%, Management 13.1%, Modern 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.6%
- #14 Startup Panic
88% matchMixed55% of 286 reviews2022
Dev: AlgorocksPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Quit your job and build an exciting startup! Survive the tech bubble, compete with rival CEOs and expand your office from bedroom programmer up to the heights of global corporate sabotage! As long as you don't get hacked... or kidnapped...
Why similar: Programming 38.7% ★, Time Management 18.9%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.4%, Character Customization 10%
- #15 Youtubers Life 2
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,272 reviews2021
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Start from humble beginnings and take charge of the daily life of a wannabe influencer. Balance your day between creating trend-based content, completing tasks to earn money, and building trust with your neighbors to uncover their stories. Are you ready to embark on your road to fame?
Why similar: Time Management 26.7%, Life Sim 25.9%, Character Customization 16.9%, Management 16.6%, Strategy 4.9%
- #16 Office Simulator: Prologue
86% matchVery Positive80% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Tzn Games
Windows
Office Simulator: Prologue is a limited-content version designed to let you experience office management right away. Manage your employees, plan tasks, and navigate the challenges of office life!
Why similar: Time Management 23.1%, Life Sim 22.4%, Management 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Building 9.3%
- #17 Life Inc.
84% matchVery Positive89% of 113 reviews2026
Dev: Sergio Garcia
Windows
💼 Start broke. Build an empire. Climb the career ladder, invest in stocks and real estate, or launch your own business from scratch. Every decision shapes your destiny. Millionaire or bankrupt—you decide.
Why similar: Time Management 30.1%, Life Sim 26.8%, Modern 13.4%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #18 Indie Dev Story
84% matchVery Positive83% of 111 reviews2024
Dev: CBgameDev
Windows
Indie Dev Story - Quit your job to become an indie developer and make your first game!
Why similar: Voxel 50.6% ★, Management 26.3%, 3D 6.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.8%
- #19 This Grand Life
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 240 reviews2018
Dev: Poking Water Games
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
A life simulator that leans heavily into the personal finance aspect. Pay taxes, take out mortgages, trade stocks, buy real estate, start businesses, or grind your way to victory as an employee.
Why similar: Time Management 36.2%, Life Sim 24.4%, Management 20.4%, Character Customization 15.1%, Simulation 3.1%
- #20 Game Dev Studio
83% matchVery Positive85% of 680 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: Management 46.8%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 16.9%, Casual 11.2%, Point & Click 6%
- #21 The Tenants
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,738 reviews2022
Dev: EndGameLoop Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Why similar: Time Management 23.8%, Life Sim 23.7%, Management 20.5%, Building 18.2%, Stylized 4.7%
- #22 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
82% matchMixed61% of 67 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue is a free simulation game in which you begin your journey as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing and research stuff. Create best game on the planet!
Why similar: Game Development 40.6% ★, Programming 24.8% ★, Management 13.6%, Building 11.5%, Strategy 3.2%
- #23 Indie Dev Simulator
82% matchMixed64% of 92 reviews2020
Dev: Egor MagurinPub: Indovers Studio
Windows · Mac
In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.
Why similar: Strategy 53.3%, Simulation 46.7%
- #24 Nobody - The Turnaround
81% matchMixed60% of 14,298 reviews2022
Dev: U.Ground Game StudioPub: Thermite Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.
Why similar: Life Sim 44%, Management 14.1%, Resource Management 13.9%, Character Customization 11.4%, Simulation 6.6%
- #25 Little Lives
80% matchVery Positive82% of 253 reviews2024
Dev: Houndstooth Games
Windows
Little Lives is a fun, casual life-sim game. Balance your time between your career, education and relationships as you explore an exciting town filled with possibility.
Why similar: Life Sim 26.1%, Time Management 22.7%, Character Customization 13.9%, Management 13%, Modern 9.8%
- #26 Growing Up
79% matchVery Positive88% of 3,658 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Life Sim 39.2%, Management 21%, Character Customization 14.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.4%, Simulation 6%
- #27 HR Simulator
78% matchVery Positive81% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Animesme
Windows · Mac
An HR management simulator about navigating workplace dynamics, hiring and training a diverse workforce, and balancing professional growth with personal life in a bustling cityscape.
Why similar: Time Management 39.3%, Resource Management 21.8%, Management 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Simulation 9.1%
- #28 Gaming Cafe Life
77% matchVery Positive95% of 153 reviews2024
Dev: Akhir Pekan Studio
Windows
Manage your very own gaming cafe!
Why similar: Time Management 39.7%, Management 23.9%, Resource Management 17.7%, 3D 6.9%, Simulation 5.8%
- #29 IT Specialist Simulator
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 393 reviews2025
Dev: Pixel Team RED
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Step into the world of IT! Diagnose network issues, manage servers, and repair devices while handling tasks under strict SLAs. Choose your career path, from HelpDesk to IT Project Manager. Develop real IT knowledge and climb the ranks in this realistic IT simulation!
Why similar: Programming 63.6% ★, Life Sim 27%, Simulation 5%, Casual 2.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #30 Office Simulator
76% matchVery Positive84% of 146 reviews2025
Dev: Tzn Games
Windows
Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks. Gain experience, earn promotions, and when the time comes, launch your own company to begin a new business adventure.
Why similar: Time Management 30.8%, Life Sim 26.5%, Management 10.7%, Stylized 8%, 3D 5.4%
- #31 Startup Company
78% matchVery Positive81% of 6,211 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 55.1%, Building 15.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #32 Life Simulator
79% matchMixed49% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: 鹊思网络Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
Life Simulator is a simulation game with relaxed atmosphere. Players will play as a college graduate getting into the big city, you will fight for your life for four years, you can be a winner with cars, houses and soul mate, or maybe a salty fish with nothing, and you can also find love...
Why similar: Life Sim 38.1%, Time Management 34.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Casual 7.8%
- #33 Campus Life
75% matchMostly Negative31% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: GameFormatic S.A.Pub: Frozen Way
Windows · Mac
In Campus Life you’ll experience your final year of college. Study, party and join campus events! Everything that happens during this one academic year will be entirely up to you.
Why similar: Time Management 37.5%, Life Sim 29.1%, Character Customization 19.3%, 3D 5.4%, Casual 3.6%
- #34 Repair this!
73% matchVery Positive89% of 814 reviews2024
Dev: HGISoft
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Become a phone repair technician, get the opportunity to look into the personal data of customers. Influence their destinies if you dare!
Why similar: Time Management 32.4%, Life Sim 22.9%, Management 19.8%, Point & Click 9.2%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #35 MMORPG Tycoon 2
74% matchVery Positive86% of 3,062 reviews2020
Dev: VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
Why similar: Game Development 51.9% ★, Management 16.1%, Character Customization 13.6%, Stylized 7.5%, 3D 4.3%
- #36 New Day
72% matchVery Positive88% of 1,018 reviews2024
Dev: Scrapbook Studios
Windows
New Day is an upcoming life simulation game where almost anything can happen! Create your own islanders, design their apartments, and get involved with their day-to-day life as they divulge into unexpected friendships, problems, and more!
Why similar: Life Sim 33.2%, Character Customization 21.7%, Management 20.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.7%, Simulation 4.6%
- #37 Gamer Career Tycoon
76% matchVery Positive81% of 289 reviews2018
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Start your life as a simple gamer in the year 2000. Find popular games to stream or compete in 8 different Esports. Who will you be? Play your career and story. Can you become the most famous broadcaster or the best progamer in the world?
Why similar: Management 52.3%, Simulation 23.4%, Casual 20.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%
- #38 Tiny Life
73% matchVery Positive86% of 421 reviews2023
Dev: Ellpeck GamesPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In Tiny Life, you control a set of people that live together in a household. You take care of their daily needs, build their skills, forge new relationships... or just mess up their entire life in whatever way you can think of!
Why similar: Life Sim 37%, Building 26.2%, Character Customization 22%, Simulation 6.9%, Casual 5.4%
- #39 Pawnbroker Simulator
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 373 reviews2026
Dev: Next Sky GamesPub: Ultimate Publishing
Windows
Enter Pawnbroker Simulator, where every deal, appraisal, and choice forges your path to pawn shop greatness. Sharpen your instincts, unlock new talents, craft a storefront that turns heads, offer high-stakes loans, and stay one step ahead of cunning thieves.
Why similar: Time Management 23.8%, Life Sim 21.2%, Building 13%, Modern 12.5%, Management 11.4%
- #40 E-TECH SIMULATOR
74% matchMixed54% of 93 reviews2024
Dev: empire gamesPub: CEMA GAMES
Windows
Welcome to E-TECH Simulator, the ultimate simulation game where your entrepreneurial skills will be put to the test!
Why similar: Time Management 29.1%, Life Sim 25.2%, Building 13.2%, Management 11.2%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #41 Pumping Simulator 2
70% matchVery Positive92% of 1,677 reviews2023
Dev: Lance Games
Windows
Median: 14.4 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich
Why similar: Time Management 26.4%, Life Sim 22.2%, Management 15%, Building 10.3%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #42 Internet Cafe Simulator 2025
73% matchMixed43% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Revolt Games
Windows
Run your own internet café! Manage, upgrade, and customise every detail to create the ultimate hangout in this immersive first-person simulation.
Why similar: Time Management 25%, Life Sim 22.6%, Building 13.1%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #43 Game Dev Tycoon
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,938 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 67.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 8.6%, Casual 5.2%, Singleplayer 2.4%
- #44 This Grand Life 2
69% matchVery Positive88% of 304 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: Time Management 30.4%, Life Sim 24.6%, Management 15%, Character Customization 13.8%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #45 Mobiles Tycoon
71% matchVery Positive81% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: Insignis Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mobiles Tycoon is a brand new game about creating your mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. In the game you have to manage your company and develop your devices (smartphones and tablets), operating systems and processors
Why similar: Game Development 42% ★, Time Management 28.5%, Management 14.6%, Modern 5.7%, Strategy 3.7%
- #46 Game Tycoon 2
75% matchMixed49% of 248 reviews2016
Dev: Sunlight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 95%
In Game Tycoon 2 you find yourself in the middle of the big players. Get into the act and experience the fascination of the game development. Reach your goal and become the Game Tycoon!
Why similar: Game Development 40.3% ★, Time Management 16.7%, Life Sim 13.7%, Management 13.4%, Building 8.2%
- #47 Big Ambitions
67% matchVery Positive93% of 13,173 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Management 30.9%, Life Sim 22.4%, Time Management 17.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Modern 6.8%
- #48 Doctor Life Simulator
69% matchMixed66% of 139 reviews2025
Dev: Bleeding Edge StudioPub: Blackburne Games Studio FZ LLC
Windows
Step into the shoes of a dedicated medical professional in Doctor Life Simulator. Experience the challenges and triumphs of running your own medical practice, from diagnosing complex illnesses to performing life-saving surgeries.
Why similar: Life Sim 24.9%, Management 18.3%, Time Management 17.5%, Modern 13.9%, Building 12%
- #49 Recipe for Disaster
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 719 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
Why similar: Time Management 20.1%, Management 18.2%, Life Sim 18.2%, Building 13.8%, Character Customization 9.7%
- #50 Streamer's Life
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 145 reviews2019
Dev: Just Making Games
Windows
RPG-Simulation game where you can create your own streamer and see whether you can overcome difficulties of being streamer or not.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #51 Computer Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive85% of 1,008 reviews2017
Dev: Progorion
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Computer Tycoon is a fairly 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: Grand Strategy 29.2% ★, Management 21.8%, Time Management 18.9%, Resource Management 18.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #52 Isolated Room
68% matchVery Positive95% of 96 reviews2022
Dev: Black Hole Games
Windows
What to do when your days are not going well? What to do when you need to wake up and manage a troubled life, in which you need to work, eat well and still have time for yourself? Isolated Room is about that, and maybe a little more.
Why similar: Life Sim 33.3%, Time Management 23.3%, Point & Click 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Stylized 7%
- #53 Paralives
63% matchVery Positive90% of 18,920 reviews2026
Dev: Alex Massé and teamPub: Paralives Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?
Why similar: Life Sim 38.6%, Building 26.4%, Character Customization 25.3%, Simulation 6.2%, Casual 2%
- #54 Sinner Maker
64% matchVery Positive89% of 323 reviews2026
Dev: PantokratorPub: Metro Team
Windows
Sinner Maker allows you to create characters and simulate a society built around them. Construct homes, manage their needs, and watch as they fall in love, form friendships, and even become enemies. Manage resources and solve emerging problems if you want your soul to be saved.
Why similar: Life Sim 23.2%, Time Management 23%, Character Customization 16.5%, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #55 Choice of Life: Samosbor
65% matchVery Positive88% of 235 reviews2025
Dev: Blazing Planet Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
You're just a simple inhabitant of the endless Gigastructure. The best you'll get is seven shifts at a machine and a bowl of feed concentrate, and that for good service to the party.... Is that it? Or do you have a choice?
Why similar: Life Sim 46.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 23.1%, Stylized 16.3%, Simulation 7.4%, Casual 6.3%
- #56 ERRANTE
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 68 reviews2022
Dev: Errant Interactive
Windows
This is an experimental project, a sandbox life simulator that gives you the power to suggest how the game should evolve, which features we should focus on, which slice of life to tell and everything you can imagine.
Why similar: Life Sim 44.9%, Character Customization 20.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.8%, Simulation 9%, 3D 6.6%
- #57 Villa's Blinds
68% matchVery Positive80% of 212 reviews2022
Dev: Çamlıca GameLabPub: Neuron Entertainment
Windows
Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!
Why similar: Game Development 52.5% ★, Management 18.4%, Resource Management 15.1%, Simulation 4.9%, Casual 3.8%
- #58 Architect Life: A House Design Simulator
67% matchMixed52% of 277 reviews2025
Dev: Shine ResearchPub: Nacon
Windows
Create dream homes! From 3D plan modelling through to on-site decision-making, you must bring each project to life while giving free rein to your creativity, to take your architectural firm to the pinnacle of the profession.
Why similar: Life Sim 30.1%, Building 28%, Management 19%, Simulation 6.4%, 3D 6.1%
- #59 To Pixelia
65% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,257 reviews2025
Dev: Pixeduo StudiosPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Meet the Pixelians and discover the ultimate life simulator in To Pixelia. As you climb your career ladder of choice, step into the world of politics, art, sports, music, and even crime. Live your dream life in pixels!
Why similar: Life Sim 37.8%, Management 22.4%, Character Customization 16.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Simulation 4.5%