- #1 Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon
97% matchVery Positive87% of 120 reviews2022
Pub: Manager Games S.A.
Windows
Drill Deal is a fun oil business simulator. Start from a single tiny rig and expand it to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimize & grow your business. Look out for threats like weather, terrorists, fire, and others. Take care of your working crews.
Why similar: Management 21%, Economy 18.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 13%
Why You'll Like It: This is the full, expanded version of the seed game, offering a more polished and feature-rich experience of the same oil-drilling simulation.
- #2 Turmoil
96% matchVery Positive93% of 16,016 reviews2016
Dev: Gamious
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Why similar: Management 32.8%, Economy 19.2%, Resource Management 17.9%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 12.6%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the core essence of oil drilling and resource management with a charming art style and a focus on competitive bidding and extraction.
- #3 Hydroneer
96% matchVery Positive86% of 28,157 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Base Building 35.7%, Building 18.1%, Resource Management 16.6%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 6%
Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the physical aspect of mining and base-building, allowing you to create complex automated systems for resource extraction.
- #4 Drill Core
95% matchVery Positive85% of 2,404 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Base Building 20.4%, Management 16.5%, Strategy 13.1%, Exploration 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends drilling mechanics with base-building and tower-defense, providing a more intense, roguelite take on the underground exploration theme.
- #5 Industry Idle
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,478 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 14%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines idle gaming mechanics with complex resource management and automation, making it highly addictive for fans of management sims.
- #6 Factorio
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Base Building 32.3%, Resource Management 17.6%, Management 14.3%, City Builder 10.9%, Strategy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation game, it shares the deep logistical challenges of managing resources and building efficient production lines.
- #7 Production Line : Car factory simulation
93% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 24.3%, Economy 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 10.7%, Simulation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A deep dive into factory automation and management, perfect for those who enjoy optimizing production flows.
- #8 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 40.2%, Building 16.9%, Resource Management 16.5%, Exploration 9%, Simulation 7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a first-person perspective on mining and factory building, emphasizing verticality and massive-scale industrial expansion.
- #9 Little Big Workshop
92% matchVery Positive84% of 3,380 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 20.9%, Simulation 20%, Strategy 14.5%, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a charming, toy-like aesthetic while providing deep management and production simulation mechanics similar to the seed game.
- #10 SimAirport
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,031 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 20.2%, Management 16.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Economy 12.8%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a similar management and building experience, focusing on the logistical challenges of running a large-scale facility.
- #11 Oxygen Not Included
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 142,307 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Base Building 33.6%, Management 16.5%, Resource Management 15.9%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 8%
Why You'll Like It: A complex colony-sim that requires meticulous management of resources and underground base-building to survive in a hostile environment.
- #12 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Base Building 25.9%, Management 17%, City Builder 15.1%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game scales the resource management and automation loop to a galactic level, perfect for players who enjoy complex production chains.
- #13 Ratopia
88% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 16.6%, Management 15.5%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique colony-sim that integrates complex economic systems and base-building with a charming, stylized presentation.
- #14 Mr.Mine
89% matchVery Positive92% of 18,516 reviews2020
Dev: Playsaurus
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 100.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Why similar: Simulation 21.4%, Management 20.2%, Resource Management 16.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: A mining-focused idler that provides a simple yet satisfying progression loop based on digging deeper into the earth.
- #15 Oxygen: First Breath
87% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 12.7%, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that requires careful management of resources and infrastructure in a post-apocalyptic setting.
- #16 Fuel Station Simulator
86% matchMixed62% of 62 reviews2025
Dev: QuantumPlay Studios
Windows
Take control of your very own fuel station and transform it into a bustling business hub! Experience the perfect mix of management, customization, and exciting challenges as you serve customers, expand your services, and build your empire.
Why similar: Base Building 22.4%, Management 22.1%, Economy 20.9%, Building 15.9%, Simulation 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the hands-on management of a service facility, capturing the theme of fuel and resource distribution.
- #17 Rise of Industry
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 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 20.7%, City Builder 19.5%, Economy 14.4%, Base Building 11%, Simulation 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the supply chain and economic management aspects of industrial production, offering a strategic challenge.
- #18 Megaquarium
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,727 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Why similar: Management 29.8%, Building 19.1%, Simulation 17.4%, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 12%
Why You'll Like It: A management and building game that emphasizes layout optimization and resource flow, much like the base-building in Drill Deal.
- #19 One More Island
85% matchMixed67% of 260 reviews2022
Dev: Berg GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Management 15%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 12.1%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that blends exploration, building, and resource management with a distinct visual style.
- #20 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
83% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Management 19.3%, Economy 14.3%, Building 12.1%, Resource Management 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the interconnected nature of urban development.
- #21 MineMogul
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,006 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Management 23.2%, Base Building 21.7%, Building 16.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 12.7%
Why You'll Like It: A mining and automation-focused simulation that captures the industrial spirit of the seed game.
- #22 Power to the People
84% matchVery Positive81% of 553 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Why similar: City Builder 19.6%, Management 19.4%, Economy 14.1%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the infrastructure and resource distribution challenges of managing a power grid, requiring strategic planning.
- #23 Two Point Hospital
82% matchVery Positive92% of 34,720 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 35.2 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: Management 38.6%, Simulation 24%, Building 18.5%, City Builder 9.6%, Strategy 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a humorous and engaging take on facility management and building, with a strong focus on efficiency and layout.
- #24 Bunker Builder Simulator: Prologue
82% matchMixed60% of 419 reviews2023
Dev: Farmind StudioPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Bunker Builder Simulator: Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. Plan your work, dig a hole and build a bunker, that will survive anything! Manage safety, needs and moods of your clients, so you can become the best architect and earn a fortune.
Why similar: Base Building 27.8%, Management 26%, Simulation 18.1%, Building 17.8%, Economy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Centers on the construction and management of an underground facility, mirroring the subterranean theme of the seed game.
- #25 Hotel Magnate
80% matchMixed59% of 487 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: Management 18.8%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 12%, Building 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: Provides detailed building and management tools for running a business, focusing on customer satisfaction and facility efficiency.
- #26 FOUNDRY
79% matchVery Positive81% of 3,864 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Base Building 25.5%, Building 15.7%, Resource Management 15.4%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation game that emphasizes mining and large-scale factory construction in an infinite world.
- #27 Dungeon Tycoon: Prologue
78% matchVery Positive96% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. 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: Management 26.5%, Economy 21.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Building 12.6%, Simulation 9%
Why You'll Like It: Applies management and economy mechanics to a fantasy dungeon setting, offering a fresh take on facility simulation.
- #28 Stationeers
79% matchVery Positive88% of 9,110 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 83.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Base Building 31.8%, Management 30.2%, Building 19.3%, Resource Management 18.7%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore base-building simulation that requires deep understanding of atmospheric and electrical systems, appealing to fans of technical management.
- #29 Buildings Have Feelings Too!
81% matchMixed45% of 80 reviews2021
Dev: Blackstaff GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Management 20.9%, Economy 14.9%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder with a unique personality-driven management system that adds a creative twist to the genre.
- #30 Sim Companies
78% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,069 reviews2023
Dev: Sim Companies s.r.o.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 89.4 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.
Why similar: Management 26.7%, Economy 23.7%, Building 15%, Simulation 14.9%, Resource Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A pure economic management simulation that allows players to dive deep into market dynamics and production chains.
- #31 Space Drilling Station
76% matchVery Positive92% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Ayota GamesPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Management 17.5%, City Builder 16.3%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #32 Idle Research
77% matchVery Positive84% of 1,877 reviews2022
Dev: Considera Games LLCPub: Considera Core LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.6 hrsMean: 76.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Idle Research is an addictive, resource management, incremental game with both idle and active playstyles. Research and craft colorful Flasks and Tubes to earn as much Energy as possible! Big numbers guaranteed.
Why similar: Management 30.4%, Resource Management 21.1%, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 16.5%, Adventure 9.1%
- #33 NGU INDUSTRIES
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,577 reviews2021
Dev: 4G
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 145.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
NGU INDUSTRIES (sequel to NGU IDLE) is a Free To Play Idle game and Factory Manager! It's packed with weird humor, tons of upgrades, and many hours of content! If you want that sweet, sweet dopamine release that comes with making Numbers Go Up, NGU INDUSTRIES is your game!
Why similar: Resource Management 28.3%, Building 24.1%, Base Building 15.5%, Management 11.8%, Adventure 10.1%
- #34 Oil Strike '75
76% matchVery Positive96% of 120 reviews2024
Dev: Sumo Digital AcademyPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Get ready to earn while you learn in Oil Strike ’75, a fun, exciting, and educational new game from Cadal Corp! Run an oil rig and discover new oil deposits at the bottom of the sea – no matter the cost. Who knows what you’ll find in the official prequel to Still Wakes the Deep?
Why similar: Management 37.5%, Simulation 27.3%, Economy 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #35 CivIdle
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,064 reviews2025
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 78.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!
Why similar: Base Building 21.9%, City Builder 19.1%, Management 19%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 8%
- #36 Gas Station Simulator
73% matchVery Positive88% of 27,240 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.
Why similar: Management 23.7%, Simulation 21.2%, Base Building 19.8%, Economy 18.7%, Building 13.9%
- #37 Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 327 reviews2019
Dev: Jarrod Brown
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 17.5%, Management 16.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.4%
- #38 Fuel Harvest Together
71% matchMixed70% of 973 reviews2025
Dev: Say2SunPub: Grejuva
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!
Why similar: Management 21.8%, Economy 18.2%, Resource Management 14.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 13.2%
- #39 Crafting Idle Clicker
74% matchMixed49% of 919 reviews2020
Dev: Bling Bling Games GmbH
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 42.9 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!
Why similar: Management 32.5%, Economy 16.8%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 14.2%
- #40 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
72% 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: Management 27.5%, Economy 20%, Building 14%, Simulation 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%
- #41 Coal LLC
68% matchVery Positive93% of 1,212 reviews2025
Dev: Bye Bye Ocean
Windows · Mac
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.
Why similar: Management 34.7%, Economy 23.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Strategy 10.6%
- #42 Gold Mining Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 16,248 reviews2017
Dev: Code Horizon
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.
Why similar: Simulation 43.2%, Economy 14.9%, Management 12.5%, Building 10.2%, Exploration 5.6%
- #43 CoffeeBiz Tycoon
74% 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 31.3%, Simulation 21.3%, Economy 16.1%, Strategy 15.5%, Resource Management 7.2%
- #44 Oil Enterprise
75% matchMixed49% of 197 reviews2016
Dev: Crafty StudiosPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.
Why similar: Management 32.2%, Economy 22.3%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 19.1%, Indie 4.2%
- #45 Venture Valley
72% matchMixed55% of 54 reviews2023
Dev: The Singleton FoundationPub: Singleton Foundation for Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship
Windows · Mac
Be Your Own Boss!
Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Cartoon 16.3%, Building 15.1%, Simulation 14%, Resource Management 12.6%
- #46 Underminer
69% matchVery Positive93% of 984 reviews2024
Dev: Team GongMyeongPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
Welcome to Underminer, an underground adventure game set in a subterranean world. Mine minerals, earn money, upgrade your drill machine and descend deeper into the earth. The truth about 'legendary minerals' and an exciting underground world are waiting for you!
Why similar: Simulation 62.3%, Pixel Graphics 18.4%, Adventure 10.6%, Indie 4.9%, Singleplayer 3.7%
- #47 Deep Corp
67% matchVery Positive92% of 262 reviews2026
Dev: KishMish Games
Windows · Mac
Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!
Why similar: Management 31.7%, Strategy 23.4%, Economy 16.1%, Resource Management 15.4%, Exploration 10.4%
- #48 Masterplan Tycoon: Foundations
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 1.7 hrs≥1hr: 19%
Foundations is a free version of Masterplan Tycoon, a minimalist resource management sim. The world is your playground: start with simple production lines for basic needs and evolve into a production powerhouse in an elegant and stress-free setting
Why similar: Management 26.7%, Resource Management 17.4%, Building 16.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 13.4%
- #49 Project Highrise
71% matchVery Positive85% of 4,793 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 33.7%, Simulation 17.7%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Economy 7.9%
- #50 United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up
69% matchVery Positive89% of 632 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.
Why similar: City Builder 25.9%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 12%, Economy 11.4%, Strategy 11.2%
- #51 Dungeon Tycoon
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,878 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Management 20.5%, City Builder 19.9%, Economy 14.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%
- #52 City idle
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 225 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
Why similar: Simulation 17.3%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Management 14.1%, Building 12.3%
- #53 Blockchain Tycoon
71% matchMixed48% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Wamill
Windows · Mac
Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.
Why similar: Management 22.7%, Economy 18.5%, Base Building 16.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Simulation 11.3%
- #54 Holyday City: Reloaded
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,632 reviews2018
Dev: Holyday Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 114.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build, manage & grow your city in Holyday City: Reloaded! An idle clicker game where you're the business tycoon, expanding your metropolis. Master resource & time management to upgrade businesses and thrive. Experience the ultimate town builder adventure with Holyday City.
Why similar: Management 32.8%, Cartoon 21.9%, Resource Management 16.7%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 7.5%
- #55 DigDigDrill
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 606 reviews2024
Dev: Toorai
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.
Why similar: Exploration 35.9%, Resource Management 32.2%, Pixel Graphics 18.3%, Adventure 11.7%, Singleplayer 2%
- #56 Out of Ore
67% matchVery Positive86% of 4,000 reviews2022
Dev: North Modding Company AB
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 41.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build your own mining company from the ground up. Extract resources, operate heavy machinery, construct infrastructure, and grow from a laborer to the King of Klondike.
Why similar: Management 22.7%, Simulation 22.1%, Base Building 18%, Building 16%, Exploration 13.7%
- #57 Dream House Days DX
68% matchVery Positive84% of 315 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Make the dwelling of your dreams a reality in this apartment management sim!
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Simulation 22.2%, Management 22%, Building 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.4%
- #58 Money Simulator: Brokeville (Free Prologue)
64% matchVery Positive86% of 1,189 reviews2025
Dev: OrganicaPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Welcome to the Brokeville! Grind your way to the top through jobs, deliveries, bicycle races, and risky crypto trades. Buy, customize, and sell cars & motorcycles for profit. Build your own businesses, manage them, and hire staff to grow your empire.
Why similar: Simulation 33.8%, Management 29.5%, Economy 22.5%, Building 9.2%, Singleplayer 3.2%
- #59 Idle Cave Miner
66% matchVery Positive80% of 1,155 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Hours
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 129.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Idle Cave Miner is an idle game about crafting items, mining gems, and building your team of miners. Prestige, craft, and travel to other mines to increase your strength to dig deeper, and find what lurks below.
Why similar: Management 45.1%, Resource Management 22.2%, Simulation 18.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.4%, Indie 0.9%
- #60 You Know The Drill
63% matchVery Positive94% of 759 reviews2026
Dev: ludokaiPub: Catoptric Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!
Why similar: Simulation 45.9%, Strategy 34.8%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Singleplayer 2.9%