Games Like Drugs & Gambling

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: Shop Keeper 27.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.5%, Capitalism 15.8%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 10.8%

Run an organ trading empire in the dark underworld of Arkwright. Buy, upgrade, and sell organs across black markets. Manage your economy, dodge the police, and fulfill patient requests to dominate the underground.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.9% ★, God Game 24.8% ★, Idler 16.3%, Crime 8.6%, Economy 8.4%

Fruit is outlawed, and Mango and Berry are aspiring fruit lords! Manage a criminal, underground sorbet shop solo or online co-op. Smuggle goods, upgrade your shop, trade fruit or grow your own underground supply. Will Mango & Berry rise to power? Or are they headed for a tragic downfall?

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.1% ★, Capitalism 16.1%, Crime 15.4%, Dark Comedy 13.9%, Economy 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 22.7%, God Game 19.3% ★, Dark Comedy 12.6%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 9.9%

An incremental game about selling drugs on the dark web in the 90's. Secure supply lines, stockpile products and scale your marketplace to make a fortune and build an empire.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 22.8% ★, Crime 21.3%, Idler 19.8%, Capitalism 18.7%, Economy 12.5%

Poly Skies is an introductory city builder designed to help you relax. Take care of your villagers, expand to new islands, unlock secrets and defend sky-high threats.

Why similar: God Game 22.7% ★, Colony Sim 20.4%, Idler 17.4%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.8%

Become the Landman of a fog-light station. Expand your hearth, harvest resources from the dark forest, and build production chains based on available permits. Attract tourists and traders — trade, feed, and entertain them. Develop your settlement according to decrees. Turn a profit in your new home.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.9% ★, Colony Sim 23.7%, Capitalism 14.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 9.6%

Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, God Game 19.4% ★, Capitalism 14.3%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.8%

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: Shop Keeper 26.1% ★, Colony Sim 18.9%, Capitalism 14.3%, Building 13.9%, Economy 11.1%

1995, Summer. "Get a job or you're joining the military" shouts your dad. Get your ticket to an incremental game where you'll rewind, loan, buy tapes, buy rewinders, buy food, move to better locations, hire your mates and make a mint at Planet Rewind! Video tape rentals will be around forever!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.2% ★, Capitalism 21.1%, Idler 20.6%, Economy 13.5%, Parody 8.9% ★

Alchemist's Garden is a cozy and relaxing incremental crafting game. Forage to uncover hidden ingredients across mystical lands. Experiment with them at your crucible to discover potions and items, stock your shop's shelves, and watch your potion shop grow!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.6% ★, Capitalism 19.5%, Idler 18.9%, Economy 12.9%, Building 12.4%

A cozy idle automation game about building tiny factories, unlocking upgrades, and relaxing while your machines work overtime. Progress has never been this chill.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Idler 20.7%, Capitalism 16.2%, Building 10.4%, Economy 10.4%

The P.T.A. (Parent Teacher's Association) is planning the Summer Fete but they need money to hire everything. Selflessly serve drinks and upsell the heck out of them to gain funds. Dig deep! It's for a good cause, after all.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.3% ★, Capitalism 22.5%, Idler 17.7%, Parody 12.7% ★, Economy 9.8%

Run a luxury salon while laundering money, selling secrets, and solving a murder. Two phones, ragdoll chaos your game, your call.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.5% ★, Crime 17.7%, Capitalism 15%, Idler 13.6%, Economy 10.2%

Build your retail empire! Tired of playing by someone else's rules? Design, build, stock, and manage your own retail paradise, from a humble corner shop to a sprawling commercial enterprise. Create a unique shopping experience and become a retail legend. Your customers are waiting!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.1% ★, Idler 17.3%, Capitalism 17.1%, Economy 15.1%, Building 14%

Mine ore, run the store, unlock tech, and push a modest shop to its limit. Start with click mining, then automate; balance inventory, traffic, and sales through the tech tree for efficiency—from manual play to the peak.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.1% ★, Capitalism 14%, Idler 10.2%, Economy 10.1%, Top-Down 8.6%

Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5%, Capitalism 18%, Building 11.7%, Economy 10.7%, Top-Down 6.6%

SIM Chef is a restaurant management simulator. Build and decorate, manage employees, create hundreds of classic dishes and drinks, make decisions and become the number one in the world.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.8%, Capitalism 17.7%, Economy 11.7%, Building 10.6%

Paragon Pioneers is a city-building idle game in which you discover, conquer and then build on islands to fulfill the needs of your inhabitants. Even with limited time to play you can enjoy this deep simulation game and follow one of the countless ways to optimize your empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Idler 21.3%, Building 14.1%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 11.7%

Run a sweet tea stand in this 2D pixel-art business simulator inspired by tycoon classics. Manage inventory, adjust your recipe, hire staff, invest in upgrades, and pick locations to maximize profits. Build a lasting business in endless Career mode, or chase high scores in a 30-day Challenge mode.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.9% ★, Capitalism 27.9%, Economy 17.8%, Simulation 3.2%, 2D 2.3%

《荒野调查队》是一款俯视角殖民地生存与远征游戏。管理各具需求的调查员，建设营地、生产物资、抵御荒野威胁，并组建小队深入洞穴与废墟执行任务，在不断变化的天气和事件中寻找让聚落延续下去的方法。

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.3%, God Game 27.6% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Building 7.9%, Economy 5.5%

A cozy incremental game where you run your own bookstore! Buy hundreds of upgrades, unlock new customers and book types, hire different staff members and build the most profitable bookstore in the world!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.5% ★, Idler 24.3%, Capitalism 13.2%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 3.9%

Trading Towns is a simple and relaxing economic game in which your goal is to find ways for your town to become wealthy and prosperous.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Idler 21%, Economy 17.2%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 12.7%

This is a "blessing" game designed to bring you good luck, combining idle mechanics, desktop pets, farming, fishing, and homebuilding. On this island born from your wishes, each adorable spirit will accompany you every day, offering sincere prayers for your heart's desires!

Why similar: God Game 37.3% ★, Idler 29.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Building 11.8%, 2D 3.9%

A political-economic shop survival game. In a world nearing its end, the national and global agenda in crisis-stricken Jasskia shifts every day. In the middle of it all, build your business, meet people, witness unsettling truths, find ways to make money, and prepare for the coming end.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 41% ★, Economy 21.2%, Capitalism 20.8%, Building 7%, Base Building 6.8%

Worship, Recruit Sacrifice. Cult of the Rotten Moon is an idle clicker about worshipping a giant Eyeball, where the path to cosmic power is paved with your devoted followers bits. Expand your cult, unlock bizarre upgrades, and dominate the attention landscape in this dark and silly satire.

Why similar: Idler 21.3%, Colony Sim 21.2%, Economy 14.4%, Dark Humor 13.5%, Dark Comedy 9.9%

Rogues' Keep is a crime-den-management simulator set in a fantasy world. Clear out basements, dig out new levels, and create an underground city for thieves, pirates, warlocks, and other shady characters.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.5% ★, Colony Sim 22.7%, Crime 17.9%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.3%

Mine It Down is an incremental game about mining an evil wall inspired by other games like (the) Gnorp Apologue and Tower Wizard. Chip away at the wall with the mouse first, hire masons to work that rock and build different buildings to grow your rock-destroying arsenal.

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5%, Idler 28.4%, Capitalism 12.8%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 5%

'Premium' Virtual Pets. A top-down simulation game inspired by the likes of Dwarf Fortress & Rimworld, with a twist: the game plays itself. Watch and catalogue over 200 Bjois as they thrive in an ecosystem of your own choosing.

Why similar: God Game 30.2% ★, Idler 18.1%, Capitalism 14.2%, Crime 12.7%, Building 9.4%

Take Japan by storm with your series of stores, vending machines, arcades and more! Open multiple shops, each customized to your personal specifications and invest in your community.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 49.1% ★, Economy 18.8%, Capitalism 17%, Building 11.2%, Simulation 3.1%

A relaxing incremental tower builder—until hundreds of tiny workers turn it into complete chaos.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5%, Idler 22.8%, God Game 19% ★, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10.9%

"Box World: Space Courier " is a minimalist sandbox-style strategy management game. In this playful and pun-filled miniature world, calmly sketch out your own little world~ Make money! Make money! And make more money!!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Idler 18.8%, Capitalism 17.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Economy 12.1%

A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Crime 20.3%, Capitalism 17.2%, Economy 15.1%, Building 10.8%

A fantasy economy simulator and idle crafting game. Build a massive guild of alternate characters to gather resources, refine epic gear, and manipulate a fluctuating AI-driven Auction House. Chase rare multicraft procs, monopolize the markets, and watch your gold go to the moon!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.2% ★, Colony Sim 27.9%, Idler 21.8%, Economy 11.8%, Simulation 1.9%

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7%, Capitalism 22.7%, Building 14.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Economy 14.2%

Facrobry is a strategy-simulator in which you will manage an automated robot production station. Research upgrades, assemble robots, and send them into battle!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Idler 25%, Economy 13.2%, Building 12.2%, Base Building 11.7%

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: Crime 17.8%, Capitalism 17.7%, Dark Comedy 15.3%, Parody 15.1% ★, Economy 11.9%

Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, God Game 17.9% ★, Economy 16.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Building 13.5%

Build the arcade of your dreams in this cozy tycoon sim. Design your floor, place hundreds of games, hire staff to keep the machines running and the crowds happy, redeem prizes, and grow a struggling little arcade and become a mogul! 196 Different Arcade Machines & Attractions.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.7% ★, Idler 19.7%, Capitalism 19.5%, Economy 14.5%, Building 12.2%

Mission: Rift seeker is a colony simulation game about building and managing your base on an unknown planet and exploring the surrounding void rifts that are full of horrific and mysterious entities that you are tasked to capture before they to eat the brave and fluffy seekers that you command.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5%, Capitalism 18.8%, Dark Comedy 13.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.2%

A lottery tycoon simulator. You are the house — design lottery rules, tune payout rates, allocate public benefit funds. Watch NPCs transform from curious passersby into people who can't stop. Behind every number, a virtual life rises or falls. You are not the gambler. You are the house.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.1% ★, God Game 21.6% ★, Economy 15.7%, Dark Humor 14.6%, Capitalism 14.6%

Welcome to the Burger Flipper team! As our first hire, you’ll put a smile on customers’ faces as you prepare and serve their orders... And clean the kitchen and stock inventory. But we promote within! One day, you’ll be the manager, hiring new flippers, purchasing equipment, and choosing the menu!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.5% ★, Capitalism 19.2%, Dark Comedy 14.2%, Economy 12.9%, Building 11.9%

Raccateer is a colony sim idle game. Recruit and upgrade raccoons each with unique personalities and stats, manage their equipment and synergize your team to become a Trashilionaire. Go from trash to riches in this tight, narrative-focused idler

Why similar: Colony Sim 36.8%, Idler 30.3%, Capitalism 26.1%, Simulation 3.5%, 2D 2.3%

A tycoon game where you build and manage a courthouse. From small-town traffic courts to high-profile criminal cases you are the one in control. Build your courthouse, hire and manage staff, schedule cases and balance the pressures of efficiency and reputation.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.4%, Crime 21.6%, Economy 18.2%, Building 17.6%, Base Building 14.6%

An Item Shop Tycoon Game!! Hunt critters, collect their junk and sell it off to some very cool customers that come into your little shop! Become rich and powerful and cool in this unique fantasy world!!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.7% ★, Capitalism 25%, Idler 15.4%, Economy 9.4%, Simulation 3.5%

Run a small coastal supermarket and grow it into a chain. Choose your assortment, set your prices, lay out the aisles your customers actually walk, and build a team that keeps the tills moving. A calm, hand-drawn tycoon where every euro of running cost is a decision.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.3% ★, Capitalism 23.3%, Idler 15.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Simulation 4%

Dive into the captivating world of Paragon Pioneers 2, an engaging city-building idle game filled with extensive content promising months of immersive gameplay. Even with limited playtime, you can delve deep into this simulation, experimenting with various strategies to enhance your realm.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5%, Idler 23%, Building 12.1%, Economy 8.5%, Top-Down 6.6%

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: Colony Sim 30.4%, Building 16.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Capitalism 14.3%, Economy 10.4%

Build a profit-hungry orbital industry in this sci-fi incremental economy sim. Recruit specialist crews, automate production, trade meme coins, fill your Fleet Vault, and outplay the living Orbital Exchange to turn scrap into staggering wealth.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.8%, Idler 20.8%, Economy 19.4%, Building 9.7%

Run your cozy little shop from the bottom of your screen, decorate to attract unique customers, hire assistants, and send adventurers for rare treasures - all in a lively, charming management sim!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.1% ★, Capitalism 31.3%, Idler 24.5%, Simulation 4.2%, Pixel Graphics 2.1%

"Enflasyon uçuyor, müşteriler isyanda ve dükkân yanıyor! Sıradan bir market yönetimi değil; ekonomik kriz ve toplumsal kaosun ortasında hayatta kalma mücadelesi. Rafları doldur, 150 farklı absürt krizi yönet, fiyatlarla oyna ve batmamak için her yolu dene!"

Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.3% ★, Capitalism 23.4%, Economy 17.9%, Dark Humor 15.1%, Simulation 2.3%

Turn forgotten ruins into a thriving settlement. Craft hundreds of items, manage specialized workshops, recruit survivors, and transform scrap into prosperity in a hopeful post-post-apocalyptic management RPG.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.7%, Shop Keeper 26.4% ★, Economy 17.4%, Base Building 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 6.8%

Roguelike Space simulator with a dark-humor. Keep the ship running, the crew alive-ish, and the existential dread manageable.

Why similar: God Game 25.9% ★, Colony Sim 22.8%, Idler 16.7%, Dark Comedy 12.3%, Economy 9.1%

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: Colony Sim 27.8%, Capitalism 20.5%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 12.8%

Zombie Cropse is a cozy gothic idle management game where you plant zombie seeds to grow zombies, automate your graveyard, and raid the living. Build your horde, conquer a branching campaign, and ascend to begin again with permanent power.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.1% ★, Idler 19.9%, Capitalism 13%, Base Building 11.9%, Dark Humor 9.8%

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Idler 18%, Capitalism 17.6%, Economy 13.1%, Building 11.3%

Step into Kukinta, a unique blend of city-building and idle crafting. Assemble resources and refine them into complex goods to develop your island community. Let your strategic skills blossom. In Kukinta, every resource shapes the skyline of your serene retreat.

Why similar: God Game 30.9% ★, Idler 22%, Capitalism 17.9%, Building 11.7%, Economy 11%

A cozy café management game where chill mornings give way to frantic rush hours. Drag, pour, and juggle orders with physics-based drink mechanics as you expand your café across town.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.2% ★, Capitalism 19.4%, Building 14.3%, Economy 12.9%, Base Building 11.1%

Idle Empires is an incremental strategy game where you build and expand a thriving empire, one hex at a time. Place buildings, gather resources, and upgrade your empire automatically over time. Whether you’re actively playing or letting progress tick while idle, your empire is always growing.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Idler 20.7%, God Game 20.6% ★, Base Building 11.9%

Run your own cozy aquarium! Travel far and wide to catch exotic fish. Put them on display for idle profits, or sell them for instant cash. Unlock research for new upgrades, and ascend for powerful bonuses. Customize your shop, character, and tanks to make your aquarium your own!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.9% ★, Idler 19.9%, Capitalism 19.2%, Economy 12.5%, Building 12.2%