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 30% ★, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Capitalism 15.5%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 10.3%

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 32.4% ★, God Game 23.1% ★, Idler 16.5%, Economy 8.4%, Crime 8.2%

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 29.5% ★, Capitalism 15.8%, Crime 14.8%, Dark Comedy 13.2%, 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 18.9% ★, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Base Building 11.2%, Building 9.8%

Use the convincing power of your dice to negotiate prices in your favor and live out your dream of becoming the greatest goblin merchant!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.4% ★, Capitalism 19.2%, Economy 13.8%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 10.5%

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 28.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.8% ★, Capitalism 14.1%, Building 13%, Economy 11.2%

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 36.5% ★, Capitalism 21.5%, Idler 17.9%, Parody 11.7% ★, 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 20.5% ★, God Game 18.9% ★, Capitalism 14.6%, Building 11.4%, Economy 11.3%

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 from sky-high threats.

Why similar: God Game 22% ★, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Idler 18.4%, Economy 12.5%, Building 11.5%

In Arcane Shore, a magical shop simulator, you must repay a massive debt before time runs out. Manage your store by sourcing goods, dynamic pricing, crafting, and fulfilling orders. Expand, hire staff, and adapt to random events. Lead your shop from the brink of bankruptcy to revival.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.7% ★, Capitalism 13.3%, Idler 10.1%, Economy 9.8%, Top-Down 8.1%

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 27.6% ★, Crime 17%, Capitalism 14.7%, Idler 13.7%, Economy 10.1%

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 21.9% ★, Idler 17.6%, Capitalism 16.8%, Economy 15.2%, Building 13.2%

Tiny Vending Machines is an idle pixel art game that runs at the bottom of your screen. Buy and upgrade vending machines, stock them with drinks, snacks, and more, and keep customers happy. Automate your machines at higher levels and grow your vending empire while you work or study!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.5% ★, Idler 22%, Capitalism 20.7%, Economy 15.8%, Simulation 2.6%

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 25.8% ★, Idler 21.5%, Capitalism 16.2%, Economy 10.7%, Building 10.1%

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 33.1% ★, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Capitalism 17.3%, Economy 11.6%, Building 10%

A Colony-Sim in a dungeonpunk-fantasy world where you build outpost near ancient ruins, support adventurers, and tax their loot. Expand your outpost, survive waves of dungeon-born monsters, and ultimately conquer the depths before they consume the outpost.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Capitalism 17.4%, Base Building 15.1%, Building 13.2%, Economy 11.4%

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 37.1% ★, Capitalism 18.3%, Building 11.5%, Economy 11.2%, Top-Down 6.6%

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 51.8% ★, Economy 18.2%, Capitalism 16.1%, Building 10.2%, Simulation 2.9%

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% ★, Idler 22.3%, Economy 13.9%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 11.4%

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 37.6% ★, Colony Sim 26.1% ★, Idler 21.7%, Economy 11.6%, Simulation 1.8%

Run your own cozy aquarium! Travel to different places to catch all types of fish. Bring them back for idle profits, or sell them for instant cash. Unlock research for new upgrades, and ascend for powerful bonuses. Customize your character and tanks, and make your aquarium your own!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35% ★, Idler 19.6%, Capitalism 18.5%, Economy 12.3%, Building 11.7%

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% ★, Idler 21.9%, Economy 17.7%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%

A chaotic action and management sim about scalping limited releases: sprint to drops, snag online releases, haggle in your store, risk opening packs, grow your crew, and play solo or with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.7% ★, Capitalism 18%, Parody 16.3% ★, Economy 12.5%, Dark Humor 11.3%

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 39.3% ★, Capitalism 29.8%, Idler 24.3%, Simulation 3.9%, Pixel Graphics 1.9%

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 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.8% ★, Economy 14.9%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Dark Comedy 9.8%

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 35.7% ★, Idler 29.6%, Capitalism 12.9%, Building 8.3%, Base Building 4.9%

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 36.2% ★, Idler 31.2%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 11.6%, 2D 3.9%

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 33.1% ★, Capitalism 18.7%, Dark Comedy 13.5%, Economy 12.9%, Building 11.1%

"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 43.9% ★, Capitalism 22.4%, Economy 17.5%, Dark Humor 14%, Simulation 2.1%

"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 26.3% ★, Idler 19.6%, Capitalism 17.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Economy 12.4%

Build and run a Managed Service Provider (MSP) in this top-down IT management sim: rack servers, patch networks, handle client contracts, and keep your service agreements intact as your tiny IT business grows

Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.8% ★, Capitalism 22%, Building 13.9%, Economy 13.2%, Top-Down 2.9%

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 21.2% ★, Idler 20.1%, Capitalism 16.9%, Economy 13.5%, Building 11.2%

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 23.7% ★, Crime 20.1%, Capitalism 17.5%, Economy 15.7%, Building 10.6%

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 27.4% ★, Capitalism 23.1%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 13.9%

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 33.9% ★, Idler 24.1%, Building 11.7%, Economy 8.7%, Top-Down 6.6%

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 35.8% ★, Idler 31.5%, Capitalism 26.1%, Simulation 3.4%, 2D 2.3%

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 25.4% ★, Capitalism 19.2%, Dark Comedy 13%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 12.1%

Build and manage your cafe business. Customize your shop with furniture and decorations, brew various beverages, serve customers efficiently, expand your space, and compete with rival cafés. Grow from a small shop to a thriving empire. Oh, and there's chicken wrestling too.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.5% ★, Capitalism 22.7%, Economy 14.8%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 1.6%

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 32.4% ★, God Game 17.5% ★, Economy 17.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Building 13.4%

Cozy medieval sim meets smart idle play. Build and automate your tavern into a lively town. Decorate your space in any style you like. Gamble, breed rare horses, and manage shady deals. Watch your little world grow at the bottom of your screen.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.5% ★, Idler 25.3%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Economy 7.9%

Old Globe's center has collapsed: Now it's diesel fumes, flickering lights, and dirty work. Start with three thugs and five bucks. Take jobs, build your crew, manage loyalty and heat, and carve out your piece of New Sterling... or watch it all fall apart.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, Crime 25.8%, Idler 20.6%, Economy 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 5.2%

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 27.5% ★, Capitalism 20.7%, Economy 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.5%

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 29.8% ★, Idler 23%, Capitalism 18.1%, Building 11.4%, Economy 11.3%

Retail Simulator is a 1-4 Co-op game where you build your dream store from scratch in this immersive retail experience. Design the layout with our custom build mode, stock shelves, order inventory. Customize your store's look to attract customers. Choose your scale, from local shop to mega-store.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.9% ★, Capitalism 17.2%, Building 13.8%, Economy 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%

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

Why similar: God Game 25.2% ★, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Idler 17.7%, Dark Comedy 12.2%, Economy 9.5%

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 30.2% ★, Building 15.9%, Base Building 15.5%, Capitalism 14.6%, Economy 10.8%

A shopkeeping game set in an Arabian Nights–inspired city. Sell goods, haggle with customers, unlock new districts, and climb your way to the rank of Royal Merchant.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 48.3% ★, Capitalism 27.5%, Economy 17.9%, Simulation 3.1%, 2D 2.3%

Manage your own feline forge in this cozy yet deep shop simulation! Craft epic legendary gear, expand your smithy, hire quirky cat staff, and dispatch hero squads into dangerous dungeons. You may be cursed to never wield a sword again, but you can build a forging empire to defeat the Demon Dragon!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.1% ★, Idler 19.2%, Economy 14.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 11.3%

Fruit Fetish is an active incremental game where you must strive to make as much money as fast as possible by harvesting and selling a range of juicy fruits. Upgrade your skills and shop to become a master at your craft. Maybe if you work hard enough, you can finally please your corporate overlords.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 49.6% ★, Parody 15.1% ★, Dark Humor 12.3%, Capitalism 11.5%, Economy 7.2%

Discover Soukh - a Middle Eastern-inspired fantasy shopkeeping and strategy game. Run a chaotic bazaar with demanding customers, dispatch caravans and conquer challenges to gather exotic loot. Guide an exiled merchant’s rise. Will the sands lift him to glory… or bury him in stories left untold?

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.8% ★, Capitalism 20%, Economy 13.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 9.3%

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 22.6%, Idler 21.7%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, God Game 19.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%

Click to get money. Build buildings, develop the city infrastructure to increase passive income. Keep the infrastructure of the city in working condition by completing quests on time and get bonuses.

Why similar: Idler 29%, Colony Sim 26.8% ★, Capitalism 20%, Building 12.2%, Top-Down 6%

A cosy incremental semi-idle space colony management game that sits on your desktop while you do other things. Mine asteroids, build ships, expand the colony, research technology, uncover mysteries and explore the universe.

Why similar: Idler 24%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Capitalism 21.6%, Economy 17.4%, Building 6.8%

Astrocraft is a simulation game about building and managing your own space station. You mine resources, construct buildings, install machinery and equipment, sell goods to space travelers, and hire workers to automate all the operations.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.4% ★, Economy 19.5%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Building 13.5%, Base Building 10.9%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8% ★, God Game 18.1% ★, Economy 14.6%, Idler 13.5%, Building 13.3%

Build a safety base for survivors, serve their needs, and earn money to expand your outpost. Manage resources, find supplies, and protect your people in a challenging survival world. A unique mix of customer simulator, base building, and first-person open-world survival game.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.8% ★, Colony Sim 27% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Economy 12.2%, Building 3.6%

Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9% ★, Capitalism 24.6%, Economy 16.3%, Building 11%, Base Building 10.2%

Embark on a cozy journey to settle and thrive on floating islands in the remnants of a ruptured world. Grow your village, manage resources, and become the renowned pioneer of the clouds. A relaxing city-building experience where you build and optimize your serene sanctuary in the skies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.7% ★, Idler 29.7%, Economy 14.1%, Top-Down 8.3%, 2D 3.6%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.9% ★, Capitalism 20.1%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 12%, Dark Humor 11.1%

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 43.6% ★, Economy 20.8%, Capitalism 19.9%, Building 6.5%, Base Building 6.3%