Games Like Economica

BankingSim puts you in charge of a growing bank. Issue loans, set interest rates, manage risk, and deal with defaults as you grow your financial empire.

Why similar: Capitalism 36.4%, Economy 24.6%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Strategy 8%

Manage the most unpredictable resource - people - in this WASD tycoon! Plan projects, hire a dream team, assign tasks to specialists, and monitor the budget while upgrading your office. Balance between team burnout, complex contracts, and the wrath of upper management.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.7%, Economy 23.5%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 16%, Simulation 7.3%

Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.

Why similar: Capitalism 38%, Economy 20.2%, Management 18.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 10.2%

Master the daily grind in Corner Cafe Capitalist, a business management simulator. Tweak your recipes, set prices, purchase supplies, and hire staff by night, then watch your strategy test the morning rush by day. Can you scale your humble corner cart into a thriving city-wide refreshment empire?

Why similar: Economy 29.4%, Capitalism 28.9%, Management 17%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 7.3%

From brick phones to 5G, build your phone empire. This is a deep business simulation spanning 40 years of mobile phone history (1985-2030). Design phones across three technological eras, manage a global supply chain, fight OS ecosystem wars, and battle 20+ AI competitors.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.8%, Economy 24.3%, Management 17.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Resource Management 10.1%

Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.

Why similar: Capitalism 34%, Economy 33.1%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 6.4%

Build an investment firm, trade fictional markets, acquire income-producing property, and create your own ETFs as you grow from a small office into a financial empire in this player-paced management simulation.

Why similar: Capitalism 29.7%, Economy 25.2%, Management 17.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 6.9%

Build your financial empire in Trading Simulator by strategically investing in businesses, navigating a dynamic market, and using realistic trading mechanics. Are you ready to turn your financial dreams into reality?

Why similar: Capitalism 37.9%, Economy 25.5%, Management 15.5%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 6.9%

Investment Fund Game is a singleplayer sandbox simulation where you become the manager of an investment fund. Buy stocks, bonds, commodities. Test different investment strategies, track your performance, and compete with AI-driven funds using their own approaches.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.5%, Economy 26.1%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 10.2%

Build your own TV network, license shows, schedule prime-time slots, hire writers, sign sponsors, and fight for ratings week by week.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.9%, Economy 21.7%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 15.6%, Simulation 8.6%

Build and run a multi-entity family office: source commercial property deals, compare financing, negotiate terms, manage debt and cash flow, hire staff, structure trusts, and carry the institution into the next generation.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.4%, Economy 24.6%, Management 16.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Simulation 7.8%

Build your own armaments empire. Develop customised weapons, build and expand factories, manage staff, production and finances, and sell your products on the global market. Transform a run-down family business into the world’s most valuable corporation.

Why similar: Capitalism 34.3%, Economy 23.6%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%

Law Firm Simulator is a business management sandbox where you build and run your own legal empire. Hire lawyers, take on clients, manage complex cases, expand your offices, and grow a small practice into the city’s most prestigious law firm.

Why similar: Capitalism 32%, Economy 22.9%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Resource Management 12.4%

Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!

Why similar: Capitalism 25.8%, Management 18.9%, Economy 18%, Resource Management 16.3%, Simulation 7.7%

Found your AI company in the wildest gold rush of the century. Source quality training data, race to new architectures, and turn research into revenue. Balance burn rate against breakthroughs, outmaneuver rivals, and build a tech empire. A deep management sim.

Why similar: Capitalism 29.7%, Economy 25.5%, Management 17.4%, Resource Management 13.1%, Simulation 6.9%

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: Economy 23.4%, Management 23.4%, Capitalism 17.4%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 10%

A real-time portfolio management sim where you build a career as a stock broker. Balance clients' trust, market timing, and your own reputation on a procedurally-generated Wall Street that never stops moving.

Why similar: Capitalism 34.4%, Economy 24.7%, Management 15.3%, Resource Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.2%

Master hyperspace trade in this sci-fi sim! Manage tariffs on 5 exotic resources, grow your Ecumenopolis, and outwit smugglers. Strategic fun for all!

Why similar: Economy 33.3%, Capitalism 30.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 12.1%, Resource Management 11.1%

Trade unfolding market catalysts, stack dangerous leverage, and turn one broke farmhouse into an increasingly absurd family dynasty. A deep trading roguelite with adaptive hype music, anime power-ups, and a Goddess of Fortune who has plans for your margin account.

Why similar: Economy 22.9%, Capitalism 22.6%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Resource Management 12.4%

Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!

Why similar: Capitalism 35.8%, Economy 27.3%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 6.5%

Build a semiconductor company from 1995 to the AI era. Design CPUs, GPUs and laptops, run factories, create architectures, operating systems and software ecosystems, and compete in a market shaped by engineering, price and timing.

Why similar: Economy 24.7%, Capitalism 21.6%, Management 17.3%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 11.9%

Terachain is a short incremental game about generating the largest possible chain reaction in a weird alien machine. What's the biggest reaction possible with a single click? Earn billions or trillions of points by increasing the attributes of these strange spinning pieces.

Why similar: Capitalism 27%, Economy 25.7%, Management 14.8%, Space 14.8%, Strategy 6.6%

Across five cities mapped from real geographic data, run a restaurant chain: open locations, develop products, set prices and manage cash flow. Make decisions week by week, expand abroad and acquire companies. Grow one restaurant into an international chain.

Why similar: Capitalism 33.4%, Economy 29.7%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 7.8%, Resource Management 6.9%

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: Capitalism 30%, Economy 28.8%, Management 24.2%, Resource Management 8.8%, Simulation 7.1%

It's 1995 and the bank is yours. Set rates, approve loans, take deposits, deal in stocks, satisfy the regulator, and try not to break too many rules. A deep banking and finance management sim wrapped in a mid-1990’s desktop.

Why similar: Capitalism 31.1%, Economy 25.8%, Management 19%, Resource Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.1%

The Trade Prince is a logistical economic simulation game in which you build automated trade networks across multiple planets to produce increasingly complex goods.

Why similar: Capitalism 31.1%, Economy 20.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%

Build a property development company from the ground up. Find undervalued land, negotiate acquisitions, design profitable estates, navigate planning and construction, finance your projects and sell into a changing property market where every decision affects your return.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.4%, Economy 25.2%, Management 17.4%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 7%

Build a business empire across the United States. Create companies, open and upgrade assets. Expand across industries, dominate markets, control a growing share of the economy, and build a trillion-dollar fortune.

Why similar: Capitalism 33.8%, Economy 28.1%, Management 16.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Resource Management 4.7%

You are the person who decides what plays, and when. One cinema, seven days, five slots a day. Which new release to sign, which revival to licence, what to spend on the house, whose trust to keep. These are the calls a cinema programmer makes, week after week.

Why similar: Economy 27.6%, Capitalism 22.8%, Management 20.7%, Resource Management 16.7%, Simulation 7.3%

Build and manage a growing hotel. Earn stars, upgrade rooms and elevators, add restaurants, spas, conferences and events, and transform a small family hotel into a luxury Palace.

Why similar: Economy 27.4%, Management 27.2%, Resource Management 21.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 7.6%

Inspired by the economy simulation games oft the mid 90s, Undertaker's let's you manage your very own funeral home.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.8%, Economy 20.6%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 14.2%, Management 13.5%

Invest into promising startups with sometimes wacky ideas. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.

Why similar: Capitalism 38%, Economy 20.9%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%

Fizz Flow is a strategy and management game that takes place in a setting without competition regulations. In old America, where the beverage industry is on the rise, build your own factory, make your own unique recipes, weaken your opponents and maintain your hard earned success at the market!

Why similar: Economy 30.7%, Resource Management 24.3%, Management 18.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.8%

Conquer the city grid in a deep developer simulator. Configure real estate projects, negotiate revolving credit lines, manage heavy machinery, and balance the supply chain. Evolve from modest panel blocks to elite monolithic skyscrapers while playing the market.

Why similar: Economy 31.7%, Capitalism 22.1%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 11.8%, Resource Management 10.3%

A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it all online through power cuts, heatwaves and hardware failures as your empire grows.

Why similar: Capitalism 32.1%, Economy 23.7%, Management 18.1%, Resource Management 8.4%, Strategy 7.3%

Epic Car Factory puts you in the drivers seat of your very own car company. Build, market, hire, fire, and more in this fast paced business simulation. The failure and success of the company depends entirely on your decisions and how you react to the ever changing market place.

Why similar: Economy 42.2%, Management 20.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 9.3%

Build your own financial empire in this business and investment simulation. Trade stocks, rent out properties, invest in start-ups, acquire collectibles at auction, and establish your own company—rising from a small-time investor to the greatest investor in history.

Why similar: Capitalism 31.3%, Economy 27.3%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 6.7%

Run your own venture capital firm. Hunt deals, research founders, write the checks — then live with the results. Most bets fail. The one that doesn't pays for everything: a bigger fund, the corner office, a name every founder knows. Outrank the big firms, or take yours public.

Why similar: Capitalism 32.1%, Economy 20.9%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 11.8%, Strategy 11.4%

Pursuit of Mercantile Power is a single-player economic sim with light RPG. No money spawns—money only moves. Control the village’s cash flow, use proposals and loans, buy shares, and take over enterprises to seize GuYuan’s commercial order.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.1%, Economy 24%, Management 17.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Simulation 7.8%

Run your own sauna: buy a room, equip it with an oven and start earning money from it. Hire employees, ensure safety and, of course, have fun!

Why similar: Capitalism 36.5%, Economy 30.5%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Indie 1.3%

Craft bio-weapons, master lethal science, and unleash global annihilation. Experiment. Fail. Adapt. Evolve. Repeat until humankind falls.

Why similar: Capitalism 33.4%, Economy 22.2%, Management 13.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 9.3%

Play the CEO of a multi-national conglomerate in this business simulation. Grow crops, raise livestock, build mines and oil wells to get the raw resources needed to make more than 75 types of consumer goods.

Why similar: Capitalism 36.4%, Economy 33.1%, Management 17%, Simulation 12%, Indie 1.3%

You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.

Why similar: Economy 26.7%, Capitalism 26.5%, Resource Management 15%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 8.4%

Wealth, power, greed: in the oil boom of the 1960s, money never sleeps. Invest in stocks, commodities and real estate, acquire companies and manipulate markets to build a financial empire. Use mergers, Ruthless speculation and strategies to dominate the global economy.

Why similar: Capitalism 33%, Economy 24%, Management 13.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Resource Management 9.1%

A single betrayal shattered your father’s business empire, leaving behind five public companies. Years later, you return from the bottom of the market, building capital through long-term investment. Your ultimate goal is simple: buy out and take full control of all five companies.

Why similar: Capitalism 36.2%, Economy 26.3%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 7%

A high-pressure management sim where you build a defense contractor from nothing, secure contracts, expand production, manage staff and supply chains, and fight to stay ahead of cash flow, compliance, and collapse.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.7%, Economy 25.3%, Management 17.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 8.1%

A turn-based board game about manipulating a stock market, alone or against up to three others. Observe the trends, gamble, work the market in legal and less legal ways, and cross your fingers that the auditors don't catch you with your hands in the cookie jar.

Why similar: Capitalism 37.6%, Economy 26.1%, Management 16.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 6.7%

Bid on abandoned warehouses, storage lots and garages to uncover the rarest, oldest and most magical treasures! Goblins and Garage Sales is a storage hunter simulation game where you bid, repair, haggle, and most importantly, profit! Maybe even help the locals rebuild their town along the way.

Why similar: Economy 33%, Capitalism 27.5%, Management 20%, Simulation 16.3%, Indie 1.6%

₩1,000,000 — about $700 — and no safety net. A real-time stock-trading sim where judgment is your only weapon: read the news, read the charts, time every trade. Climb from a windowless room to a private island, Bronze to Legend. Fall to the bottom, and the Hangang is waiting.

Why similar: Capitalism 30%, Economy 26.8%, Management 12%, Simulation 10.4%, Resource Management 9.7%

Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.

Why similar: Capitalism 27.7%, Economy 23.9%, Management 14.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Space 9.8%

From 0 to Hero investing simulation game. Start as a dead end job worker and work your way to financial freedom. Supports both minmaxing and relaxing playstyles.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.2%, Economy 30.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 10%, Resource Management 9.3%

You are the merchant in a fantasy kingdom. Run the store, stock shelves with potions, magical weapons, and armour. Set prices, hire staff, and expand your business by collaborating with local artisans. Supply NPC heroes so they can keep battling the kingdom's enemies.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.1%, Economy 26.9%, Management 18.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Resource Management 10.1%

In The Monetary Lever, you're the Bank of England Governor. Control interest rates and QE to guide the UK economy. Balance growth with inflation and navigate unexpected challenges. Test your economic skills in this engaging simulator. Can you steer the economy towards prosperity?"

Why similar: Economy 33.3%, Capitalism 29.9%, Management 12.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 10.8%

Nebula miner puts you in control of a space mining company. A real time resource management game where you need to explore space to find resources, and then harvest them efficiently.

Why similar: Economy 25.5%, Space 20.3%, Resource Management 17.9%, Capitalism 15.6%, Management 11.3%

Open a convenience store... in space! Set prices, stock shelves, and help alien customers as your business grows in your own corner of the galaxy.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.2%, Economy 21.8%, Management 17.7%, Simulation 12.1%, Space 11.2%

Build a massive galactic empire and conquer many galaxies in this incremental game of space conquest. Manage resources, expand your reach, and grow your influence with a casual spin on a 4x theme.

Why similar: Capitalism 29.2%, Economy 20.2%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Space 10.3%

Stock Baron is a strategy sim set in a fictional stock market. Become a market titan with vast capital, superior intel and an arsenal of trading tactics. Your moves sway prices, while other market players seize their chances. Enter a battle of wits amid fear and greed, and make your fortune!

Why similar: Economy 35.8%, Capitalism 23.5%, Resource Management 15.2%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.4%

Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?

Why similar: Economy 29.6%, Management 24.9%, Capitalism 24.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 8.3%

A minimalist economic strategy game where you don't predict demand, you create it. Make advertising campaings to increase the demand of your products, out-produce your rivals, sell at high prices, invest to grow, and pay yourself before the shareholders runs out of patience. Good luck getting rich.

Why similar: Capitalism 38.1%, Economy 27.7%, Management 17.3%, Strategy 5.9%, Resource Management 5.7%