Games Like Economica

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 28.4%, Economy 23.9%, Management 18.3%, Resource Management 16.5%, Simulation 7.2%

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 36.2%, Economy 25%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Strategy 7.8%

Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.

Why similar: Capitalism 37.9%, Economy 20.6%, Management 18.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 10.1%

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 37.5%, Economy 25.8%, Management 15.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 6.7%

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 33.8%, Economy 33.7%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 6.3%

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 30.2%, Economy 26.5%, Management 14.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Resource Management 10.5%

Build and manage a real multi‑entity family office as you acquire properties, hire staff, structure trusts, and grow generational wealth through authentic financial systems.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.2%, Economy 25%, Management 16.7%, Resource Management 13.6%, Simulation 7.7%

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 25.7%, Management 18.8%, Economy 18.3%, Resource Management 16.8%, Simulation 7.6%

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 35.6%, Economy 27.7%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Strategy 6.4%

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 33.7%, Capitalism 30.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Management 12%, Resource Management 11.3%

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 23.8%, Management 23.4%, Capitalism 17.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 9.8%

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%, Economy 20.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Resource Management 10.5%

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 26.3%, Management 14.8%, Space 14.3%, Strategy 6.5%

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 30.1%, Economy 29.1%, Management 23.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Simulation 6.9%

Build, expand and manage your own growing hotel. Upgrade rooms, optimize elevators, keep guests satisfied and transform a small family hotel into a luxury destination.

Why similar: Economy 27.7%, Management 27%, Resource Management 22%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 7.5%

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 21%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 14%, Management 13.5%

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 42.5%, Management 20.2%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 13.5%, Strategy 9%

From rags to riches, build your merchant empire in this space trader tycoon. Haul cargo, mine asteroids, run factories, trade stocks, command a fleet or even colonize an entire planet. Grow to become a gazillionaire as you outsmart the competition and expand your business across the planets.

Why similar: Capitalism 38%, Economy 28.1%, Management 17.1%, Space 6.2%, Strategy 5.2%

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 36.1%, Economy 33.6%, Management 17%, Simulation 11.8%, Indie 1.2%

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 31%, Resource Management 24.8%, Management 18%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 10.5%

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 37.7%, Economy 21.2%, Management 14.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Simulation 10.6%

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

Why similar: Capitalism 33.2%, Economy 22.6%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 9.1%

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 32.8%, Economy 24.4%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Resource Management 9.4%

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 27.1%, Capitalism 26.3%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 8.2%

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 27.8%, Economy 24.4%, Management 17%, Resource Management 14.1%, Simulation 7.6%

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: Economy 25.6%, Capitalism 25.4%, Management 17.1%, Resource Management 16.2%, Simulation 7.9%

Build a medieval trading empire across Northern Europe. Establish trade routes, influence politics, expand your cities, and compete with rival merchants for wealth and power in a dynamic economic strategy game.

Why similar: Capitalism 31.9%, Economy 28.3%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 7.8%

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 35.9%, Economy 26.7%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 7.2%, Simulation 7.1%

Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.6%, Economy 24.6%, Management 16.5%, Resource Management 14%, Simulation 7.7%

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 33.6%, Capitalism 27.4%, Management 20%, Simulation 16%, Indie 1.6%

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 27.6%, Economy 24.3%, Management 14.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Space 9.5%

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 33.9%, Capitalism 29.7%, Management 12.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10.6%

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 32.2%, Capitalism 21.9%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 10.6%

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 26%, Space 19.6%, Resource Management 18.4%, Capitalism 15.5%, Management 11.3%

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 29.1%, Economy 20.6%, Management 12.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Space 9.9%

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 29.8%, Economy 27.3%, Management 18.6%, Simulation 12.2%, Resource Management 10.3%

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 29.9%, Management 24.9%, Capitalism 24.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 8.3%

Run your own game store, by yourself or with your friends! Stock shelves, sell games, and serve customers in this 1-4 player co-op simulator.

Why similar: Economy 30.5%, Capitalism 25.2%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 13.6%, Resource Management 7.3%

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Capitalism 24.5%, Management 22.4%, Economy 21.5%, Resource Management 14.8%, Simulation 8.1%

Bar Master is a management game where you play as a bar owner and must develop your business. Start by serving beers in a simple bar, hire waiters, unlock new drinks, expand your bar, and buy new bars in the city!

Why similar: Economy 27%, Management 23.6%, Resource Management 13.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Capitalism 10.7%

A courthouse management tycoon. Show your architectural talent, with every detail in your control. Let your management prowess show, schedule cases and trials alongside the ever present pressures of profit and reputation.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.2%, Economy 25.2%, Management 19%, Resource Management 13%, Simulation 5.6%

Business simulator with strategy elements, where you manage a network of order delivery points in the conditions of severe competition, gray schemes and unexpected risks. Develop your business, improve points, defend against competitors' attacks, conduct risky transactions in the gray market.

Why similar: Capitalism 27%, Economy 18.1%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 13%, Management 12.7%

In this colorful tycoon with unique puzzle elements you are the designer of stunning, glamorous casinos. Your guests, though, have varied and sometimes opposite demands! Analyze their routines, split them up and manipulate them on your way to success!

Why similar: Capitalism 36.8%, Economy 18.2%, Management 18%, Puzzle 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

Battle through 30 years of digital agency history — optimize sales & marketing, deliver projects, grow your team and outsmart your rivals. Fully simulated market and freely chosen path to success — boutique with quality or agency group? You decide.

Why similar: Capitalism 38.1%, Economy 28.3%, Management 22.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

E-Startup is a sandbox business simulation game in a low-poly universe. Build, buy resources to create products and complete contracts, invest in the stock market to become rich and popular!

Why similar: Capitalism 34.2%, Economy 25.6%, Management 17.2%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 5.4%

Build your own mobile networks in this unique single-player business simulation game. Start in the 1990s with a 2G network, take part in the 3G auctions of the 2000s and create the best mobile networks.

Why similar: Economy 27.6%, Capitalism 26.5%, Management 17.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 8.2%

Investment business simulation game. Become the richest billionaire ever! Build your financial empire out of merged companies and increase your capital.

Why similar: Capitalism 35.7%, Economy 32.8%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 7.7%

FUNEX is the first and only STOCK MARKET SIMULATION which provides REAL ORDER BOOK TRADING to the players. You don't trade fake algoritmic prices on a fake market. Instead, there are 22 AI funds which are actively trading in a REAL SIMULATED STOCK EXCHANGE. Are you ready for REAL CHAOS?

Why similar: Capitalism 39.7%, Economy 34.5%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 6.4%

A strategy game about correlations and bending reality for profit. You’re hired to increase a company’s sales—by any means necessary. Link variables together and transform changes in the world into revenue. More penguins? Somehow, that means higher sales. Don’t question it. Optimize it.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.7%, Economy 19.4%, Strategy 14.4%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 11.6%

Cozy Market Simulator is a relaxing shop management game where you run your own store. Stock shelves, serve customers, fulfill orders, and grow your business day by day into the ultimate cozy market.

Why similar: Economy 41.2%, Management 23%, Resource Management 18.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Indie 1.7%

Build a black-market empire from debt to unimaginable wealth in this deep strategy trading simulation. Buy weapons, manage risk, evade authorities, and profit from global conflict.

Why similar: Economy 29.2%, Resource Management 17.9%, Management 16.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Capitalism 12.2%

In Media AGENCY Simulator, build and manage your own media agency! Assign tasks, verify news, and publish content. Grow your followers, expand your team, conquer social media, and climb to the top of the media world by developing your strategy!

Why similar: Capitalism 30.7%, Economy 25%, Management 16.4%, Resource Management 14%, Simulation 7.3%

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: Economy 33.5%, Capitalism 32.5%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 9.8%, Indie 1.5%

Box Office Mayhem is a business management game where you simulate running your own movie theatre. Navigate through signing movie deals, managing day to day operations, and struggle as movie goers have unpredictable behavior. Play solo against AI competitors or take it online against friends!

Why similar: Capitalism 39.1%, Economy 37.7%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%, Management 4.7%

Create your dream garden center! Design, decorate and stock it with stunning plants to wow customers and earn top ratings. Manage staff, suppliers, and finances to stay ahead of the competition. Take control of stock management, interact with cash registers and experience the day-to-day operations.

Why similar: Economy 37.7%, Management 22.4%, Resource Management 21.1%, Simulation 17.2%, 3D 1.1%

Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!

Why similar: Capitalism 25.3%, Economy 23.7%, Management 19.1%, Resource Management 17.5%, Simulation 7%

Manage a million-dollar hedge fund with real stock prices. Free to play, with performance you can prove and share.

Why similar: Capitalism 33.6%, Economy 23.6%, Management 16.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Simulation 7.8%

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Economy 31.5%, Management 22.8%, Capitalism 19.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Resource Management 9.4%

Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.

Why similar: Capitalism 32%, Economy 24%, Management 17.4%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 6.8%