- #1 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
97% matchMixed62% of 184 reviews2021
Dev: Abylight StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management
Why similar: Management 16.5%, Inventory Management 13.4%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9%
- #2 Factory Engineer
96% matchMixed46% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Inventory Management 15.6%, Building 15.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 12%
- #3 Shopping Center Tycoon
96% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Management 21.4%, Building 15.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Strategy 11.5%
- #4 Warehouse Tycoon
95% matchNegative16% of 19 reviews2021
Windows
Warehouse Tycoon is a business management game in which you control all parts of your warehouse: Buying/selling products, designing your warehouse, and most importantly making a profit.
Why similar: Management 16%, Inventory Management 14.6%, Building 13.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 8.3%
- #5 University Tycoon - The College Management Simulator
94% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Robert Gould
Windows
Build and manage a University, with realistic curriculum scheduling, reputation system, and a multiple building campus
Why similar: Management 25.9%, Base Building 24.6%, Simulation 17.2%, Building 12.8%, Top-Down 12.6%
- #6 RichBroker
94% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Emergence Games
Windows
RichBroker is a keyboard controlled tycoon game. Build & sell real estate, upgrade your company and buy out your competitors!
Why similar: Building 21.3%, Management 18.2%, Grid-Based Movement 15.6%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 13.8%
- #7 Crypto Mining Tycoon
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MaxSoftGames
Windows
Crypto Tycoon, you relive the rise of the digital currency revolution by starting your own crypto mining and trading company. Build mining farms, trade volatile markets, research new technologies, and expand your operations.
Why similar: Base Building 18.5%, Management 14.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 11%, Strategy 10.3%
- #8 Global Rescue
91% matchVery Positive87% of 1,266 reviews2026
Dev: PeDePe GbR Pub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Build your own base and take command of firefighting, police, EMS, and SWAT operations. Thanks to real map data, you can play right in your hometown - or anywhere in the world! Manage your fleet, hire staff, and take on a variety of authentic operations. In which city are you taking command?
Why similar: Management 17.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Building 14.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.4%
- #9 Project Highrise
92% matchVery Positive85% of 4,762 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 30.8%, Building 23%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Economy 5.3%
- #10 School Owner
91% matchMostly Negative22% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Owner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.
Why similar: Simulation 14.5%, Building 13.7%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Management 12.9%, Strategy 12.2%
- #11 Roller Coaster Park Simulator
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frost Panda Studio
Windows
Switch between first- and third-person as you build your park, ride your coasters, and serve your guests. Design rides, manage staff, and keep the chaos under control in your very own roller coaster park!
Why similar: Management 20.5%, Building 16.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 10.6%
- #12 Hotel Management Simulator
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ice Drop Coding
Windows
Build, renovate and manage your hotel to keep your guests happy. Increase your star rating, but be careful - unhappy guests leave bad reviews and you don't want to lose your hotel!
Why similar: Management 17.3%, Base Building 17.2%, Building 16%, Simulation 9.8%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #13 Drink Stand Tycoon
89% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: 109 Below
Windows
Drink Stand Tycoon is a casual business management tycoon game. Whether you're looking to relax and manage stats or destroy the competition, Drink Stand Tycoon offers an approachable yet detailed experience both new and old tycoon fans will enjoy!
Why similar: Inventory Management 19.6%, Management 17.6%, Economy 10%, Simulation 9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #14 The Laundromat Sidequest
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BeaverFang
Windows
A brand new sidequest awaits - Plan, Decorate, and Maintain your laundry facility. Set up your laundromat on the weekends to ensure that it's ready for the week ahead. Dive in and develop an old run-down building into a flourishing establishment.
Why similar: Management 20.2%, Building 19.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Sandbox 10.9%, Life Sim 9.3%
- #15 My Space Bar
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SuperSixStudios
Windows
Manage your own space station bar! Customize your station, hire staff, improve your menu, decorate, and add attractions like arcades and dance clubs!
Why similar: Management 28.1%, Building 19.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Top-Down 7.9%
- #16 Surviving Medieval
86% matchMixed60% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Vlasov Tower
Windows
Survival strategy with indirect control and tower defense elements. Build and manage your medieval town.
Why similar: Simulation 18.5%, Base Building 18.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Building 14.9%, Management 14.3%
- #17 Timberflow: Sawmill Simulator
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HatchStudio
Windows
From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.
Why similar: Management 16.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #18 Coffee Noir - Business Detective Game
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 87 reviews2021
Dev: DOJI
Windows · Mac · Linux
A unique combination of a business management game and detective novel with elegant graphics in a noir comic-book art style. Experience an advanced business management simulation along with intriguing story set in alternative future of Neo-London.
Why similar: Management 21.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 10.7%
- #19 Nightlife Tycoon
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Management 22.8%, Building 18.8%, Inventory Management 11.7%, Resource Management 11.4%, Economy 10.6%
- #20 Internet Cafe Evolution
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 710 reviews2024
Dev: Tiny Flame Games
Windows
This is a business simulation + construction game. It tells the evolution history of Internet cafes that began in the 1990s, and imagines the future of internet cafes. There are also some small emotional stories.
Why similar: Management 16.7%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 10%, Simulation 8.6%
- #21 Wonderstries
83% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Altered Pixel Games
Windows
Harvest natural resources and build machines to rebuild society following a terrible war that left the world scarred.
Why similar: Strategy 16.2%, Building 13.5%, Management 13%, Sandbox 10.4%, Base Building 10.3%
- #22 The Borderless
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: New Eden Games
Windows
Escape the chaos of daily life and build your own floating paradise. In The Borderless, construct, manage, and expand a serene ocean platform into a thriving resort where visitors relax, party, and fuel your dreams with their wallets.
Why similar: Management 14.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.8%, Resource Management 8.4%, Economy 7.5%
- #23 Dream Corp 梦想公司
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: zhangkun
Windows
This is an integrated company simulation game combining construction, management, and life elements. As the boss, precisely control each character without cumbersome page operations. Encounter random events, explore employees' hobbies, quirks, and build a dream company together.
Why similar: Management 25%, Building 19.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 13.8%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #24 Potion Pipeline
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Base Building 18.1%, Building 18%, Strategy 15%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.9%
- #25 Café Manager
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Sikitesens Lti.
Windows
Design it, manage it, own it! Create a cozy cafe, hire the best team, and turn your small business into the talk of the town. Customize every detail, keep your customers happy, and watch your profits grow. The best cafe is the one you build!
Why similar: Management 23.9%, Building 20.4%, Economy 12.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 9.8%
- #26 Little Big Workshop
80% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 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 20.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Building 15.4%, Strategy 15%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #27 Interstellar Inn
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kunaya
Windows
Interstellar Inn is a 2D hotel building and management sim in space.
Why similar: Building 17.9%, Management 17.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #28 CLOUD DWELLERS
76% matchVery Positive92% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: XinZhiPub: Xinzhi
Windows
CloudDwellers is a 2D simulation and city-building game set in a world of scattered floating islands. Guide your settlers to harness technology, optimize production, and transform fragmented skies into a thriving, beautifully crafted aerial haven.
Why similar: Management 17.8%, Base Building 17.7%, Building 16.4%, Inventory Management 15.8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #29 DETECTIVE TYCOON
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CO5MONAUT
Windows
Travel 70 years back in time to the days of noir detectives and lead your own 1-bit detective agency! Solve the most difficult cases. Hire new detectives. Expand your office.
Why similar: Base Building 16.5%, Management 16.4%, Building 13.3%, Simulation 8.4%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #30 Pawn Legends
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Project GAMMA
Windows
Welcome to the most realistic Pawn Shop Simulator out there! It is time to make the dream a reality-open your own unique Pawn Shop in stunning Sunset Bay, and become #1 Pawn Shop in the Region! Pawn Shop Management, Buy and Sell, Negotiate, Upgrade and Expand, and so much more!
Why similar: Management 21.5%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Economy 11.8%, Inventory Management 11.1%
- #31 Luxury Hotel Emporium
79% matchNegative13% of 23 reviews2015
Dev: United Independent Entertainment
Windows
Who does not dream of luxury and wealth? In “Luxury Hotel Emporium” this dream is within one’s reach. Start as a small hotelier with a bed and breakfast and rise to an international economy magnate with deluxe hotels all across Europe.
Why similar: Management 20.9%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 14.8%, Building 11.4%, Top-Down 8.7%
- #32 Sky End Market
75% matchVery Positive98% of 160 reviews2025
Dev: Andymente
Windows
This is a game to manage a supermarket. Set up shelves, arrange products, and make your store bigger and bigger! Sell your goods to the remaining people, animals, and robots in the last place on earth just before the human race is exterminated.
Why similar: Management 17.2%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Building 10.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Life Sim 8.4%
- #33 Little Mall Tycoon
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArmBox
Windows
Let's make your dream mall! Hire great employees and train them. Sell everything that customers want. Upgrade your mall and prepare to deal with unexpected events. Be the best mall in the world.
Why similar: Strategy 21.2%, Simulation 19.8%, Management 16.9%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #34 Crowded Blue Dot
78% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: Base Building 17.9%, Management 16.9%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10.7%, Simulation 9%
- #35 SkyBrew: Entropic Strategist
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: ATRIC Games
Windows
Experience entrepreneurship in a floating cloud cafe. Manage your flying cafe, customize construction, train staff, handle random events, and uncover the secrets of the commercial empire, growing from a small shop to the sky's brightest star.
Why similar: Base Building 16.8%, Building 14.8%, Management 14.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%
- #36 Gun Factory Simulator
75% matchMixed66% of 156 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Clock
Windows
Take control of your very own firearms factory. Start with a workshop and a gun shop, and evolve it into a factory of mass destruction. Craft bullets to rockets, handguns to shotguns, hire workers & managers, and become a merchant of death. Get use to the smell of gunpowder and cash.
Why similar: Management 17.2%, Inventory Management 14%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.5%, Building 7.9%
- #37 Office Manager
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jan Štěpánek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own office empire. Design buildings, find tenants, negotiate contracts, and keep them happy. Research new technologies, expand your business, and handle unexpected events in a living office world.
Why similar: Management 17.3%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 8.9%
- #38 Software CEO
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Deltacraft Games
Windows · Linux
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Management 20.3%, Building 13.8%, Inventory Management 12.5%, Economy 11.1%, Simulation 10.7%
- #39 Terra-7
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Management 18.3%, Strategy 15.7%, Simulation 14.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 11.7%
- #40 The Banker Tycoon
72% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Lunatic Eclipse Studio
Windows
Start a management experience where you grow your own bank step by step. Handle customer operations yourself, control risk and fees, unlock new systems through a wide research tree, upgrade your bank and rise from a small branch to a respected financial center.
Why similar: Management 27.8%, Building 19.8%, Simulation 17.1%, Resource Management 12%, Top-Down 11.9%
- #41 Islandustry
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Base Building 18.2%, Management 13.9%, Building 13.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 8.4%
- #42 Fruit Mart Simulator
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Reality Fantasy
Windows
Run your own fruit store! Restock fresh fruits, design your store layout, and manage daily sales. Keep customers happy and grow your business into the most popular produce shop in town!
Why similar: Management 20.3%, Simulation 18.2%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Time Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #43 Copacetic
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows · Linux
The 3D Pipes screensaver, but a resource management game, inside of a cube, about genocide. Place factories and modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Management 22.5%, Base Building 22.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 10.5%, Strategy 9.8%
- #44 Joey's Shisha Simulator
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: QuirQ Entertainment
Windows
Start your own shisha lounge from scratch! Prepare hookahs, work behind the bar, serve customers, manage finances, design your shop and expand your business. But beware, unexpected events can happen, can your business overcome them?
Why similar: Management 16.8%, Inventory Management 13.1%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Life Sim 8.3%
- #45 Drill Deal: Borehole (Alpha)
71% matchVery Positive87% of 373 reviews2020
Dev: A2 SoftworksPub: Manager Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.
Why similar: Management 23.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Simulation 13.6%, Building 11.4%, Strategy 10.7%
- #46 Storefront Simulator
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infium BV
Windows
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: Management 16.9%, Building 14.1%, Inventory Management 13.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Economy 9%
- #47 SimAirport
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,022 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.1 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: Base Building 17.4%, Management 17.2%, Building 14.7%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #48 Startup Freak
71% matchMixed70% of 53 reviews2019
Dev: PulPul Games
Windows
In Startup Freak you take the role of a budding entrepreneur, and grow your very own software startup from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar company. Along the way you will have to overcome countless challenges. But the ultimate question you must answer: are you a Startup Freak?
Why similar: Management 25.9%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 19.2%, Building 12.1%, Economy 9.4%
- #49 Property Pro
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SimDevs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build or purchase a property and manage it effectively. Make strategic decisions to maintain and improve the property, and address any issues that arise.
Why similar: Management 16.4%, Building 14.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Economy 9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #50 New Brooklyn Bridge Tycoon
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TDSR Entertainment LLC
Windows
A management sim where you run your own food shops, serving hungry locals while keeping a close eye on your resources. Grow or buy fresh ingredients locally. The competition is fierce and sabotage is always on the menu. Defend your business, and rise to become the food lord!
Why similar: Management 22.7%, Building 16.1%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 10.4%
- #51 Smart Factory Tycoon
69% matchMixed61% of 869 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Management 17.3%, Base Building 16.9%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.1%
- #52 Gunsmith
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,038 reviews2018
Dev: SCT
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build up your own arms manufacturing company. Find your factory, buy resources, produce a wide range of military equipment to sell to the highest bidder. Good or bad? That's up to you, who you do business with is your choice. Don't ask, don't tell, get paid. After all, war is about making money.
Why similar: Management 19.1%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Inventory Management 9.4%
- #53 Festival Fever
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Grave Mistake Games
Windows
Festival Fever is a music festival management sim which sees the player take control and tasks them to build and manage the best festival in the world!
Why similar: Management 22.6%, Base Building 21.4%, Building 17.2%, Economy 10.4%, Simulation 9.6%
- #54 Tile Blocks
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fivi Games
Windows
Challenge your ingenuity to win! Your mission is to use objects from your inventory to guide Clampy to its destination.
Why similar: Building 24.8%, Grid-Based Movement 18.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Inventory Management 14.5%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #55 Survindust
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IS Games
Windows
Stranded on a small island, you must gather, build, and automate to survive and turn a humble camp into a thriving, self-sustaining base.
Why similar: Inventory Management 15.6%, Strategy 14.2%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 11.8%, Base Building 11.7%
- #56 Energy Island Corp.
67% matchPositive88% of 34 reviews2022
Dev: SpirkopGames
Windows · Linux
Build and manage an electric grid ! At the start of the day, build new infrastructure and plan your day. Once ready, start the day then watch electricity production / consumption in real time to adjust your buildings settings. The growth of the islands depends on you !
Why similar: Management 18.3%, Building 15.5%, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #57 To Build a Home
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: efepalism
Windows · Linux
To Build a Home is a 2D life simulation game. Inspired in equal parts in The Sims and Dwarf Fortress, the simplified graphics hide a complex AI and deep interactions between characters and objects, the perfect environment for rich emergent behaviour.
Why similar: Grid-Based Movement 25.5%, Life Sim 12.7%, Top-Down 12.4%, Simulation 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
- #58 Music Business: Nightclubs & Festivals Simulator
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EnderbedPub: EnderBed
Windows
Build your nightlife empire in this first-person management simulator. Physically manage your stock, set up your equipment, and serve customers in real-time. Can you turn your small local club into the city's hottest spot without spiraling into chaos?
Why similar: Simulation 17.9%, Inventory Management 14.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.4%, Strategy 10.8%
- #59 Ducktopia
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Llama Softworks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a mayor of your own city filled with ducks! Build your city up as you would like it, while making sure your ducks stay happy, healthy and productive, otherwise they may steal your duckeronies. Create the perfect city then you may end up with your own Ducktopia!
Why similar: Base Building 22%, Management 20.4%, Grid-Based Movement 19.3%, Building 16.7%, Simulation 11.4%