- #1 Transport Fever 2
97% matchVery Positive91% of 31,208 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 65.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Why similar: Strategy 32.5%, Management 28.3%, Economy 23.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive modern transport logistics game that focuses on building complex networks across land, sea, and air.
- #2 Railway Empire 2
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,521 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Strategy 32%, Management 27.1%, Economy 26.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, strategic approach to building and managing rail networks with a heavy emphasis on economic logistics.
- #3 Transport INC
96% matchMixed70% of 1,070 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!
Why similar: Economy 29.7%, Strategy 29.4%, Management 28.4%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the logistics of managing a global transportation company with real-world map data.
- #4 Mashinky
95% matchVery Positive85% of 2,785 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
Why similar: Strategy 32.1%, Economy 28.3%, Management 27.8%, Simulation 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: A unique transport strategy game that blends realistic train management with a modular, grid-based building system.
- #5 TransOcean: The Shipping Company
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,313 reviews2014
Dev: Deck13 HamburgPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.
Why similar: Strategy 31.3%, Management 25.8%, Economy 25.8%, Simulation 17.2%
Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the shipping and cargo management mechanics found in Freight Tycoon Inc.
- #6 Delivery INC
94% matchMostly Positive71% of 258 reviews2023
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Delivery INC is a fast-paced time management game where you’ll be challenged with quick decision making and planning. Build a fleet of vehicles and drivers. Make deliveries before the customer’s patience runs out. Put your logic and delivery skills to the test in any real-world city.
Why similar: Management 37.3%, Strategy 27.6%, Economy 23.5%, Simulation 10%, Singleplayer 1.6%
Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced management game where you must optimize delivery routes and manage a fleet of vehicles in a busy city.
- #7 Industry Giant 2
93% matchVery Positive86% of 998 reviews2015
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!
Why similar: Strategy 45.1%, Economy 21.7%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 15.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that emphasizes the entire supply chain from raw material extraction to final delivery.
- #8 Rise of Industry
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, Management 29.6%, Economy 28.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the logistics of production and distribution, requiring players to manage complex supply chains.
- #9 Transport Giant
92% matchMixed61% of 483 reviews2014
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%
It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.
Why similar: Strategy 49.8%, Simulation 19.9%, Economy 17.9%, Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic title that shares the same core focus on building transport networks to fuel economic growth.
- #10 Voxel Tycoon
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,743 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Why similar: Management 31.8%, Economy 30.4%, Strategy 26.7%, Simulation 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines complex logistics and resource management with a charming voxel aesthetic.
- #11 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
87% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Strategy 32.8%, Economy 27.6%, Management 26.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Singleplayer 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep economic and logistics simulation where every resource must be transported and managed manually.
- #12 TransRoad: USA
89% matchMixed52% of 413 reviews2017
Dev: Deck13 HamburgPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage your very own logistics company, discover the complex world of cross-country haulage and keep the US economy up and running!
Why similar: Strategy 43%, Management 39.1%, Simulation 18%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the trucking industry, requiring players to manage a fleet and handle logistics across the United States.
- #13 Railroad Tycoon 3
89% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,237 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
Why similar: Management 45.6%, Strategy 33.6%, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 6.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: A legendary title that set the standard for rail-based logistics and economic management games.
- #14 Airline Tycoon 2
90% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 575 reviews2011
Dev: b-AlivePub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 34%
Run a modern airline, design unique airplanes and grow a run-down carrier into a globally recognized company that passengers practically beg to fly.
Why similar: Strategy 42%, Economy 20.8%, Simulation 19.2%, Management 18.1%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same 'Tycoon' management DNA, focusing on fleet maintenance and contract bidding in the aviation sector.
- #15 Train Fever
88% matchMixed64% of 3,520 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
Why similar: Management 27.8%, Strategy 27.2%, Economy 26.3%, Simulation 17.6%, Singleplayer 1%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the Transport Fever series, focusing on the evolution of transport technology over time.
- #16 Big Ambitions
84% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Management 46.4%, Economy 39.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive business management simulator that includes significant logistics and supply chain management elements.
- #17 Cargo Company
86% matchMixed59% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
Why similar: Strategy 29.3%, Economy 28.7%, Management 27.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: A transport management game where you build networks to move passengers and cargo across a growing map.
- #18 TransOcean 2: Rivals
86% matchMixed55% of 697 reviews2016
Dev: Deck13 HamburgPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 25.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
In TransOcean 2: Rivals you face a new challenge as the boss of your own shipping line in both single-player and - for the first time - multiplayer mode: The international competition has gotten a lot tougher and the battle for the most lucrative contracts has only just begun.
Why similar: Economy 32.1%, Strategy 27.6%, Management 26.3%, Simulation 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
Why You'll Like It: The sequel to the shipping management title, adding competitive elements to the cargo transportation loop.
- #19 Simutrans
85% matchMostly Positive76% of 652 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.
Why similar: Strategy 31.1%, Management 27.7%, Economy 20.8%, Simulation 19.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: An open-source transport simulation that offers deep, complex logistics management for dedicated strategy fans.
- #20 Airline Tycoon Deluxe
83% matchVery Positive84% of 657 reviews2014
Dev: SpellboundPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Airline Tycoon Deluxe is a funny economy simulation proceeding in realtime and assigning you the complete responsibility for an airline.
Why similar: Economy 30.8%, Management 30.2%, Strategy 24.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Singleplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: A retro-style management game that captures the charm and challenge of running a transport-based business.
- #21 Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon
81% matchMostly Positive73% of 143 reviews2025
Dev: Aquila ChengduPub: Aquila Interactive
Windows
Global Magnates: Shipping Tycoon is a simulation game where you take on the role of a shipping entrepreneur. Carefully plan shipping routes, balance supply and demand across ports, and maximize profits to fuel your expansion. Build a worldwide network and rise as the definitive global magnate.
Why similar: Management 35.8%, Strategy 24.9%, Economy 24.2%, Simulation 13.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: A niche management game that focuses specifically on the complexities of the global shipping industry.
- #22 Oil Enterprise
84% matchMixed48% of 194 reviews2016
Dev: Crafty StudiosPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.
Why similar: Strategy 36.8%, Management 25.3%, Economy 24.3%, Simulation 13.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and economic management of the oil industry, requiring strategic transport decisions.
- #23 Freight Simulator
82% matchMixed60% of 83 reviews2020
Dev: New Games WavesPub: Softwaves Dist.
Windows
Manage your transport company! Be a transportation entrepreneur, with control over everything in your business. Work, earn, invest and expand!
Why similar: Strategy 43.7%, Management 38.9%, Simulation 17.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a more casual, direct look at the trucking and cargo transportation experience.
- #24 Epic Car Factory
82% matchMixed65% of 274 reviews2018
Dev: Zwetan LetschewPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 42 minMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 32.9%, Strategy 28.9%, Management 22.4%, Simulation 15.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the manufacturing and distribution side of the automotive industry, requiring careful economic planning.
- #25 Transit King Tycoon
79% matchMixed63% of 94 reviews2025
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Build a thriving trucking empire as the manager of a growing logistics company in this exciting tycoon game. Manage a diverse fleet of trucks, semi-trucks, buses, and even ships as you transport goods and expand your empire!
Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Economy 21.1%, Simulation 17.4%, Management 16.7%
Why You'll Like It: A logistics-focused city management game that requires efficient transport networks to succeed.
- #26 Wall Street Tycoon
81% matchMixed41% of 131 reviews2019
Dev: Red Fox Studios
Windows
Wall Street Tycoon is a business simulation game where you’re the CEO of a new investment company. Your job is to grow the company, hire employees, and manage the business!
Why similar: Strategy 54.7%, Management 23.4%, Simulation 20.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: While broader in scope, it provides the same economic management and strategy feel as Freight Tycoon.
- #27 Automobile Tycoon
80% matchMixed60% of 63 reviews2018
Dev: Silver Lemur Games
Windows
Car manufacturing company simulator. Turn-based, fast paced, covers 100 years of automotive history.
Why similar: Economy 33.2%, Strategy 27.9%, Management 27.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that emphasizes the production and transport logistics of the automotive market.
- #28 Transporter
79% matchMixed49% of 51 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Mirror Studio
Windows
Modern transport sim game combining realistic simulation with indie game style, old-school grid environment, newest features, and modern transport options. Transport a wide variety of cargo and passengers over road, rail, and water, and create your own transport company!
Why similar: Strategy 39.4%, Management 31.1%, Economy 15%, Simulation 13.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: A logistics-focused game that tasks players with managing various transport vehicles and routes.
- #29 Game Dev Tycoon
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Why similar: Management 44.1%, Strategy 22.1%, Simulation 17.2%, Economy 15.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #30 Transport Fever
77% matchVery Positive83% of 10,800 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.9 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Why similar: Economy 30.6%, Strategy 29.8%, Management 28%, Simulation 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #31 Startup Company
76% matchVery Positive81% of 6,175 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 19.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 37.1%, Economy 26.1%, Strategy 22.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #32 Airport CEO
76% matchVery Positive83% of 8,135 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Management 30.4%, Strategy 29%, Economy 26.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Singleplayer 2%
- #33 Transports
78% matchMixed65% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.
Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, Management 28.3%, Economy 28.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: A straightforward management game that focuses on the core mechanics of building transport networks.
- #34 Railway Empire
75% matchVery Positive83% of 9,620 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Strategy 38.1%, Management 25.6%, Economy 22.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #35 Spice Road
78% matchMixed68% of 69 reviews2014
Dev: Aartform Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Strategy, trade and empire building on the old Silk Road. Spice Road is a town building, social and economic simulation game full of original challenges.
Why similar: Strategy 51.9%, Simulation 18.7%, Economy 17.6%, Management 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical trade and logistics, requiring players to manage supply lines across long distances.
- #36 Production Line : Car factory simulation
75% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 34.7%, Strategy 26.3%, Economy 26.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #37 GearCity
74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,472 reviews2022
Dev: Visual Entertainment And Technologies
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Management 31.3%, Strategy 30%, Economy 26.3%, Simulation 12.4%
- #38 Startup Freak
74% 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: Strategy 41.9%, Management 24.2%, Simulation 16.8%, Economy 16.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #39 Train Life: A Railway Simulator
72% matchMixed63% of 1,628 reviews2022
Dev: SimteractPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.
Why similar: Management 33.8%, Economy 23.9%, Strategy 21.2%, Simulation 18.5%, Singleplayer 2.6%
- #40 Smartphone Tycoon
73% matchMixed53% of 1,658 reviews2019
Dev: Roastery Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
«Smartphone Tycoon» — unique business simulator. Create your own company for the production of smartphones! Your main goal will be to achieve worldwide recognition and take the company to the temple of fame of the global market.
Why similar: Strategy 46.5%, Management 32.8%, Simulation 19.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #41 Pizza Connection
73% matchMixed68% of 94 reviews2017
Dev: Assemble Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Pizza Connection is a humorous business strategy game that challenges you to build a pizza empire from scratch.
Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, Management 20.9%, Economy 18%, Simulation 16.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #42 City Bus Manager
68% matchVery Positive91% of 2,686 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Economy 30.6%, Management 29.6%, Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Singleplayer 2%
- #43 Cities in Motion
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,080 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Management 32.8%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 23.6%, Economy 17.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
- #44 Worldwide Rush
69% matchVery Positive80% of 487 reviews2025
Dev: Memel Games
Windows
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Why similar: Economy 32.2%, Strategy 28.2%, Management 26.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 0.3%
- #45 Mad Games Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,414 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 35.7%, Strategy 25.8%, Economy 25.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #46 Empire TV Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 891 reviews2015
Dev: Dreamsite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!
Why similar: Management 33.8%, Economy 29.6%, Strategy 26.4%, Simulation 9%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #47 Capital Simulator
71% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: chenjd
Windows · Mac
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Management 24.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Economy 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #48 Computer Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2017
Dev: Progorion
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"
Why similar: Strategy 31.6%, Economy 31.2%, Management 27.4%, Simulation 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #49 Airline Manager
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,060 reviews2021
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Why similar: Strategy 32.7%, Economy 27.5%, Management 22.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #50 Airline Director 2 - Tycoon Game
73% matchMostly Negative36% of 61 reviews2016
Dev: Joona Vartiainen
Windows
Airline Director 2 is a management game set in the challenging field of commercial aviation.
Why similar: Strategy 72.6%, Simulation 27.4%
- #51 Heavy Cargo - The Truck Simulator
69% matchMixed52% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: tox² interactive GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Transport oversized cargo in a variety of missions across a 175km² open world. Drive customisable, highly detailed trucks through dynamic weather and day and night. The official cooperation with Gruber Logistics allows you to get behind the wheel of real-life heavy cargo transports.
Why similar: Economy 37.6%, Management 31.3%, Simulation 23.4%, Strategy 6.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
- #52 Shipping Manager
70% matchMixed45% of 536 reviews2023
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Create and manage your own shipping empire. Control every aspect from route creation to marketing to staff handling and beat other managers to top the leaderboards.
Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, Economy 28.8%, Management 27.5%, Simulation 11.9%
- #53 Cargo Simulator
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 293 reviews2025
Dev: Sincapp Games
Windows
Manage your own warehouse. Fit and pack products into boxes of the right size. Deliver them to the correct addresses—safely and on time. Hire staff, train them, and speed up your operations. Partner with brands to expand your warehouse and grow your logistics network by purchasing more vehicles.
Why similar: Simulation 90.4%, Singleplayer 9.6%
- #54 Software Inc.
67% matchVery Positive94% of 7,637 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 45.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Economy 32.4%, Management 31.7%, Strategy 23.5%, Simulation 12.4%
- #55 Tech Executive Tycoon
71% matchVery Negative17% of 53 reviews2018
Dev: WEB Gaming Entertainment
Windows
Tech Executive Tycoon is a simulation, strategy, role playing game that places you in the seat of CEO and entrepreneur of your very own tech company. Can you take your company to the top with top of the line products? Can you command a world class group of employees?
Why similar: Strategy 47.1%, Management 32.9%, Simulation 20%
- #56 Captain of Industry
64% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Strategy 31.9%, Economy 29.7%, Management 25.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #57 Masterplan Tycoon
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 729 reviews2023
Dev: Bureau BravinPub: Ravenage Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.
Why similar: Strategy 31.5%, Management 29.1%, Economy 26.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #58 Business Magnate
68% matchMixed67% of 216 reviews2019
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
Why similar: Strategy 32.9%, Management 26.2%, Economy 26.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #59 Industry Giant
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 75 reviews2018
Dev: QLOCPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!
Why similar: Strategy 31%, Economy 29.8%, Management 26.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #60 Ninja Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 436 reviews2018
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Recruit Ninjas, Hire Workers, build your base, train your Ninjas and send them on Missions!
Why similar: Strategy 34.6%, Management 25.2%, Economy 22%, Simulation 18.3%