60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Economy, Strategy, Management.
An economic strategy game where you run the central bank. Built on the IS–PC–MR macroeconomic model. The policy rate, unemployment, inflation, the trade balance. Can you keep the economy clear of overheating and slumps?
昭明日月 Pax Serica: Rise of the Ming
昭昭天命，复归大明。在星变时空的恢弘重塑中，熔铸八十三载春秋：变钞法以通有无，革军制而强九边；修水利以固邦本，改科举而纳贤良。崇格物方致知穷理；兴矿冶而器利工商。靖九边以抚八方，镇四海而服万邦。于庙算奏疏间，重整日月山河；在革故鼎新中，再创中华治世。一切，皆在你一念之间。
ΠΟΛΙΣ — Athens
Govern classical Athens across 272 unbroken years (594–322 BC). Steer family factions, the favour of the gods, and shifting alliances through 405 historical events — as the tide of history carries your city, inexorably, toward 322 BC.
昭昭天命，复归大明。在星变时空的恢弘重塑中，熔铸八十三载春秋：变钞法以通有无，革军制而强九边；修水利以固邦本，改科举而纳贤良。崇格物方致知穷理；兴矿冶而器利工商。靖九边以抚八方，镇四海而服万邦。于庙算奏疏间，重整日月山河；在革故鼎新中，再创中华治世。一切，皆在你一念之间。
Why similar: Economy 15.1%, Historical 12.7%, Capitalism 12%, Alternate History 9.6%, Political Sim 9.6% ★
Govern classical Athens across 272 unbroken years (594–322 BC). Steer family factions, the favour of the gods, and shifting alliances through 405 historical events — as the tide of history carries your city, inexorably, toward 322 BC.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.8%, Historical 14.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 11.8%, Economy 11%
"Become the ultimate Global Oil Magnate! In this deep economic simulation, you start with your own seed capital, choose your strategic headquarters, and drill for black gold. Overcome geopolitical crises, outsmart the market, and build an empire that changes the world.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.5%, Economy 20.2%, Political Sim 10% ★, Education 9.4%, Strategy 8.6%
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: Economy 23.6%, Grand Strategy 21.9%, Capitalism 17.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 9.3%
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: Economy 23.4%, Capitalism 17.7%, Simulation 16%, Historical 11%, Management 10%
What could be better than having a million dollars, a billion? This will not make you all powerful in the world, your goal will not only be to make lots of money, but to print money and become a Federal reserve system
Why similar: Economy 25.6%, Grand Strategy 20.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 9.2%
Hold office in a living political simulation. Pass laws, build coalitions, manage staff, face the press, raise money, and fight for reelection while your allies and rivals pursue plans of their own.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.4%, Economy 23%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 9.7%, Management 6.7%
Take a place of a politician in the post-Soviet space and immerse yourself in the struggle for power amid the ruins of the former empire. Your decisions will determine the path of the young state's development.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.1%, Economy 13.5%, Political Sim 11.3% ★, Capitalism 11%, Historical 10.9%
Build a company from the ground up and scale it into a global economic empire. Manage production, logistics, real estate, stocks, commodities, and finance in a deep, open-ended sandbox where every decision shapes your growth.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Economy 15.4%, Strategy 15%, Capitalism 13.6%
A turn-based financial simulator where you try to become the richest. Trade stocks, bonds, and real estate, use leverage and survive market crashes. It balances someone who wants to learn about investing ("buy the stock that goes up") with someone who wants to experiment ("barbell this round")
Why similar: Economy 27%, Capitalism 25.7%, Education 22%, Simulation 14.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.1%
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 24.1%, Grand Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 15.5%, Strategy 14.3%, Management 8.3%
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Why similar: Economy 18.2%, Grand Strategy 18%, Political Sim 12.6% ★, Capitalism 10.5%, Education 10.5%
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 29.2%, Capitalism 16.7%, Strategy 14.7%, Simulation 14%, Education 9.8%
Rule your society through 12,000 years – from the Stone Age to the present day – in a grand strategy game with a living simulation where real historical processes are recreated, but nothing is predetermined. Build, conquer, exploit. Crisis is part of history: keep power or side with the revolution
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.7%, Economy 21.3%, Historical 13.4%, Strategy 10.4%, Simulation 7.1%
Can you beat inflation without crashing the economy? Run the Federal Reserve through real crises, political pressure, AI bubbles, and market panic. Set rates, deploy QE, manage expectations, and engineer the perfect soft landing. Featured on Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal.
Why similar: Economy 24.8%, Historical 14.3%, Political Sim 14.1% ★, Education 12.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.8%
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 30.5%, Capitalism 19.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 11.7%, Management 10.7%
Meiji Oligarchy is a historical simulation game that models the political, economic, and military systems of Meiji-era Japan. It spans the period from the assassination of Ōkubo Toshimichi through the Katsura–Saionji era (1878–1912).
Why similar: Economy 20.3%, Capitalism 15.6%, Political Sim 14% ★, Historical 12.1%, Simulation 8.8%
The Rise of the Republic: The Path to Modernization is a nation simulation and grand strategy game. Starting in the 1950s, build cities, develop industry, connect markets, shape society, and choose your political and economic path. Observe the consequences and decide the future of your republic.
Why similar: Economy 20.6%, Grand Strategy 16.2%, Capitalism 12.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 11.8%
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: Economy 24.4%, Capitalism 19.3%, Simulation 10.7%, Grand Strategy 10.5%, Management 10.1%
Brooks Investment Simulator puts you in control of a real-money portfolio across 4 historical stock markets — from the 1980s Nikkei bubble to modern Wall Street — with 30 turns to beat the index or go broke.
Why similar: Education 21.1%, Economy 17.1%, Simulation 15.6%, Capitalism 15%, Strategy 14.8%
Shape the destiny of the world as an 18th century ruler. Forge alliances and prepare your armed forces to expand your domain and colonize new lands. Or focus on internal development and help your subjects thrive with prudent economic policy and lawmaking. The choice is yours in Age of Enlightenment!
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.7%, Economy 16.2%, Capitalism 13%, Historical 11.2%, Political Sim 9.2% ★
Power the Future is a strategy game that allows you to take control of Germany, the USA, China, India, Australia, Japan or the UK. Develop and deploy technology and lead your country into the future. Compete to be the World Leader or focus on three other possible Victory Paths for each country.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.3%, Economy 17.5%, Capitalism 14.7%, Science 12.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.9%
January 1, 1960. Become Major General Park Chung-hee at a turning point in Korean history. Preserve democracy and rise as the father of a nation—or cling to power and become a dictator. The fate of the Republic of Korea is in your hands.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.1%, Economy 17.7%, Historical 11.7%, Capitalism 11.2%, Political Sim 10.2% ★
It is the 19th century - an age of steam power, revolution, and imperialist expansion. Engage in turn-based gameplay as you strive to ascend to unparalleled power through astute management of trade, industry, research, diplomacy, colonization, and warfare.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24.9%, Economy 15%, Capitalism 13.6%, Historical 9.6%, Alternate History 9.3%
Run your own antique shop: buy, restore, and sell rare items. Expand your business, unlock new areas, and protect your store from thieves!
Why similar: Economy 30.2%, Grand Strategy 29.7%, Simulation 21.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Indie 0.9%
Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...
Why similar: Grand Strategy 21.8%, Economy 16.9%, Historical 11.7%, Capitalism 10.8%, Alternate History 8.3%
Lead a nation through decades of political and economic challenges. Manage budgets, taxes, interest rates, crises, and public opinion in a deep grand-strategy simulation where every decision shapes your country's future.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.1%, Economy 19.4%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 14.5%, Political Sim 8.9% ★
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: Economy 30.1%, Capitalism 22.6%, Education 12.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 9%
Day Trade Coach is a day trading simulator built for focus. Cut through the noise, master the set-ups that actually work, and build your edge, one trade at a time.
Why similar: Economy 23.8%, Simulation 17.4%, Capitalism 17.4%, Strategy 15.9%, Trading 8.7%
Blueprint: EV is a single- and multiplayer strategy game about founding an electric vehicle company and running it through six fiscal years. Make three founding decisions, then guide pricing, production, R&D, and finance across 24 quarters of real P&L against three rival companies.
Why similar: Economy 20.5%, Capitalism 17.9%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%
Can you survive the dot-com crash? Trade 63 fictionalized instruments, manage $50,000 and monthly living expenses, and protect your capital through 818 historical market days. Choose a career path, study 86 built-in lessons, and face every decision without rewinding.
Why similar: Education 24.8%, Simulation 19.1%, Strategy 17.4%, Economy 16.4%, Historical 10.2%
This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can mean the difference between exaltation and excommunication in this multiplayer empire-building game
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22%, Economy 13.4%, Political Sim 11.9% ★, Historical 10.2%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.8%
Rise & Fall: Bronze Age is a Grand Strategy game set in the Bronze Age between 3400BC and 1150BC. Expand your power by diplomacy and war and manage your troublesome elites. Feed your people, build temples for your gods and tombs for your rulers. How high can you rise before your empire falls ?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 34.1%, Historical 15.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 9.8%
Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.1%, Economy 22.6%, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 17.7%, Management 12.6%
Cascade: Hindcast is an alternate-history grand strategy game where monthly political and military decisions reshape a living war map. Use hindsight, spend scarce political capital, and watch borders, armies, and consequences move in real time.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 26.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 12.6%, Political Sim 11.6% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9%
"In this economic strategy game starting in the Great Depression of 1929, buy stocks, take over companies, acquire countries, and shape world history. Compete fiercely against rivals to manipulate UN decisions, invest in the technologies of the era, and build mega projects.
Why similar: Economy 23.9%, Capitalism 18.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 14%, Grand Strategy 11.8%
Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.6%, Economy 16.7%, Capitalism 11.4%, Historical 11%, Political Sim 9.9% ★
A finance simulation full of news, charts, and strategy. Analyze the economy, diversify your investments, take control.
Why similar: Economy 26.6%, Grand Strategy 21.8%, Education 18.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Management 10.2%
Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...
Why similar: Grand Strategy 35.8%, Economy 15.5%, Historical 14.3%, Political Sim 11% ★, Strategy 9.4%
Arms Race 2 is a PC strategy game based on the historical conflict between the USA and the USSR that took place in the 20th century.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.6%, Economy 16.6%, Education 14.1%, Political Sim 11.5% ★, Historical 10.3%
Trade fictional markets one candle at a time in a single-player trading simulation. Start Survival with $5,000, manage risk and learn through guided lessons. Compare your current and highest virtual balances on global and Steam friends leaderboards (beta).
Why similar: Education 21.4%, Economy 20.4%, Capitalism 18.2%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 10.9%
Can you retire before 65? A financial life sim across 11 real economies with authentic salaries, housing, and investment products. A rough stretch buries you in debt. A smart run retires you at 38! And you can plug in your own real numbers too.
Why similar: Economy 22.9%, Education 19.5%, Capitalism 18.4%, Management 8.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 8.3%
Take the role of Don in "Wiseguys: The Commission" and dominate New York. Plan crimes, traffic drugs, extort money and make war on rival families. Control the Commission, launder money. Your cunning will decide your fate. Are you ready to become the next boss of all bosses?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.7%, Economy 18.5%, Capitalism 16%, Political Sim 12.2% ★, Historical 8.2%
In San Verde, the law is absolute— except for you. A text-based crime management game where you evade the law to rule the underworld. Launder your cash, vet your buyers, deploy the right crew, and manage your firepower to build an empire beyond the reach of the law.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.8%, Simulation 16.8%, Economy 15.7%, Strategy 15.3%, Capitalism 11.8%
Lead one of ten medieval kingdoms in this turn-based grand strategy game. Expand your territory, develop your economy, strengthen your army, and shape the future of Europe through diplomacy, war, and strategic decisions.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 27.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Economy 11.6%, Political Sim 10.4% ★
你可以成为任何人。皇帝、将军、商人，或一个无名之辈。你可以统治、操控、背叛，也可以在权力边缘悄然崛起。但这个世界不会等待你。王朝会自行运转，人物会独立行动，权力与利益在暗中流动。这是一个由经济、政治与社会共同驱动的历史沙盒：你可以操控财富流向、撬动权力结构，甚至让整个秩序崩溃。但即使没有你，世界也会继续前进。
Why similar: Grand Strategy 24%, Historical 18.6%, Economy 16.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.4%
Grow a small regional company into a global market leader. Compete for market share, expand into international markets, coordinate production and distribution, and shape your own strategy in a dynamic sandbox economic simulation.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 25%, Economy 23.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.6%, Management 9.4%, Strategy 7.8%
Want to pick up real-world financial knowledge while having fun? Driven by real financial data including the S&P 500, VIX, and bond yields, every decision you make ultimately draws your own one-of-a-kind stock price curve. How high will yours climb?
Why similar: Economy 34.2%, Education 22.8%, Simulation 17.3%, Strategy 16.5%, Choices Matter 3.1%
At a turning point in history, decide the future of a nation. Mandate 1600: The East is a global historical grand strategy game. Govern lands and dynasty, secure your bloodline, grow through trade, and prevail in war. Rewrite history.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.7%, Historical 13.3%, Political Sim 11.2% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 9.2%, Economy 8.7%
Build your fortune in a living medieval kingdom. Establish shops, manage caravans, master a dynamic economy, and outmaneuver rival merchant houses in single-player or competitive multiplayer as you build the realm's greatest trading empire.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 29.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 14.7%, Economy 13.3%, Political Sim 11.7% ★
Take control of the most fearsome weapon known to mankind: the key interest rate. As head of the central bank, you wield the power to make (or break) nations. Raise it, and watch markets crumble and riots erupt. Lower it, and brace yourself for an economy so hot it could melt steel.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 23.6%, Economy 19.5%, Capitalism 13.8%, Education 13.5%, Political Sim 8% ★
Build and manage an artillery factory in the WWI era. Research authentic weapon components, engineer deadly firepower, test prototypes on your firing range, and compete for lucrative government contracts. From the French 75 to the German 7.7, your designs will decide the fate of nations.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 22%, Economy 21.4%, Historical 16.9%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 15.2%
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a postcolonial 4X game where you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. It eXplores space left uncharted by the genre and proposes alternatives to established systems.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.8%, Economy 15.8%, Education 14.6%, Historical 12.9%, Capitalism 8.3%
Win the hearts and minds of America’s voters and run for President in this political strategy game. Choose a candidate or create your own and run against the opposing party’s candidate or up to 4 primary candidates controlled by the computer or other players online.
Why similar: Economy 15.5%, Education 13.6%, Capitalism 12.8%, Historical 10.4%, Political Sim 10.2% ★
Start with a rundown duplex and build a real portfolio across America. Buy and finance properties, hire agencies to run your holdings, expand into hotels and businesses, and grow your wealth one disciplined decision at a time.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 43.1%, Capitalism 19.5%, Strategy 17.4%, Management 7.6%, Simulation 5.2%
Inspired by the economy simulation games oft the mid 90s, Undertaker's let's you manage your very own funeral home.
Why similar: Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 22.6%, Economy 21.1%, Capitalism 18.9%, Management 8.4%
Amidst this chaotic era, shape your own destiny—whether as a loyal minister, a ruthless warlord, or an independent ruler. Every choice and battle writes your legend. Are you ready to rise from a commoner to claim the realm?
Why similar: Grand Strategy 28.6%, Historical 14.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Economy 10.7%, Political Sim 10% ★
The Capitalist is the ultimate hyper-realistic Private Equity simulator. Raise capital, execute Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), restructure distressed businesses, and flip them for massive profits. Wall Street doesn’t forgive mistakes, but it pays handsomely for success.
Why similar: Grand Strategy 33.5%, Simulation 17.7%, Economy 16.6%, Capitalism 14.7%, Management 5.8%
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%, Capitalism 15.3%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 12.6%
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: Economy 24%, Grand Strategy 20.8%, Science 11.8%, Management 9.9%, Simulation 8.9%
