- #1 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
97% matchMixed69% of 13,253 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Why similar: Base Building 31.7%, Management 14.9%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: Shares the same base-building villainous tycoon vibe where you manage eccentric minions and build a secret underground lair.
- #2 Cult of the Lamb
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 130,055 reviews2022
Dev: Massive MonsterPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.6 hrsMean: 25.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
Why similar: Cult 38.4% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Faith 13.7% ★, Colony Sim 12.6%, Dark Humor 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: Captures the same tongue-in-cheek cult management theme combined with base-building and follower devotion.
- #3 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
96% matchVery Positive89% of 1,358 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Base Building 15.8%, Management 12.7%, Building 10%, Resource Management 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Lets you build and manage a specialized facility with a quirky historical and religious theme.
- #4 Two Point Campus
95% matchVery Positive88% of 8,220 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: Management 27.3%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Comedy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers the same polished, humorous management gameplay focused on building and running quirky facilities.
- #5 Little Big Workshop
94% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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 19.5%, Resource Management 17%, Simulation 16%, Building 13.9%, Strategy 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intricate factory layout design and resource management with a charming, colorful aesthetic.
- #6 Prison Architect
94% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 18%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features the same top-down 2D base-building and micro-management loop where you handle facility layout and inmate or follower needs.
- #7 Definitely Not Fried Chicken
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,583 reviews2023
Dev: Dope GamesPub: Silver Lining Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Why similar: Management 16.8%, Resource Management 15.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Dark Humor 12%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines criminal enterprise management and base-building with a humorous, stylized presentation.
- #8 Hell Architect
93% matchMixed69% of 452 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Hell Architect is a game about building and managing your own hell. You take on a role of a hell manager and are tasked with developing the underworld in a way that would make Lucifer himself fall off his chair.
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.3%, God Game 13.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 9%, Dark Comedy 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends colony-sim base building with dark humor as you construct and manage underworld facilities.
- #9 One Military Camp
91% matchMostly Positive76% of 742 reviews2023
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 14.8%, Management 14.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a cartoonish base-building management experience focused on training a specialized roster of recruits.
- #10 Basement
91% matchMixed70% of 2,231 reviews2019
Dev: Halfbus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.
Why similar: Base Building 18.3%, Management 14.2%, Resource Management 13.1%, Dark Comedy 11.9%, Sandbox 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: A gritty underground management sim where you build up an illicit empire room by room.
- #11 Dungeon Tycoon
89% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,953 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim StudiosPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: God Game 18.5% ★, Management 16%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Dark Humor 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: Lets you construct a custom underground lair to attract and manage quirky visitors.
- #12 Another Brick in The Mall
90% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Management 22.7%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on modular construction and detailed retail management similar to laying out cult rooms.
- #13 Two Point Hospital
89% matchVery Positive92% of 35,001 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Management 30.7%, Building 20.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Funny 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Delivers hilarious management gameplay centered around designing eccentric rooms and keeping quirky staff happy.
- #14 Church Simulator
86% matchVery Positive81% of 110 reviews2025
Dev: EY GAMES
Windows
Manage your own church. Perform baptisms, hear confessions, collect donations, oversee weddings and funerals, sell souvenirs, and customize your church. Manage the church’s economy and work to expand your church.
Why similar: Faith 37.3% ★, Management 17.5%, Resource Management 15.8%, God Game 15.2% ★, Simulation 13.4%
Why You'll Like It: Explores a similar thematic space of managing a religious institution and resource generation.
- #15 War for the Overworld
88% matchVery Positive86% of 8,133 reviews2015
Dev: Brightrock GamesPub: Mythwright
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.
Why similar: Cult 36.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Dark Comedy 9.3%, Management 8.8%, God Game 8.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: An underground dungeon builder that matches the villainous base-design aspects of managing a cult.
- #16 Lords and Villeins
87% matchMostly Positive71% of 979 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Building 11%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim focused on managing peasant families and resource supply chains.
- #17 Academia : School Simulator
86% matchVery Positive81% of 3,240 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 19.7%, Management 16.1%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A grid-based management sim about building, designing, and running a specialized institution.
- #18 Let's School
84% matchVery Positive93% of 7,470 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!
Why similar: Management 23.6%, Sandbox 18.9%, Building 16.2%, Comedy 11.4%, Simulation 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: Combines structural building and management with quirky student life and facility upkeep.
- #19 Megaquarium
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,794 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
Why similar: Management 23.5%, Sandbox 21.7%, Building 20.9%, Resource Management 16.7%, Simulation 12%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing tycoon game where you design custom layouts, manage resources, and keep visitors satisfied.
- #20 Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
84% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,623 reviews2023
Dev: Artefacts StudioPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Management 16.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Features comedic fantasy management and base optimization.
- #21 Rogue AI Simulator
83% matchVery Positive82% of 396 reviews2023
Dev: Nerdook ProductionsPub: Surefire.Games
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
Why similar: Political Sim 18.1% ★, God Game 14.2% ★, Colony Sim 13.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: Involves managing resources, minions, and experiments from a top-down administrative perspective.
- #22 Project Hospital
82% matchVery Positive89% of 9,400 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Why similar: Management 28.6%, Sandbox 19.2%, Building 17.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep medical facility design and staff management with a realistic simulation twist.
- #23 Blood Bar Tycoon
80% matchVery Positive80% of 831 reviews2025
Dev: Clever Trickster StudioPub: Clever Trickster Productions
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!
Why similar: Base Building 15.1%, Dark Comedy 12.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 11.4%, Management 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A stylized management game where you run an unusual business establishment.
- #24 Software Inc.
82% matchVery Positive94% of 7,850 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 46.3 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: Management 31.2%, Building 23.8%, Sandbox 23.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a rich company-building sandbox where you design offices, hire staff, and manage projects.
- #25 Cult Nation
78% matchVery Positive88% of 215 reviews2026
Dev: SMdG
Windows
A short incremental game about sacrificing all your cult followers and collecting blood to awaken the devil.
Why similar: Cult 52.3% ★, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 13.7%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 6.2%
Why You'll Like It: An incremental simulation that directly taps into the theme of running and expanding a cult.
- #26 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 932 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Management 17.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Comedy 14%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 13.1%
Why You'll Like It: Balances multi-department facility construction and emergency resource management.
- #27 Sintopia
77% matchVery Positive81% of 1,094 reviews2026
Dev: Piraknights GamesPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.
Why similar: God Game 16.5% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Colony Sim 12.4%, Management 10.8%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #28 Mars Attracts
77% matchVery Positive89% of 301 reviews2026
Dev: Outlier
Windows
Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!
Why similar: God Game 13.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Colony Sim 12.2%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9.4%
- #29 Office Management 101
81% matchMixed64% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: Base Building 19.7%, Management 16.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Building 13.4%, Resource Management 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A business simulation that emphasizes office layout and eccentric employee micro-management.
- #30 Sinner Maker
75% matchVery Positive91% of 619 reviews2026
Dev: PantokratorPub: Metro Team
Windows
Sinner Maker allows you to create characters and simulate a society built around them. Construct homes, manage their needs, and watch as they fall in love, form friendships, and even become enemies. Manage resources and solve emerging problems if you want your soul to be saved.
Why similar: Faith 25.1% ★, Colony Sim 16%, God Game 15.8% ★, Political Sim 9.6% ★, Dark Humor 8.9%
- #31 SimAirport
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,050 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 23.4%, Management 17.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 14%, Resource Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A detailed airport construction and management tycoon game with robust scheduling mechanics.
- #32 Two Point Museum
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,533 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: Building 21.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Comedy 10.5%
- #33 Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?!
79% matchMixed64% of 187 reviews2018
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is a wacky spy agency sim where you manage your very own potato spy headquarters, train an elite spy team, and strategize top-secret missions while uncovering the truth behind an evil spy corporation.
Why similar: Simulation 33.6%, Strategy 30.3%, Management 19%, Funny 11.5%, 2D 3.2%
Why You'll Like It: A wacky, humorous management game featuring quirky characters and strategic planning.
- #34 Deisim
76% matchVery Positive93% of 916 reviews2022
Dev: Myron Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Live the experience of being a powerful god and create the world to see the growth of mankind.
Why similar: God Game 16.7% ★, Colony Sim 15.3%, Political Sim 14.7% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #35 Dungeon Overseer
78% matchMixed55% of 51 reviews2021
Dev: Ripknot
Windows
Dungeon Overseer is a colony simulator with a focus on base building and resource management. Become the Overseer by building a unique dungeon layout, constructing your lair, upgrading and expanding, questing, crafting, researching, recruiting, defending your base, and raiding.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Base Building 18.8%, God Game 12.6% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A base-building strategy game focused on building up a dark dungeon empire.
- #36 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
76% 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 18.2%, Resource Management 18.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11.1%
- #37 Hell Architect: Prologue
75% matchVery Positive82% of 833 reviews2021
Dev: Woodland GamesPub: Leonardo Interactive
Windows
Hell Architect is a hell colony sim. Build and manage your hell. Take care of the sinners with funny cartoon-style tortures, fill their needs, develop buildings, gather resources, grow your population. Prologue is a free standalone version of the game 'Hell Architect'.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, Base Building 17.6%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 9.8%
- #38 Galaxy Pass Station
73% matchVery Positive85% of 286 reviews2023
Dev: Galactic Workshop
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #39 Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
74% matchMixed62% of 1,278 reviews2022
Dev: TeaForTwoPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!
Why similar: Base Building 17.7%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Sandbox 11.4%
- #40 Spellcaster University
73% matchVery Positive83% of 4,334 reviews2021
Dev: Sneaky Yak Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 24.2%, Management 16.5%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 8.5%
- #41 Founders' Fortune
72% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Base Building 21%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 8.4%
- #42 Hotel Architect
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,389 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: Management 25%, Sandbox 21.4%, Building 20.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Funny 10.1%
- #43 Beetle Uprising
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 99 reviews2020
Dev: Iocane Games, LLCPub: Disco Slug
Windows
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, God Game 18.6% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #44 Game Dev Tycoon
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 45,135 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.5 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 52.6%, Simulation 22.7%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 6.4%, Funny 3.2%
- #45 Blueprint Tycoon
72% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, Management 24.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #46 Monastery: Ora et Labora
66% matchVery Positive95% of 78 reviews2026
Dev: Dragonkin Studios
Windows
Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Management 17.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #47 Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
70% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2021
Dev: Squidpunch StudiosPub: Vincent Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.
Why similar: Base Building 19.2%, Management 16.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Building 12.9%, Comedy 10.4%
- #48 Let It Consume
67% matchPositive77% of 71 reviews2026
Dev: Ibon Studios
Windows
Let It Consume is a short, active incremental game about leading a dark cult. Raise loyal minions, harvest their emotions, and feed your all-consuming idol before it hungers for you. Expand your rituals, unlock dark upgrades, and watch devotion turn into divine power.
Why similar: Faith 28.6% ★, God Game 26.2% ★, Management 22.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%
- #49 Meeple Station
71% matchMixed57% of 956 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Why similar: Base Building 20.2%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Resource Management 14%, Management 12.6%, Building 11.6%
- #50 Genesis of a Small God
68% matchVery Positive82% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
You have awoken as a small god. As you accumulate the faith and souls of your followers, you will learn incredible new abilities. Protect, guide your people and smite any threats that may arise. The fate of your world is in your hands.
Why similar: God Game 17.6% ★, Colony Sim 15.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 11.3%, Management 10.8%
- #51 Hotel Magnate
67% matchMixed58% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: Management 18.7%, Resource Management 18.3%, Base Building 17.7%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 15.1%
- #52 Festival Tycoon 🎪
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 232 reviews2022
Dev: Johannes GäblerPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Resource Management 17.3%, Management 14.5%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.6%
- #53 Dinky Guardians
68% matchVery Positive81% of 108 reviews2023
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Goal: Repopulate the entire Galaxy with Dinkys, keep them safe, and fully automate everything!
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Base Building 19.7%, Resource Management 15%, Management 13.7%, Building 11.3%
- #54 Filmmaker Tycoon
70% matchMostly Negative26% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Aternis Level 0Pub: Aternis Interactive
Windows
Filmmaker Tycoon is a next generation movie tycoon simulation game! You're the producer of your very own movie studio! Hire actors, build movie sets, make films, move up in the industry, and watch your finished films in Filmmaker Tycoon.
Why similar: Base Building 20.4%, Management 18.4%, Building 15%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 8.7%
- #55 Gold Gold Adventure Gold
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 971 reviews2026
Dev: Can Can Can a Man
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In this world, it’s all about the gold! Use it to build up a fantasy town, recruit heroes, give quests, raise a Godbeast, cast powerful spells, and expand your influence—all one gold coin at a time.
Why similar: God Game 20.5% ★, Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #56 Evil Genius
70% matchVery Positive93% of 3,616 reviews2009
Dev: Elixir StudiosPub: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Everybody wants to rule the world! Achieve global power with EVIL GENIUS, the one and only complete world domination simulator. All the everyday tasks of the deliciously wicked mastermind are available to experience and master from building your ultra-secret base to developing spectacular super-weapons to carry out your nefarious master...
Why similar: Base Building 41.2%, Strategy 12%, Comedy 12%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 5.9%
- #57 News Tower
63% matchVery Positive94% of 4,596 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 29.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Management 25.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Sandbox 16.6%, Building 12.8%, Simulation 9.6%
- #58 Worshippers of Cthulhu
64% matchVery Positive81% of 1,552 reviews2025
Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, Base Building 19.1%, Sandbox 15.6%, Management 15.1%, Building 11%
- #59 All Hail the Orb
62% matchVery Positive94% of 1,573 reviews2026
Dev: LeGingerDev
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
All Hail The Orb is a short, quirky pixel-art incremental game about powering a mysterious orb, summoning cultists, exploring a dungeon and slowly unlocking automation as devotion builds. The tone is light-hearted and a little silly with no fail states, relaxed pacing, and yes...many, many ducks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, Cult 17.1% ★, Comedy 13.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
- #60 Life in Bunker
71% matchMixed59% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 30.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Management 14.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11.8%