Games Like How to Make an Atomic Bomb in Your Garden

Laundering Simulator puts you in charge of a two-faced enterprise – a hidden counterfeiting workshop with a laundromat as its front! Help Eddie Wiser run this crazy show and deal with small-business management, a criminal underground, nosy authorities, and a rage-inducing grandmother!

Why similar: Dark Comedy 19.7%, Parody 18.8% ★, Dark Humor 16.5%, Building 9.6%, Immersive Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Both games center around covert, illegal operations that require you to mask your suspicious activities from the authorities while managing resources.

BUILD YOUR VIRTUAL WEED EMPIRE: Grow the hottest strains & crossbreed new ones, roll your own Blunts, sell Bongs, hire Growers, make Solventless Concentrates, handle Rival Dealers, befriend Influencers, smoke Dabs, ride a Dolphin, and More! WELCOME TO WEED SHOP 3!

Why similar: Crafting 18.1%, Dark Humor 16.7%, Building 15.2%, Immersive Sim 11%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like building a bomb in your backyard, this game involves running a questionable, high-risk business out of a confined space while keeping nosy agents at bay.

Freezing Moonshine is a unsettling first-person adventure game with elements of plant cultivation, puzzles, and lots of high-proof beverages. To survive, you'll need to gather harvests, take photos, and craft a wide variety of spirits.

Why similar: Dark Humor 23.3%, Crafting 15.8%, Building 12.5%, Immersive Sim 9.2%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same rural, illicit brewing and crafting humor where you concoct forbidden goods right under everyone's noses.

Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW

Why similar: Simulation 32.2%, Crafting 20.6%, Dark Comedy 12.9%, Management 8.7%, Indie 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the tense, illicit crafting and distribution loop where you must quietly build up a dangerous operation while avoiding law enforcement.

What turns a drug dealer into a drug lord? Find out in DDS2, a first-person co-op sim set in a dynamic open world. Make contacts, cook drugs, and manage your cartel on Isla Sombra, where power is the only law.

Why similar: Crafting 30.3%, Simulation 18.9%, Management 13.6%, First-Person 11.6%, Realistic 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Expands on the gritty underbelly of illicit manufacturing and enterprise management with a heavier emphasis on expansion and caution.

Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?

Why similar: Simulation 30.4%, Crafting 18%, Building 12.9%, Adventure 12.9%, First-Person 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same gritty humor, urban survival antics, and unconventional crafting mechanics set in a cynical open world.

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, Building 21.7%, Management 14.3%, First-Person 9.6%, Realistic 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar hands-on, first-person management and service loop where you must juggle multiple daily tasks to keep operations afloat.

Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

Why similar: Crafting 14.1%, Building 11.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Time Management 10%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a hands-on mechanical processing loop where you sort, manage, and break down materials in a dedicated workspace.

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Dark Humor 28.8%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 11.3%, Life Sim 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the premise of laundering dirty gains and managing illicit logistics with a heavy focus on mechanical immersion.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 35.7%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines resource gathering, dark comedic themes, and questionable moral crafting choices in a quirky management sim.

Deconstruction Simulator is the ultimate demolition simulator, offering you complete freedom of action and a wide array of contracts to complete. Get ready for spectacular destruction.

Why similar: Building 25.8%, Simulation 18.7%, Management 11.3%, Realistic 10.5%, First-Person 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the destructive, hands-on side of handling tools and dismantling complex structures piece by piece.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Simulation 41.6%, First-Person 16%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Adventure 11.2%, Realistic 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Involves meticulous planning, covert scouting, and avoiding detection, matching the stealthy preparation required to build a backyard weapon.

Run your own magic business! In Alchemist Shop Simulator you can trade magical wares, brew potions and take on special orders, meet many quirky clients, grow your ingredients in your garden, restock your shelves and manage prices. Keep expanding your business as you gain experience and wealth!

Why similar: Crafting 24.8%, Dark Humor 20.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Management 12.8%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Involves precise ingredient mixing and brewing dangerous or experimental recipes to satisfy a demanding clientele.

Your favorite pawn shop experience is finally getting a sequel! Haggle like your life depends on it in this funny tycoon game. You never know WHAT is gonna stumble through that door!

Why similar: Management 32.3%, Immersive Sim 25.4%, Simulation 22%, Casual 10.8%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the shoes of a shady entrepreneur dealing in questionable merchandise and risky bargains.

The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!

Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, First-Person 19.6%, Adventure 14.1%, Indie 10.1%, Realistic 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Enhances the stealthy reconnaissance and criminal enterprise gameplay loop of scouting locations and staying undetected.

Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.

Why similar: Simulation 20.2%, Building 17.9%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Management 9.4%, Life Sim 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to the meticulous hardware assembly and component-matching puzzle aspects of crafting complex machines.

"Pool Cleaning Simulator is a PowerWash Simulator-esque cleaning game where you use a variety of tools to make filthy pools sparkling clean." The game recreates the entire process of cleaning, scrubbing, & maintaining various pools, from luxurious backyard havens to community swimming complexes.🧼🧹

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.6%, Simulation 16.4%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Relaxing 8.6%, First-Person 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a satisfying, first-person single-task simulation loop where you methodically clean and restore spaces.

Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.

Why similar: Crafting 20.8%, Building 17.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Management 9.8%, Realistic 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Involves tracking down rare parts and carefully reconstructing complex historical machinery bolt by bolt.

Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.

Why similar: Simulation 41.5%, Realistic 17.8%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, First-Person 10.6%, 3D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to the same desire for detailed, part-by-part assembly and mechanical tinkering within a workshop setting.

Builder Simulator is the perfect game for those who want to build a house, from the ground up, one brick at a time. On easy, the game will guide and teach you by showing you full instruction, but on hard you will get no help - instead rely on your builder skills and make everything yourself.

Why similar: Building 24.3%, Simulation 18.1%, Immersive Sim 12.7%, Management 11.1%, Relaxing 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Demands careful planning, step-by-step construction, and adherence to blueprints in a first-person view.

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

Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Management 18.5%, Building 13.2%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Life Sim 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Keeps you constantly busy ordering stock, managing prices, and handling customers in a tight space.

Become a thief in VR! Feel the thrill of stealing in free roam sandbox neighborhoods. Use lockpicks and hi-tech hacking tools. Observe your target, gather information and hide from police. Or drive a car like crazy to get out of trouble!

Why similar: Simulation 50.3%, Indie 19.7%, First-Person 13.6%, Realistic 6.8%, Adventure 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the suspenseful break-in and stealth mechanics into an immersive first-person perspective.

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

Why similar: Building 24.6%, Simulation 20.5%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Relaxing 10%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the first-person home-improvement and renovation loop, though with significantly more legal methods.

A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.

Why similar: Simulation 40.2%, Crafting 21.8%, Building 18%, First-Person 4.6%, Realistic 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world sandbox management with heavy machinery operation and rustic crafting.

Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

Why similar: Simulation 21.6%, Immersive Sim 21.1%, Management 18.3%, Life Sim 16.4%, Relaxing 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your ability to manage high-pressure, time-sensitive ingredient prep and station management.

Build your own furniture empire after getting fired from Furnox Corp 🖕. Chop down trees, process wood, automate your growing production lines and sell clever furniture sets for bonus cash. Explore a handcrafted world packed with weirdos, secrets and trees begging for violence.

Why similar: Crafting 28.5%, Building 16.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10.2%, First-Person 9.4%

Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!

Why similar: Crafting 26.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Immersive Sim 11%, Management 10.2%, First-Person 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the deep, chemistry-driven science of precise recipe creation and ingredient sourcing.

Brew your own beer from scratch! Take on the role of a brewmaster, learn brewing techniques, create unique recipes, and grow your craft brewery into a full-scale factory. Expand your brewery from mashing and fermenting to bottling and selling - every decision shapes your beer empire

Why similar: Simulation 22.1%, Life Sim 12.3%, Realistic 8.9%, Management 8.4%, Crafting 8%

Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Building 19%, Crafting 18.7%, Simulation 13.8%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Management 12.3%

Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.

Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Building 29.1%, Indie 11.1%, First-Person 5.7%, Relaxing 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features heavy equipment operation and structural destruction that mirrors the hands-on engineering vibe.

England, 1940. The Luftwaffe is preparing for the invasion of Britain and the RAF need every man to stop it. They need you. Join the ground crews as they struggle to keep the aircraft flying. Repair engine, patch bullet holes, rearm machine guns and more.

Why similar: Simulation 33.5%, Building 20.3%, Indie 9.4%, Management 9.1%, Adventure 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Requires painstaking attention to detail and component assembly under strict operational conditions.

Build a local car wash into a massive detailing empire! Master advanced cleaning techniques with vibrant active foams, beat the clock for extra tips, and buy or lease new properties. Play it clean or risk everything with high-paying shady deals and secret backroom plantations.

Why similar: Crafting 14.1%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Time Management 8.2%

Manage renovations in 90s apartment blocks! Focus on quick profit and cut costs wherever possible. Client notices defects? Tough luck, the money's already in your pocket. Every day brings new challenges and decisions that can lead to fortune... or trouble!

Why similar: Building 18.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Life Sim 9.5%, First-Person 9.3%

Become a Medieval blacksmith in this interactive blacksmithing simulator. Upgrade your forging equipment, unlock new exotic crafting materials, grow your business, and manage your customers - in addition to engaging forging mechanics. Strike while the iron is hot and hop in front of the forge now!

Why similar: Crafting 22.6%, Building 12.8%, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.9%

How To Grow a Black Hole is about... well... how to grow a black hole. Manage your black hole, feed it to gain mass, and prevent catastrophic collapses. Compete globally or against your friends to achieve the biggest black hole. Maybe you'll be #1.

Why similar: Simulation 47%, Casual 20%, Realistic 16.3%, Management 7.5%, Indie 7.3%

Take charge as the brains behind the trendiest Cyber internet club in the city. Turn your humble beginnings into a top-tier cyber sanctuary through resource management, strategic investments, and maintaining a steady cash flow.

Why similar: Crafting 20.1%, Simulation 13.9%, Time Management 12.8%, Building 10%, Management 8.3%

In iDigging, you’ll balance treasure hunting, home improvement, and the strategy of hiding from curious neighbors and authorities. Upgrade, dig, and create your best life despite all the challenges!

Why similar: Simulation 30.4%, First-Person 26.5%, 3D 16.5%, Adventure 14.2%, Casual 12.4%

Build and manage your underground scam empire in a city ruled by chaos. Expand your operation through illegal means, grow your workforce, automate your schemes, and uncover the dark mysteries hidden beneath the town.

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.1%, Building 14.1%, Time Management 11.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10.4%

Builder. Designer. Renovator. Unleash your creativity in over a dozen unique places, get the right equipment, prepare the space, use what you find. Wanna make a crazy party?

Why similar: Crafting 22.5%, Building 17.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 10.1%, Life Sim 9.7%

Nuclear Reactor Simulator: Take Control. Prevent Disaster. Power the World.

Why similar: Simulation 25.2%, Immersive Sim 21.3%, Realistic 16.1%, First-Person 15.7%, 3D 9.5%

In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!

Why similar: Building 14.2%, Simulation 14.2%, Management 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Life Sim 10.6%

Create dream homes! From 3D plan modelling through to on-site decision-making, you must bring each project to life while giving free rein to your creativity, to take your architectural firm to the pinnacle of the profession.

Why similar: Building 17.4%, Crafting 13.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Life Sim 8.6%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Simulation 18.7%, Building 15%, Immersive Sim 13.4%, Management 12%, First-Person 10.4%

From traditional huts to modern homes of the future - become a one-person crew! Gather resources, use tools, and build brick by brick across history. Discover architecture secrets and create your dream homes!

Why similar: Building 21.1%, Simulation 15%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, First-Person 9.5%, Relaxing 8.7%

Take control of your very own fuel station and transform it into a bustling business hub! Experience the perfect mix of management, customization, and exciting challenges as you serve customers, expand your services, and build your empire.

Why similar: Building 17%, Crafting 16.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Life Sim 9%, Management 9%

NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.

Why similar: Parody 20.2% ★, Dark Humor 19.2%, Time Management 11.3%, Immersive Sim 11%, Management 9.4%

Build your own beverage empire from scratch! 🍹 Experiment with recipes, find the perfect blend, expand your factory and fulfill massive orders. Every drop is your call!

Why similar: Simulation 22.6%, Crafting 14.3%, First-Person 9.2%, Adventure 8.6%, Casual 8.3%

You are a scientist and engineer of the North Korean army and you need to grow your little nuclear bomb.

Why similar: Simulation 55.2%, Indie 24.7%, Casual 20.1%

Enter Pawnbroker Simulator, where every deal, appraisal, and choice forges your path to pawn shop greatness. Sharpen your instincts, unlock new talents, craft a storefront that turns heads, offer high-stakes loans, and stay one step ahead of cunning thieves.

Why similar: Building 14.6%, Simulation 13.3%, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Time Management 12.3%, Life Sim 11%

Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.

Why similar: Crafting 21.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Time Management 12.7%, Life Sim 9.2%, Management 7.9%

Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.

Why similar: Building 17.9%, Simulation 16.9%, Time Management 16.1%, Life Sim 13.9%, Management 10.9%

Take on the electrician role and learn the profession's basics! Install sockets, repair worn-out equipment, assemble broken appliances, replace light bulbs, and lay wires at your customers' homes. Be sure to check everything twice, with electricity there are no jokes!

Why similar: Simulation 16.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Immersive Sim 14.6%, Life Sim 11.3%, First-Person 9.6%

Pour beer, break up brawls, distill your own liquor, run pig races, deal with gangs and keep the cops off your back as you turn a rundown Route 66 bar into one hell of a Road House.

Why similar: Simulation 20.7%, Life Sim 13.8%, Management 11.6%, First-Person 10.9%, Immersive Sim 9.8%

Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

Why similar: Simulation 16.6%, Immersive Sim 14.4%, Time Management 14.2%, Life Sim 13%, Management 11.6%

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Building 28.9%, Crafting 23%, Simulation 18.4%, Indie 7.6%, First-Person 6.9%

Cheap Car Repair - go back in time to Poland of the 90's. Run your own Cheap Car Repair shop. Look for savings wherever you can. Make lots of money and avoid angry customers!

Why similar: Crafting 18.6%, Building 14.5%, Simulation 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Management 9.5%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Comedy 29.8%, Dark Humor 28.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Life Sim 8.9%

Start from scratch and rise with scrap, dig through trash, process junk, and grow your profits. Buy warehouses, machines, and vehicles to build your own recycling empire.

Why similar: Crafting 26.6%, Simulation 15.5%, Building 14.9%, Immersive Sim 13%, Life Sim 11.7%

Build the new future of Europe! Flip, renovate, repair and rebuild places destroyed during World War 2. Get to know the history and stories of civilians. Play an immersive building simulator with grappling storytelling.

Why similar: Crafting 21.1%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Management 9.2%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.7%, Crafting 20.7%, Building 16%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Management 10.3%