Games Like Huanhai: A Career in Ink

"Path of Yuusha" is a simulation game set in the Yuusha academy with life sim elements of decorating your room freely and attempting events at local town. Experiencing the daily life of a school student who is busy with classes and work, Manages your weekly schedule to become a splendid hero.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.3%, Simulation 28.1%, Cartoon 13.4%, Management 7%, RPG 6.9%

Recruit AI bandmates with their own looks and stories, run a maid café together, and turn everyday moments into songs. Every album is generated live for your story—no two bands sound alike. Take music that's yours alone from a street-corner livehouse to the city's biggest stage.

Why similar: Life Sim 31.8%, Simulation 27.5%, Anime 13.5%, Management 9.3%, 2D 6.1%

Grandma will always stay with you and watch over you.If you’re tired, it’s okay to take a break.I’ll be right here on your desktop.

Why similar: Simulation 27.1%, Life Sim 26.9%, Anime 14.7%, Cartoon 10.5%, Relaxing 7.2%

To survive, you sign a contract: in a world where animals have become catgirls, bring one catgirl the greatest happiness within a month, and you'll receive 600,000 to save your life.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.4%, Simulation 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Relaxing 8.6%, Anime 7%

Open a cat hotel where you can pet cats!

Why similar: Life Sim 44.8%, Simulation 28.7%, Relaxing 11.7%, 2D 8.1%, Casual 4%

Startup Village is an entrepreneurship and management simulation board game. Players experience the entire startup cycle: securing funding and hiring staff (Startup Phase), followed by 12 months of realistic business operations (Management Phase) .

Why similar: Life Sim 35%, Simulation 31.3%, Anime 13.6%, Management 10%, 2D 6.7%

"The Graden of Youth"is a visual light novel with a focus on youthful love. The story mainly tells of a group of teenagers and girls suffering from mental illness -" AS "- who are involved in a" box court "experiment.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.8%, Simulation 27.2%, Anime 11%, RPG 7.8%, 2D 5.7%

My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.

Why similar: Life Sim 27%, Interactive Fiction 25.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Cartoon 13.3%, Story Rich 5.9%

One day during a study session at the campus library, you instinctively scratch an itch through your pants due to a recurring skin condition. Unbeknownst to you, a girl seated across misinterprets your action as something indecent and records a video to report you.

Why similar: Simulation 28.2%, Life Sim 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 28%, RPG 5.3%, 2D 4.2%

在玛尼丽号科研船上，你将担任厨房主厨，为船员们烹制料理、调配饮品，满足他们各式各样的订单。 然而，厨房里并不平静，从角落里冒出来的奇怪生物和突然改变的天气总是在打乱你的烹饪计划！ 合理安排厨具、把握烹饪时间，在接连不断的突发状况中守住厨房，为饥肠辘辘的船员端上美味佳肴吧！

Why similar: Life Sim 35.3%, Simulation 32.2%, Cartoon 19.3%, 2D 6.7%, Casual 5.3%

If we were to bring a loved one back to life as an AI, and then, for whatever reason, we had to let them go or part ways, would we be able to turn them off?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.6%, Simulation 30.4%, Life Sim 29.3%, 2D 4.5%, Story Rich 3.4%

The Year is 1665 and the Great Plague has struck London. Guide your family through the darkest period of English history as you flee across the country. Navigate 100s of random events that challenge your ethics and your drive to survive.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Interactive Fiction 25.3%, Simulation 16.3%, Management 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%

Road to Millionaire – Investing is an investment simulation where you start with $10,000 and have 480 in-game days to reach $1,000,000. Buy and sell stocks, collect and reinvest dividends, track company fundamentals, and adapt to bull, bear, and sideways markets.

Why similar: Simulation 36.2%, Life Sim 35.5%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 10%, Singleplayer 1.9%

Run a fledgling automaker in a volatile fictional economy. Set prices, manage investment, outmaneuver rivals, react to crises, and live with the consequences as your business decisions reshape a branching story.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Simulation 25.6%, Political Sim 19.9% ★, Anime 9.9%, Strategy 7.2%

A life simulation game inspired by the real experiences of international students. Study, survive, pay rent, manage your mental health, and build your life in foreign cities across the world.

Why similar: Life Sim 31%, Interactive Fiction 22.6%, Simulation 21%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.7%, Roguelike 4.2%

Live-action footage meets lie-detection gameplay as you tear away the masks of three male leads. Multiple endings and hundreds of branching paths—every choice forces the question: Whose stand-in are you, really? Whose lie are you living?

Why similar: Simulation 27.9%, Life Sim 27.1%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, RPG 7.4%, 2D 3.9%

You find a mysterious maid sleeping in front of your house and decide to take her in. She cooks, cleans, and even manages your life. She is loyal to you and only you. This gentle maid wants nothing more than to fulfill your "needs." It's no surprise that love begins to blossom between you two...

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.6%, Simulation 26.1%, Life Sim 24.4%, Anime 9%, Relaxing 4.8%

Supermarket Simulator Holidays 2025 lets you build and manage your own festive store. Stock plushies, figurines, Christmas cards, and decorations, expand your space, hire staff, and keep customers happy. Grow profits with rare cards and play areas—just don’t forget your elves! 🎄✨

Why similar: Life Sim 35.1%, Simulation 30.9%, Cartoon 18.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Relaxing 4.6%

Play as an official’s daughter entering the imperial palace as a consort. Build relationships, shape your family’s fate, speak freely with memory-driven AI characters, navigate favor and political intrigue, or overturn the order of the court and pursue an entirely different ending.

Why similar: Life Sim 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Political Sim 15.9% ★, Historical 12.7%, Simulation 10.1%

I gave up my original physics major after graduating from college in 2025 to engage in game development. Although I have experience, I lack funds and face other challenges, but we will not give up easily.This game is a text-based game, a galgame.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.7%, Interactive Fiction 22.2%, Simulation 15.4%, Anime 14.5%, Cartoon 8.2%

In Silk Roads: Caravan Kings you follow in the footsteps of the legendary Marco Polo on a journey into Cathay in search of riches and adventure.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.9%, Life Sim 22.3%, Historical 17.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 9.3%

Ravaged by war, the kingdom's population is on the brink of collapse. Embodying the "Chosen Stallion," you wander between the countryside and the royal court, sowing seeds with women to preserve the bloodline. Fill the desolation with new life and rebuild the empire to its former glory!

Why similar: Life Sim 29%, Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Cartoon 11.6%, RPG 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%

A chronic illness simulator. You think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. All you know is you are always in some state of pain. You've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 37.3%, Life Sim 33.6%, Simulation 21.2%, Story Rich 5.9%, Indie 1.1%

Princess Maker: Children of Revelation is a raising simulation game that returns after nearly 18 years as part of the Princess Maker package series, where you raise a young girl into adulthood. Become a parent in the game and help fulfill your daughter's dreams!

Why similar: Life Sim 44.3%, Simulation 36.6%, 2D 6.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 5.6%, Anime 4.6%

Step into the inspection booth in Black Border 3, a thrilling dystopian border simulation game. Review complex documents, interrogate suspicious travelers, and uncover clever smuggling plots.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.6%, Simulation 29.5%, Political Sim 24.2% ★, Management 7.6%, 2D 5.2%

生命和心的群像剧文字游戏，赠给为活在“当下”感到痛苦的你 这是一部赠与活在“当下”感到痛苦的现代人的，以生命与心为题材的文字游戏。这是一个寻找“我们为何活着”的答案的故事。

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Simulation 26.1%, Cartoon 14.9%, Anime 13.7%, RPG 9%

In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.6%, Historical 19.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Management 12.5%, RPG 5.4%

Create persistent AI characters, shape their personalities and relationships, and chat privately on your own device. Three conversation quality levels are included. Add local portrait generation with the optional NVIDIA DLC.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.5%, Simulation 28.6%, Life Sim 28%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.5%, Casual 4.7%

Late Ming: Magistrate Simulation and Management is a county-building sim set in the chaotic late Ming Dynasty. Rule as a magistrate, rebuild your border town, raise troops, gather intelligence, explore underground treasures, and expand your power across overseas islands amid endless chaos.

Why similar: Simulation 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Historical 15.4%, RPG 8.8%, 2D 4.4%

Hello guys, Eny Project Studio presents our first PC game. 30 Days in red army is a simple text RPG with pixelated graphic and randomized events and results. Game was created to reflect our attitude against war activities by you know who and his incompetent army.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Life Sim 26.9%, Simulation 25.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.3%, RPG 5.5%

A fully voiced branching medieval RPG of over 800,000 words. Swear the oath, ride to a dying kingdom's war, and answer for every choice. When you fall, you are not reloaded, you are marked. Four origins, twelve chapters, and an ending that weighs what your oath was worth.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Simulation 26.7%, Historical 14.4%, RPG 8.8%, Strategy 7.8%

Deserted Island Survival: 1 Man, 3 Women—Erotic Entanglements Amidst Scarcity; A Taboo Magical Adventure of Passionate Escape.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.3%, Simulation 24.2%, Life Sim 21.6%, Cartoon 10.2%, Anime 9.8%

A retro football management sim. Take a Fourth Division club through thirty seasons of English football, 1959 to 1989, by the real rules of each season. Sign, sell, drill and talk your way up, while your board, your pub and your town remember every result, every signing and every excuse.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 23.6%, Political Sim 17% ★, Historical 9.8%, Simulation 7.2%

《一念成佛》是一款六道轮回题材的文字 MUD RPG。玩家将在一世又一世的生死流转中，通过输入指令探索人道、天道、阿修罗道、畜生道、饿鬼道与地狱道。每一次选择、战斗、情缘、执着与觉照，都会写入轮回簿，并影响下一世的归处。

Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.8%, Simulation 18.3%, Roguelike 8.7%, RPG 7.2%

VPets is a monster-raising sim that blends monster raising with tactical combat. As a Tamer, you don’t just own a pet—you shape a monster for a high-stakes digital world. Play VPets on the side of your screen or in Fullscreen!

Why similar: Life Sim 31.5%, Simulation 26.3%, Cartoon 12.2%, Roguelike 8.7%, Management 7%

A story-rich urban battle RPG. As a Nikko University transfer student, freely explore bustling Xijing, raise stats, make friends, and live your days. But beneath the peaceful daily life, dark undercurrents surge. Collect clues, shatter the facade, and face the ultimate crisis when it arrives.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 29.4%, Life Sim 23.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Anime 8.2%, RPG 8%

Four little letters that can turn your whole day upside down – ADHD. Think it’s nothing? That everyone has it? Then watering a few plants, walking the dog, or writing one simple email shouldn’t be a problem... right?

Why similar: Life Sim 31.9%, Interactive Fiction 31.5%, Simulation 29.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Create your dream artist, build a fanbase, release music, and shape your career in a world full of drama, competition, and surprises.

Why similar: Life Sim 35.6%, Simulation 31%, RPG 10.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, 2D 6.2%

Embark on Anime Studio Saga! Go from a Manga Artist living with your mom to establishing your anime studio, create chart-topping series, developing talent, and pioneer new stories. Ascend to industry leadership, captivating a global fanbase as the unparalleled anime visionary!

Why similar: Simulation 42.9%, Management 17.4%, Anime 13.4%, Strategy 11.9%, 2D 8.8%

So you wanna be a businessman? Get fast money in an easy way? For some crazy reason you want it to be related to the sea? You've come to the right place! You only need to... Pimp my Cruise!

Why similar: Life Sim 39.2%, Simulation 38%, Cartoon 21.8%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Welcome to IT hell! Survive as GlobalCorp's only sysadmin – for a single day or a whole week. Fight absurd tickets, collect loot and lower your pulse with coffee. Keep the boss radar and your aggro down to still have a job at 16:30 – without throwing your monitor out of the window.

Why similar: Life Sim 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.7%, Simulation 24%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%, Management 6.5%

A corporate parody JRPG. Battle coworkers, bosses, and the entire board of directors as you fight your way to the top of a satirical office tower. Build your team, master turn-based combat, and survive the most hostile workplace in gaming.

Why similar: Life Sim 46.5%, Simulation 43%, 2D 8.9%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Live 100 connected lives, where every life permanently shapes the next. Restore the Tree of Life by becoming anyone you can imagine - build careers, fall in love, make friends, enemies, and questionable choices across Kingstown. Each completed life opens new opportunities for your next one.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Cartoon 14.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 6.7%

Govern wisely in this narrative choice-based game set in the heart of the Middle Ages. Your choices will have a real impact on your entire adventure, the world and its characters! Skillfully manage your image and your throne to survive and prosper. Or fall.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27%, Life Sim 26%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 9.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.6%

Tired of your noisy neighbors? Learn creative ways to silence them and secure a peaceful night of sleep!

Why similar: Simulation 32.7%, Life Sim 29.2%, Cartoon 15.9%, RPG 8.1%, Strategy 6.2%

When Caron visits his uncle during his winter vacation, he meets three interesting girls with tragic pasts and a hidden connection to him.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 28%, Simulation 19.8%, Anime 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.8%

What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story.Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.9%, Life Sim 19.7%, Historical 16.8%, Political Sim 15.2% ★, Simulation 9.6%

Your favorite deskmate is closer than ever. Follow Douki-Cyan through work, workouts, coffee breaks, and lazy afternoons as you experience her daily life from different perspectives. Cute moments, charming expressions, and heartwarming interactions await with your beloved deskmate.

Why similar: Life Sim 32.8%, Simulation 31.4%, Anime 12.1%, RPG 9%, 2D 6.2%

Built with Godot, powered by chaos A solo-developed passion project mixing tycoon management, light exploration, and a story that gets weirder the more successful you become.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 34.6%, Life Sim 32.4%, Simulation 20.8%, 2D 6.2%, Casual 3.2%

Brewess is a narrative adventure game about crafting ales and building friendships in Early Modern East Anglia. The region is plagued with power struggles that you must navigate as a brewer, using your dry wit and natural charm to keep your business open and your purses full.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Life Sim 23.1%, Historical 17.7%, Management 11.8%, Story Rich 6.1%

A Live2d R18 living simulation visual novel with Demon Lord chan

Why similar: Life Sim 31.4%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Anime 15.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Relaxing 7.5%

Master of Balance is a workplace survival game. You play as a junior manager who becomes caught up in a bizarre, otherworldly incident. To survive, you must carefully handle both daily life and work responsibilities while uncovering the truth behind what happened.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 32.1%, Simulation 13.4%, 2D 6.5%, Story Rich 6.3%

Please Subscribe is the sequel to Gamer Career Tycoon from 2018. Develop your own livestream channel from the ground up. Manage and operate, overcome challenges, learn new tricks in order to rise in the charts, and possibly, become the next big internet superstar.

Why similar: Simulation 27.7%, Life Sim 26.8%, Management 14.5%, Relaxing 8.1%, Strategy 7.7%

A tense emergency dispatch simulation. Route police, fire, and EMS units across a city that never stops. Pick the right unit, beat the clock, keep your reputation above zero — or the city finds a new dispatcher.

Why similar: Simulation 44.9%, Life Sim 40%, 2D 7.5%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

《走亲戚大作战》是一款以春节走亲戚为背景，轻松且愉快的沙雕休闲小游戏。在游戏中，你将化身春节期间走亲访友的主角，与各种奇葩的亲戚们展开斗智斗勇心理大战。你要凭借智慧和策略，通过特色性格词条选择合适的回答，处理那些让人避之不及的琐事、挑战一个又一个令人挠头的"家人"，成功走完所有亲戚家就能顺利通关。每一次走亲戚都是一次全新的挑战，把熊亲戚们强加给你的死亡聊天大声勇敢的“怼”回去，从亲戚们层层叠叠的连招里收获最完美的过年关体验。

Why similar: Life Sim 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Cartoon 12.4%, Story Rich 6.6%

Step into the studio and produce yourown hit anime with an original hero!

Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Life Sim 25.7%, Anime 12.9%, Management 12.7%, Strategy 8.1%

Run an apartment for insomniacs as Hogworth, the pig apostle! Farm, craft, and cure guests to revive the Dream Goddess Lunalith.

Why similar: Life Sim 30.6%, Simulation 25.5%, Cartoon 13.3%, Roguelike 8.6%, RPG 7.4%

A cozy offline pet adventure where you care for your Kuma, grow fruits, earn JUBs, play minigames, collect treasures, challenge boss - Bloomblastic, and chill in the relaxing world.

Why similar: Life Sim 35.5%, Simulation 31.5%, Anime 11.3%, 2D 5.8%, Relaxing 5.7%