Games Like Indie Dev Story

Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!

Why similar: Management 50.4%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 15%, 2D 6.1%, Casual 5.1%

Become an indie game developer! Make your own games by hand and publish them on a fantasy market like Steam. Earn fans, receive brutal reviews, and battle your inner demons. Can you become the creator of your dreams?

Why similar: Simulation 50.7%, Action 27%, Indie 22.3%

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 53.7%, Simulation 24.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Indie 6.5%, Casual 3%

In this game, you're playing as game developer and encounter typical problems like eating and sleeping. You need to correctly allocate your time for human needs, hobbies and work, to live another day as indie developer.

Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Strategy 33.1%, Indie 18.8%

In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Capitalism 27%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 10.5%, 3D 4.6%

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Why similar: Simulation 43%, 3D 41.2%, Casual 8.2%, Singleplayer 7.7%

An in depth game development simulation game

Why similar: Choices Matter 27.2%, Management 27.1%, Simulation 26.2%, 3D 12.2%, Casual 7.4%

You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!

Why similar: Incremental 32.6%, Capitalism 17.2%, Management 16.4%, Strategy 6.8%, Simulation 6.3%

In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of one developer.

Why similar: Management 41.1%, Simulation 20.4%, Arcade 14.4%, 3D 12.1%, Indie 8.7%

Quit your job and build an exciting startup! Survive the tech bubble, compete with rival CEOs and expand your office from bedroom programmer up to the heights of global corporate sabotage! As long as you don't get hacked... or kidnapped...

Why similar: Management 40.2%, Simulation 20%, Strategy 14.1%, Incremental 11.1%, 2D 6%

This is a game about pudding :)

Why similar: Incremental 66.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Indie 6.5%, 2D 6.2%, Casual 5.1%

From nobody to famous game producer in 3 years: that’s the journey you will live! Experience the trials and tribulations of game development in this life simulation game: live through the process of founding a small team and learning how to work together to develop a successful game.

Why similar: Management 42.3%, Simulation 25%, Capitalism 22.5%, Casual 6.2%, Singleplayer 4%

Take on the challenge of running a Soda brewing operation, all while participating in the current season of the hit reality TV show “Prisoneers.” Will you win your freedom?

Why similar: Management 71%, Simulation 24.9%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Indie 1.3%, Casual 0.9%

In DevLife you start your career just before hitting 18. It's up to you to choose who you want to be - a graphic designer or maybe a programmer? Will it be a Website design or Mobile Applications? It is up to you to decide! And what if you chose wrong? Well... You will have to live with that!

Why similar: Voxel 50.9% ★, Management 26%, 3D 6.7%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 5.8%

Grocery Store Tycoon - First Store allows players to take their first steps as a store owner by managing and expanding their very first shop. Start with a small store, optimize its layout, stock shelves efficiently, and serve customers to grow your business.

Why similar: Management 36.2%, Capitalism 33.1%, Simulation 15.5%, 3D 6.2%, Casual 4.7%

Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?

Why similar: Management 35.4%, Simulation 28%, Strategy 16.8%, Indie 9.6%, Casual 6.2%

Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!

Why similar: Management 33.3%, Capitalism 26.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Indie 4.8%

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 32.2%, Capitalism 25.9%, 3D 16.9%, Management 14.7%, Casual 8.5%

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

Why similar: Management 28.4%, Simulation 26.7%, Strategy 18.3%, Colony Sim 10.1%, Casual 7.8%

Build a tech company from a one-person garage into a global empire. Train six skills, automate the grind, prestige for permanent Founder bonuses, climb the leaderboards, and chase 50+ achievements in this clean, endlessly-scaling idle game — progress rolls on even while you're away.

Why similar: Management 50.1%, Simulation 27.6%, Casual 7.8%, 2D 6.4%, Indie 5.8%

Start in a bedroom with one 3D printer and build a manufacturing empire! Manage filaments, upgrade machines, hire staff, and expand into a factory in this addictive idle tycoon game.

Why similar: Incremental 41.1%, Management 28.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 5.2%, Casual 4.4%

It's time to become the Game Developer you always wanted to be. Make use of a large array of features, and player skills to create stunning 10 / 10 games. Compete with and eventually acquire other dynamic Ai Studio's. Raise the talent of your team and studio's in an effort to dominate the market.

Why similar: Management 44%, Simulation 21.6%, Choices Matter 13%, Strategy 12.6%, 3D 8.8%

Office Simulator: Prologue is a limited-content version designed to let you experience office management right away. Manage your employees, plan tasks, and navigate the challenges of office life!

Why similar: Management 46.3%, Simulation 27.5%, 3D 12.3%, Casual 7.4%, Choices Matter 4.5%

Make a Game Company for your self！Get it work，Run for Rich！

Why similar: Strategy 23.2%, Simulation 20.9%, Management 20.4%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Indie 9.2%

Scratch the Ticket is a first‑person incremental gambling sim where every ticket is a test of nerves. Print tickets, scratch cells, and decide: cash out now or risk it all. The outcome depends only on your choice.

Why similar: Incremental 38.1%, Management 16.2%, Capitalism 13.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 6.2%

Build an Empire, From Scratch, in this Scratch Card Idle/Incremental game.

Why similar: Incremental 51%, Capitalism 18.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Casual 3.4%

Revolution Idle is a free idle incremental game with offline progress, prestige layers, and endless automation. Start simple, reach infinity and go further.

Why similar: Incremental 37.3%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 9.9%, Indie 4.1%

Launch your own business from scratch! Starting with a small coffee booth, build the most popular food service chain in town. Experiment, develop, make a profit.

Why similar: Management 44%, Simulation 22.9%, Strategy 14.9%, 3D 11%, Casual 4%

Become a one-man construction crew! Travel around the world and through the ages to build iconic designs! Beware unpleasant temperatures and dangerous fauna!

Why similar: Incremental 60.3%, Simulation 24.6%, 3D 11%, Casual 4.1%

Simultree is a short incremental game about monitoring life simulations. You're a scientist who runs life simulations in order to gain points to spend in a big skill tree.

Why similar: Incremental 30.7%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 7.2%

Ad Agency Simulator: Prologue offers a short simulation experience for those who want to pursue a career in advertising. Are you ready to create your own ad designs and manage your ad agency starting from a small ad office?

Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Management 36.5%, 3D 21.5%

Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!

Why similar: Incremental 38.1%, Management 20.5%, Capitalism 12.3%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 8.6%

E-Startup is a sandbox business simulation game in a low-poly universe. Build, buy resources to create products and complete contracts, invest in the stock market to become rich and popular!

Why similar: Management 31.2%, Capitalism 28.1%, Simulation 11.1%, Arcade 10.4%, 3D 8%

In this free version of the game, manage your own figure shop! Produce figures with 3D printers, stock your shelves, set prices, and offer the best shopping experience to your customers. Manage your warehouse, complete collections, follow trends, and grow your business!

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Simulation 36%, Casual 13.3%, 3D 8.4%, Indie 6.1%

Welcome to the Brokeville! Grind your way to the top through jobs, deliveries, bicycle races, and risky crypto trades. Buy, customize, and sell cars & motorcycles for profit. Build your own businesses, manage them, and hire staff to grow your empire.

Why similar: Capitalism 35.9%, Simulation 27.1%, Management 25.8%, Singleplayer 4%, Indie 3.6%

This is just the story of a young and naive indie dev.

Why similar: Simulation 56.3%, Indie 27.3%, Casual 16.4%

Open your own diner and create custom burgers in this management sim game.

Why similar: Simulation 24%, Management 23.3%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Strategy 16.8%, Casual 6.9%

An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.

Why similar: Incremental 42%, Capitalism 16.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 12.4%, Strategy 10.8%

Gamer Stop Simulator is a simulation game where you manage a video game store. Buy games and consoles from customers, repair broken devices, test games, and add rare items to your collection. Negotiate prices, expand your store, and grow your business in this exciting retail experience!

Why similar: Capitalism 37.4%, Simulation 30.4%, 3D 16.2%, Casual 8.8%, Indie 7.3%

In this free version of our game, turn your e-commerce business, which you started in a small office, into a huge online e-trading network. Order new products, set product prices, carefully box incoming orders, prepare the boxes and deliver them to the cargo vehicle.

Why similar: Simulation 34.1%, Management 32.6%, 3D 15.5%, Job Simulator 12.1% ★, Casual 2.4%

Create the gaming paradise of your dreams! Reach 5-stars and host tournaments!

Why similar: Colony Sim 42.1%, Simulation 22.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Management 9.6%, Casual 5.4%

Play the free prologue of Liquor Store Simulator. Purchase goods, equipment, and manage your store. Who knows, maybe you’ll be the one to turn a small shop into a real alcohol empire.

Why similar: Simulation 31.1%, Capitalism 21.3%, Management 19.2%, 3D 13.3%, Casual 8.9%

Run your own beauty store in Beauty Store Simulator! Manage a variety of cosmetics, fashion items, jewelry, and more. Design your store, keep customers happy, and build a successful beauty empire. Can you become the ultimate beauty mogul?

Why similar: Simulation 57%, 3D 18%, Casual 16.5%, Indie 8.5%

In Startup Freak you take the role of a budding entrepreneur, and grow your very own software startup from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar company. Along the way you will have to overcome countless challenges. But the ultimate question you must answer: are you a Startup Freak?

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Simulation 29.5%, Strategy 20.9%, Indie 11.9%, Singleplayer 1.5%

In Web Host Simulator, you'll start your web hosting company in your small apartment, aiming to become the world's leading provider. But to do so, you must win clients, outperform competitors, and deal with cyber threats, disruptions, and challenges from an ISP!

Why similar: Management 36.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Choices Matter 17.2%, Strategy 12.8%, 3D 10.7%

A retro incremental where you optimize messy disks, choose the right algorithm, manage heat and wear, make a living from each job, and reboot for permanent BIOS upgrades.

Why similar: Incremental 45%, Job Simulator 24.8% ★, Choices Matter 12.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Indie 3.6%

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Management 43.4%, Capitalism 21.2%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 10.5%, 3D 5.6%

Build your empire from a basement. Trade stocks, run companies, date, raise kids, dodge the SEC, and retire a legend — or go broke trying.

Why similar: Capitalism 21.7%, Simulation 17.7%, Management 17.2%, Job Simulator 15.5% ★, Strategy 12.2%

A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.

Why similar: Incremental 36.8%, Colony Sim 24.4%, Management 17%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 7%

Take on the role of a one-man renovation team tasked with restoring various sports facilities to their former glory. Many of them have been destroyed as a result of time or lack of care. Don't let them go into complete oblivion - roll up your sleeves and breathe new life into them!

Why similar: Management 41.9%, Simulation 25.1%, 3D 15.5%, Indie 7.5%, Casual 6.3%

Zero IDLE is an incremental (IDLE) game in which you can decide whether to make all of your way to the biggest number EVER by clicking, or by increasing your incremental production...or you can make the game to click for you...

Why similar: Incremental 79.4%, Casual 6.6%, Indie 5.5%, 2D 5.4%, Singleplayer 3%

Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8%, Simulation 23.8%, Strategy 14.5%, Casual 6%, Indie 3.2%

Build your business! control every aspect of a thriving vending machine business. Buy, place, and restock machines to increase profits. Do you have what it takes to manage, expand, and dominate the vending industry?

Why similar: Management 29.1%, Capitalism 25.2%, Job Simulator 21% ★, Simulation 12.2%, 3D 7.5%

Grow your bakery franchise and manage bakeries in this cute idle tycoon game with over 150 desserts, 100+ in game awards, daily challenges, skill tree system, events each month with unique desserts and much more...

Why similar: Incremental 37.5%, Management 24.1%, Capitalism 18.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Indie 4.3%

Create your own gym, train boxers, and aim for the championship!

Why similar: Simulation 36.8%, Management 32.5%, Strategy 11.4%, Casual 8.3%, 2D 5.5%

Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.

Why similar: Indie 68.2%, Simulation 31.8%

The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

Why similar: Management 41.4%, Simulation 32.7%, Capitalism 15.4%, 3D 4.8%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.

Why similar: Management 35.5%, Capitalism 27.4%, Simulation 22.9%, 3D 7.4%, Casual 2.9%

Mobiles Tycoon is a brand new game about creating your mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. In the game you have to manage your company and develop your devices (smartphones and tablets), operating systems and processors

Why similar: Management 35.9%, Capitalism 33.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 11.8%, 2D 4.2%