Games Like Industry Manager: Future Technologies

Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.

Why similar: Economy 44.5%, Simulation 27.8%, Management 27.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is widely considered the gold standard for deep, realistic economic and business management simulations.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Economy 39%, Management 35.4%, Simulation 25.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex supply chain and logistics system that mirrors the production challenges found in the seed game.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 37.3%, Economy 36.1%, Simulation 20.6%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to build a massive business empire in a simulated city, focusing on real-world economic mechanics and management.

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: Economy 39.6%, Management 34%, Simulation 26.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep business management experience where you design buildings and manage the entire lifecycle of software products.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Economy 40.4%, Management 33%, Simulation 26.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a strong focus on product design, assembly line management, and scaling a business from a garage to a corporation.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Economy 33.9%, Management 28.1%, Simulation 26.2%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers one of the most complex and realistic economic and logistical simulations available on Steam.

Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!

Why similar: Simulation 42.7%, Economy 33.6%, Management 23.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that shares the core DNA of managing production and distribution in a competitive market.

An entire industrial empire under your control. Have you always dreamed of swimming in money? In “Industry Empire” you are the boss of all bosses.

Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Management 26%, Economy 24.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar management perspective focused on building industrial infrastructure and balancing economic variables.

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Simulation 39.1%, Economy 33.7%, Management 27.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the automation of resource extraction and production, perfect for players who enjoy industrial logistics.

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Why similar: Management 39.8%, Economy 31.7%, Simulation 28.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a focused management experience centered on building a successful tech company and managing employees.

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 46.1%, Simulation 35.7%, Economy 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation that captures the progression of building a business through research and product development.

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: Management 34.5%, Economy 33%, Simulation 27.3%, Realistic 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is an extremely detailed automotive industry simulation that requires managing every aspect of a car company's economy.

The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Why similar: Simulation 29.4%, Management 28.5%, Economy 26.6%, Realistic 9.3%, Open World 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at logistical management and building complex transportation networks to support industrial growth.

In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.

Why similar: Economy 34.6%, Simulation 33.8%, Management 31.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the specific challenges of the oil industry, from extraction to global market distribution.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Economy 40.4%, Management 29.9%, Simulation 29.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced, competitive economic strategy experience where market manipulation is key to success.

Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Why similar: Economy 44.5%, Management 34.4%, Simulation 21.1%

Why You'll Like It: This grand strategy game focuses on the hardware and software industry, requiring deep economic planning and research.

In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.

Why similar: Economy 34%, Management 33.5%, Simulation 32.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines logistics and economic management with the challenge of building a rail network to fuel industrial expansion.

Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!

Why similar: Economy 45.3%, Management 28.2%, Simulation 17.3%, Realistic 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a detailed look at the computer hardware market with a focus on economic strategy and product development.

Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!

Why similar: Economy 39.2%, Management 35.1%, Simulation 25.7%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel refines the supply chain and production mechanics, offering a modern take on industrial management.

«Smartphone Tycoon» — unique business simulator. Create your own company for the production of smartphones! Your main goal will be to achieve worldwide recognition and take the company to the temple of fame of the global market.

Why similar: Simulation 54.5%, Management 45.5%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to manage a tech company, focusing on product research, design, and market competition.

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: Economy 41.4%, Management 34.4%, Simulation 24.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep management experience where you must balance economic efficiency with complex operational logistics.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 45.8%, Simulation 37.6%, Economy 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a management experience focused on building and maintaining a complex structure with various economic demands.

Epic Car Factory puts you in the drivers seat of your very own car company. Build, market, hire, fire, and more in this fast paced business simulation. The failure and success of the company depends entirely on your decisions and how you react to the ever changing market place.

Why similar: Economy 41%, Simulation 34.4%, Management 24.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a focused simulation of running a car manufacturing business with an emphasis on production and economy.

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: Economy 39.4%, Management 31.2%, Simulation 29.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a management-heavy experience centered on the game development industry and economic growth.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Management 47.3%, Simulation 26.4%, Open World 26.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, it provides the ultimate challenge in resource management and industrial supply chain optimization.

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: Simulation 43.8%, Management 31.8%, Economy 24.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the challenges of managing a startup, from hiring to product development and financial stability.

With Music Store Simulator you can lead a musical instruments manufacturing company. Create, sell, earn and reinvest improving and developing your business. Expand your Brand and climb to success in order to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments!

Why similar: Simulation 35.8%, Economy 28%, Management 24.9%, Realistic 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a niche management experience focused on retail operations and economic inventory control.

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: Economy 32.4%, Management 26.4%, Simulation 23.3%, Realistic 17.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a management simulation that requires balancing supply costs, pricing, and operational efficiency.

Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!

Why similar: Economy 31.2%, Management 31%, Simulation 21.5%, Realistic 16.3%

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Management 35%, Economy 30.1%, Simulation 23.4%, Realistic 11.5%

Time to clean up! Assume the many jobs of a service company and take care of a vibrant metropolis in the open-world city economy simulation CITYCONOMY.

Why similar: Simulation 34.8%, Economy 23.1%, Management 20.7%, Realistic 10.7%, Open World 10.6%

Manage your own farm in the game Farm Manager 2018! To expand your farm business, produce cheap and sell your products in high prices. Control the process of land cultivation, employ the best staff, buy the most appropriate farm equipment, raise livestock and process the harvested crops.

Why similar: Economy 35.6%, Management 31.6%, Simulation 23.1%, Realistic 9.7%

Build your own digital retail empire and serve customers from around the globe! E-commerce Simulator 2025 offers you a comprehensive virtual trading experience where you can showcase and sell various products.

Why similar: Simulation 38.5%, Economy 25.3%, Realistic 14.4%, Management 12.4%, Open World 9.5%

Manage your very own logistics company, discover the complex world of cross-country haulage and keep the US economy up and running!

Why similar: Management 52.2%, Simulation 47.8%

Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.

Why similar: Economy 43%, Management 33.8%, Simulation 23.1%

In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!

Why similar: Economy 40%, Management 30.9%, Simulation 29.1%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 40.6%, Economy 33.1%, Simulation 26.3%

Welcome to Laptop Tycoon!Compete with the tech giants! You will have the opportunity to show your skills in business management. Start your own laptop company! Choose and hire the best people for your company, buy and upgrade your own office and start building your dream laptop.

Why similar: Simulation 31.7%, Management 23.2%, Realistic 22.8%, Economy 22.3%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Economy 37.8%, Management 28.1%, Simulation 27.4%, Realistic 6.7%

TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.

Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Economy 32.8%, Management 28.9%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Economy 55.4%, Management 44.6%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: Economy 37.8%, Simulation 32.8%, Management 23.8%, Open World 5.6%

Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Why similar: Management 41.6%, Economy 32.7%, Simulation 25.7%

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Why similar: Economy 32.1%, Management 25.8%, Simulation 19.8%, Open World 13.7%, Realistic 8.5%

Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!

Why similar: Economy 39.4%, Management 32.6%, Simulation 28%

Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.

Why similar: Economy 34.4%, Management 24.6%, Simulation 24.5%, Realistic 12.1%, Open World 4.3%

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: Economy 39.9%, Management 33.3%, Simulation 26.8%

🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!

Why similar: Economy 30.7%, Management 28.8%, Simulation 23.4%, Realistic 17.2%

It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.

Why similar: Simulation 54.8%, Economy 28.2%, Management 17.1%

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: Economy 31.5%, Simulation 21.8%, Management 21%, Realistic 15%, Open World 10.7%

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Why similar: Economy 37%, Management 32.8%, Simulation 30.2%

Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.

Why similar: Economy 35.2%, Management 27.8%, Simulation 24.5%, Realistic 12.5%

Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.

Why similar: Economy 35.7%, Simulation 32.7%, Management 31.5%

Train Station Simulator is a station builder and manager game. Create and maintain your dream station! Ride the rails and operate your ultimate grand central empire!

Why similar: Management 38.6%, Simulation 37.8%, Economy 16.4%, Realistic 7.2%

Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive product manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!

Why similar: Economy 33.8%, Simulation 27.7%, Management 26.8%, Realistic 11.7%

Build and manage your own tech store! Sell products like keyboards, mice, and gaming chairs. Hire employees, grow your shop, and make it the best place for gamers to shop. Can you become the top tech store?

Why similar: Economy 37.1%, Management 24.2%, Simulation 23.5%, Open World 8.1%, Realistic 7%

Build and manage your financial empire from a small bank to a global powerhouse. Approve loans, trade bonds, hire staff, and master the market in Bank Simulator a business management sim and banking tycoon where every economic decision impacts your bottom line

Why similar: Economy 33.9%, Management 24.5%, Simulation 23.9%, Realistic 17.6%

Open your own electronics store and grow it from a small shop into a modern technology hub. Manage deliveries, prices, and store equipment, take care of customers, expand the product range, and become a master in the world of electronics retail!

Why similar: Simulation 38.7%, Realistic 21.6%, Management 21.6%, Economy 13.4%, Open World 4.8%