60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Management, Economy, Singleplayer.
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
Star of Games
Ever dreamed of creating a genre-defining masterpiece? Star of Games is a next-gen simulation management game centered on game dev. You'll act as an aspiring developer, starting from a humble garage startup and embarking on a glorious journey—from recreating classics to forging your own legends.
One More Release: Indie Studio Tycoon
Build your dream indie game studio from a tiny office into an industry legend. Hire developers, create games, research engines, survive reviews, fight bugs, decorate your office, and make one more release.
Ever dreamed of creating a genre-defining masterpiece? Star of Games is a next-gen simulation management game centered on game dev. You'll act as an aspiring developer, starting from a humble garage startup and embarking on a glorious journey—from recreating classics to forging your own legends.
Why similar: Game Development 34.7% ★, Life Sim 9.9%, Management 9.4%, Economy 8.8%, Programming 8.2% ★
Build your dream indie game studio from a tiny office into an industry legend. Hire developers, create games, research engines, survive reviews, fight bugs, decorate your office, and make one more release.
Why similar: Game Development 42.1% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Economy 9.3%, Management 9.1%, Sandbox 6.6%
Create the game of your dreams in this studio management tycoon. Design game covers, lead your team and compete in a living market. Outsell rivals, win Game of the Year, and build the most prestigious game studio in the world.
Why similar: Game Development 37.1% ★, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.7%, Life Sim 8.3%, Time Management 6.9%
Start a game studio in 1980 and turn it into an industry empire. Build teams, create hits, follow a changing market with competitors, and expand into engines, publishing, hardware, digital stores, and acquisitions.
Why similar: Game Development 40.8% ★, Capitalism 12.1%, Economy 11.2%, Management 11.2%, Time Management 6.3%
In this game, you can actually make real games.. literally! As the sole Game Designer you are the last hope for a failing company. Your mission: develop the ultimate game titles by stitching together absurd genres under your boss’s crazy demands. Get your game onto STIM before your Sanity hits zero!
Why similar: Game Development 38.1% ★, Economy 11.2%, Life Sim 9.8%, Management 9.4%, Dark Humor 9.2%
Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue is a free simulation game in which you begin your journey as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing and research stuff. Create best game on the planet!
Why similar: Game Development 36% ★, Economy 13.1%, Management 11.4%, Programming 11.3% ★, Capitalism 9.6%
A weary ex‑developer, tired of pay‑to‑win and toxic workplaces, creates a simulation where you play as a game company boss. Recruit staff, push their potential, battle rivals, and aim to dominate the market with blockbuster hits to reach the pinnacle of success.
Why similar: Game Development 39.6% ★, Capitalism 10.3%, Dark Humor 9.4%, Management 8.1%, Economy 7.1%
Forge Your Dream Games, Build a Legendary Studio! Unearth and cultivate talented employees, leading your team through countless critical decisions as you rise from obscurity to claim the coveted Game of the Year award. This is your path to becoming a legend. Are you ready to write your own chapter?
Why similar: Game Development 38.1% ★, Programming 11.8% ★, Management 10.8%, Economy 10.4%, Capitalism 9.1%
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: Game Development 30.4% ★, Programming 13.8% ★, Economy 11.8%, Capitalism 10.7%, Management 10.3%
Build a life across generations in a life and economy simulator. Study, pursue a career, manage money, buy property, build businesses and navigate family choices—then choose an heir and pass on the wealth, traits and consequences of the life you created. This is your story.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.9%, Economy 15.1%, Management 13%, Capitalism 10.9%, Time Management 10.7%
You are an aspiring game developer in 2000. Hire personal, expand offices, design the games of your dreams and try to make money from them. Reach as high as you can. From a small company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Game Development 46.5% ★, Economy 10.3%, Time Management 9.2%, Capitalism 7.3%, Management 6.5%
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: Game Development 35.7% ★, Economy 13.9%, Time Management 11.9%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 9.4%
Build your own TV network, license shows, schedule prime-time slots, hire writers, sign sponsors, and fight for ratings week by week.
Why similar: Time Management 20.2%, Management 15.9%, Economy 15.3%, Capitalism 13.9%, Resource Management 11.7%
Play as an aspiring software developer in a world dominated by soul-sucking corporations. Will you achieve your goals and build a career in the software industry, or will burnout crush you first?
Why similar: Time Management 18.2%, Life Sim 17.8%, Programming 12.7% ★, Dark Humor 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
Build your own game development studio from scratch, create and release games, unlock new tools and platforms, and grow from solo dev to successful company in this lighthearted game dev tycoon sim.
Why similar: Game Development 45.9% ★, Economy 19.9%, Life Sim 16.4%, Management 13.2%, Simulation 2.3%
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: Game Development 33.2% ★, Programming 16.6% ★, Time Management 15%, Life Sim 12.6%, Management 9.8%
Start with one tiny office and a big idea, and grow it into a global computer company. Design your own CPUs, GPUs and laptops, launch your own OS, and outsmart your rivals. A laid-back tycoon that's easy to get into and hard to put down — made by one indie dev.
Why similar: Game Development 29.2% ★, Time Management 17.3%, Economy 15.6%, Capitalism 11.8%, Management 9.9%
Server Owner Tycoon has you step into the shoes of a game server owner to build your own online empire. Manage your staff members, catch the latest trends, keep users satisfied, research new features, and administer your server. Do you have what it takes to become the best server owner?
Why similar: Game Development 29.8% ★, Life Sim 11.9%, Economy 11.8%, Capitalism 10.8%, Management 9.2%
A career-sim roguelite about surviving the software industry. Take the job, inherit someone else's legacy monolith, ship commits, fix the bugs you planted, then outrun the tech debt that compounds while you sleep. Rent's due, burnout's real, and your bank balance and your nerves are both stats.
Why similar: Game Development 35% ★, Programming 18.7% ★, Time Management 17.2%, Life Sim 13.7%, Choices Matter 5.3%
Manage the most unpredictable resource - people - in this WASD tycoon! Plan projects, hire a dream team, assign tasks to specialists, and monitor the budget while upgrading your office. Balance between team burnout, complex contracts, and the wrath of upper management.
Why similar: Economy 18%, Time Management 17.7%, Management 17.3%, Capitalism 16.1%, Resource Management 13.1%
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: Game Development 39.6% ★, Economy 14.4%, Capitalism 12.4%, Management 11.4%, Resource Management 6.4%
A single betrayal shattered your father’s business empire, leaving behind five public companies. Years later, you return from the bottom of the market, building capital through long-term investment. Your ultimate goal is simple: buy out and take full control of all five companies.
Why similar: Capitalism 17.4%, Economy 17.2%, Life Sim 17%, Time Management 15.1%, Management 12.4%
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: Game Development 29.1% ★, Economy 12.7%, Programming 12.2% ★, Capitalism 11.7%, Management 11.2%
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 20.9%, Economy 20.1%, Capitalism 15.4%, Life Sim 15.2%, Time Management 10.6%
Quit your job. Build apps from your bedroom. Beat the rivals, dodge the review board, and claw your way from instant-noodle indie to Silicon Valley mogul — one turn, one app, one questionable name at a time.
Why similar: Time Management 23.9%, Life Sim 18.6%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Capitalism 8%, Economy 7.8%
Start with $2,000 and one lifetime. Get rich, go broke, build businesses, buy property, raise a family and leave the consequences to your children. When you die, your heir takes over. Build a dynasty that lasts for generations, or ruin one spectacularly.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.7%, Economy 15%, Capitalism 13.1%, Management 13%, Time Management 11.5%
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: Game Development 35.8% ★, Economy 15.1%, Management 14.5%, Programming 12.1% ★, Capitalism 9.2%
Start in 1980 in your garage and build your software empire. Unlock languages from BASIC to Python, develop projects, hire programmers and upgrade your office. Survive deadlines, bugs and demanding clients in this tycoon simulation.
Why similar: Game Development 28% ★, Time Management 17.8%, Programming 14.5% ★, Economy 13%, Management 10.9%
Real Estate Investor is a deep, turn-based economic simulation focused on realistic property investing. Hunt for bargains, haggle over the price, and turn run-down flats into a thriving portfolio. Sign the deed, collect the rent, quit the rat race and become a property millionaire.
Why similar: Economy 21.3%, Life Sim 18.6%, Capitalism 17.6%, Time Management 13.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
Devices Tycoon is a unique business simulator that will make you feel like the owner of a company that creates your own devices! In the game you can create your own smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, headphones, operating systems and even your own processors!
Why similar: Game Development 25% ★, Time Management 14.1%, Life Sim 13.7%, Capitalism 13.3%, Management 8%
Running a game studio Forming a team, resolving conflicts, allowing the team to unleash its maximum strength Exploring the market, creating games with higher ratings Unlocking technologies such as information, modularization, AI, collaboration, etc., to enable the studio to grow and expand
Why similar: Game Development 48.5% ★, Economy 14.7%, Time Management 11.5%, Capitalism 10%, Simulation 6.2%
Manage chocolate and cookie kiosks. Restock shelves, handle queues, complete tasks, upgrade your storage, and research new flavors. Fulfill B2B orders — or take the risk of illegal trade and lose everything.
Why similar: Time Management 21.3%, Life Sim 21.3%, Capitalism 12.2%, Dark Humor 11.3%, Sandbox 10.4%
Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!
Why similar: Game Development 43.1% ★, Management 14.4%, Resource Management 10.8%, Economy 8.1%, Choices Matter 6.3%
《我16岁辍学做游戏！》是一款双结局的游戏开发模拟游戏。讲述一位16岁学生在辍学游戏开发和正常上学导致的不同结局。 制作目的是为了给对独立游戏行业一无所知的人指引一条正确的道路。
Why similar: Game Development 42.5% ★, Life Sim 16.3%, Time Management 11.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.1%
In Game Tycoon 2 you find yourself in the middle of the big players. Get into the act and experience the fascination of the game development. Reach your goal and become the Game Tycoon!
Why similar: Game Development 39.4% ★, Time Management 13.9%, Life Sim 13.1%, Management 12.5%, Economy 11.5%
In the context of the first Internet wave sweeping the world, can the player play the role of an entrepreneur who has failed many times but never gives up, and become the world's number one Internet company in this great era?
Why similar: Time Management 21.6%, Capitalism 19.1%, Life Sim 17.6%, Economy 12.1%, Resource Management 12%
Law Firm Simulator is a business management sandbox where you build and run your own legal empire. Hire lawyers, take on clients, manage complex cases, expand your offices, and grow a small practice into the city’s most prestigious law firm.
Why similar: Capitalism 17.4%, Management 17.3%, Economy 17%, Time Management 15.1%, Life Sim 12.9%
In Media AGENCY Simulator, build and manage your own media agency! Assign tasks, verify news, and publish content. Grow your followers, expand your team, conquer social media, and climb to the top of the media world by developing your strategy!
Why similar: Economy 15.9%, Capitalism 14.7%, Life Sim 13.3%, Management 13.2%, Time Management 11.9%
Build your own videogame-studio from the early days of videogaming to the future of the industry. Develop the games of your dreams, take care of your employees and mange your business.
Why similar: Game Development 44.1% ★, Economy 17.4%, Programming 16.5% ★, Management 13%, Strategy 3.9%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Game Development 32.5% ★, Management 27.5%, Economy 21.5%, Simulation 7.2%, Sandbox 4.1%
Run your own internet café! Manage, upgrade, and customise every detail to create the ultimate hangout in this immersive first-person simulation.
Why similar: Life Sim 19.4%, Time Management 18.7%, Capitalism 11.8%, Economy 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
A co-op startup management sim where you make hard decisions, argue over priorities, manage chaos, and deal with deadlines, burnout, investors, and constant pressure. Failure is expected — and every disaster is wrapped in satire and dark humor.
Why similar: Game Development 28.6% ★, Time Management 13.3%, Life Sim 12.5%, Dark Humor 10.6%, Capitalism 10.4%
Build your financial empire in Trading Simulator by strategically investing in businesses, navigating a dynamic market, and using realistic trading mechanics. Are you ready to turn your financial dreams into reality?
Why similar: Capitalism 21.7%, Economy 19.9%, Life Sim 18.3%, Management 15%, Resource Management 11%
Build your own software empire from scratch. Manage projects, recruit staff, design components, and grow from a garage startup to a tech giant. Create SaaS platforms, sell software, or fulfill contracts. Balance quality, deadlines, and innovation in this relaxing yet deep business simulation game.
Why similar: Economy 19.2%, Management 16.6%, Game Development 13.6% ★, Programming 9.4% ★, Sandbox 8.9%
Join us in celebrating twenty five years of GameMaker with GameMaker 25th Anniversary! A fun look at the process behind creating the world's greatest 2D Game Engine! Manage your development house, keep your employees happy, and squash bugs as they come up!
Why similar: Game Development 47% ★, Time Management 15.7%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 5.2%, Strategy 4.8%
A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.
Why similar: Time Management 17.6%, Life Sim 16.5%, Economy 15.5%, Capitalism 15.3%, Management 9.7%
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 19.3%, Time Management 15.4%, Economy 14.5%, Capitalism 12.4%, Resource Management 10.6%
Laundry Simulator is a chill, ASMR laundry cleaning, and shop management game. Open your own Laundromat, and deal with dirty clothes and customers. Clean and manage your shop, upgrade your equipment, unlock new skills and hire workers. Your laundry empire awaits!
Why similar: Economy 17.5%, Life Sim 14.9%, Time Management 14.7%, Management 14.5%, Capitalism 13.5%
Three jobs. One life. Zero savings. A satirical British life sim, spiritual successor to Jones in the Fast Lane. Move your marble token around a city of 16 buildings. Take jobs, study, eat, save, and dodge the weekly Algorithm. See how far you can climb!
Why similar: Time Management 21.8%, Life Sim 21.6%, Economy 17.6%, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 9.3%
Start with a single website and build a sprawling online empire. Grow traffic, manage clients, expand your team, and survive fifteen years of internet evolution in a life sim and business management RPG where every decision can lead to fortune or failure.
Why similar: Economy 16.6%, Time Management 16%, Management 14.4%, Life Sim 14%, Capitalism 11.2%
A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich
Why similar: Time Management 20.6%, Life Sim 20%, Economy 16.5%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 8.7%
Build and manage your dream game studio! Create hit games, develop custom hardware, generate posters for each title, manage your team’s needs, decide on company policies, follow market trends, decorate your studio and see it in first-person! Your legacy starts now — GameOn!
Why similar: Game Development 50.5% ★, Management 16.4%, Life Sim 14.3%, Simulation 6.6%, Capitalism 6.5%
Become a bestselling author in Writer Tycoon! Write books, grow your fanbase, and dominate the publishing industry. Track sales, manage multiple books at once, and adapt to trends. Will you create literary masterpieces or chase quick cash? Become a bestselling author and leave your mark!
Why similar: Time Management 17.3%, Life Sim 13%, Economy 12.8%, Management 12.4%, Capitalism 12.3%
An in depth game development simulation game
Why similar: Game Development 43.6% ★, Time Management 15.6%, Economy 12.9%, Resource Management 7.3%, Management 6.9%
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: Game Development 25.1% ★, Time Management 16.8%, Life Sim 15.7%, Management 11.6%, Economy 8.8%
"Enflasyon uçuyor, müşteriler isyanda ve dükkân yanıyor! Sıradan bir market yönetimi değil; ekonomik kriz ve toplumsal kaosun ortasında hayatta kalma mücadelesi. Rafları doldur, 150 farklı absürt krizi yönet, fiyatlarla oyna ve batmamak için her yolu dene!"
Why similar: Time Management 18%, Economy 16.8%, Dark Humor 14.5%, Capitalism 14.2%, Management 11%
A lighthearted resource-management game of running an indie game studio! Play as a first-time indie game producer, making critical decisions for your team's future while balancing quality against viral appeal. Will you become a laughingstock among players, or a shining star in the industry?
Why similar: Game Development 40.3% ★, Time Management 19.3%, Resource Management 11.2%, Dark Humor 11%, Management 5.5%
Manage a junkyard and turn scrap into wealth! Buy cars, dismantle them, sell the parts, and build your scrap empire.
Why similar: Life Sim 18.9%, Time Management 17.4%, Economy 17.1%, Management 15.2%, Resource Management 10%
Set up your own office. Expand your office as you wish. Transform from a small office to a large company.Don't forget to make your employees happy too.
Why similar: Game Development 44.1% ★, Economy 17.4%, Management 15.1%, Life Sim 11.8%, Simulation 4.6%
