Games Like Mad Valley

Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.

Why similar: Economy 23.1%, 1980s 20.5%, Life Sim 17.3%, Capitalism 12.7%, Time Management 9.8%

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 27.1%, Economy 23.2%, Life Sim 19.3%, Time Management 11.9%, Simulation 7.1%

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: Programming 26.8% ★, 1980s 17.3%, Economy 17.1%, Time Management 13.7%, Crafting 11.2%

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 28.1%, Capitalism 26.9%, Life Sim 20.7%, Time Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.9%

Step back to the era of dial-up and WinGoals SP. As a black-hat developer, manage the delicate balance of detection probability versus payout potential. Will you build a silent botnet for profit or a worm designed to destroy? Avoid the feds and conquer the web in this nostalgic management sim.

Why similar: Programming 29% ★, Capitalism 18.4%, Economy 16.4%, Time Management 11.8%, Crafting 10.1%

Juggle ridiculous office tasks, avoid sanity-sapping distractions, and beat the clock before corporate burnout takes hold. It’s you vs. the workday—and the copier is winning.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.4%, Economy 20%, Life Sim 16.9%, Time Management 15%, America 7.1% ★

"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.

Why similar: Programming 20% ★, Economy 17.5%, Life Sim 17.4%, Capitalism 13.2%, Time Management 12.6%

Start from scratch, learn the market, and build your fortune in this accessible stock market tycoon game. Buy, sell, and diversify your way to wealth!

Why similar: Life Sim 22.7%, America 22.2% ★, Capitalism 15.4%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 12.6%

Build your fake tech empire on lies, buzzwords, and vaporware! Scam investors, deceive customers, and become Silicon Valley’s most infamous fraudster. Forget real innovation HYPE is everything!

Why similar: Life Sim 27.5%, Economy 19.4%, Time Management 19%, Simulation 15.9%, Crafting 9.9%

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: Capitalism 30%, Life Sim 20.3%, Time Management 17.2%, Economy 16.5%, Strategy 7.9%

Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!

Why similar: Capitalism 30.7%, Economy 27.6%, 1980s 19.2%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.4%

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 24.4%, Economy 23.1%, Capitalism 19.3%, Simulation 9.8%, Time Management 9.5%

Play, learn, and experiment with programming in the Sprite32! 8-bit microcomputer sandbox. Use the high-level FREMScript programming language to write programs, create dynamic pixel art, and explore audio generation. Play tutorials and challenges to learn all the aspects of the system.

Why similar: Programming 54.9% ★, 1980s 26%, Simulation 10.8%, Retro 4.7%, 2D 1.9%

Choose the right products, make your own donuts, work as a cashier, hire cashiers, handle deliveries and make your small shop a big success by keeping your customers happy!

Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Capitalism 28.6%, Economy 24.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Indie 1.8%

Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. Get ready for a experience where you'll combine strategy, risk-taking, and decision-making to build your criminal empire.

Why similar: Economy 21.4%, Life Sim 20.5%, Capitalism 18.7%, 1980s 13.6%, Time Management 11.1%

Step into "Devices Company Tycoon Inc"! Lead your tech company to greatness by creating innovative devices like smartphones, laptops, and more. Customize every detail, hire top talent, and expand globally. Host product launches, study market trends, and outshine competitors. Enjoy the game!

Why similar: Programming 29.3% ★, Capitalism 17.2%, Economy 15.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 15.2%

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 24.1%, Capitalism 21.9%, Economy 21.7%, Time Management 9.7%, Simulation 8.2%

Rise from the streets to a financial empire in continuous real time ⏱️. A deep life and economic sim ticking second by second with zero idle shortcuts: work interactive shifts 💼, manage stores 🏢, secure mortgages 🏠, invest in gold & crypto 🥇, and trade options with real Greeks 📈.

Why similar: Life Sim 24%, Economy 22.3%, Capitalism 15.8%, Time Management 14%, Simulation 10.7%

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: Programming 21.2% ★, Economy 16.3%, Life Sim 15.5%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.4%

Build and manage your own TV station. License shows, create schedules, attract viewers, sell advertising, grow your audience, and compete for the top spot in the ratings in this broadcasting management tycoon.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.8%, Economy 22.9%, Time Management 19.9%, 1980s 11.4%, Strategy 8.6%

Manage your own hosting company! Set up your servers, upgrade your infrastructure, create hosting packages, and serve your customers. Play solo or with friends in co-op, and turn your company from a small business into a large data center.

Why similar: Programming 27.7% ★, Economy 24.8%, Capitalism 23.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Life Sim 10.4%

CryptoRIG is a semi-idle server management game focussed on cryptocurrency mining and trading.

Why similar: Programming 30.7% ★, Capitalism 21.6%, Economy 19%, Time Management 14.6%, Strategy 5%

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: Life Sim 23.2%, Capitalism 22.6%, Economy 18.7%, Time Management 10.3%, Simulation 9.8%

OIL TOWN is a rags-to-riches life-sim where you work to earn enough money to buy a special piece of land. By scooping and hauling oil, while discovering your hidden Witch Power.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.5%, Capitalism 19.1%, Economy 18.7%, Time Management 15.1%, Crafting 11.6%

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: Capitalism 24.6%, Economy 21.6%, Life Sim 19.4%, Time Management 14.3%, Simulation 7.8%

MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.7%, Economy 23.4%, 1980s 16.2%, Time Management 8.7%, Simulation 8%

Beat the Machine is a stock trading game, corporation simulator, and job/career simulator.

Why similar: Life Sim 25.3%, Capitalism 20.2%, Economy 17.3%, Time Management 16.3%, Simulation 14.3%

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: Programming 27% ★, Capitalism 17.2%, Economy 17.1%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 12.1%

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: Programming 31.5% ★, Capitalism 20.2%, Economy 19.4%, Life Sim 12.9%, Simulation 6.3%

Strip Club Simulator puts you in the owner's chair of the nightlife scene in this comprehensive business simulation. Starting with a small venue, you'll use smart decisions and strategies to transform your club into the city's most popular strip club.

Why similar: Capitalism 23.8%, Economy 23.6%, Time Management 20.6%, Life Sim 15.4%, Strategy 8.9%

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 36.1%, Economy 28.6%, Life Sim 22.2%, Strategy 9.8%, Choices Matter 3.1%

A shopkeeping game set in an Arabian Nights–inspired city. Sell goods, haggle with customers, unlock new districts, and climb your way to the rank of Royal Merchant.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.9%, Economy 23%, Time Management 20.1%, Life Sim 15.5%, Simulation 7.5%

Embark on a medieval odyssey in Barter & Blades! As a budding adventurer, trade goods, shape your reputation, and amass wealth. Engage in dynamic trading, epic quests, and unforeseen events. Are you ready to thrive in the realm?

Why similar: Capitalism 32%, Economy 27.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.7%

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 29.6%, Economy 25%, Life Sim 16.1%, Simulation 16%, Time Management 13%

Master the daily grind in Corner Cafe Capitalist, a business management simulator. Tweak your recipes, set prices, purchase supplies, and hire staff by night, then watch your strategy test the morning rush by day. Can you scale your humble corner cart into a thriving city-wide refreshment empire?

Why similar: Economy 34.8%, Capitalism 28.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%

Dead broke in a dump, heavy mob debts, and a sick mother in the hospital. Hustle your way out. Flip wholesale goods online, day-trade crypto, build mining rigs, or dive deep into the dark web. A first-person hustle simulator where every dollar is your ticket out—or your death sentence.

Why similar: Economy 29.7%, Capitalism 21.7%, Life Sim 21.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Time Management 9.4%

Manage chaos, people, and impossible expectations in a satirical corporate world. Turn stress into progress, survive absurd workflows, and keep your sanity intact. How much can you handle before everything falls apart?

Why similar: Capitalism 18.1%, Life Sim 17.6%, 1980s 16.8%, Economy 16.1%, Time Management 12%

Own it. Run it. Rule it. Build one quiet café into the biggest, brightest, loudest retro arcade empire in the city. Stock the cabinets, hire your crew, work the floor — and watch the cash roll in. Insert coin. Press Start. Be the legend!

Why similar: Life Sim 20.8%, 1980s 20.4%, Simulation 15.6%, Time Management 13%, Capitalism 12.9%

In MiniTransport, players need to think about how to use wiring to build a complete industrial chain to achieve the goal of producing the final product.

Why similar: Programming 37% ★, Economy 26.1%, Life Sim 18.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Indie 4.1%

Project Khatanga 1989 is a retro economic simulation game about buying, storing, tracking, and selling goods across volatile international markets. Manage limited storage, compare currencies, watch shifting prices, and decide when to hold or sell.

Why similar: Capitalism 37.6%, Economy 29.9%, Crafting 16.7%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 3%

Ad Agency Tycoon is an Advertising Agency simulator set in the 60's. Choose the perfect combination for your propagandas, develop your company and conquer the golden age of publicity! Your advertising will come to life and face the tough market and the most feared of all: the public.

Why similar: Economy 24%, Capitalism 23.6%, 1980s 20.2%, Time Management 18.5%, Simulation 8.5%

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: Programming 40.6% ★, Economy 20.2%, Time Management 13.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6.3%

Build your own TV network, license shows, schedule prime-time slots, hire writers, sign sponsors, and fight for ratings week by week.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.8%, Economy 24.6%, Time Management 19%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 9.6%

In Arcana Automata, you program drones using Python to harvest a mystical resource, unlock upgrades, and encounter German mythical creatures. Perfect for curious minds who love to learn through play.

Why similar: Programming 54.3% ★, Economy 20.6%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Indie 1.4%

Cinema Simulator 2025 is a simulation game where you will manage your own movie theater and test your strategy and management skills. Starting from a small movie theater, try to become a giant in the movie industry.

Why similar: Capitalism 23.5%, Economy 21.8%, Life Sim 18.8%, Time Management 15.3%, Crafting 8.2%

Storage Finder is a trade and strategy-focused simulation game where you try to make a profit by bargaining and selling items. We buy and sell items found in the city or retrieved from storage units won at auctions — with every deal, some of us make money, while some of us lose.

Why similar: Economy 33.6%, Life Sim 25.7%, Time Management 20.8%, Simulation 17.7%, Indie 2%

Run your own venture capital firm. Hunt deals, research founders, write the checks — then live with the results. Most bets fail. The one that doesn't pays for everything: a bigger fund, the corner office, a name every founder knows. Outrank the big firms, or take yours public.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.6%, Economy 21.9%, Simulation 16.6%, Strategy 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

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: Life Sim 24.6%, Time Management 21.9%, Capitalism 14.6%, Economy 12.2%, Strategy 12%

₩1,000,000 — about $700 — and no safety net. A real-time stock-trading sim where judgment is your only weapon: read the news, read the charts, time every trade. Climb from a windowless room to a private island, Bronze to Legend. Fall to the bottom, and the Hangang is waiting.

Why similar: Economy 27.9%, Capitalism 26.4%, Life Sim 16%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11%

Streaming Platform Manager is a tycoon game, where you can build your own streaming empire.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.8%, Life Sim 26.2%, Economy 19.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.4%

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: Economy 32.2%, Capitalism 28.4%, Life Sim 20.5%, Time Management 9.9%, Simulation 8.9%

Start with empty pockets and a pickpocket's nerve. Build a criminal empire one racket at a time in this atmospheric pixel-art idle game. Train your skills, run your crew, manage the heat - and when the law closes in, burn it all down and rise again, stronger.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.8%, Economy 24.4%, Life Sim 20.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.8%

Project: Centurion is a narrative-driven adventure puzzle game built around real-world Linux skills. Players must use actual Linux commands and systems knowledge to interact with the ship, parse logs, repair services, and uncover what happened to the crew—and whether escape is still possible.

Why similar: Programming 56.1% ★, 1980s 20.4%, Simulation 15.7%, Retro 5.8%, Indie 1.7%

Start in 1984 with a small game studio. Create hit games, build consoles, grow a business empire, acquire companies, invest in stocks, own football clubs and other ventures, then enter politics, fight elections, and lead a nation. One save. One journey from developer to mogul to Prime Minister.

Why similar: Capitalism 28.6%, Economy 24.7%, 1980s 20.6%, Time Management 14.3%, Simulation 8.9%

Manage your stocks, organize your resources, cook snacks and make friendships.

Why similar: Life Sim 29.5%, Capitalism 23.5%, Economy 18.6%, Simulation 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.9%

Step into your own machine shop. Operate manual mills and lathes, write CNC G-code, and turn raw stock into finished parts with real-time material removal. Experiment in Free Play or put your machining skills to work in Career mode.

Why similar: Programming 51.3% ★, Life Sim 13%, Simulation 11.1%, Crafting 9.3%, Economy 7.4%

Live a second life in a cozy pixel town. Work shifts, cook at home, ride your bike, run your own gaming café — set prices, hire staff, win tournaments. Meet friends online, chat and emote. A tiny life sim with a big heart, built on a custom engine.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.7%, Economy 23.1%, Time Management 19.4%, Life Sim 16.8%, Simulation 5.3%

Step into the bustling world of Middle Eastern bazaars as a chai vendor in this fast-paced, cozy time management game. Serve tea, master recipes, upgrade your stall, and keep customers happy in a charming cultural experience.

Why similar: Economy 24.6%, Life Sim 19.8%, Time Management 17.7%, Crafting 15.2%, Strategy 6.8%

Inspired by the economy simulation games oft the mid 90s, Undertaker's let's you manage your very own funeral home.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.7%, Economy 22.5%, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 19.7%, Indie 7.3%