Games Like No Umbrellas Allowed

Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game!

Why similar: Trading 17.6%, Management 15.2%, Shop Keeper 14.1% ★, Job Simulator 12.9% ★, Choices Matter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to Dealer's Life 2, offering the same addictive second-hand trading, negotiation, and store management gameplay.

Your favorite pawn shop experience is finally getting a sequel! Haggle like your life depends on it in this funny tycoon game. You never know WHAT is gonna stumble through that door!

Why similar: Trading 21%, Management 17%, Shop Keeper 14.5% ★, Job Simulator 14.1% ★, Capitalism 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core mechanic of running a pawn shop, appraising items with hidden histories, and engaging in intense haggling with eccentric customers.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Dystopian 27.6%, Simulation 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.9%, Indie 9.8%, Multiple Endings 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same dystopian bureaucratic tension, moral decision-making, and close inspection of documents and items under pressure.

Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.

Why similar: Management 26.5%, Simulation 23.8%, Trading 11.9%, Economy 11.8%, Shop Keeper 10.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: Provides a cozy yet engaging retail management loop centered around organizing stock, pricing items, and serving patrons.

FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 15.7% ★, Choices Matter 13.4%, Management 12.8%, Job Simulator 10.7% ★, Capitalism 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines shop management with a compelling narrative, capitalist themes, and impactful choices that shape the world around you.

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Management 28.6%, Simulation 28.5%, Trading 17.5%, Economy 14.1%, Capitalism 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the day-to-day operations of running a retail storefront, managing inventory, and dealing with customers.

A simulation game where we run a pawn shop. Take the first steps to open a thrift shop in Detroit and discover the experience of running a real thrift shop. Find, restore, and sell amazing items and build your own shop kingdom!

Why similar: Simulation 36.4%, Management 15.8%, Trading 15.4%, Capitalism 11.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you directly behind the counter of a pawn shop to evaluate goods, bargain with clients, and grow your business.

Found a company, spread fake news, start riots and become immortal. In this cyberpunk management sim, wealth is power and corporations are king. Can you monopolize the globe and build a corporate empire that will stand forever?

Why similar: Management 20.2%, Dystopian 18.3%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Cyberpunk 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends dystopian cyberpunk themes with deep strategic management and morally complex business decisions.

Do you know how to profit from trading cars while maintaining a good reputation? Car Trader Simulator lets you play the role of an American car dealer. Your goal is to get rich. How you do it depends entirely on you.

Why similar: Trading 23.2%, Management 19.2%, Simulation 16.2%, Economy 9.4%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the appraisal and resale loop of buying used goods, negotiating prices, and flipping them for a profit.

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: Management 24%, Simulation 20.1%, Economy 17%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Choices Matter 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a retro aesthetic and a focus on ruthless capitalism, trading, and financial strategy in a stylized urban setting.

The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!

Why similar: Trading 18.7%, Management 17.7%, Shop Keeper 16% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Economy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a detailed retail simulation experience where you design, stock, and manage your own store from the ground up.

Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!

Why similar: Management 26.3%, Simulation 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Capitalism 10.3%, Economy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Uses pixel-art graphics and shop management mechanics to create an engaging loop of acquiring and selling items.

Build an Empire from Pallet Returns! Buy mystery pallets of customer returns, uncover hidden treasures, and fix broken electronics! Manage your own outlet store and take risks to turn someone else's returns into your pure profit!

Why similar: Trading 22.3%, Shop Keeper 21.1% ★, Management 19.9%, Job Simulator 12.5% ★, Economy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Involves opening mystery packages and returned goods, appraising their worth, and selling them to customers in your own shop.

Run your own toy store! Arrange shelves, set prices, process payments, and manage staff. Expand and design your shop, handle online orders, deliver with a scooter, trade rare toys, and ensure security. Create a magical shopping experience in Toy Shop Simulator!

Why similar: Trading 24.2%, Management 23.8%, Simulation 18.6%, Economy 13.6%, Capitalism 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on running a specialized retail store, managing inventory, and keeping customers happy with the right stock.

CoffeeBiz tycoon is a mix of entrepreneurship fun and complicated business simulation. Start your first coffee kiosk, brew, expand, hire, deal with competitors, build a well-known brand, risk, and do everything else needed to build prosperous and profitable business.

Why similar: Management 27.1%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 15.7%, Economy 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to manage a business empire while keeping a close eye on finances, upgrades, and customer trends.

Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.

Why similar: Management 27.7%, Simulation 21%, Trading 20.3%, Capitalism 15.9%, Economy 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build and manage a tech-focused retail store with a strong emphasis on economics and store expansion.

In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.

Why similar: Trading 17.5%, Shop Keeper 16.4% ★, Management 16.4%, Job Simulator 12.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 10%

Why You'll Like It: Combines atmospheric storytelling with the quiet, methodical management of a roadside establishment.

Enter the exciting world of Arcade ownership! Play through the 1980's arcade revolution by buying arcade machines for your customers to play! Customize your arcade to increase its popularity! Manage your finances, capitalize on newly released games, but beware the pitfalls that could bankrupt you!

Why similar: Simulation 35.6%, Strategy 25.7%, Management 25.5%, Indie 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing a specific type of business with retro charm, balancing customer satisfaction with financial survival.

Buy and sell art, manage employees, and grow your shop in this immersive simulator set in Europe. Curate a unique collection, attract customers, and become the premier art dealer. Transform your humble gallery into a thriving art empire!

Why similar: Management 33.9%, Simulation 23.5%, Economy 18.7%, Capitalism 16.2%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a relaxing art gallery management loop with the appraising and selling of unique creative works.

You inherited a taxi dispatch business but it came with debt attached. Hire drivers, dispatch fares, navigate Istanbul’s chaos, deal with bad customers and worse luck. You have 15 days to pay it off or lose everything. The meter is running.

Why similar: Management 22.1%, Shop Keeper 18.2% ★, Simulation 11.9%, Capitalism 9.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a grounded, story-infused narrative job experience where you interact with various quirky characters.

Dive into the daily work of a cozy workshop in a big city, accompanied by relaxing atmospheric music. Manage client data, balance energy and stress, and make choices that shape the story and its outcome.

Why similar: Management 18.5%, Job Simulator 16.8% ★, Shop Keeper 15% ★, Choices Matter 12.6%, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Puts you in the shoes of a service worker managing transactions and interacting with a narrative-driven customer base.

A business simulation has never felt this epic. Trade stocks, build companies, take them public, unleash financial tidal waves, sit at the table of a high-stakes gambler’s night, and climb the Rich List. Then you realize: the other side of the board is called The Order.

Why similar: Trading 21.5%, Shop Keeper 16.3% ★, Capitalism 13.1%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Explores themes of capitalism and high-stakes economic strategy within a gritty, story-adjacent environment.

You're a Nicotine Merchant. Start your production using improvised materials and grow it into a large enterprise. But be careful, just a few wrong moves and everything could fall apart!

Why similar: Simulation 21.9%, Management 20.2%, Shop Keeper 17.2% ★, Trading 16.9%, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the shady side of retail management, dealing with illicit or restricted goods in a simulation environment.

Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.

Why similar: Job Simulator 21.3% ★, Management 19.9%, Shop Keeper 14.8% ★, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Involves inspecting, repairing, and dealing with second-hand electronic items brought in by everyday people.

Run your own medieval store! Stock shelves with groceries and legendary loot, set prices, serve customers, and expand your shop. Fund adventurers to explore dangerous lands and return with valuable chests full of swords, shields, and rare items and all without leaving the counter.

Why similar: Management 22.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Shop Keeper 15.2% ★, Job Simulator 13.1% ★, Trading 12%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the financial and managerial aspects of running a business, balancing ledgers and maximizing profits.

Run your own Shooting Range. Manage your supplies, rent guns, and sell ammo packs. Expand and upgrade your shop; level up your popularity to get even better equipment. Open various cases and sell the skins you got from them. Join shooting tournaments and much more!

Why similar: Trading 17.7%, Management 17.3%, Job Simulator 15.6% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Economy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a specialized business management simulation focusing on a unique storefront and customer service.

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Dystopian 22.8%, Choices Matter 17%, Simulation 12.6%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Multiple Endings 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features pixel-art visuals and a heavy emphasis on choices-matter narrative design and inventory management.

Build and manage your own goblin shop. Craft unique weapons with minigames and negotiate their price! Hire workers to help you run the business! Become the richest merchant in the kingdom!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 16.2% ★, Trading 15%, Management 14.9%, Job Simulator 11.8% ★, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the crafting and retail cycle of producing goods and selling them directly to demanding customers.

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 29.4%, Simulation 16.3%, Choices Matter 12.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Economy 10%

Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?

Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.8% ★, Management 19.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.2%, Capitalism 6.5%

Enter Pawnbroker Simulator, where every deal, appraisal, and choice forges your path to pawn shop greatness. Sharpen your instincts, unlock new talents, craft a storefront that turns heads, offer high-stakes loans, and stay one step ahead of cunning thieves.

Why similar: Simulation 29.7%, Management 29.7%, Economy 17.7%, Choices Matter 17%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Revolves around the core loop of evaluating second-hand items, lending money, and haggling with desperate sellers.

Build and manage your ultimate retro arcade! Buy classic Arcade Machines, Galaxy Pinball, and Gift Claw games, or invest in Cinema 8D, Go-Karts, and Racing Simulators. Manage the economy, hire staff, and repair your machines to keep the tokens rolling in!

Why similar: Simulation 51.3%, Management 24.3%, Economy 16.2%, Indie 4.6%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Megastore Simulator is a first-person management & tycoon game. Start small and grow into a massive two-floor megastore with forklifts, pallet jacks, and staff. Unlock and manage departments like Bakery, Clothing, Electronics, Sports, Music, Toys, Grocery, Seafood, and Vending Machines

Why similar: Management 22.7%, Simulation 16.8%, Trading 16.8%, Shop Keeper 11.6% ★, Economy 10.8%

Run a General Store in the Wild West. Customize and expand your shop. Make sure that your customers’ constantly changing needs are satisfied. Work every job yourself or let your employees stack the shelves and work the till. Find out what it feels like to own a Wild West Supermarket.

Why similar: Management 24.3%, Trading 22%, Simulation 17.3%, Economy 13.1%, Capitalism 12.1%

Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.2% ★, Management 23.4%, Simulation 18.6%, Trading 15.6%, Economy 10.5%

In Laundry Store Simulator, you'll start small and work your way up, upgrading your equipment, designing a stylish store, and expanding your services! Are you ready to own the best Laundry Store in the world?

Why similar: Management 37.8%, Simulation 27.4%, Economy 19.2%, Job Simulator 7.1% ★, Indie 5.6%

Open your own Card shop by the seaside! Buy, trade and sell Cards, OR keep them for your own collection! Earn reputation with customers, beat your shop goals, unlock new decorations, and host exciting events to bring everyone to the best Card shop in town!

Why similar: Trading 22.3%, Management 19.2%, Capitalism 12.4%, Simulation 12%, Economy 10.7%

Take full control as you turn a quiet, empty shopping center into a thriving hub of life and profit. Stock shelves, set your own prices, handle payments, hire and train staff, and manage everything down to the finest detail. Every decision counts — and every success is truly yours.

Why similar: Trading 24%, Management 23.4%, Simulation 17.3%, Capitalism 13.7%, Economy 13.4%

Keep your stores afloat against unique threats like royal laws, wars and crazy fantasy events. Discover new items, craft, sell them, and create your Merchant Empire in the kingdom! - All in a hybrid 2D-3D style.

Why similar: Trading 27.6%, Management 25.2%, Simulation 21.9%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Indie 5.2%

Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon...

Why similar: Dystopian 20%, Management 15.9%, Choices Matter 12.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%

Manage and grow your mini market in the metro station in Metro Mini Market Simulator! Expand your product variety and multiply your revenues with strategic decisions. Become a successful entrepreneur in this fun simulation world!

Why similar: Trading 22.1%, Management 20.4%, Job Simulator 16.4% ★, Simulation 15.4%, Economy 11.2%

Take control of a gun store in Gun Store Simulator and manage every aspect of the arms trading business. Buy licenses, select products, hire staff, and ensure safety to grow your store and build a successful chain. Can you dominate the market?

Why similar: Management 23.2%, Simulation 21.9%, Trading 20.9%, Choices Matter 15.8%, Economy 12.2%

Run your own tabletop game shop! Stock shelves, glue & paint minis, battle customers on game night, and grow your store into the ultimate nerd paradise.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.2% ★, Management 23.5%, Simulation 19.3%, Job Simulator 17.9% ★, Capitalism 11.9%

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: Simulation 43.2%, Economy 20.8%, Capitalism 18.6%, Management 16.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%

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: Simulation 16.3%, Trading 15.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 11.5%, Capitalism 9.3%

Run your own Pharmacy! Sell medicines, advise customers, validate prescriptions, and fulfill them. Start small and expand your business - make it big in the medicine world!

Why similar: Simulation 23.2%, Management 22.8%, Trading 21.2%, Economy 12%, Shop Keeper 8.4% ★

What's it like to open a shop in Akihabara? Sourcing, displaying, hiring(Staff & Robots), setting your own prices. From a little shop to a legendary otaku shop filled with rare figures. Conquer Akihabara with your gacha business skills. (and sometimes physical means too)!

Why similar: Management 29.1%, Simulation 23.6%, Economy 15.9%, Capitalism 14.4%, Shop Keeper 11.1% ★

Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.

Why similar: Management 35.2%, Simulation 33.5%, Indie 9.4%, Economy 8.3%, Trading 4.5%

Tech Store Simulator is a game in which you have to build your own tech store. Buy goods, put them on the shelves, sell them at an inflated price and beat the thieves!Also in the game there is a huge number of opportunities to customize the store and make it the way you would like it in life

Why similar: Management 23.7%, Simulation 22.3%, Shop Keeper 21% ★, Strategy 17%, Economy 13.6%

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Management 21.9%, Shop Keeper 16.9% ★, Simulation 13.4%, Trading 10.2%, Economy 9.1%

I'm Tom and I just got a job as a bartender. Now I have to wipe down the same sticky counters where I used to leave my own marks. In this dive, even the rats look like they're hungover. Alright, the boozers won't pour their own drinks - time to get back to work.

Why similar: Simulation 20.7%, Dystopian 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Trading 9.2%

Your turn to manipulate the market! A financial market simulator where you can choose your own path. Manipulate news, events, and financial engineering to make billions. Or play honestly, growing companies the legal way.

Why similar: Simulation 30.8%, Strategy 21%, Trading 13.9%, Capitalism 9.3%, Economy 9.2%

Inspect and process parcels and packages in this parcel inspection simulator! Receive and sort deliveries, examine labels for mistakes, and automate to maximise warehouse efficiency. Upgrade and expand your warehouse to build your parcel empire!

Why similar: Management 32.6%, Simulation 31.1%, Economy 15.7%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Puzzle 6.6%

In Shop manager: video game tycoon your uncle entrusts you his video game shop. Your goal is to make it profitable so that one day you can inherit your business.

Why similar: Simulation 31.7%, Management 31.6%, Strategy 24.9%, Indie 11.7%

Thank You for Your Application is a story-driven interview simulation game. After 15 rounds of interviews, you are reassigned as a junior interviewer, tasked with screening candidates’ resumes according to company requirements and issuing the appropriate thank letters.

Why similar: Dystopian 28.6%, Choices Matter 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Capitalism 11.1%, Multiple Endings 8.9%

Greetings, valued employee. You have been tasked with sorting the Ringo CorpoNation's genetic samples. With the credits that you earn, you can shop, game and pay your bills on time. Rogue workers may try to entice you into betraying your beloved employer, but we know you'll give 110%.

Why similar: Dystopian 21.9%, Management 15.8%, Job Simulator 14.6% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.6%

Step into the critical role of a baggage security operative in Airport X-Ray Simulator. As part of the backbone of airport security, you are the last line of defense against prohibited or illegal items making their way onto an aircraft or into the airport.

Why similar: Management 44.5%, Simulation 31.6%, Strategy 16.5%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Atmospheric 2.9%

your pawnshop will usher in guests with different needs every day, bargain with them, let the income soar! With the expansion of pawnshops, activities such as sending shop assistants and responding to emergencies are also essential. you seem ordinary transaction may cause the butterfly effect.

Why similar: Simulation 26.3%, Economy 22.3%, Capitalism 22.1%, Cyberpunk 20.2%, 2D 9.2%

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

Why similar: Management 22.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Strategy 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Capitalism 14.4%

Storage Hustle is a Simulation RPG where you go into storage auctions to buy different mysterious storages. Discover and sell many items, join Yard Sales and haggle your way for profit!

Why similar: Trading 31.7%, Management 20.2%, Simulation 17.1%, Economy 15.8%, Capitalism 12.5%