Games Like Painters Guild

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 40.4%, Simulation 18.2%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 8.7%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Painters Guild, this game focuses on managing a creative studio and hiring staff to produce high-quality products in a competitive industry.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 19.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Economy 14.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Building 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim features a similar isometric perspective and focuses on the intricate production processes of a small, specialized workshop.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: Building 17.6%, Sandbox 16.7%, Management 16.3%, Economy 14.6%, Simulation 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the goal of curating and managing artistic displays while balancing the logistical needs of a public-facing institution.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Capitalism 16.8%, Management 15.1%, Economy 13.7%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the academy-management structure of the seed game, requiring you to hire staff and build facilities to educate students.

Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.

Why similar: Crafting 20.3%, Management 16.4%, Historical 15.5%, Capitalism 13.7%, Sandbox 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the artistic, experimental nature of creation while requiring you to manage a shop and interact with customers.

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 20.7%, Economy 15%, Capitalism 14.2%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep management simulation that tasks you with building a business empire from the ground up, similar to the guild expansion in Painters Guild.

A unique artist sim game with realistic paint mixing, physics and numerous painting tools. Upgrade and customize your studio, complete tasks, sell and expose art, buy instruments and get famous!

Why similar: Sandbox 28.2%, Management 26.5%, Simulation 11.9%, Cute 11.8%, Colorful 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This title leans heavily into the actual act of painting, offering a sandbox experience for those who love the artistic theme of the seed game.

Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!

Why similar: Management 15.8%, Capitalism 15.6%, Economy 13.2%, Time Management 11.8%, Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a cozy, medieval-themed management experience where building layout and staff efficiency are key to success.

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Management 17.3%, Economy 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 12.2%, Crafting 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval colony sim shares the historical setting and pixel-art style while focusing on managing the lives and tasks of your subjects.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: Capitalism 58.5%, Management 14.1%, Cute 8.7%, Simulation 8%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic shop management game that emphasizes hiring staff and managing inventory with a charming, stylized aesthetic.

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: Capitalism 18.6%, Economy 15.6%, Management 15.4%, Time Management 13.4%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep staff management and building customization for a creative industry, perfect for fans of the guild-building mechanics.

Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.

Why similar: Management 31.1%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Crafting 16.7%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This pixel-art management game captures the medieval atmosphere and requires you to manage a business while crafting goods for customers.

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: Capitalism 24%, Economy 23%, Management 21.1%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the theme of running an art-focused business with modern management mechanics.

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 15.5%, Capitalism 11.4%, Time Management 11.1%, Historical 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim set in a historical period that focuses on layout building and staff management to produce a successful publication.

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

Why similar: Management 28.2%, Building 19.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical challenges of building and managing a complex structure, sharing the 'building-as-you-go' feel of the seed game.

Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?

Why similar: Management 29.1%, Building 21.4%, Crafting 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 17.3%, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends artistic pixel-art visuals with restaurant management and creative recipe development.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Crafting 21.7%, Management 18.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 15.3%, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous management sim with a medieval setting and pixel-art graphics that focuses on resource management and production.

PAINTER SIMULATOR is a new generation game in which the emphasis is placed on the player's imagination and perceptiveness. Create the world in the colors you want to see with a brush.

Why similar: Education 28.5%, Sandbox 23.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Cute 10.7%, Colorful 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the design and illustration aspects of painting, catering to those who enjoy the creative side of the seed game.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Management 44%, Pixel Graphics 26.3%, Simulation 16%, 2D 8.8%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines shop management with a distinct visual style, focusing on the balance between running a business and gathering resources.

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 25.5%, Economy 21.9%, Capitalism 21.6%, Time Management 11.6%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive business management simulation that allows for deep control over multiple types of shops and staff.

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 18.4%, Capitalism 17.1%, Economy 12.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that utilizes pixel-art graphics to simulate the experience of running a fantasy shop.

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: Management 16.6%, Economy 14.9%, Sandbox 14.2%, Capitalism 13.3%, Building 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides extensive building and management tools for those who enjoy the sandbox elements of customizing their guild.

A clothing shop management sim. Go from quaint corner shop to world-class brand!

Why similar: Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.8%, Management 11.4%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A casual management sim that focuses on running a retail store with a charming, retro visual style.

Moonbury's residents need healing, and you're the best chemist around! With your trusty tools, a brewing cauldron, and a canine companion at your side, you'll need to diagnose symptoms, gather ingredients, brew potions, and cure ailments in this open-ended sim RPG.

Why similar: Crafting 23.2%, Colorful 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 16.1%, Simulation 13%, Cute 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features a cozy, pixel-art aesthetic and focuses on gathering ingredients and managing a small-town practice.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 21.7%, Crafting 21.2%, Historical 19.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Management 13.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a more immersive historical management experience where you build a settlement and manage the lives of your villagers.

Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!

Why similar: Capitalism 20.7%, Management 16.3%, Economy 15.4%, Building 14%, Sandbox 14%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the construction and management of a commercial space, sharing the building-centric gameplay of the seed game.

Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.

Why similar: Crafting 17%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 14.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Time Management 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines the artistic theme with automation mechanics, appealing to players who enjoy the production side of Painters Guild.

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Capitalism 17%, Management 14.2%, Economy 12.8%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Coffee Talk is a coffee brewing and heart-to-heart talking simulator about listening to fantasy-inspired modern peoples’ problems, and helping them by serving up a warm drink or two.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 29.8%, Crafting 27.3%, Simulation 18.7%, Casual 11%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more narrative-focused, it captures the cozy, artistic atmosphere and the satisfaction of creating products for customers.

Run a music talent agency and make platinum-selling records!

Why similar: Simulation 18.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Cute 11.3%, Casual 11%, Education 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A casual life-sim and management game that features a cute pixel-art style and business growth mechanics.

Choose from professions like Smith, Preacher or Alchemist to gain riches in this medieval economic simulation. Climb the social ladder, dominate politics, and lead your dynasty to power over multiple generations to ensure your legacy.

Why similar: Sandbox 14.6%, Time Management 13.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Economy 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%

Make and share the most beautiful and bizarre medieval art imaginable! Manage and grow your manuscript workshop by illustrating manuscripts, using friendly tools and a massive range of drag-and-drop artworks from the deepest reaches of history. Welcome to your very own Scriptorium!

Why similar: Economy 33.4%, Simulation 18.2%, Colorful 15.2%, Cute 13.2%, Casual 10.5%

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: Historical 14.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 12%, Building 11%, Management 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: Capitalism 19.6%, Economy 17.6%, Management 15.7%, Education 15.3%, Sandbox 11.1%

Live the life of a starving artist in 19th century alternative history. Survive poverty, alchoholism, madness, depression, and 67 different feelings. Paint masterpieces by combining inspirations, sell them for riches (or scraps) and create a painting that will change the world.

Why similar: Alternate History 37.5%, Crafting 19.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 10.9%, 2D 6.7%

For creation and collection aficionados, The Painter’s Playground offers a game-based sandbox to craft and collect 2D artwork and share it with the online community. Strive to either be the buzz of the arthouse as a creator of sought-after works, or own the most coveted collection - or both!

Why similar: Simulation 50.2%, Casual 28.9%, Indie 20.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual simulation that focuses on the act of painting, serving as a relaxing alternative to the management-heavy seed game.

A cozy isometric desktop game about a tiny artisan who paints miniatures. Don’t press him too hard… but don’t let him slack off, either.

Why similar: Time Management 25.8%, Simulation 20.5%, Cute 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Casual 13.2%

Painting PC is a relaxing painting game where you take on commissions, earn money, gain fans, unlock new tools, and work your way towards becoming a famous artist.

Why similar: Sandbox 27.3%, Simulation 18.3%, Colorful 12.5%, Economy 12.4%, Cute 12.3%

Build PCs of different rarities, hire workers with buffs and debuffs, and expand your shop. Train stats in special rooms, customize floors and colors, and relax in a cozy idle indie game in Early Access that grows with feedback from the community.

Why similar: Time Management 31.4%, Economy 22.3%, Management 17.3%, Crafting 15.7%, Casual 5.4%

Movies Tycoon is a simulation game where you dive into the world of film-making. Start with a humble studio, scout and manage top talent, customize unique characters, and direct blockbuster films.

Why similar: Capitalism 18%, Economy 15.2%, Time Management 15%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 11.6%

Dear curator, you are about to embark on a journey to captivate the audience! You will be in charge of an art gallery.Impress the museum curators around the world with these masterpieces, collect badges, apply for support funds, and learn the value of art!

Why similar: Education 30.3%, Simulation 18.7%, Cute 15.4%, Retro 14.1%, Casual 9.5%

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: Economy 16.3%, Management 15.9%, Capitalism 15.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 10.9%

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 21%, Economy 19.5%, Capitalism 15.3%, Building 10.4%, Sandbox 10.2%

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 30.5%, Building 19.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Time Management 10.8%, Historical 8.5%

A 3D builder management sim. You are the Headmaster: build your wizarding academy floor by floor, train students into accomplished wizards, and keep your school alive through mana droughts, staff drama and rival academies. Your school, your rules.

Why similar: Economy 24.1%, Management 23.7%, Education 23.2%, Simulation 10.7%, Colorful 6.6%

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

Why similar: Management 33.3%, Economy 23.3%, Simulation 12%, Sandbox 6.9%, Building 6.6%

Crafting Town Is : A Crafting game with Simulation&Building where you can Craft and Develop your Village, Source Management and Quests.

Why similar: Crafting 24.3%, Building 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 13.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Time Management 7.7%

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 24.3%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%

Lead your monks in prayer and labor to build a thriving medieval monastery. Manage resources, brew ale, craft manuscripts, and face trials like war and weather. Customize, expand, and guide your brotherhood to achieve spiritual and economic prosperity.

Why similar: Management 21.6%, Historical 16.1%, Economy 16%, Sandbox 15.9%, Building 14.5%

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

Why similar: Economy 15.1%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Crafting 11%

A painting meleon without any talent - and a talent without money. Help your meleon-artist to satisfy his need for recognition in this ultimate Idle-Painting-game where everything is about being part of a great community to reach your goals together with other players to become a famous painter!

Why similar: Building 18%, Pixel Graphics 14.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 14.7%, Crafting 14.7%

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: Time Management 21.7%, Capitalism 18.1%, Economy 16.4%, Management 16.2%, Simulation 8%

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: Time Management 20.6%, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 16.4%, Economy 14.1%, Management 10.8%

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 23.1%, Simulation 18.1%, Economy 17.2%, Strategy 14.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

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

Why similar: Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 18.8%, Casual 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Doodle Empires is an alternate history sandbox game all about drawing your own nations with your own histories and stories in a variety of maps. Watch your world take shape and evolve over time, and decide which nations will rise and which nations will fall.

Why similar: Alternate History 32.3%, Historical 22.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 9.5%

Embark on your struggling artist adventure. Draw and sell art to cheeky critics to reclaim your lost art career. Explore the endearing art-starved town of Phénix and show them you're a true artist!

Why similar: Simulation 28.9%, Sandbox 26%, Casual 11.9%, Cute 11.8%, Indie 9.7%

Monuments Renovator is a game in which you play the role of a professional monument renovator. You choose from among the world's greatest monuments, restore them to their former glory and learn about history and architecture.

Why similar: Historical 20.7%, Management 15.7%, Education 13.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 12.9%

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: Economy 17.7%, Management 17.2%, Capitalism 15.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Simulation 8.6%

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

Why similar: Management 19%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Casual 10.2%