Games Like Passpartout: The Starving Artist

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: Design & Illustration 30.7% ★, Simulation 26.9%, Casual 13.3%, Indie 8.9%, Hand-drawn 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Expands directly on the first game's artistic career simulation with new exploration mechanics and puppetry.

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: Design & Illustration 34.4% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Relaxing 14.2%, Casual 9.6%, Funny 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an even more immersive sandbox painting experience where you complete commissions and splash paint everywhere.

Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

Why similar: Simulation 35%, Funny 14.5%, Casual 12.1%, Relaxing 11.2%, Family Friendly 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a free-form digital canvas to practice your painting skills without the financial pressure of the main game.

Experience the joy of running your own cozy small business: Create stickers, pack orders and hear your customers’ stories. Time to build the cutest shop on the internet!

Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, Relaxing 23.3%, Casual 18.5%, Indie 10%, Family Friendly 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Satisfies the same cozy, creative itch by letting you design and sell custom products to quirky customers.

A top-down adventure game in a coloring book world full of vibrant characters. Use painting powers to explore, solve puzzles, make friends, and draw on anything! From creators on Wandersong + Celeste.

Why similar: Indie 33.7%, Great Soundtrack 16.2%, Relaxing 15.8%, Funny 9.5%, Colorful 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a vibrant, art-centric theme where you use a magic brush to restore color to a whimsical world.

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: Relaxing 33.5%, Simulation 28.4%, Casual 19.9%, Indie 11.4%, Singleplayer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a similarly relaxed, dialogue-driven simulation experience where you interact with eccentric patrons over warm drinks.

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Casual 16.8%, Cartoon 16.5%, Funny 14.2%, Family Friendly 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on quirky career simulation and managing your daily survival alongside a creative hobby.

The hottest bird lawyering game to come out of 1840s France! Join Jayjay Falcon and his witty apprentice, Sparrowson, as the two take on clients, interview witnesses, collect evidence, and deliver justice to the guilty.

Why similar: Indie 38.1%, Hand-drawn 30.5%, Great Soundtrack 11.8%, Singleplayer 10.8%, Funny 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Matches the witty, humorous tone and hand-drawn aesthetic of satirical indie adventures.

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

Why similar: Design & Illustration 35.7% ★, Simulation 23.4%, Relaxing 15.8%, Casual 10.9%, Multiplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to the same satisfying loop of buying, renovating, and flipping properties for a profit.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: Simulation 64%, Relaxing 18.1%, Colorful 6.9%, Singleplayer 4.9%, Cute 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines lighthearted management with humorous satirical elements reminiscent of running a quirky business.

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Relaxing 36.6%, Simulation 20.4%, Casual 17.4%, Indie 8.1%, Family Friendly 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same soothing, meditative pace and tactile puzzle-like gameplay loop.

A Hilarious Insult-‘em up in which players must verbally take-out their friends and family in different game modes. Assemble witty insults using different word strings, and employ combos, criticals, continuations and more to battle your opponents both offline and online across multiple devices.

Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Funny 22.7%, Indie 18.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Casual 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same absurd, comedic debate style and quirky character interactions.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.

Why similar: Simulation 49.6%, Relaxing 41.1%, Singleplayer 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features a cozy yet peculiar shop-management simulation where you interact with strange local clients.

Release the Pressure with PowerWash Simulator! Wash away your worries with the soothing sounds of high-pressure water. Fire up your power washer and blast away every speck of dirt and grime you can find, all with the simple satisfaction of power-washing to a sparkling finish.

Why similar: Simulation 22.8%, Casual 20.6%, Relaxing 20.2%, Funny 9.9%, Family Friendly 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the deeply satisfying, therapeutic gameplay style perfect for unwinding after a stressful day.

Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.

Why similar: Simulation 42.8%, Casual 20.7%, Indie 18.7%, Funny 7.7%, Singleplayer 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the nostalgic, conversational indie vibe with branching dialogue choices.

Instant town building toy. Place housing blocks and watch them transform, piece by piece, into idyllic ocean-side towns, pastoral gardens, or sweeping cities on the sea.

Why similar: Simulation 24.4%, Relaxing 23.9%, Casual 17%, Family Friendly 10.3%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a pure, relaxing creative outlet focused entirely on building colorful, beautiful towns on the water.

Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

Why similar: Casual 18.8%, Simulation 18.5%, Indie 17.8%, Funny 15.2%, Multiplayer 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides chaotic yet fun business-running challenges that test your multitasking skills.

Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you build and run a bed and breakfast...but you’re a bear.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 19.2%, Simulation 18.5%, Cartoon 16.6%, Relaxing 16.2%, Casual 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features charming, stylized visuals and management mechanics centered around running a quirky business.

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Simulation 37.2%, Cartoon 12.4%, Funny 11.4%, Great Soundtrack 9.2%, Family Friendly 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Satisfies the creative engineering itch with charming physics-based problem-solving.

Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Why similar: Simulation 22.7%, Casual 14.5%, Funny 13.7%, Colorful 10.7%, Singleplayer 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines casual exploration with cute creature management in a colorful, low-stress environment.

Build, repair, refuel and drive a dilapidated old car on a grand journey through the territories of the former Eastern bloc. Explore Germany, CSFR, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Why similar: Simulation 56.8%, Relaxing 16.9%, Indie 13.5%, Singleplayer 7.9%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on quirky resource management and surviving a comedic journey with a breakdown-prone vehicle.

Top, bake, and serve delicious pizzas in Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe! Craft pizzas for Papa Louie's loyal customers while earning tips, points, and Special Recipes. Unlock holiday ingredients for seasonal pies, and take a trip in the Food Truck to serve your own unique creations!

Why similar: Simulation 43.7%, Casual 26.1%, Family Friendly 10%, Indie 9.2%, Colorful 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines time-management and custom creation mechanics similar to serving eccentric customers.

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: Design & Illustration 39.4% ★, Simulation 27.3%, Casual 17%, Indie 12%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the theme of an artist's career path through card-driven management strategies.

Carto is a charming adventure game wrapped around a unique, world-altering puzzle mechanic. Use this power to explore mysterious lands, help a quirky cast of characters, and guide Carto on her journey back to her family.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 24.4%, Relaxing 19.2%, Indie 12.1%, Cartoon 11.6%, Funny 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a cute, hand-drawn aesthetic and clever puzzle mechanics that feel lighthearted and whimsical.

Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Why similar: Relaxing 31.3%, Simulation 30%, Casual 20.8%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a blocky, sandbox world centered around relaxed farming and cozy community life.

The world has already been saved. Now it's time to rebuild your town, learn new hobbies, and forge lifelong friendships in this peaceful and relaxing RPG.

Why similar: Simulation 41.5%, Relaxing 35.6%, Casual 20.5%, Cute 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a peaceful, slow-paced life-simulation experience focused on relaxing town development.

Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Relaxing 23%, Casual 17.8%, Family Friendly 11.6%, Colorful 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Involves hands-on culinary creation and business management similar to balancing your artistic career.

Join Tara on a heartfelt journey to become a witch in Wylde Flowers. Farm by day, and cast spells by night as you craft your cottagecore life and bond with your coven. Come to know and love the fully voice acted characters of Fairhaven, as you unravel a local mystery.

Why similar: Simulation 50.4%, Relaxing 35.9%, Singleplayer 9.7%, Cute 4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines cozy farming simulation with a rich, narrative-driven story featuring eccentric townsfolk.

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: Simulation 69.9%, Indie 21.8%, Funny 3.2%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Involves managing a chaotic storefront and dealing with unpredictable customers much like an art gallery.

Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!

Why similar: Relaxing 18.8%, Casual 17.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Funny 15.6%, Indie 11.5%

STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

Why similar: Indie 71.5%, Singleplayer 28.5%

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: Design & Illustration 36.2% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Relaxing 14.3%, Casual 11.2%, Family Friendly 5.5%

Seasons After Fall is a 2D platform-puzzler game that will let you dive into a captivating universe and explore a land governed by magic and nature.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 35.5%, Indie 22.2%, Great Soundtrack 19.6%, Relaxing 11.3%, Singleplayer 7.8%

World to the West is a standalone followup of Teslagrad, the indie hit that sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. A vast world of blue skies and dark caves awaits you in this 3D action adventure, as you try to unveil the mysteries of an ancient prophecy.

Why similar: Indie 37.1%, Funny 17.8%, Family Friendly 14.9%, Great Soundtrack 10.9%, Singleplayer 10.2%

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 28%, Relaxing 22.3%, Casual 20.4%, Indie 13.5%, Family Friendly 6.8%

Build airplanes by snapping parts together, designing wing sections, and attaching engines. At any time, you can strap yourself into the cockpit and see how it flies with realistic physics. If you're not in the mood for building, over 100,000 airplanes are available to download for free.

Why similar: Funny 100%

RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.

Why similar: Indie 37.4%, Multiplayer 29.7%, Great Soundtrack 27.5%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Explore the mysterious Hotel Norwood in this surreal first-person adventure. Curious characters, forgotten secrets, and head-nodding music await your arrival.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 34%, Casual 31.3%, Indie 26.9%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Return to Calypso Island to serve seasonal sundae treats in Papa's Freezeria Deluxe! Craft sundaes in the Freezeria for all your quirky customers while earning tips, points and Special Recipes. Switch gears and take a trip in the Food Truck to concoct your own chilly creations and see who shows up!

Why similar: Simulation 39.5%, Casual 24.5%, Indie 11.6%, Singleplayer 6.8%, Family Friendly 6.7%

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Indie 62.9%, Singleplayer 37.1%

Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.

Why similar: Indie 68.6%, Singleplayer 31.4%

The Sexy Brutale — a never-ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and the (quite possibly) occult! Relive the same mysterious day where the guests at the casino mansion are being murdered by the staff over and over again...

Why similar: Indie 43.7%, Great Soundtrack 38.4%, Singleplayer 17.9%

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: Design & Illustration 31% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Hand-drawn 16.9%, Casual 13.8%, Indie 8.5%

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 47.6%, Casual 32.8%, Indie 19.6%

Pilot a mech to hunt down and destroy the oppressive government of a cyberpunk autocracy. In this fast-paced, top-down shooter, use overwhelming firepower to destroy columns of tanks and level buildings. Unlock up to 56 unique vehicles and 40 weapons.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Teleport, shift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in an all new kind of action game from tinyBuild and Team Shifty!

Why similar: Indie 65.1%, Great Soundtrack 22.2%, Singleplayer 12.8%

A game about writing nice letters to real people. Write and receive encouraging letters in a cozy room. Trade stickers and listen to chill music. We're all in this together. Sometimes all you need are a few kind words.

Why similar: Relaxing 34.1%, Casual 20.4%, Indie 12.4%, Funny 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%

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: Simulation 43%, Relaxing 31.6%, Family Friendly 16.6%, Singleplayer 8.8%

Master of Pottery is a pottery-themed creation + simulation game. Make pottery, open exhibitions, complete orders, train apprentices, run your own showroom and start a relaxing pottery journey.

Why similar: Simulation 40.6%, Casual 24%, Relaxing 17.8%, Indie 13.9%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?

Why similar: Simulation 37.6%, Multiplayer 24%, Indie 15.2%, Funny 14.9%, Singleplayer 8.4%

60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.

Why similar: Funny 100%

Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Why similar: Hand-drawn 27.4%, Casual 16.9%, Relaxing 14.8%, Design & Illustration 10.6% ★, Funny 9.7%

Ready to settle in with a soothing shift behind the counter? Feel the dough, hear the quiet crackle of the oven, and serve warm slices to grateful guests. Good Pizza, Great Pizza is the cozy, asmr-friendly escape you didn’t know you kneaded.

Why similar: Design & Illustration 23.1% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Hand-drawn 14.2%, Relaxing 13.6%, Funny 11.7%

'BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend' is the sixth installment of the BlazBlue series, a combination of 2D fighting action game and visual novel.

Why similar: Great Soundtrack 65.3%, Multiplayer 22.8%, Singleplayer 8.3%, Cute 3.6%

You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!

Why similar: Simulation 36.8%, Funny 20%, Casual 14.8%, Family Friendly 10.5%, Indie 9.4%

Haunt your way through town in the dead of night! Possess objects to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over? A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts!

Why similar: Casual 22.9%, Funny 17.3%, Indie 15.1%, Great Soundtrack 10.8%, Family Friendly 10.6%

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Funny 100%