60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Management, Simulation, Game Development, Singleplayer.
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!
Life of a Lonely Indie Game Developer
"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.
Save the Game Devs
Tap to drain an endless parade of overpaid CEOs, rescue laid-off game developers, and fund worker-owned indie studios. Upgrade from squeaky chairs to full cooperative ownership in a satirical incremental tycoon about rebuilding the games industry one severed golden parachute at a time.
"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: Game Development 38.1% ★, Economy 11.2%, Life Sim 9.8%, Management 9.4%, Dark Humor 9.2%
Tap to drain an endless parade of overpaid CEOs, rescue laid-off game developers, and fund worker-owned indie studios. Upgrade from squeaky chairs to full cooperative ownership in a satirical incremental tycoon about rebuilding the games industry one severed golden parachute at a time.
Why similar: Game Development 36.1% ★, Capitalism 11.1%, Idler 10.7%, Dark Humor 9.2%, Economy 8.3%
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 44.6% ★, Economy 10.2%, Management 10.1%, Life Sim 8.5%, Simulation 7.5%
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 41% ★, Economy 13.4%, Capitalism 11.8%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 6.4%
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 44.7% ★, Dark Humor 11.2%, Capitalism 10.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 7.6%
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 31.3% ★, Economy 11.2%, Capitalism 10.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Life Sim 8.4%
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 47.7% ★, Capitalism 13.1%, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 6.1%
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 51.7% ★, Economy 20.2%, Life Sim 12.4%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 2.7%
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 52.5% ★, Management 14.2%, Life Sim 10%, Immersive Sim 8.6%, Simulation 7.2%
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 40.8% ★, Economy 14.4%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Resource Management 7.3%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Game Development 34.3% ★, Management 24.1%, Economy 20.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Sandbox 4.6%
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 33.9% ★, Economy 16.4%, Capitalism 12.6%, Idler 12.2%, Management 9.6%
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 45.1% ★, Economy 16.1%, Management 12.8%, Life Sim 8.1%, Immersive Sim 6.2%
A turn-based simulation game, where you manage a game development company. You can choose to run the company honestly and diligently or resort to some unconventional methods.
Why similar: Game Development 40.5% ★, Capitalism 13%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Immersive Sim 7.1%, Life Sim 6.2%
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 47% ★, Economy 14.1%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Life Sim 7%
DevTycoon is a software development business simulation with a charming pixel art style, which challenges you to build and manage your own company in a world where competition is fierce and the challenges reflect real life.
Why similar: Game Development 40.6% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Management 11%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Life Sim 10.3%
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 58.5% ★, Economy 11.6%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 4.8%
GameLaunchSimulator is a text-based management sim about the full journey of publishing an indie game. Build your studio, plan new projects, prepare store pages, grow wishlists, handle reviews, release windows, publishing deals, and post-launch operations, then bring an unknown game to real players.
Why similar: Game Development 44.2% ★, Economy 14.1%, Management 13%, Simulation 8.8%, Resource Management 6.2%
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 37.2% ★, Economy 13.1%, Capitalism 12.1%, Management 10.5%, Life Sim 7.7%
Welcome to a place where sunshine is guaranteed and money is practically beachwear. In this fun first-person simulation, you start out in Miami Beach, sell, invest, optimize, and make the cash register ring. Because in the end, only one thing matters: Cash is King.
Why similar: Economy 14.7%, Capitalism 14.6%, Management 14.5%, Life Sim 14.4%, Immersive Sim 10.8%
Pay Off The Mortgage is a cozy clicker where every dollar matters. Work, get promoted, survive the bank’s endless taunts and hunger for your money, and chase the impossible dream of owning your home. But whatever happens… Please take care of Greg, he keeps the house warm.
Why similar: Dark Humor 17.2%, Idler 16.6%, Life Sim 15.4%, Economy 13.6%, Management 13.4%
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 48.4% ★, Economy 11.9%, Management 11.4%, Capitalism 10.6%, Simulation 10%
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 48.4% ★, Management 13.4%, Economy 8.2%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7%
Become the biggest game publisher! Find developers, negotiate contract and market the games. Grow your company and design your offices.
Why similar: Game Development 31.9% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Economy 13%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 11.6%
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 46.8% ★, Economy 15.4%, Management 12.4%, Capitalism 11.4%, Sandbox 7.9%
Choose a different life to run a game company, and your business can spread across any game-related industries such as game development, engine development, game console development, etc., creating the best game company in your heart.
Why similar: Game Development 67.2% ★, Capitalism 18.3%, Simulation 13.1%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 53.4% ★, Management 12.2%, Point & Click 10.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Simulation 6.2%
Don't get fired! A tough hospital reception sim. Read each patient's symptoms, send them to the right department, and juggle the front desk and shop to win your demanding boss's trust. Between shifts, invest in stocks and FX—or go all-in at the casino. Every choice shapes your ending.
Why similar: Typing 24.1% ★, Economy 22.7%, Management 19.4%, Point & Click 13.3%, Simulation 9.4%
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 21.3%, Capitalism 13.7%, Life Sim 13.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 10.5%
A digital life simulator. Work at your PC, earn money, pay bills, invest, build companies, or take risky paths. Money brings power, but risk leads to consequences - there are no safe choices.
Why similar: Game Development 40.2% ★, Typing 20% ★, Life Sim 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Management 8%
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 22.4%, Management 21.4%, Capitalism 17.4%, Life Sim 12.6%, Sandbox 7.5%
Live the dream of an ambitious developer in App Empire Tycoon! Start small, crafting simple apps and tackling tricky clients. Grow your skills, attract investors, and expand your portfolio as you chase greatness. Can you build the ultimate tech empire and make history?
Why similar: Game Development 44.5% ★, Economy 18.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 10.6%, Point & Click 6.3%
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 60.1% ★, Economy 12%, Capitalism 8.6%, Simulation 8.3%, Management 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: Game Development 23.3% ★, Capitalism 17.7%, Economy 17.3%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10.9%
The game industry is a roguelike! Your family has just acquired dozens of new game studios, and YOU'RE the nepo baby in charge of running them. Fire people, grow your network, and do whatever it takes to satisfy "The Board" - and that means maximizing profit!
Why similar: Game Development 42.4% ★, Capitalism 12.4%, Economy 12%, Management 10.5%, Comedy 6.4%
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 44% ★, Economy 16.8%, Management 14.8%, Capitalism 10.4%, Sandbox 6.6%
A music producer career simulator. Make beats, work with artists, grow your popularity, earn money, level up your skills, and build the studio of your dreams.
Why similar: Economy 18.1%, Life Sim 17.7%, Management 14.6%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Capitalism 11.9%
JOB is a bleak and surreal corporate mystery that incorporates and subverts incremental/idle, rogue-lite, and traditional puzzle mechanics. The Company is looking for new Contractors and they ask, "Would you sign away three years of your life for the possibility of unimaginable wealth?"
Why similar: Typing 21.7% ★, Capitalism 17.5%, Idler 17.3%, Dark Humor 16.7%, Life Sim 10.3%
Explore an old operating system in this incremental game about software that pays its users. Type stories, earn money, upgrade your software, and unlock new programs. Discover how lucrative the Screen Saver OS can be!
Why similar: Typing 26.5% ★, Idler 15.2%, Capitalism 13.4%, Management 13.2%, Economy 13%
An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.
Why similar: Game Development 26.4% ★, Idler 15.6%, Capitalism 15.3%, Economy 11.6%, Management 8.1%
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 34.4% ★, Dark Humor 13.5%, Capitalism 11.6%, Management 10.3%, Life Sim 10.2%
Design a game. Pick its genre, its topic, who it's for. Then go do your actual work - every keystroke you type writes another line of it. A tiny developer builds, ships, and gets reviewed for your ideas, in a little window in the corner of your screen.
Why similar: Game Development 51.4% ★, Typing 27% ★, Idler 9.1%, Simulation 7.2%, Resource Management 3.4%
This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.
Why similar: Dark Humor 16.6%, Economy 14.1%, Capitalism 12.8%, Management 11.3%, Idler 8.8%
Manage your product company ! Design concept and sell product on the market ! Dodge bankruptcy and rise to the top by making the best concept, the best pricing strategy and applying the best management ! Beat all those damn competitors !
Why similar: Economy 19.5%, Capitalism 17.4%, Management 13.7%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Life Sim 12.7%
Why did the beloved game shops of our childhood fade away? Live through 25 years of gaming history (1985–2010) as a shop owner in this management sim.
Why similar: Game Development 46.6% ★, Economy 12.9%, Life Sim 11.3%, Capitalism 9.4%, Management 9.1%
《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 52.5% ★, Life Sim 13.6%, Point & Click 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.1%, Resource Management 7.6%
Mobiles Tycoon is a brand new game about creating your mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. In the game you have to manage your company and develop your devices (smartphones and tablets), operating systems and processors
Why similar: Game Development 41% ★, Capitalism 15.4%, Idler 14.3%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%
The money management simulation where you work, trade, bank, and gamble in a procedurally generated world. Browse the job market, gain skills through employment, buy stocks, trade options, place risky bets, and hit it big in a world that's different every time you play.
Why similar: Capitalism 15.8%, Idler 15.1%, Economy 13.9%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%
Brewconomy is a relaxing yet challenging builder about farming, crafting, and trade. Begin with a small family workshop and grow into a thriving company. Automate production chains, expand industries, and balance resources to master your own economy.
Why similar: Economy 20.1%, Capitalism 18%, Idler 17%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Management 11.2%
Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.
Why similar: Economy 18.7%, Capitalism 15.8%, Management 13.5%, Life Sim 12.8%, Immersive Sim 11.9%
A real idle game with more than 2000 upgrades and deep management
Why similar: Economy 16.4%, Idler 15.1%, Capitalism 13.1%, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11.3%
A complete tools suite for the Real Virtuality game engine powering Arma 3.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
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 61.8% ★, Economy 16.9%, Capitalism 11.7%, Simulation 8.2%, 2D 1.4%
You are the merchant in a fantasy kingdom. Run the store, stock shelves with potions, magical weapons, and armour. Set prices, hire staff, and expand your business by collaborating with local artisans. Supply NPC heroes so they can keep battling the kingdom's enemies.
Why similar: Economy 20.8%, Capitalism 17.4%, Management 16.5%, Life Sim 11.6%, Simulation 11%
In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.
Why similar: Game Development 56% ★, Management 21.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Economy 8.4%
A minimalist simple turn based 2D strategy simulation about building and launching an Indie game by an Indie team. Point, click and text based. No GPU required. Requires the Microsoft Edge browser to run.
Why similar: Game Development 49.4% ★, Management 13.4%, Capitalism 12.8%, Immersive Sim 7.9%, Economy 7.8%
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: Economy 19.3%, Life Sim 17.9%, Management 15.2%, Capitalism 14.2%, Sandbox 9%
Build and run your own fantasy MMO in a single-player management sim. Design the world, classes, loot and raids, then watch simulated adventurers play, form guilds and chase rare drops. Keep them happy, keep them subscribed, and decide what your MMO needs next.
Why similar: Game Development 50.5% ★, Economy 15%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 6.4%
Samples of assets for Arma 3 which provide a starting point for community members who want to create their own assets for the game. They cover a broad spectrum of topics, from scenario design to mod making.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
Keybort is a clean and fluid idle / clicker game where you progress by pressing keyboard keys.
Why similar: Typing 36.9% ★, Economy 17.1%, Management 10.9%, Idler 9.7%, Resource Management 9.5%
