Games Like Rags to Riches

Pursuit of Mercantile Power is a single-player economic sim with light RPG. No money spawns—money only moves. Control the village’s cash flow, use proposals and loans, buy shares, and take over enterprises to seize GuYuan’s commercial order.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 23.6% ★, Capitalism 22.5%, Trading 21.8%, Economy 10.9%, Strategy 8%

Design the perfect neighbourhood supermarket! Research customer needs, carefully stock your shelves, and plan every aisle to maximize traffic and boost impulse sales

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.8% ★, Trading 23.4%, Capitalism 21.3%, Economy 9%, Strategy 6.5%

Buy, sell, and grow your capital in this simple, fast, and addictive trading simulation. Earn Prestige Coins and climb the Steam leaderboard.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.6% ★, Trading 20%, Capitalism 14.6%, Economy 12.4%, Simulation 8.7%

SteelBlade Shop Simulator lets you run your own SteelBlade shop in the streets of Japan. Open SteelBlade boxes, collect parts with different tiers, build powerful SteelBlades, sell them for profit, or take them into the arena and compete to prove your skill.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.9% ★, Trading 24.1%, Capitalism 24.1%, Economy 12%, Simulation 6.6%

All simulators in one game! A cooperative city simulator where you and your friends manage businesses in a single large world. Open stores, earn money, and develop the shared city - together or separately.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.6% ★, Trading 25.5%, Capitalism 20.6%, Simulation 9.6%, Economy 8.5%

Master the art of Bordeaux. Navigate volatile weather RNG and out-negotiate 25 unique buyers with your own pricing strategy. From terroir scoring to Michelin-star contracts, every vintage is a high-stakes calculation. A deep, data-driven simulation for those who take wine—and management—seriously.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.5%, Shop Keeper 18.7% ★, Trading 18.3%, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 7.3%

You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.

Why similar: Trading 40.9%, Capitalism 18.4%, Strategy 13.7%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 9.5%

Manage your own computer store and grow it from a small shop into a bustling tech hub. Sell gadgets, repair PCs, hire employees, and host epic LAN parties as you expand and upgrade your store!

Why similar: Trading 29.8%, Capitalism 24.1%, Shop Keeper 21.5% ★, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 7.3%

Run your cozy little shop from the bottom of your screen, decorate to attract unique customers, hire assistants, and send adventurers for rare treasures - all in a lively, charming management sim!

Why similar: Capitalism 33.4%, Shop Keeper 31.2% ★, Trading 13.6%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 7.4%

Items are more than their sell value in this shopkeeping game. Run shops, hire workers, haggle for profit, and dominate ancient global trade from Muziris to Rome.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.6% ★, Capitalism 22.4%, Trading 19.8%, Economy 10.1%, Point & Click 7%

You're an artist tasked with taking over an art gallery in order to help your mentor. Customize your gallery and home, befriend local artists while you get them the exposure they need, and master the fine art of selling fine art in this Roguelite, Shopkeeper, Capitalism-Management, Sim.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.8% ★, Trading 31.9%, Capitalism 18.5%, Strategy 7.1%, Simulation 4.7%

Trade by day. Eat, sleep, and survive by night. Lose everything with a single bad decision. Neo Capitalist is a financial survival roguelite where the richer you get, the harder the system fights back. Play in a realistic stock market simulation or in a dystopian cyber-punk world.

Why similar: Trading 31.8%, Capitalism 25.7%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 6.5%

Run your very own mystery egg shop! Stock shelves, manage customers, and grow your business. Every egg hides a surprise, you can sell them sealed, or open them to discover what’s inside? Unbox action figures, trade collectibles, and build themed dioramas to increase their value.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.4% ★, Capitalism 26.8%, Trading 21.5%, Economy 10.9%, Simulation 5.2%

Build your own medieval fantasy shop and sell armor, weapons, potions and more to earn money. Send out adventurers to gather goods and combine them to create more powerful and more valuable goods.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.7% ★, Trading 22.3%, Capitalism 11.4%, Economy 10.1%, Simulation 5.9%

Open your own Liquor Store! Buy goods, manage your store, hire staff. Who knows, maybe you will be able to make a real alcohol empire out of a small store.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.7% ★, Trading 25.1%, Capitalism 20.2%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 6.6%

Build your underground sneaker empire! Source raw materials, manufacture flawless replicas of the hottest shoes on the market, and sell them directly from your storefront. Grow your business, but keep a low profile—the cops are always watching!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32% ★, Capitalism 24%, Trading 17.6%, Economy 11.4%, Time Management 8.7%

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: Capitalism 28.4%, Trading 25.1%, Shop Keeper 15.3% ★, Economy 14.4%, Simulation 10.5%

Run your own supermarket! Buy, stock, and sell items, expand your store, and manage customers. Customize your layout, explore new locations, and hire staff. Keep things fresh with variety and new challenges as you grow your business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 41% ★, Trading 20.3%, Capitalism 14.5%, Economy 11.4%, Simulation 8.4%

Become a young entrepreneur who arrives in the Russian countryside and opens a village shop. Buy and sell goods, upgrade your store, and make this village great again — just like in the good old days!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.6% ★, Trading 22.4%, Capitalism 22.3%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 6.1%

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: Shop Keeper 37.5% ★, Capitalism 30.2%, Economy 12.4%, Time Management 9.7%, Simulation 5.8%

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 32.4% ★, Trading 22.8%, Capitalism 16.7%, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 5.8%

Being a merchant is hard enough, but with constant dragon attacks, demon resurrections, and magical wars, it's just about impossible. Nevertheless, it is your dream. Pick your wares, bargain with customers, and communion with the gods. Just don't invest it all in gold right before a kraken awakens.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.3% ★, Trading 27.4%, Capitalism 20%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 5.7%

From rags to riches, build your merchant empire in this space trader tycoon. Haul cargo, mine asteroids, run factories, trade stocks, command a fleet or even colonize an entire planet. Grow to become a gazillionaire as you outsmart the competition and expand your business across the planets.

Why similar: Capitalism 38.9%, Trading 32.9%, Economy 15.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.8%

Discover Soukh - a Middle Eastern-inspired fantasy shopkeeping and strategy game. Run a chaotic bazaar with demanding customers, dispatch caravans and conquer challenges to gather exotic loot. Guide an exiled merchant’s rise. Will the sands lift him to glory… or bury him in stories left untold?

Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.9% ★, Capitalism 22.2%, Trading 18.8%, Economy 9.5%, Time Management 6.3%

Run your very own mystery egg shop! Stock shelves, manage customers, and grow your business. Every egg hides a surprise, you can sell them sealed, or open them to discover what’s inside? Unbox action figures, trade collectibles, and build themed dioramas to increase their value.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.5% ★, Capitalism 25.6%, Trading 24.1%, Economy 11%, Simulation 3.7%

Peter the Stash Hunter is a casual, single-player simulation RPG. By day, you bid on abandoned storage auctions and loot whatever you win; by night, you sell your finds in your own shop and grow your empire. Join Peter on a quirky journey to uncover the trail of his missing grandfather.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.7% ★, Trading 22.8%, Capitalism 19.9%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 5.9%

"Enflasyon uçuyor, müşteriler isyanda ve dükkân yanıyor! Sıradan bir market yönetimi değil; ekonomik kriz ve toplumsal kaosun ortasında hayatta kalma mücadelesi. Rafları doldur, 150 farklı absürt krizi yönet, fiyatlarla oyna ve batmamak için her yolu dene!"

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.7% ★, Capitalism 26.4%, Economy 13%, Time Management 7.3%, Resource Management 7.1%

Run your own home goods store! Sell sofas, refrigerators, TVs and more. Purchase products, set your prices, take payments, design your layout, handle shoplifters, and expand your store to build a successful retail business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.5% ★, Trading 22.4%, Capitalism 13.7%, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 9.9%

Create and run your own sneaker store. Discover 100+ hand-crafted sneakers, expand into apparel and accessories, and manage your inventory. Renovate your store, compete in auctions, and grow your reputation to become the city’s top sneaker store.

Why similar: Trading 33.2%, Shop Keeper 25.4% ★, Capitalism 14%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 9.8%

Step behind the counter in an immersive medieval trading simulation. Buy low, haggle hard, and sell high! Upgrade gear at the blacksmith, infuse your goods with elemental magic, and research new skills to transform your humble stall into the realm's most famous marketplace.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.4% ★, Trading 33.3%, Economy 13.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Resource Management 2.8%

Rise to the top of trade with your friends! Buy and sell second-hand goods, establish a car dealership, manage the real estate market, and own the biggest businesses in the city. Real Life Simulator combines all trading simulations in a 2D Co-op world.

Why similar: Trading 35%, Shop Keeper 26.4% ★, Economy 16.9%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 8.4%

Run your own cozy antique shop where every item has a story. Buy and sell furniture and collectibles, manage customer needs and smart pricing, expand and upgrade your store, and grow your reputation from a small-town trader to a respected antique dealer.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.4% ★, Trading 37.3%, Economy 13.7%, Simulation 8%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Build, design and manage your own café in this detailed cafe management simulator. Hire staff, craft your menu, serve customers and grow your coffee shop business in a lively island city.

Why similar: Trading 27%, Shop Keeper 26.9% ★, Capitalism 21.6%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 5.9%

Run your own shop in a first-person trading sim where you buy low, negotiate smart deals, and sell for profit.

Why similar: Trading 33.5%, Capitalism 17.8%, Shop Keeper 16.1% ★, Economy 16%, Simulation 11.1%

A game where you build and manage a 3D printing business. Print products, run a shop, buy upgrades, and grow your operation to pay off your debt and earn your freedom.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.6% ★, Capitalism 37.8%, Simulation 13.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%

A shop simulator in which you run a business with warrior and monster figures. Manage your inventory, serve your customers, create a unique atmosphere and organise strategic tabletop games. Grow your business and build the best place for figure lovers!

Why similar: Trading 29.2%, Shop Keeper 27.1% ★, Capitalism 18.1%, Economy 13.4%, Simulation 6.7%

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 40.2%, Economy 17.3%, 1980s 10.7%, Strategy 10%, Point & Click 8.5%

You’re buying your first apartment and stepping into the world of real estate. Buy properties, rent them out, take care of your tenants, and keep your apartments in good condition. Be careful who you let move in, build your empire, watch the market, and become the most successful property owner.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.2% ★, Capitalism 27%, Strategy 15.6%, Economy 15.5%, Simulation 7.9%

Dig up hidden items and sell them in your own shop. Negotiate with customers, smuggle illegal goods, forge items, hire workers, and expand your business. Build wealth in a ruthless capitalist town, rise as the mafia boss, and eliminate rival gang.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.9% ★, Trading 26%, Capitalism 18.9%, Economy 10.3%, Simulation 6.1%

Start as an immigrant with nothing but ambition. Take jobs to survive, build a business, and expand into an empire in a persistent online world. From small apartments to mansions, from old cars to luxury rides. Can you rise to the top?

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.7% ★, Trading 23.2%, Capitalism 23.1%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 6.6%

Build your own game & movie store — from retro VHS tapes to modern consoles. Fill your shelves with games, movies, and collectibles, attract customers, and grow your business into the ultimate entertainment shop — all while reliving the nostalgia of iconic eras.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.1% ★, Trading 24.9%, Capitalism 23.1%, Economy 10.5%, Time Management 5.7%

Run a clothing shop in a small town, stock outfits and accessories, set prices, decorate your space, participate in fashion shows, and grow your reputation as you turn an empty storefront into a thriving boutique.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.6% ★, Capitalism 17.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Economy 8.5%

Buy commodity resources, evaluate prices, sell commodities, earn profits, and complete your business saga.

Why similar: Trading 35.6%, Capitalism 27.6%, Economy 15.8%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 7.7%

Become the billionaire you always mocked! Collect humans like trading cards, exploit their productivity, and compete in The Excess Index - where morally bankrupt capitalism is the only way to win. Own everything. Question nothing.

Why similar: Trading 30.4%, Capitalism 25%, Economy 15.8%, Strategy 12.8%, Simulation 9.2%

Manage a million-dollar hedge fund with real stock prices. Free to play, with performance you can prove and share.

Why similar: Capitalism 33.2%, Trading 27.2%, Economy 12.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 7%

"Have you ever dreamed of diving into the glamorous and cutthroat world of film? Not as a star on the red carpet, but as the driving force behind it – as the tycoon who builds empires, discovers talent, and writes film history?"

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.6% ★, Trading 22.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Simulation 12.9%, Economy 7.1%

Manage your dream cafe, but don't stop there. In this comprehensive simulation, explore a living city! Drive cars, build relationships, work side jobs, and build your empire. From brewing coffee to becoming the most famous name in town—how will you live your cafe life?

Why similar: Trading 27.6%, Shop Keeper 25.4% ★, Capitalism 21.4%, Economy 12.9%, Simulation 6.2%

Sell products for the romantic and sensual moments in life. Design your shop exactly the way you want and turn your business into the most popular destination in town.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36% ★, Capitalism 24.5%, Trading 23.5%, Economy 11.7%, Simulation 3.8%

Wealth, power, greed: in the oil boom of the 1960s, money never sleeps. Invest in stocks, commodities and real estate, acquire companies and manipulate markets to build a financial empire. Use mergers, Ruthless speculation and strategies to dominate the global economy.

Why similar: Capitalism 35.8%, Trading 18.5%, Economy 14.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.2%

Take Japan by storm with your series of stores, vending machines, arcades and more! Open multiple shops, each customized to your personal specifications and invest in your community.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 48% ★, Capitalism 21%, Economy 15%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 6.5%

In Galleons of Fortune Pioneers, build and manage a thriving trading empire from 16th-century Seville, during the Golden Age of Maritime Trade. Exchange valuable goods, expand your fleet, rival merchants, and the perils of the Atlantic in your quest for riches across the New World.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.7%, Trading 19%, Strategy 17.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Economy 10.6%

Stock market game with trading on the commodity exchange for beginner traders

Why similar: Trading 42.8%, Capitalism 30.3%, Economy 14.9%, Simulation 10.6%, 2D 0.9%

Run your own betting shop, take sports bets, install slot machines, sell scratch cards, expand your business and turn a tiny bookmaker into a massive casino empire.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 49.2% ★, Economy 15.9%, Capitalism 12%, Trading 10.1%, Simulation 9.1%

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: Shop Keeper 27.9% ★, Trading 24.7%, Capitalism 24.6%, Economy 11%, Strategy 6.1%

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: Trading 31.9%, Capitalism 18.8%, Shop Keeper 16.6% ★, Economy 15.6%, Simulation 11.4%

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: Trading 23.6%, Capitalism 22.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 13.6%, Economy 10.1%

Repair, build, and upgrade customers' PCs to make your dream of owning your own internet café come true.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.9% ★, Trading 20.1%, Simulation 13%, Economy 9.5%, Time Management 9%

a traveling merchant crosses the land — trading goods, winning trust. Bargain, craft, and appraise your way from the northern frontier to the southern seas, and forge your own legend on the road.

Why similar: Trading 39%, Shop Keeper 24.2% ★, Economy 14%, Resource Management 8.7%, Simulation 8.2%

Master your destiny in a high-fidelity life & business simulator. Manage health, climb your career, create companies, and diversify in real estate & stocks. No 3D distractions—just you and your strategy. From the park bench to a global monopoly.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32% ★, Capitalism 20.6%, Economy 14%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 9.5%

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 27.2%, Capitalism 25.8%, Shop Keeper 17.4% ★, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 6.4%