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: Capitalism 22.8%, Shop Keeper 22.5% ★, Trading 22.1%, Economy 10.9%, Strategy 8.2%

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 26.7% ★, Trading 23.7%, Capitalism 21.6%, Economy 9%, Strategy 6.7%

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 25.7% ★, Trading 21.8%, Capitalism 18.5%, Economy 10.6%, Point & Click 6.8%

Build and manage a real multi‑entity family office as you acquire properties, hire staff, structure trusts, and grow generational wealth through authentic financial systems.

Why similar: Capitalism 29.8%, Trading 25.7%, Economy 13.4%, Shop Keeper 9.3% ★, Resource Management 7.4%

Run a sweet tea stand in this 2D pixel-art business simulator inspired by tycoon classics. Manage inventory, adjust your recipe, hire staff, invest in upgrades, and pick locations to maximize profits. Build a lasting business in endless Career mode, or chase high scores in a 30-day Challenge mode.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.5% ★, Capitalism 30.9%, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 6.1%

FUNEX is the first and only STOCK MARKET SIMULATION which provides REAL ORDER BOOK TRADING to the players. You don't trade fake algoritmic prices on a fake market. Instead, there are 22 AI funds which are actively trading in a REAL SIMULATED STOCK EXCHANGE. Are you ready for REAL CHAOS?

Why similar: Capitalism 34.5%, Trading 34.1%, Economy 16.3%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.1%

Day Trade Coach is a day trading simulator built for focus. Cut through the noise, master the set-ups that actually work, and build your edge, one trade at a time.

Why similar: Trading 34.2%, Capitalism 26.5%, Strategy 13.7%, Economy 12.9%, Simulation 11.2%

Run your own video rental store in the golden years of VHS: buy movie rights, handle your customers, rewind tapes, and build a home-entertainment empire. A time capsule you can play.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 37.6% ★, Capitalism 28.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Economy 7.2%, Simulation 5.5%

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 13.9%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 9.3%

Buy junk, hunt for rare treasures, and turn it all into profit in your own resale shop. Haggle with sellers, repair antiques yourself or through hired workers, craft handmade, and level up your skills to carry and sell more. If you hate hauling heavy stuff, buy a vehicle. Build your resale empire.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.4% ★, Capitalism 28.6%, Trading 24.2%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 3.2%

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

Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.5% ★, Trading 26.8%, Capitalism 22.2%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 5.6%

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 34.2% ★, Trading 26.1%, Capitalism 21.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Economy 8.6%

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 31.5% ★, Trading 24.8%, Capitalism 24.7%, Economy 12%, Simulation 6.7%

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: Shop Keeper 30.4% ★, Trading 24.5%, Capitalism 21.5%, Economy 12.5%, Simulation 10.3%

A real-time portfolio management sim where you build a career as a stock broker. Balance clients' trust, market timing, and your own reputation on a procedurally-generated Wall Street that never stops moving.

Why similar: Capitalism 34.7%, Trading 27.7%, Economy 13.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 7.6%

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 25.8%, Trading 18.6%, Shop Keeper 17.8% ★, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 7.3%

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 30.2%, Capitalism 24.4%, Shop Keeper 20.5% ★, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 7.5%

Invest into promising startups with sometimes wacky ideas. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.

Why similar: Capitalism 36.8%, Trading 31.4%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 33.9%, Shop Keeper 29.8% ★, Trading 13.8%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 7.7%

Run a small coastal supermarket and grow it into a chain. Choose your assortment, set your prices, lay out the aisles your customers actually walk, and build a team that keeps the tills moving. A calm, hand-drawn tycoon where every euro of running cost is a decision.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.5% ★, Capitalism 25.6%, Trading 21.4%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.4%

Build an investment firm, trade fictional markets, acquire income-producing property, and create your own ETFs as you grow from a small office into a financial empire in this player-paced management simulation.

Why similar: Capitalism 31.9%, Trading 28.7%, Economy 15.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.7%

💼 Start broke. Build an empire. Climb the career ladder, invest in stocks and real estate, or launch your own business from scratch. Every decision shapes your destiny. Millionaire or bankrupt—you decide.

Why similar: Capitalism 23.1%, Shop Keeper 22.4% ★, Trading 20.1%, Economy 10.6%, Resource Management 6%

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: Trading 32.5%, Shop Keeper 31.4% ★, Capitalism 18.8%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.9%

Project Khatanga 1989 is a retro economic simulation game about buying, storing, tracking, and selling goods across volatile international markets. Manage limited storage, compare currencies, watch shifting prices, and decide when to hold or sell.

Why similar: Capitalism 42.1%, Trading 31.7%, Economy 15.8%, Simulation 8.3%, 2D 1.7%

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 26.3% ★, Capitalism 22.8%, Trading 20.1%, Economy 10.1%, Point & Click 7.3%

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 32.6% ★, Capitalism 27.1%, Trading 21.8%, Economy 10.9%, Simulation 5.4%

Travel across a living medieval economy, buy goods where supply is strong, and sell where demand creates opportunity. Manage cargo, routes, escorts, seasonal markets, rival merchants, and risk in a focused, relaxing trading simulation.

Why similar: Trading 34.8%, Shop Keeper 30.9% ★, Economy 13%, Resource Management 7.1%, Strategy 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 28.7%, Trading 25.4%, Shop Keeper 14.6% ★, Economy 14.3%, Simulation 10.8%

A business sim + looting + strategy hybrid. Outbid rival hunters at storage auctions, ransack what you win, then run the shop that bankrolls Peter's search for his missing grandfather. Sabotage cards, Dutch vs English bidding, harpoon chases. Every box could hide a secret.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30% ★, Capitalism 24.8%, Trading 24.2%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 5.4%

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 35.3% ★, Trading 22.8%, Capitalism 11.7%, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 6.1%

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 29.7% ★, Trading 25.4%, Capitalism 20.6%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 6.7%

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 39.6% ★, Trading 20.8%, Capitalism 14.9%, Economy 11.5%, Simulation 8.8%

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 29.4% ★, Trading 22.9%, Capitalism 22.8%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 6.4%

Build. Grow. Dominate. A deep CEO simulator for finance professionals and ambitious founders, run your own finance firm and turn it into a formidable giant in the world of finance!

Why similar: Capitalism 35.4%, Trading 26.5%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 6.9%

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: Capitalism 27.8%, Trading 23.6%, Shop Keeper 22.1% ★, Economy 11.5%, Strategy 6.7%

A high-pressure management sim where you build a defense contractor from nothing, secure contracts, expand production, manage staff and supply chains, and fight to stay ahead of cash flow, compliance, and collapse.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.3%, Trading 24.5%, Economy 13.9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Strategy 8%

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 36.1% ★, Capitalism 30.9%, Economy 12.5%, Time Management 10%, Simulation 6%

Run a struggling roadside kiosk, hunt for cheap goods at the flea market, stock your shelves, set your own prices, and deal with strange customers, thieves, troublemakers, and the daily cost of staying in business.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.1% ★, Trading 26.8%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Capitalism 7.3%

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 29.8%, Capitalism 25.1%, Economy 12%, Strategy 7.6%, Point & Click 6.3%

Build the ultimate tech store empire! Buy wholesale electronics, stock shelves, and sell the latest smartphones. Master hardware repairs for extra cash. Manage your hunger in a life sim open world, hire staff, and expand your retail tycoon business.

Why similar: Trading 26.9%, Capitalism 20.3%, Shop Keeper 19.1% ★, Economy 14.9%, Simulation 11.2%

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 31.7% ★, Trading 23.3%, Capitalism 14.5%, Economy 13.5%, Simulation 10.2%

"In this economic strategy game starting in the Great Depression of 1929, buy stocks, take over companies, acquire countries, and shape world history. Compete fiercely against rivals to manipulate UN decisions, invest in the technologies of the era, and build mega projects.

Why similar: Capitalism 29.8%, Trading 28.7%, Economy 13.9%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 10.6%

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 31.1% ★, Trading 23.3%, Capitalism 17.1%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 5.9%

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 31% ★, Trading 27.9%, Capitalism 20.4%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 5.9%

A political-economic shop survival game. In a world nearing its end, the national and global agenda in crisis-stricken Jasskia shifts every day. In the middle of it all, build your business, meet people, witness unsettling truths, find ways to make money, and prepare for the coming end.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.5% ★, Capitalism 25%, Economy 16.2%, Resource Management 6.9%, 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 31.4% ★, Capitalism 26%, Trading 24.6%, Economy 11%, Simulation 3.8%

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 27.6% ★, Capitalism 22.6%, Trading 19.1%, Economy 9.5%, Time Management 6.5%

"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 35.3% ★, Capitalism 27%, Economy 13.1%, Time Management 7.5%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 33.7%, Shop Keeper 24.3% ★, Capitalism 14.3%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 10.1%

There is no money left, and no supplier to order from. Survivors bring what they have to your counter and tell you what they need. Trade goods for goods, tear the junk down for parts at the bench, and stake scavengers with gear off your own shelves to bring back what you cannot make.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.3% ★, Trading 27.2%, Capitalism 13.7%, Economy 9.9%, Simulation 9.3%

MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.5%, Trading 26.8%, Economy 13%, 1980s 8.8%, Strategy 7.4%

Chase rumours, read the market, and stay one step ahead of your rivals. Buy low, sell high, run your travelling stall, haggle with customers, adapt to changing laws, and use each day’s results to plan your next route.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.6% ★, Capitalism 16.8%, Economy 15%, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 9.1%

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 41% ★, Trading 34.2%, Economy 13.4%, Simulation 7.1%, Resource Management 2.8%

Run an antique shop during the day. Lead a criminal organization at night. Maintain a balance between profit, loyalty, and suspicion... Every choice has consequences.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.5% ★, Capitalism 17.3%, Point & Click 13.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 8.1%

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 27.4%, Shop Keeper 25.9% ★, Capitalism 22%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 6%

CAPITALIUM is a turn-based economic simulation set during an industrial revolution. Begin with a single deal, trade in a living market, found companies and build supply chains. Compete for wealth and power, earn a royal charter, take railways to the frontier, and build and name your own city.

Why similar: Capitalism 27%, Shop Keeper 22.1% ★, Trading 18.5%, Economy 14.9%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 39% ★, Trading 38.3%, Economy 13.8%, Simulation 8.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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%, Economy 17%, 1980s 10.9%, Strategy 10%, Point & Click 8.6%

Buy low, sell high. Master the art of the deal. Deal Flipper is a first-person flipping sim where you scour an online marketplace, haggle with sellers in real-time chat, and resell for profit. Every trader plays differently. Read them, outdeal them, and build your empire.

Why similar: Capitalism 27.1%, Shop Keeper 25.8% ★, Trading 25.7%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 5.7%

Run a business in the figurines & board games sector, serve customers, build relationships with them, organize tabletop events, order stock and hire staff. But! that’s only half the story. After work, establish and foster bonds with key persons who can affect the direction of your business.

Why similar: Trading 29.7%, Shop Keeper 25.9% ★, Capitalism 18.4%, Economy 13.4%, Simulation 6.9%