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 23.1%, Trading 22.3%, Shop Keeper 21.8% ★, Economy 10.8%, Strategy 8.4%

Stock Baron is a strategy sim set in a fictional stock market. Become a market titan with vast capital, superior intel and an arsenal of trading tactics. Your moves sway prices, while other market players seize their chances. Enter a battle of wits amid fear and greed, and make your fortune!

Why similar: Trading 34.1%, Capitalism 19.7%, Economy 16.4%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 9.3%

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 25.9% ★, Trading 24%, Capitalism 21.9%, Economy 9%, Strategy 6.8%

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 24.9% ★, Trading 22%, Capitalism 18.8%, Economy 10.6%, Point & Click 7.1%

Survive first. Compound second. Trade simulated markets, manage risk and grow a virtual account across five modes. Explore interactive lessons on risk and position sizing, review your trades, and practice with a local rules-based coach. Play entirely offline.

Why similar: Trading 39.6%, Capitalism 26.2%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 9.1%

₩1,000,000 — about $700 — and no safety net. A real-time stock-trading sim where judgment is your only weapon: read the news, read the charts, time every trade. Climb from a windowless room to a private island, Bronze to Legend. Fall to the bottom, and the Hangang is waiting.

Why similar: Trading 35.7%, Capitalism 26.8%, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 8.5%

Build your own supermarket from the ground up! Stock the shelves, set your prices, serve your customers, and feel the satisfaction of running a store that is truly yours.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.5% ★, Trading 26%, Capitalism 14.3%, Economy 10%, Simulation 8.1%

Trade fictional markets one candle at a time in a single-player trading simulation. Start Survival with $5,000, manage risk and learn through guided lessons. Compare your current and highest virtual balances on global and Steam friends leaderboards (beta).

Why similar: Trading 37.1%, Capitalism 27%, Economy 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 9.2%

Build and run a multi-entity family office: source commercial property deals, compare financing, negotiate terms, manage debt and cash flow, hire staff, structure trusts, and carry the institution into the next generation.

Why similar: Capitalism 30.1%, Trading 25.8%, Economy 13.4%, Shop Keeper 9% ★, Resource Management 7.2%

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 18.6%, Strategy 14.1%, Economy 12%, Resource Management 9.2%

Open a convenience store... in space! Set prices, stock shelves, and help alien customers as your business grows in your own corner of the galaxy.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.1% ★, Capitalism 26.8%, Trading 20%, Economy 10.6%, Simulation 9.8%

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 37.5% ★, Capitalism 31.5%, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 6.3%

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 34.6%, Trading 34.1%, Economy 16.1%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 6.2%

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 34.1%, Capitalism 26.6%, Strategy 13.8%, Economy 12.7%, Simulation 11.3%

Across five cities mapped from real geographic data, run a restaurant chain: open locations, develop products, set prices and manage cash flow. Make decisions week by week, expand abroad and acquire companies. Grow one restaurant into an international chain.

Why similar: Capitalism 32.5%, Shop Keeper 30.8% ★, Economy 15.8%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 6.9%

Run a second-hand retro game shop. Haggle over every deal, appraise consoles and games, spot counterfeits, and sell to the right customer at the right price. Manage it all from your shop PC: market trends, loans, bills, staff and shady hackers. Earn, upgrade, and build your retro empire.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.7% ★, Capitalism 24.6%, Trading 19.8%, Economy 10.1%, Time Management 7.3%

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 29% ★, Trading 25.9%, Capitalism 18.8%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 5.9%

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 36.5% ★, Capitalism 28.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Economy 7.2%, Simulation 5.6%

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 34.8%, Trading 27.6%, Economy 13.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.6%

Run your own Repair shop! Converse with customers, book their request, order new parts, fix their device and earn your keep. Collect damaged devices and repair them with spare parts later. Order devices from auctions and earn extra money.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.1% ★, Capitalism 27%, Trading 22.9%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 3.9%

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 28.7% ★, Trading 27.1%, Capitalism 22.6%, 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 33.2% ★, Trading 26.4%, Capitalism 21.4%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 8.6%

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 29.4% ★, Trading 26.4%, Capitalism 17.8%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 6.2%

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 30.6% ★, Trading 25.1%, Capitalism 25.1%, Economy 12%, Simulation 6.9%

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 29.8% ★, Trading 24.5%, Capitalism 21.7%, Economy 12.4%, Simulation 10.6%

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 37%, Trading 31.4%, Economy 11.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Resource Management 6.1%

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 34.6% ★, Capitalism 26.4%, Trading 20.2%, Simulation 9.6%, Economy 9%

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 26.2%, Trading 18.7%, Shop Keeper 17.2% ★, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 7.2%

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 30.5%, Capitalism 24.8%, Shop Keeper 19.8% ★, Economy 13.5%, Simulation 7.6%

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 34.4%, Shop Keeper 28.9% ★, Trading 13.9%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7.9%

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 32.1%, Trading 28.7%, Economy 14.9%, Strategy 8.3%, Resource Management 7.6%

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 33.5% ★, Capitalism 26.1%, Trading 21.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.6%

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 42.2%, Trading 31.7%, Economy 15.6%, Simulation 8.4%, 2D 1.7%

You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.

Why similar: Capitalism 23.4%, Shop Keeper 21.7% ★, Trading 20.2%, Economy 10.6%, Strategy 5.9%

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 29.1%, Trading 25.6%, Economy 14.2%, Shop Keeper 14.1% ★, Simulation 10.9%

It's 1995 and the bank is yours. Set rates, approve loans, take deposits, deal in stocks, satisfy the regulator, and try not to break too many rules. A deep banking and finance management sim wrapped in a mid-1990’s desktop.

Why similar: Capitalism 32.2%, Trading 31%, Economy 14.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 6.4%

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 31.8% ★, Capitalism 27.6%, Trading 22.1%, Economy 10.9%, Simulation 5.5%

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 29.1% ★, Capitalism 25.3%, Trading 24.4%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 5.5%

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 25.5% ★, Capitalism 23.1%, Trading 20.3%, Economy 10%, Point & Click 7.5%

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 35.3%, Shop Keeper 30.1% ★, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 7.2%, Resource Management 7.1%

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 32.8%, Shop Keeper 30.5% ★, Capitalism 19.1%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 5%

Manage offices, stores, hubs, imports/exports and complex supply chains to keep entire cities thriving in Equilibrium Co. Expand industry networks, research upgrades and balance ever-changing and evolving markets using a modern, professional Saas-style dashboard.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30% ★, Capitalism 23.5%, Trading 15.7%, Time Management 8.6%, Economy 8.5%

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 25.4%, Trading 24.5%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Strategy 8%

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 35.6%, Trading 26.5%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 8.9%, Strategy 7%

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 34.4% ★, Trading 23.1%, Capitalism 11.9%, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 6.3%

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 28.6% ★, Capitalism 23.2%, Trading 23.1%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 6.5%

"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 30%, Trading 28.7%, Economy 13.7%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 10.7%

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 30.8%, Trading 27.2%, Economy 13%, 1980s 8.6%, Strategy 7.2%

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 28.2%, Trading 23.8%, Shop Keeper 21.4% ★, Economy 11.5%, Strategy 6.8%

Run the last independent store on a street with two rivals who undercut you daily. Every product has its own breaking point — one markup never works. Order stock, stack shelves, set prices, and count the till at close. Beat them, or watch them take your street.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.6% ★, Capitalism 30.7%, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 8%, Time Management 7%

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 30.3% ★, Trading 23.5%, Capitalism 17.4%, Economy 10.2%, Strategy 5.9%

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 29.7%, Capitalism 25.2%, Economy 11.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Point & Click 6.5%

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 27%, Capitalism 20.5%, Shop Keeper 18.5% ★, Economy 14.8%, Simulation 11.4%

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 38.2% ★, Trading 27.3%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 9%, Capitalism 7.5%

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 28.9% ★, Trading 25.7%, Capitalism 21%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 6.6%

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 35.2% ★, Capitalism 31.5%, Economy 12.5%, Time Management 10.2%, Simulation 6.1%

Run your very own mystery egg shop! Stock shelves, manage customers and grow your business. Open eggs, collect figures, build themed Dioramas , build your own ultimate collection and display your rarest finds. Trade or sell items directly to real players in the player-to-player marketplace!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.5% ★, Capitalism 26.5%, Trading 24.9%, Economy 11%, Simulation 3.9%

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 30.9% ★, Trading 23.5%, Capitalism 14.8%, Economy 13.5%, Simulation 10.5%

Run a cozy magical pawnshop where you buy suspicious magical junk, uncover ridiculous enchantments, craft bizarre artifacts, haggle with eccentric customers, and turn magical trash into profit.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.9% ★, Trading 26.8%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 9.8%

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: Capitalism 24.5%, Trading 15.8%, Shop Keeper 14.1% ★, Economy 13.6%, Strategy 11%