Games Like Roadside Research

Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.

Why similar: Economy 17.1%, Trading 16.1%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Life Sim 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished version of the restocking and shop-management mechanics central to the seed game.

Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.

Why similar: Economy 23.1%, Building 16.8%, Management 16.7%, Simulation 12.5%, Relaxing 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive gas station management experience that serves as the core inspiration for the gameplay loop.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Co-op 37%, Funny 22.6%, First-Person 22.5%, Sci-fi 18%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same chaotic co-op energy and alien-themed scavenging found in Roadside Research.

Film your friends doing scary things to become SpöökTube famous! (strongly advised to not go alone)

Why similar: Co-op 30.9%, Comedy 30.7%, Funny 21.4%, First-Person 17%

Why You'll Like It: This game balances mundane tasks with a secret, high-stakes objective that requires teamwork and coordination.

The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!

Why similar: Economy 16.9%, Trading 16%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Life Sim 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the retail management loop into a multiplayer environment, allowing for shared responsibilities.

Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.

Why similar: Economy 18.5%, Management 17.3%, Shop Keeper 16.1% ★, Trading 14.9%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a satisfying economy and inventory management system that keeps players engaged in the shop-keeping loop.

What turns a drug dealer into a drug lord? Find out in DDS2, a first-person co-op sim set in a dynamic open world. Make contacts, cook drugs, and manage your cartel on Isla Sombra, where power is the only law.

Why similar: Trading 26.1%, Inventory Management 21%, Resource Management 13.8%, Management 12.6%, Co-op 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same tension of maintaining a legitimate business front while managing illicit, undercover activities.

Cook and serve your dishes, design and decorate your restaurants, and expand your culinary kingdom with new unlocks, abilities and dishes in procedurally-generated locations. Classic cooking action with permanent roguelite progression. Hire your friends - or do it all yourself!

Why similar: Co-op 31.4%, Management 29.3%, Building 24%, Funny 10.2%, Casual 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at chaotic co-op management where efficiency is key to surviving increasingly difficult shifts.

Play as one of the bidders for abandoned warehouses and uncover hidden treasures! Storage Hunter is a garage auction simulation game. Bid, win, and sell for profit! Become the king of storage auction.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.1% ★, Trading 18.6%, Economy 12.2%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends shop-keeping with an immersive-sim approach to inventory and auction management.

Dust off your torch and hammer - it's time to get back to work, you have a new job to do. Visit the new beach coast with the largest, biggest ship graveyard in the world, dismantle huge ship parts and collect tons of precious steel. Roll up your sleeves, it's time to get back to the business.

Why similar: Inventory Management 21.7%, Building 21.1%, Management 20.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Relaxing 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep, immersive job-simulation experience focused on manual labor and resource management.

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Trading 16.3%, Economy 12.7%, Inventory Management 11%, Life Sim 9.9%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a broader management perspective for those who enjoy the economy and capitalism aspects of shop sims.

An ultimate 1-8 player Co-op Simulation game where you build and manage your gas station completely from scratch. Team up with your friends, provide exceptional service and grow your business! Collaboration (and some chaos!) is the key to success—fuel up, have your fun and rise to the top!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 21.6% ★, Economy 13%, Inventory Management 12.3%, Management 8.8%, Life Sim 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic alternative that focuses on the day-to-day operations of running a roadside fuel stop.

Restore an old motel alongside a shop and a gas station. Design, furnish, decorate and rent rooms. provide products for customers and fuel for cars. Hire employees to help you and be the boss of your own empire.

Why similar: Trading 21.8%, Economy 17.5%, Life Sim 13.8%, Management 13%, Immersive Sim 12%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar management experience, requiring players to maintain facilities and serve customers.

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 24%, Management 22.4%, Life Sim 15.5%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Resource Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the scope of management simulation to a city-wide scale, perfect for players who enjoy complex business operations.

Run your retail company. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 24.2% ★, Life Sim 11.7%, Trading 11.5%, Economy 10%, Inventory Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the collaborative aspects of retail work in a co-op setting.

Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.

Why similar: Economy 25.5%, Building 20.2%, Immersive Sim 20.2%, Relaxing 12.9%, First-Person 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly immersive renovation and management experience with a focus on detail-oriented tasks.

Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.

Why similar: Life Sim 14.9%, Trading 14%, Management 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Inventory Management 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op management game that emphasizes working together to build a successful marketplace business.

Search for valuable items stashed in abandoned barns. Take part in storage auctions, bid high and buy yourself a chance to find exclusive items hidden in the past.

Why similar: Trading 28.7%, Economy 17.3%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines shop-keeping with exploration and inventory management in a quirky, humorous setting.

Run your tobacco shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.6% ★, Life Sim 12.2%, Economy 11.6%, Immersive Sim 8%, Trading 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A niche shop-keeping simulator that focuses on inventory management and daily operational tasks.

Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 24.4% ★, Inventory Management 11.2%, Trading 10.4%, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the nostalgia of running a specific type of shop with management and design elements.

A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.

Why similar: Simulation 21.8%, Co-op 13.3%, Management 11.6%, Funny 10.8%, Economy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: The physics-based interaction with objects provides a similar tactile feel to the restocking mechanics in Roadside Research.

Set up stalls with fresh vegetables, fruits, and fish. Deliver customer orders, set prices, and expand your bazaar. Catch your own fish to sell and enjoy fishing's thrill. Collaborate with friends in multiplayer mode to manage the bazaar together. Much more is coming soon!

Why similar: Trading 18.4%, Economy 14%, Life Sim 10.5%, Management 10%, Immersive Sim 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique economy-focused management experience in a bustling marketplace setting.

Moving Out is back and wackier than ever, and now with ONLINE PLAY! Return to Packmore and use your moving skills across brand new dimensions and some old favourites. Help rebuild Smooth Moves and become an all-star F.A.R.T. (Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician)!

Why similar: Co-op 47.2%, Simulation 30.2%, Casual 15.4%, Singleplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op job simulator emphasizes teamwork and physics-based chaos in a professional setting.

Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Economy 14.2%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Life Sim 11.4%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a management-heavy experience focused on maintaining a large-scale public facility.

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 23.6% ★, Trading 16.8%, Economy 11.6%, Management 8.8%, Life Sim 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward shop-keeping experience with a focus on inventory and customer management.

Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!

Why similar: Management 17.2%, Life Sim 14.7%, Immersive Sim 13%, Building 13%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a fun, co-op focused management experience centered around cooking and customer service.

Open your own bookshop! Order books, stock your shelves, and earn revenue. Use your profits to decorate, expand, and hire staff. Collect rare books that give powerful abilities. Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company along the way!

Why similar: Trading 19.1%, Shop Keeper 15.9% ★, Economy 12.9%, Management 9.8%, Life Sim 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing shop-keeping simulator that focuses on inventory management and customer interaction.

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 24.2% ★, Inventory Management 12.1%, Economy 11.5%, Life Sim 10.1%, Management 8.8%

Compete with up to 4 players to build the most successful hardware store! Design your shop, manage inventory, hire employees, and influence market prices in this detailed business simulator. Master retail management as you expand your store empire.

Why similar: Economy 14.8%, Life Sim 12.8%, Management 11.5%, Building 11.4%, Immersive Sim 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows players to manage a specialized retail store with a focus on inventory and customer satisfaction.

Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers. Experience the challenge of managing a business in space and growing your market

Why similar: Economy 18.1%, Life Sim 15%, Management 12.8%, Building 10%, Immersive Sim 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the extraterrestrial theme while focusing on the management of a specialized shop.

Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.

Why similar: Inventory Management 18.3%, Economy 15.2%, Resource Management 12.5%, Management 11.5%, Co-op 10.4%

Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Economy 16.3%, Inventory Management 14.4%, Life Sim 13.3%, Management 12.9%, Co-op 11.9%

Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 23.4% ★, Trading 16.4%, Economy 11%, Immersive Sim 9.3%, Inventory Management 9.2%

Run your pizza shop up front and handle shady business out back. Help hand-crafted NPCs with favors that never go as planned. Play solo or online co-op with up to four players and expand your operation across Hobarey Town. In this darkly comedic management sim - become that guy everyone knows.

Why similar: Trading 15.3%, Economy 15.1%, Immersive Sim 10.8%, Co-op 10.7%, Character Customization 10.5%

Car Service Together is a 1-4 co-op & single player simulation game where you and/or with your friends start from scratch and build your way up. Work together to successfully run your own service center. Team up, manage your business, and create the ultimate car service !

Why similar: Co-op 21.5%, Building 20.4%, Relaxing 15.2%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Management 10.8%

Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.1% ★, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Immersive Sim 10.7%, Management 9.6%

Megastore Simulator is a first-person management & tycoon game. Start small and grow into a massive two-floor megastore with forklifts, pallet jacks, and staff. Unlock and manage departments like Bakery, Clothing, Electronics, Sports, Music, Toys, Grocery, Seafood, and Vending Machines

Why similar: Trading 14%, Shop Keeper 14% ★, Economy 11.8%, Life Sim 11.4%, Management 9.9%

Tools Up! is an exciting local co-op that tests your renovation and teamwork skills. Paint walls, tear off wallpaper, and move couches against the clock!

Why similar: Funny 33.3%, Simulation 27.4%, Co-op 22.4%, Casual 14%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced co-op game that focuses on completing renovation tasks under time pressure.

Build a top-tier business solo or in co-op (1–4 players). Start from scratch, keep the slot machines spinning and deal with chaotic events like vandals and alien invasions. Grow your fortune and show everyone why the house always wins.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 19.4% ★, Economy 12.6%, Life Sim 10.9%, Management 9.3%, Building 9.2%

Run your own figure shop! Produce figures with 3D printers, stock your shelves, set prices, and offer the best shopping experience to your customers. Manage your storage, expand and design your store. Try to complete collection sets, follow market trends, and grow your business!

Why similar: Trading 22%, Economy 15.4%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Life Sim 10.5%, Resource Management 9.8%

Run your own tabletop game shop! Stock shelves, glue & paint minis, battle customers on game night, and grow your store into the ultimate nerd paradise.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 36% ★, Immersive Sim 12.5%, Life Sim 12.3%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 8.7%

Competitive mall simulation. 1-8 players open stores in the same mall, fight for customers, crush rivals. Team up or go solo. Fair play or dirty tricks? Your call. Procedural maps, employee system,mall cops, smugglers and physical mechanics.

Why similar: Trading 22.4%, Economy 16.8%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 11.9%, Life Sim 7.6%

Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!

Why similar: Economy 13.1%, Inventory Management 13.1%, Co-op 12%, Life Sim 11.2%, Immersive Sim 11.1%

Welcome to the world's most chaotic place! Play solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Run a fast-food restaurant, and work with your friends to expand your business. Take orders, make burgers, and increase your earnings by dealing with customers.

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Simulation 22.8%, Co-op 20.1%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, First-Person 6.9%

Run a massive hypermarket with diverse departments—from sportswear and electronics to plants, home décor, and more—featuring a growing catalog of over 540 products. Manage your staff by assigning tasks, training them, sending them on break, or firing them as you build the ultimate retail operation.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 24.4% ★, Economy 13.8%, Management 10.4%, Trading 10.3%, Life Sim 9.7%

Run a General Store in the Wild West. Customize and expand your shop. Make sure that your customers’ constantly changing needs are satisfied. Work every job yourself or let your employees stack the shelves and work the till. Find out what it feels like to own a Wild West Supermarket.

Why similar: Trading 21.1%, Economy 16.7%, Management 12.6%, Life Sim 11.3%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

You're the last remaining video rental store. From humble VHS clerk to rental racketeer - run your video store and explore Reshoot Springs, building an underground empire. Expand with upgrades, side hustles, store membership, and more. Whatever it takes to survive - solo or in up to 4-player co-op.

Why similar: Life Sim 17.9%, Co-op 16%, Character Customization 14.1%, Management 12.6%, Immersive Sim 10.6%

Run your own toy store! Arrange shelves, set prices, process payments, and manage staff. Expand and design your shop, handle online orders, deliver with a scooter, trade rare toys, and ensure security. Create a magical shopping experience in Toy Shop Simulator!

Why similar: Trading 19%, Economy 14.1%, Management 10.1%, Immersive Sim 10%, Inventory Management 9.8%

Open your local game store early with the Prologue version, which includes main gameplay of the full version, but with limited progression. Stock shelves with booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, sell cards to customer.

Why similar: Economy 18.6%, Trading 17.7%, Management 16.7%, Life Sim 12.2%, Immersive Sim 10.6%

EARLY ACCESS – Create and expand your dream supermarket. Manage your aisles, inventory, machines, cleaning, deliveries, and staff. Welcome your customers and decorate every corner. Play solo or with up to 6 players and transform a small shop into a retail empire!

Why similar: Economy 25.3%, Resource Management 23.3%, Co-op 19.7%, Management 19.1%, Simulation 7.2%

Weed Supermarket Simulator is a chill store sim where you grow weed, develop new strains, set prices, and keep your shelves stocked. Expand your business and optimize it for maximum profit. Manage employees, handle inventory, and turn your shop into a high-performing business.

Why similar: Trading 19.7%, Inventory Management 13.9%, Economy 13.7%, Immersive Sim 12%, Management 11.2%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! Start working with Prologue now. To avoid going bankrupt, you'll need to build new stores, set good prices and keep up with trends. A limited number of stores & services for Prologue are waiting for you.

Why similar: Trading 17.4%, Economy 12.7%, Inventory Management 10.5%, Life Sim 9.9%, Management 9.6%

Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.

Why similar: Trading 19%, Economy 16.4%, Management 11.6%, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Life Sim 9.9%

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 16.8%, Economy 12.4%, Shop Keeper 12.3% ★, Inventory Management 9.8%, Immersive Sim 8.9%

You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?

Why similar: Life Sim 25.4%, Immersive Sim 19.2%, Simulation 16.6%, First-Person 14.8%, Funny 11%

Run a roadside Pizza restaurant with your friends. Play solo or in Co-op with other players. Make pizzas fast and fill orders. Keep your customers happy and get more orders. Improve your restaurant as your income increases.

Why similar: Economy 19.6%, Life Sim 18.8%, Co-op 14.5%, Immersive Sim 13.6%, Management 13.3%

DESIGN, SELL & EXPAND – YOUR SUCCESS IS IN YOUR HANDS. Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in Shop Simulator: Supermarket. Immerse yourself in the world of retail and start your own business today!

Why similar: Economy 14.7%, Life Sim 12.4%, Inventory Management 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11%, Management 10.9%

Enter the world of shopkeepers trading in reclaimed goods! Bid for the best items at auction, prepare and clean the bought items, and then sell them in your shop. Test your skills and watch your business grow!

Why similar: Life Sim 18%, Immersive Sim 12.6%, Trading 11.6%, Economy 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%

Run your sporting goods shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and run little contests to entertain your customers. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 28.1% ★, Life Sim 13.2%, Economy 11.4%, Trading 11.2%, Inventory Management 8.8%