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 16.9%, Trading 16.3%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Life Sim 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same satisfying first-person inventory management, restocking, and cash-register operation found in Roadside Research.

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: Shop Keeper 15.6% ★, Inventory Management 14.9%, Economy 12.1%, Online Co-Op 10.4%, Management 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses intensely on storefront logistics, ordering stock, and keeping customers happy just like managing a front-facing alien disguise.

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: Online Co-Op 17.5%, Economy 13.5%, Trading 13.2%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Brings the same cooperative management vibe where you and friends work together to build and run a retail business.

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 22.2%, Building 17%, Management 16.7%, Simulation 12.8%, Relaxing 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the exact same core setting and management mechanics of running a roadside fueling stop and convenience store.

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 22.5% ★, Inventory Management 12.1%, Economy 11.2%, Life Sim 10.3%, Online Co-Op 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the isolated roadside business management theme where you handle customer needs and facility maintenance.

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 21.5% ★, Trading 17.2%, Economy 11.1%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Online Co-Op 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines immersive simulation mechanics with retail management and economic resource gathering.

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 19.8% ★, Economy 12.6%, Inventory Management 12.2%, Life Sim 9%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: Another direct genre peer that emphasizes running day-to-day operations at a busy highway stop.

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 14.3%, Trading 13.2%, Management 11.9%, Online Co-Op 11.7%, Immersive Sim 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features co-op business management where players cooperate to run a bustling marketplace storefront.

Start your supermarket business and make your own trading Journey! With Co-op support Play solo or team up with friends, featuring over 300 items you can make your dream store, enjoy it with your friends!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.6% ★, Trading 13.8%, Life Sim 10.5%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a cozy, cooperative shop-keeping and survival-lite economy experience with friends.

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 16.8%, Shop Keeper 16% ★, Economy 11.1%, Life Sim 9.3%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a relaxing, immersive retail management experience centered around organizing and selling specific goods.

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 13.9%, Life Sim 12.8%, Building 11.5%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the first-person retail simulation framework where you organize inventory, restock shelves, and serve patrons.

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 21.5%, Economy 16.9%, Life Sim 13.9%, Management 13%, Immersive Sim 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on running a roadside hospitality business, matching the remote operational style of Roadside Research.

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: Online Co-Op 31.8%, Management 27.1%, Simulation 19.4%, Immersive Sim 8.1%, First-Person 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines frantic multiplayer order fulfillment and customer service within a hands-on simulation environment.

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%, Economy 12.2%, Inventory Management 10.9%, Life Sim 10%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: Expands the shop-keeper and resource management mechanics into a larger commercial enterprise.

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 22.2% ★, Trading 16.8%, Economy 11.5%, Management 9%, Life Sim 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Maintains the hyper-focused single-store management and inventory tracking gameplay loop.

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 23.4% ★, Life Sim 12.4%, Economy 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.9%, Immersive Sim 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers niche storefront management with similar first-person retail mechanics.

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

Why similar: Economy 15.3%, Building 12.4%, Immersive Sim 12.2%, Inventory Management 12%, Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the business simulation and facility management aspects of keeping a complex running smoothly.

Build an Empire from Pallet Returns! Buy mystery pallets of customer returns, uncover hidden treasures, and fix broken electronics! Manage your own outlet store and take risks to turn someone else's returns into your pure profit!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 21.7% ★, Trading 16.5%, Economy 10.9%, Immersive Sim 9.6%, Life Sim 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes inventory sorting, pricing, and shop upkeep reminiscent of retail management loops.

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 21.9% ★, Life Sim 11.8%, Trading 11.2%, Economy 9.6%, Online Co-Op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses you in the everyday life of managing retail floors and customer interactions.

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 16.4%, Economy 12.2%, Online Co-Op 9.7%, Life Sim 9.6%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Enables cooperative economic management and trading in an interactive marketplace setting.

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: Online Co-Op 21.9%, Building 20.4%, Relaxing 15%, Immersive Sim 14.3%, Simulation 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a cooperative garage and vehicle maintenance loop akin to running a roadside service station.

EARLY ACCESS - Solo or with up to 6 players, build, manage, and grow your supermarket. Stock your shelves, manage inventory, deliveries, staff, and machines. Customize your store and grow it from a small grocery shop into a full-fledged superstore.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.9% ★, Economy 17.5%, Management 12.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Online Co-Op 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox retail manager focusing on first-person store layout and economy balance.

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 16.8%, Economy 16.3%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Character Customization 11.8%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the quirky, slightly illicit undercurrent of operating a cover business while hiding shady activities.

From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

Why similar: Management 34.8%, Simulation 19.9%, Building 19.9%, First-Person 12.7%, Character Customization 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Involves balancing an ordinary-seeming enterprise with illegal behind-the-scenes production and survival elements.

Create and decorate your cozy cafe, where guests can enjoy delicious food and drinks. Expand your service with a supermarket offering a wide selection of fresh products, so visitors can not only have a tasty meal but also do some shopping. Play solo or with friends in cooperative mode!

Why similar: Building 13.7%, Economy 12.6%, Online Co-Op 12.6%, Management 12.2%, Immersive Sim 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends shop-keeping with customization and cooperative management elements.

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 23.2% ★, Economy 13.7%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative resource collection and management centered around fuel logistics.

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: Inventory Management 12.9%, Economy 12.5%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Life Sim 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides chaotic, hands-on cooperative food preparation and customer service.

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 23.4% ★, Inventory Management 11.1%, Trading 10.3%, Economy 9%, Management 8.5%

Run your mall. Open new stores, sign contracts with leading brands, hire teammates, and meet customer needs. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your mall.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.8% ★, Life Sim 14.2%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Management 8.6%, Immersive Sim 8.3%

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 16.5%, Inventory Management 15%, Life Sim 14.2%, Management 13.6%, Simulation 10%

Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW

Why similar: Trading 26.9%, Simulation 19.5%, Resource Management 15.1%, Inventory Management 12.9%, Management 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the tense undercover management aspect of running a front business while engaging in covert operations.

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 21.5%, Economy 14.8%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Life Sim 10.6%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 23.4% ★, Trading 16.3%, Economy 11.1%, Life Sim 9.6%, Immersive Sim 9.5%

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 17.9%, Shop Keeper 17.4% ★, Management 17%, Trading 14%, Simulation 10.4%

Manage your own anime shop 🎌. Play solo or team up with friends 🤝 in 4-player co-op mode to grow your business 📈 Stock shelves with manga, figures, and collectible cards in this immersive first-person game 🕹️.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.9% ★, Life Sim 15.1%, Online Co-Op 13.2%, Management 12.4%, Immersive Sim 12%

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Simulation 32.8%, Immersive Sim 22.6%, First-Person 21.3%, Funny 15.4%, Singleplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to the stealth and covert infiltration mechanics required when trying not to get caught.

Run your Parisian bistro in the heart of Paris, solo or in co-op with up to 8 players! Curate your menu, manage supplies, serve customers, and expand with new floors, a terrace, and a rooftop to become a true Parisian institution.

Why similar: Trading 15.3%, Life Sim 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.8%

Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.3% ★, Economy 12.2%, Life Sim 11.9%, Management 10%, Online Co-Op 9.8%

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 17.3%, Life Sim 15.1%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 10.4%

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 20.1%, Character Customization 15.9%, Management 14.1%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Simulation 11.8%

A unique life simulation where you are a lumberjack building up a business and founding a lasting dynasty for generations to come.

Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, Building 29%, Life Sim 11.7%, Relaxing 8%, First-Person 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world simulation, management, and life-sim progression in a relaxing environment.

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 24.1% ★, Life Sim 12.6%, Trading 10.4%, Economy 10.2%, Online Co-Op 8.9%

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 18.7%, Economy 13.6%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Management 10.1%, Life Sim 9.9%

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 17.3%, Life Sim 15.1%, Management 12.8%, Building 10.2%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

Build a top-tier business solo or in co-op (1–6 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 19.7% ★, Economy 13.1%, Life Sim 11.4%, Management 10.2%, Building 10.1%

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 14.7%, Shop Keeper 14.2% ★, Life Sim 12.4%, Economy 12.2%, Management 10.9%

Build your retail empire inside a shopping mall. Open multiple stores, sabotage rivals, and play solo or with up to 8 players. Choose different match objectives or play endless mode and compete for retail domination.

Why similar: Shop Keeper 19% ★, Trading 13.8%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 9.5%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

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 17%, Inventory Management 12.6%, Shop Keeper 12.3% ★, Economy 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.3%

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: Life Sim 19.2%, Economy 19%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Management 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13.3%

Build a local car wash into a massive detailing empire! Master advanced cleaning techniques with vibrant active foams, beat the clock for extra tips, and buy or lease new properties. Play it clean or risk everything with high-paying shady deals and secret backroom plantations.

Why similar: Inventory Management 15.3%, Immersive Sim 13.8%, Life Sim 13.7%, Resource Management 11.5%, Management 8.7%

Ready to create your own world of flavor? Play solo or co-op with up to 8 players, prepare sandwiches with your friends, deliver online orders to the courier and run your sandwich restaurant. Clean, expand, and keep your customers happy!

Why similar: Economy 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.9%, Immersive Sim 14%, Life Sim 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%

Play solo or with up to 16 friends in a chaotic grocery store showdown! Manage, grow, and compete against rival stores in a fun, lighthearted battle of wits and strategy. Who will be the ultimate grocery tycoon? Sabotage, upgrade, and outwit your friends in this unpredictable simulator!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 17.7%, Management 16.8%, Economy 13.7%, Simulation 13.4%, Life Sim 12.5%

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 13.7%, Life Sim 12.1%, Inventory Management 11.7%, Immersive Sim 11%, Management 10.5%

Relive the golden age of old-school video game stores! Sell hit games, deliver orders, trade and collect retros, hire staff, decorate and grow your store to be the best in town! Disclaimer: some game title parodies might crack you up!

Why similar: Shop Keeper 22.3% ★, Trading 17.5%, Inventory Management 13.5%, Economy 11.8%, Management 9.2%

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 18.1%, Trading 17.1%, Management 16.9%, Life Sim 12.4%, Immersive Sim 10.7%

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 33.9% ★, Immersive Sim 13%, Life Sim 12.7%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 8.6%

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 18.7%, Economy 15.7%, Immersive Sim 11.6%, Management 11.5%, Life Sim 10.1%

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 17.1%, Economy 12.3%, Inventory Management 10.5%, Life Sim 10%, Management 9.6%

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: Economy 14%, Shop Keeper 12.4% ★, Online Co-Op 11.9%, Life Sim 10.8%, Inventory Management 10.4%