Games Like Rock Star Manager

Start as a broke musician. Build your rock band, master songwriting, rehearsals, and gigs, and juggle a day job to pay the bills. Shop for records, instruments, and groceries, recruit bandmates, and earn your place in the Hall of Fame.

Why similar: Rock Music 41.2% ★, Management 16.5%, Time Management 13.7%, Life Sim 8.5%, Simulation 5.7%

An immersive simulator of a phone techno-prankster. Find the victims phone numbers, communicate with them using their own phrases and put on a show, pitting them against each other!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.7%, Nonlinear 17.9%, Comedy 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.1%

Step into the chair of a therapist in Therapy Simulator! Guide your patients through emotional journeys with branching dialogue choices. Balance humor, humanity, and the chaos of therapy!

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 28.5%, Parody 15.9% ★, Management 11.5%, Comedy 10.9%, Immersive Sim 10.4%

Gordy and her punk band, Dead Pets, haven't hit it big but they will any day now! Go to band practice, crush a diner shift, chat with friends and manage Gordy’s mess of a life. Unleash your inner demon in a feminist, slice-of-life, management-lite, minigame-heavy narrative rhythm game!

Why similar: Rock Music 53% ★, Dialogue Heavy 23.2%, Dark Humor 10.3%, Choices Matter 4.9%, Immersive Sim 4.7%

A first-person rock band life sim where you explore a gritty 1990s neighbourhood, play rhythm-based concerts, get into fights, make bad decisions, and somehow keep your band together.

Why similar: Rock Music 61.3% ★, Dark Humor 12.7%, Immersive Sim 10.4%, Life Sim 7.3%, Simulation 5.3%

The world's ultimate (only) roguelite high school sim. Puzzle out how to overcome your lackluster social skills and build yourself a high school life.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 25.4% ★, Dialogue Heavy 17.9%, Nonlinear 17%, Comedy 10.1%, 1990's 8.8%

SEX, SIN & ROCK’N’ROLL is a 3D visual novel with side-scroller exploration where a cursed guitar offers fame for a price. Write songs, play rhythm concerts, face adult temptations, and choose between becoming a rock god or saving your soul. 🤘

Why similar: Rock Music 51.7% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Management 11.6%, Choices Matter 7.1%, Life Sim 6.6%

Rockstar Life is a casual life simulation game. In this game you get to write songs, organize tours, record singles and albums while you deal with the everyday drama of a wannabe Rockstar through random events.

Why similar: Rock Music 56.9% ★, Time Management 9.7%, Life Sim 7.7%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Simulation 6.2%

Random Raiders puts you in charge of a newly-started raiding guild in the fictional MMORPG 'World of Guild Quest'. Recruit the best players you can find - balance their classes, volatile personalities and overcome the inevitable drama in order to become the best guild on the server.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 30.8% ★, Parody 19.6% ★, Dark Humor 15.7%, Time Management 9%, Management 8.8%

An absurd censor simulator in the Committee of Public Happiness. Censor images and texts, wheel and deal, chase the money, solve problems, try not to get caught, spread your wings, and keep your sanity.

Why similar: Time Management 18.5%, Dialogue Heavy 15.1%, Comedy 13%, Parody 12.5% ★, Management 12.4%

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32% ★, Dark Humor 20.6%, Dialogue Heavy 12.7%, Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.4%

Secretly playing your Generic-90s-Handheld-Video-Game-Console during a first date? Shame on you!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 24.9%, Comedy 16%, Simulation 10.5%, Choices Matter 10%

Speak and fight at the same time - your words are weapons, letting you enrage, manipulate, or break enemies during combat. What you say shapes the fight and changes the outcome.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 37.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.7%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Comedy 13%, Choices Matter 10.1%

Go on adventures as you take on a modern world in an old-school style puzzle RPG about being a cashier! ... Or so it would seem!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 26.9% ★, Nonlinear 16.5%, Dark Humor 15.9%, Management 12.4%, Choices Matter 6.9%

A hyper-stressful, strictly manual elevator simulation! You're the corporation's new "control system" (a human). Drag and drop sticky notes to transport employees. Amidst massive clock-out rushes and blaring complaints, can you survive this extreme one-man shift?!

Why similar: Dark Humor 26.9%, Time Management 26.5%, Management 17.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%

A rock-and-roll management RPG where you guide a 90s grunge band from garage obscurity to stadium glory. Set up gigs, manage egos, and navigate the music industry in an alternative America inhabited by larger-than-life anthropomorphic characters. Make it big without selling out.

Why similar: Rock Music 51.1% ★, Management 14.9%, Comedy 10.5%, 1990's 9%, Choices Matter 8.9%

Potholes. Breakdowns. Zombies. Just another shift at the Tollway. Hire Staff, upgrade your tollway, appease HQ and keep traffic flowing before the cursed highway bankrupts you.

Why similar: Management 17.4%, Time Management 17%, Dark Humor 16.2%, Comedy 12.2%, Immersive Sim 12%

This is an adventure novel game. Movement and object selection are possible using only keyboard input and mouse clicks on a PC. Experience the story of a girl strolling through the night town, enhanced by captivating movies and music.

Why similar: Rock Music 82.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 9.7%, Casual 3.3%, Choices Matter 2.2%, 2D 2%

Pick up your keyboard and play it like a real bass! Take on the role of Ostinata, the leader and bassist of the all-girl band Tutti Nova. Strengthen the bonds among the five band members while staying ever ready to fend off bassist jokes, and grow your fan base to perform in larger venues!

Why similar: Rock Music 63.7% ★, Dynamic Narration 21.1% ★, Comedy 7.4%, Simulation 5.4%, Casual 1.2%

Get up? Or stay in your bed just a few more minutes? A peaceful, small-scale life sim. Go through your mornings and forge your fate with the consequences of your everyday choices.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 31.2% ★, Nonlinear 22.3%, Time Management 18.6%, Life Sim 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.6%

Play as an aspiring software developer in a world dominated by soul-sucking corporations. Will you achieve your goals and build a career in the software industry, or will burnout crush you first?

Why similar: Time Management 19.5%, Dark Humor 18.1%, Life Sim 10.7%, Management 10.3%, Choices Matter 10.2%

Welcome to The Lost Hotel, a story-based pixel art game where you take on the role of a hotelier, saving the hotel from an endless time loop. Explore the hotel and interact with a diverse cast of characters. Uncover secrets and solve puzzles to unravel the mystery of the hotel's past.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 22.8% ★, Time Management 18.6%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Dialogue Heavy 14.5%, Management 9.2%

Run the theater. Live upstairs. Customers show up. Fires start. Crime happens. Every night is unpredictable — keep the lights on, or don’t.

Why similar: Dark Humor 18.7%, Time Management 16.5%, Parody 15.5% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Immersive Sim 12.7%

Manage your very own gaming cafe!

Why similar: Nonlinear 21.5%, Dialogue Heavy 19.3%, Time Management 17.2%, Management 15.6%, Comedy 12.4%

Step back to the era of dial-up and WinGoals SP. As a black-hat developer, manage the delicate balance of detection probability versus payout potential. Will you build a silent botnet for profit or a worm designed to destroy? Avoid the feds and conquer the web in this nostalgic management sim.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28% ★, Nonlinear 16.5%, Time Management 15.9%, Management 13.6%, Immersive Sim 9.9%

Another job simulator at the top of Steam, seriously? Piss on work and a bunch of dumbass simulators in this game!

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.8%, Parody 21% ★, Management 17.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Comedy 8.1%

Meet Troy, the new Gatekeeper. His job is simple - close the gates at a desolate railway crossing for one month. This is his last chance to earn back his wife's trust. To prove he can stay sober. To become a better man. Join him at the Tower in the middle of nowhere. Help Troy fix his life.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.5% ★, Nonlinear 18.7%, Time Management 15.4%, Immersive Sim 11.4%, Life Sim 10.4%

"Why would you waste your time making this? Couldn't you have made something fun instead? Games are supposed to be fun..." - The Game Developer's Dad

Why similar: Parody 18.4% ★, Comedy 13.6%, Time Management 12%, Management 12%, Immersive Sim 11.6%

From the developer of the Shady O'Grady's™ Rising Star series comes a band sim game with more attitude than a teenager hyped up on energy drinks. This roguelike deckbuilder lets you step into the shoes of a startup rock band - write songs, buy instruments, and play gigs from bars to festivals.

Why similar: Rock Music 67.1% ★, Management 12.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 4%, Choices Matter 3.2%

Found a tech startup in 1990 and try to survive the dot-com bubble. Navigate 48 quarters of hype, hubris, and hostile board meetings across 19 possible endings.

Why similar: Dark Humor 17.9%, Management 15.8%, Nonlinear 14.6%, Time Management 11.6%, Choices Matter 10.7%

🍖 Fry meat, stack buns, and serve sketchy customers fast. 💵 Set prices, upsell extras, or pocket shady bribes. 🕶️ Handle weirdos who want ketchup… or chaos. 📼 A gritty, lo-fi PS2-style hotdog sim with janky charm.

Why similar: Time Management 18%, Dark Humor 17.7%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Management 11.7%, Comedy 10.8%

The Blue Cut Hook blends cozy tavern management with subtle adventure. You're no hero, just a humble tavern keeper, but your food, gear, and advice quietly shape the adventurers who pass through. They make the choices, take the glory, and face the danger, but your influence might keeps them alive.

Why similar: Management 21.9%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Comedy 16.3%, 1990's 12.2%, Choices Matter 9%

A short, free high-score chasing 2D shooter set to a punk rock soundtrack.

Why similar: Rock Music 85.8% ★, Pixel Graphics 6.3%, Casual 5%, 2D 3%

You are the new postal worker! Serve customers by sending and receiving packages and letters. Check the contents of boxes for prohibited items. Every decision you make has consequences. Decide whose side you're on.

Why similar: Time Management 21.7%, Management 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.1%, Immersive Sim 13.7%, Simulation 10.3%

In Laundry Store Simulator, you'll start small and work your way up, upgrading your equipment, designing a stylish store, and expanding your services! Are you ready to own the best Laundry Store in the world?

Why similar: Time Management 21%, Management 20.6%, Nonlinear 17.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Comedy 14.9%

Step into The Mirage, a haunted cinema where you'll serve snacks, upgrade your shop, and meet chilling quotas—all while dodging the eerie gaze of Manny the Clown, the masked killer and cinema manager!

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.7%, Time Management 16.9%, Parody 15% ★, Management 11%, Immersive Sim 11%

A quasi-documentary trip that leads to a phone booth in 2002, where feelings of nostalgia and pain from broken parental relationships intertwine.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.1%, Dark Humor 16.5%, Parody 16.5% ★, Life Sim 7.1%

Step into the shoes of a young merchant on a journey where you'll trade goods, recruit a diverse array of mercenaries, engage in tactical combat, and make critical decisions that shape both your path and the unfolding story.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 38.4% ★, Management 16.6%, Time Management 16%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Immersive Sim 8.5%

Tidy up after a sleepover birthday party by finding a home for each decoration and belonging in this story-rich, fully narrated, block-fitting puzzle game. Play alongside a commentating vtuber as you delve into their experience with loneliness evoked by this cleaning indie game.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 38.1% ★, Parody 17.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Management 13.8%, Simulation 8.2%

BLOODSAINT 2 is the most recent, barely playable, fast-paced, retro-hardcore, top-down arena-shooter minigame from Walter Machado.

Why similar: Rock Music 87.4% ★, 1990's 5.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, 2D 2.6%

Prison Pocket Patrol is a co-op prison guard simulator. Search, scrub, and sort incoming inmates according to the warden's strict orders. Deal with brawls, turn a blind eye for a bribe, and pocket confiscated contraband to fund shiny new checkpoint upgrades!

Why similar: Dark Humor 30.8%, Choices Matter 16.6%, Simulation 15.4%, Management 11.4%, Immersive Sim 10.4%

The Last Mile: Delivery Simulator is a door-to-door delivery simulation where wrong addresses, fragile packages, and unpredictable people turn every drop-off into a challenge. Every delivery is simple — until something goes wrong.

Why similar: Time Management 19.5%, Dynamic Narration 16.6% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Management 12.3%, Life Sim 11.6%

Beans is a sardonic 'tycoon' simulation game about hipsters running a coffee shop replete with dismal puns, coffee, chiptunes, and mystery!

Why similar: Management 23.1%, Dark Humor 20.6%, Comedy 13.3%, Simulation 12.1%, Time Management 10.8%

Build the most successful cinema business in the world!

Why similar: Parody 23.8% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.8%, Time Management 18.4%, Management 15.9%, Simulation 8.1%

Manage your very own comic book store! You can unlock over 70+ unique comic licenses, each having 5 volumes for you to sell to your customers! Upgrade your tools, hire staffs, and expand your store so you can have the best comic book store in the world!

Why similar: Time Management 24%, Dialogue Heavy 18.6%, Nonlinear 15.4%, Management 14.6%, Comedy 14.5%

You have barely 10 minutes to convince God you deserve a place in Heaven. One single chance. Choose your words wisely.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Dark Humor 15.4%, Nonlinear 12.3%, Immersive Sim 8.4%

Blêktre 2081 is a dystopian adventure set in a turbo-capitalist city where players mess with the economy, the rules, and each other.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.8% ★, Nonlinear 20%, Dark Humor 19.3%, Comedy 9.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%

A narrative 2D single-player game about working in an underground tobacco shop, funding a collapsing film project, taking on tasks, exploring a dangerous city, and watching reality gradually break apart.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 28.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.5%, Dark Humor 18.7%, Management 16%, Simulation 7.9%

NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.

Why similar: Parody 18.8% ★, Dark Humor 18.5%, Time Management 18.3%, Management 16.4%, Immersive Sim 11.9%

Oswego Quest for the Golden Pin is a retro adventure game where you play as a failing student, exploring your college campus looking for a mythical pin that will supposedly help him pass his final exams.

Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.3%, Nonlinear 24%, Comedy 20.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Casual 8.7%

Experience the hilarious 360º platformer, 'Beer and Rush: Non-VR Edition', where you must find a bathroom in a dream world after having a few beers. Based on a personal experience, this short game is a platformer packed with humor, great music, and challenges.

Why similar: Rock Music 63.4% ★, Parody 23.3% ★, Comedy 8.8%, Colorful 2.4%, Casual 2.1%

Enter Pawnbroker Simulator, where every deal, appraisal, and choice forges your path to pawn shop greatness. Sharpen your instincts, unlock new talents, craft a storefront that turns heads, offer high-stakes loans, and stay one step ahead of cunning thieves.

Why similar: Time Management 19.3%, Management 13.8%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.9%, Comedy 11.9%

A hilarious cozy oracle sim set in ancient Greece! Tell (and shape!) the future, befriend a sassy God, and restore your temple back to former glory.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 35.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 22.6%, Management 17.2%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Simulation 6.3%

Hospice is a kinetic visual novel game about pure brother without his little sister, a men with no hope, a place with no home.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 38.1% ★, Dark Humor 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Comedy 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

EverWorld is a procedurally generated adventure life sim with deeply simulated artificial intelligence.

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 32.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 22.6%, Nonlinear 19.1%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Life Sim 10.2%

👁️👄👁️ GABEN: Elevator Pitch Simulator is a comedy where you become a game developer. Unleash your imagination and convince Gaben to publish YOUR game!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 27.8% ★, Parody 23% ★, Nonlinear 15.6%, Comedy 15%, Choices Matter 9.2%

Ever wondered what it would be like to have an elephant the size of a softball as a friend? Elfie is a unique and cozy experience that combines elements of pet simulators, minigame collections and visual novels to answer just that! Enjoy the company and hobbies of your new rotund friend!

Why similar: Dynamic Narration 47% ★, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Life Sim 9.7%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Simulation 5.5%

A co-op startup management sim where you make hard decisions, argue over priorities, manage chaos, and deal with deadlines, burnout, investors, and constant pressure. Failure is expected — and every disaster is wrapped in satire and dark humor.

Why similar: Dark Humor 19.4%, Management 15.1%, Time Management 14.5%, Comedy 10.3%, Immersive Sim 9.1%

An absurd backyard bomb-building simulator. Raise funds, plan your approach, hunt down rare parts, and assemble your atomic masterpiece while staying calm and avoiding suspicion from nosy neighbors and federal agents.

Why similar: Dark Humor 27%, Parody 20.1% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Management 12.1%, Time Management 10.4%

Totally Secure Airport is a chaotic co-op sim where you play as an airport security guard. Search through weird luggage and decide who flies and who cries. Documents? Check. Suitcases? Shuffle. Find troublemakers with your friends, but be quick - the airplane is taking off soon!

Why similar: Dark Humor 30.6%, Choices Matter 20.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 10.7%, Immersive Sim 9.3%