- #1 Academia : School Simulator
97% matchVery Positive86% of 3,028 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #2 Let's School
96% matchVery Positive93% of 7,229 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!
Why similar: Simulation 76.9%, Indie 23.1%
- #3 School Owner
96% matchMostly Negative22% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: Owner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.
Why similar: Simulation 73.8%, Indie 26.2%
- #4 Gladiator School
95% matchMostly Positive72% of 349 reviews2017
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.
Why similar: Simulation 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #5 Football School
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 90 reviews2020
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Football School - Take control of a sports club in a small town. Train your team, compete and climb the world ranking. Management game made by the developers of Boxing School.
Why similar: Simulation 69.8%, Indie 30.2%
- #6 School Teacher Simulator
93% matchMixed68% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Eathrabaria
Windows
Become a teacher in a local school. Teach kids, but make sure that your students stay focused during the lesson and react if they misbehave. Each day has unique events. Living school environment with each teacher and student having their own personality.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #7 Regista: Reign Your Football Club
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 83 reviews2025
Dev: dicehit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reign Your Football Club! Be the owner of your football club, make strategic choices, and climb through the amateur league to the first while making hard decisions to set everything in line for your club.
Why similar: Simulation 79.8%, Indie 20.2%
- #8 校长模拟器
94% matchVery Negative15% of 103 reviews2021
Dev: 校长模拟器
Windows
校长模拟器是一款开罗式玩法的休闲类模拟经营游戏。在游戏中玩家将以高中校长的身份管理整个学校,充分调动学校的资源,完成上级布置的任务。将学校建立成为全国一流的高中。
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #9 Pocket Academy
91% matchVery Positive83% of 208 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Make your dream school in this management simulation game! School got you down?
Why similar: Simulation 89.2%, Indie 10.8%
- #10 Boxing School
91% matchVery Positive90% of 527 reviews2019
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
BOXING SCHOOL! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. Management game made by the developers of Gladiator School.
Why similar: Simulation 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #11 Football Academy Manager
89% matchNo user reviews92% of 195 reviews2026
Dev: Hubi
Windows
Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.
Why similar: Simulation 66.7%, Indie 33.3%
- #12 Mall Empire
90% matchMixed54% of 90 reviews2017
Dev: Games++
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The Mall Empire allows you to build and manage the operations of a modern mall. You must plan where to place facilities in the tower that include restaurants, shops, rest areas, retail stores and elevators.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #13 Wizdom Academy
86% matchMixed61% of 206 reviews2025
Dev: Kipwak Studio
Windows
Headmaster, your academy awaits: Recruit young students and shape them into mighty wizards. Build, manage and customize your castle, manage your resources and send your squads in expedition to expand your school's prestige and influence.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #14 Spellcaster University
86% matchVery Positive83% of 4,253 reviews2021
Dev: Sneaky Yak Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Why similar: Simulation 76.7%, Indie 23.3%
- #15 Player's Eleven
87% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: Green Pitch Gaming
Windows
You're the manager and it's your team. Play Player's Eleven now! Run the club of your choice or work your way up from the bottom to the top. Extensive editing options available.
Why similar: Simulation 77.7%, Indie 22.3%
- #16 Movie Studio Boss: The Sequel
89% matchMostly Negative23% of 84 reviews2014
Dev: Eddy & Gary & Friends
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
You have just been appointed the head of a new Movie Studio and have been given 10 (now 50) years to make it the most successful studio around. You are up against seven other computer controlled Studios all trying to be the best Studio in the world!
Why similar: Simulation 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #17 Hospitalize
88% matchMostly Negative40% of 171 reviews2016
Dev: Illeris
Windows
Find the most effective way to construct and manage a hospital. Build your hospital smart and avoid excess time and resources consumed by examining your patients unnecessary. You can choose to micromanage your patients or hope that your doctors are able to identify the cause of their symptoms.
Why similar: Simulation 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #18 Football Coach: College Dynasty
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,463 reviews2025
Dev: Coach Apps
Windows · Mac
A true college football management game. Play as a coach or a school, recruit players, develop your team, and compete for national championships. Build a college football dynasty and become a coaching legend!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #19 Home Run High
84% matchMostly Positive76% of 161 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Train your baseball players and create a winning team!
Why similar: Simulation 85.2%, Indie 14.8%
- #20 Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2020
85% matchMixed68% of 59 reviews2020
Dev: Wolverine Studios
Windows
Draft Day Sports: College Basketball 2020 puts you in the role of head coach of your favorite college basketball team. Every decision can be made by you from staff hiring, recruiting, scouting and all the way to making each substitution to lead your team to tournament glory and becoming a dynasty.
Why similar: Simulation 72.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #21 Fight School Simulator
82% matchVery Positive86% of 256 reviews2025
Dev: Queen
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Are you ready to become a legendary martial arts master? Build your own school, train your students, and battle rival schools to become the strongest. Join tournaments, raise your grasshoppers, and most importantly, collect tuition from your students!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #22 Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
84% matchMixed58% of 358 reviews2018
Dev: AgatePub: PQube
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #23 Rock God Tycoon
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 315 reviews2017
Dev: Fern NigroPub: EmberWulf
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Create, manage, and guide your very own band to success!
Why similar: Simulation 71.3%, Indie 28.7%
- #24 Restaurant Owner: A Restaurant Simulator
81% matchMixed61% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Workaround GamesPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Run your own restaurant. Create your menu, hire staff, decorate the place, take orders, serve guests, and grow your business. Food critics, online orders, events, and kitchen chaos are on the menu!
Why similar: Simulation 70%, Indie 30%
- #25 Game Dev Masters
81% matchVery Positive84% of 197 reviews2022
Dev: Ryan SaundersPub: One Man Media
Windows
It's time to become the Game Developer you always wanted to be. Make use of a large array of features, and player skills to create stunning 10 / 10 games. Compete with and eventually acquire other dynamic Ai Studio's. Raise the talent of your team and studio's in an effort to dominate the market.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #26 Ultimate Theater Simulator
78% matchVery Positive89% of 568 reviews2025
Dev: RAKTWO GamesPub: steelbox Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #27 Disco Simulator
80% matchMostly Positive77% of 219 reviews2024
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Disco Simulator is a tycoon type game based on club management. Your task will be to set up the club from scratch, put up walls, arrange furniture, hire staff, plan events, invite artists, put on concerts. Create your own club!
Why similar: Simulation 73.5%, Indie 26.5%
- #28 Project Hospital
77% matchVery Positive89% of 9,130 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Why similar: Simulation 82.6%, Indie 17.4%
- #29 Game Builder Tycoon
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 157 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 51%
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
Why similar: Simulation 92.9%, Indie 7.1%
- #30 Wall Street Tycoon
79% matchMixed41% of 131 reviews2019
Dev: Red Fox Studios
Windows
Wall Street Tycoon is a business simulation game where you’re the CEO of a new investment company. Your job is to grow the company, hire employees, and manage the business!
Why similar: Simulation 70.9%, Indie 29.1%
- #31 Esports Life Tycoon
78% matchMixed61% of 713 reviews2020
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Manage your own esports squad, expand your gaming house, and defeat legendary teams to become the best in the world!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #32 Boeckham's Football Manager
75% matchVery Positive93% of 57 reviews2025
Dev: Bitbeast Games
Windows
An old-school football manager in the style of the management games of the 90s. Lead your team through the seasons, shaped by dynamic story events. Develop your club and yourself to gain reputation and conquer your league and the world.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #33 Gym Manager
75% matchMostly Positive79% of 302 reviews2024
Dev: Han GAMESPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.
Why similar: Simulation 74.6%, Indie 25.4%
- #34 Club Soccer Director 2022
74% matchMixed67% of 114 reviews2022
Dev: Go Play Games LtdPub: Go Play Games Ltd
Windows
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your own club, in Club Soccer Director 2022 a fast-paced Football Club Management Game. Download Club Soccer Director 2022 now for FREE & start your Football management journey.
Why similar: Simulation 88.5%, Indie 11.5%
- #35 New Star™ Manager
73% matchVery Positive87% of 516 reviews2018
Dev: New Star Games Ltd.Pub: Five Aces Publishing Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 96.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
Why similar: Simulation 73.4%, Indie 26.6%
- #36 School Bus Driver Simulator
74% matchMixed65% of 69 reviews2022
Dev: Gamesforgames
Windows
The School Bus Driver Simulator game offers you the chance to contribute to our future, namely, to transport the children to school.
Why similar: Simulation 86.9%, Indie 13.1%
- #37 Movies Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 501 reviews2024
Dev: PixelCraze s.r.o.
Windows
Movies Tycoon is a simulation game where you dive into the world of film-making. Start with a humble studio, scout and manage top talent, customize unique characters, and direct blockbuster films.
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #38 Two Point Campus
69% matchVery Positive88% of 7,918 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: Simulation 87.5%, Indie 12.5%
- #39 Old School
70% matchVery Positive83% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: MDickie
Windows
Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #40 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
73% matchMixed62% of 184 reviews2021
Dev: Abylight StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #41 King of Retail
69% matchVery Positive88% of 3,551 reviews2022
Dev: Freaking GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
Why similar: Simulation 72.1%, Indie 27.9%
- #42 Bonsai
72% matchMixed75% of 303 reviews2016
Dev: Rooted Concepts
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Grow your tree, prune it, and watch over it as it matures into adulthood. The tree will become what you train it to be - you are the mastermind behind it's path in life.
Why similar: Simulation 72.7%, Indie 27.3%
- #43 Hotel Owner Simulator
70% matchMixed66% of 173 reviews2025
Dev: Valmere Games Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Hotel Owner Simulator is a hotel management game where you start from a small hotel and grow your business by creating beautifully designed rooms, adjusting room sizes and layouts by placing each individual wall, negotiating high prices, and expanding your empire. Lets build, and manage the resort.
Why similar: Simulation 82.4%, Indie 17.6%
- #44 Empire TV Tycoon
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 897 reviews2015
Dev: Dreamsite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!
Why similar: Simulation 78.4%, Indie 21.6%
- #45 Bank Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive73% of 365 reviews2025
Dev: Strong Bow Games
Windows
Build and manage your financial empire from a small bank to a global powerhouse. Approve loans, trade bonds, hire staff, and master the market in Bank Simulator a business management sim and banking tycoon where every economic decision impacts your bottom line
Why similar: Simulation 75%, Indie 25%
- #46 Battle Royale Tycoon
71% matchMixed69% of 513 reviews2019
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!
Why similar: Simulation 77.6%, Indie 22.4%
- #47 Hospital Manager
72% matchMixed46% of 254 reviews2015
Dev: CCCPPub: Microids Indie
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience something novel, bursting with extraordinary phenomena and strange situations in your hospital! Only you have the power to make the best decisions and to make your hospital the most popular one! But beware: Several events will add some spice to your life! Embark on the career of your life!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #48 Road to your City
70% matchMixed63% of 76 reviews2019
Dev: Yheeky Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Road to your City is a city building and management game with a heavy emphasis on football. Slipping into the role of mayor, you are tasked with establishing a successful football club and developing it from grassroots to world class powerhouse.
Why similar: Simulation 72.9%, Indie 27.1%
- #49 Game Dev Tycoon
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,810 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Why similar: Simulation 79.5%, Indie 20.5%
- #50 MALL MANAGER SIMULATOR
68% matchMixed50% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Krisztian BlahaPub: KINETIC MOBILE GAMES
Windows
Take full control as you turn a quiet, empty shopping center into a thriving hub of life and profit. Stock shelves, set your own prices, handle payments, hire and train staff, and manage everything down to the finest detail. Every decision counts — and every success is truly yours.
Why similar: Simulation 74%, Indie 26%
- #51 My Hotel Simulator
67% matchMixed48% of 50 reviews2025
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Build and manage your own hotel, from a small property to a luxury resort. Design rooms, maintain cleanliness, develop amenities, and offer guests unforgettable experiences at your hotel!
Why similar: Simulation 89.9%, Indie 10.1%
- #52 Church Simulator
66% matchVery Positive82% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: EY GAMES
Windows
Manage your own church. Perform baptisms, hear confessions, collect donations, oversee weddings and funerals, sell souvenirs, and customize your church. Manage the church’s economy and work to expand your church.
Why similar: Simulation 88.3%, Indie 11.7%
- #53 Mad Games Tycoon
66% matchVery Positive91% of 4,416 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Simulation 82.5%, Indie 17.5%
- #54 Bad Guys at School
66% matchVery Positive87% of 2,065 reviews2020
Dev: Forceight
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
In Bad Guys at School you can play as students and revolt against school system by completing missions, or decide to become a teacher that must maintain order despite the violence and brutality in the school.
Why similar: Simulation 70.3%, Indie 29.7%
- #55 Festival Tycoon 🎪
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 227 reviews2022
Dev: Johannes GäblerPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Why similar: Simulation 100%