Games Like Schedule I

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: Crime 29.7%, Open World 13%, Management 11.7%, Co-op 11.5%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, combining first-person drug production and distribution with open-world expansion, property upgrades, and a larger criminal empire loop.

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: Crime 39.8%, Simulation 17.8%, Open World 10.2%, Management 9.3%, Crafting 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like Schedule we, it is built around manufacturing, selling, and scaling a narcotics business from street-level dealing into a bigger operation.

BUILD YOUR VIRTUAL WEED EMPIRE: Grow the hottest strains & crossbreed new ones, roll your own Blunts, sell Bongs, hire Growers, make Solventless Concentrates, handle Rival Dealers, befriend Influencers, smoke Dabs, ride a Dolphin, and More! WELCOME TO WEED SHOP 3!

Why similar: Management 23.8%, Open World 18.3%, Crafting 15%, Building 13.9%, Simulation 9%

Why You'll Like It: This scratches a very similar itch with first-person drug-business management, grow operations, property building, and direct customer-facing sales.

Weed Shop 2 is a first person recreational Marijuana dispensary simulator where you'll get to grow the hottest strains, expand your business, hire employees and much more!

Why similar: Crime 34.1%, Management 17.9%, Open World 15.1%, Building 10%, FPS 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same blend of running a cannabis empire, managing production, and expanding your operation in a first-person sandbox.

The mayor of Rockhaven threw you down a hole into the Undercity. Why? Net worth too low. In this open-world simulation, you and up to 3 pals will steal, fight, and scheme to reclaim the city. Customise your rides, buy businesses, and take on the Mayor’s forces. Rockhaven is yours for the taking!

Why similar: Crime 30.2%, Open World 13.2%, Co-op 12.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Driving 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-world crime sandbox, scrappy urban feel, and co-op-friendly rise-from-nothing progression make it one of the best tonal alternatives.

Basement is a strategy game, where you start doing illegal business to fund the development of your dream video game. It won't be easy, so get ready to deal with other gangs, cops, crazy junkies, mysterious investor and even ghosts from the past.

Why similar: Crime 39%, Management 19.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although not first-person, it is all about setting up hidden drug production lines, researching products, and managing workers to grow an illegal business.

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: Management 61.7%, Simulation 23.1%, Open World 15.2%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the 'start small, buy property, hire staff, automate income, and build an empire' progression that makes Schedule we so compulsive.

Weedcraft Inc explores the business of producing, breeding and selling weed in America, delving deep into the financial, political and cultural aspects of the country's complex relationship with this troublesome and promising plant.

Why similar: Simulation 35.5%, Management 28.9%, Crime 16.3%, Strategy 11.5%, Crafting 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on the supply-chain and empire-management side of the fantasy, letting you breed, produce, distribute, and scale a marijuana operation.

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Management 32.4%, Base Building 23.3%, Building 17.6%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the kingpin fantasy pushed further toward strategy, this lets you build and defend a sprawling narcotics empire with production and logistics layers.

Take over the duties of a border guard inspector in a communist country of the 80's. Smuggling, corruption and forgery are the order of the day here. Be vigilant and earn the respect of your superiors.

Why similar: Open World 30%, Management 24.3%, Simulation 18.8%, First-Person 12.2%, FPS 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: While you play on the other side of the law, its first-person inspection, smuggling focus, and gritty border-economy sim hit a lot of the same grounded-crime notes.

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: Crime 35.3%, Co-op 14.5%, Simulation 14.3%, Stealth 12.9%, Open World 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same satisfaction of starting small in first person, using gear and planning to pull bigger jobs and steadily expand your capabilities.

Bum Simulator is a sandbox game bursting with inappropriate humor and memorable characters. You live on the streets of Bumsville. Do you have what it takes to adapt, survive and become an urban legend?

Why similar: Simulation 23.6%, Open World 20.7%, Co-op 15.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its grimy first-person city sandbox, crafting, base upgrades, and offbeat hustle-to-survival loop feel surprisingly close in vibe and perspective.

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: Management 31.5%, Simulation 26.4%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Building 8.4%, Co-op 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Even without the crime theme, it hits the same addictive loop of stocking product, expanding your space, managing systems, and growing a humble business.

The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!

Why similar: Crime 36.8%, Stealth 12.7%, Open World 12.6%, Simulation 11.9%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This offers another first-person criminal sandbox where scouting, stealing, upgrading tools, and reinvesting profits drive a similar hands-on progression loop.

Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?

Why similar: Open World 22.8%, Driving 22.1%, Crafting 17.8%, Building 16.8%, Multiplayer 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a very similar DIY progression loop of crafting, selling, upgrading property, and expanding a sketchy side-business operation in first person.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Base Building 16.4%, Co-op 14%, Open World 13.6%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: If the automation and production-chain side of Schedule we hooked you, this is one of the best first-person co-op games for building ever-larger systems.

Hobo: Tough Life is an urban survival role-playing game where you play as a homeless person. Play alone or team up in online co-op. Explore the streets of Praslav, scavenge for food and supplies, beg, steal, and do whatever else it takes to survive the forthcoming winter.

Why similar: Open World 20.6%, Co-op 17.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Crafting 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This shares the same rough urban atmosphere and mixes co-op, open-world scavenging, crafting, and shady street-level progression from absolute rock bottom.

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: Management 20.5%, Simulation 19.4%, Open World 15.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person run-and-expand structure, property upgrades, staffing, and constant hands-on management make it a natural fit for the empire-building side of Schedule we.

Crime Boss: Rockay City is a 1-4 player co-op FPS heist game with enjoyable stealth and epic killing spree combat. Featuring a solo roguelike campaign that combines FPS and strategy elements with the most hilariously cheesy voice acting that make you laugh.

Why similar: Crime 39.1%, Co-op 20.9%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Stealth 10.3%, FPS 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of organized-crime progression, territory control, and co-op heists makes it a good pick if you liked Schedule we for the criminal power fantasy.

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: Management 53.1%, Simulation 39.5%, First-Person 7%, Indie 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: This leans more wholesome, but its extremely similar 'buy stock, serve customers, expand, optimize layout, and scale profits' loop lands well for management fans.

You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?

Why similar: Open World 29.5%, Base Building 27.5%, Crafting 24.4%, Simulation 18.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op open-world mix of shopkeeping, crafting, combat, and base-building makes it a strong mechanical match for Schedule I's business-plus-sandbox structure.

Did you ever wish to work in a junkyard? Now you can, with Junkyard Simulator. They are many roads leading to success - whichever you take depends on your decisions.

Why similar: Open World 20.5%, Management 18%, Simulation 17.2%, Crafting 13.6%, Driving 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: This has the same dirty hands-on business vibe, with first-person scavenging, processing, crafting, and upgrading a ramshackle operation into something bigger.

Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.

Why similar: Management 39.3%, Simulation 26.1%, Open World 14.3%, First-Person 11%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the appeal of building up a shabby urban business from nothing while juggling upgrades, security, money flow, and neighborhood trouble.

Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.

Why similar: Automation 20.1%, Base Building 13%, Co-op 11.9%, Management 11.9%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It channels the same first-person crafting-and-automation satisfaction, especially if your favorite part of Schedule we were designing efficient production setups.

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Co-op 16.2%, Crafting 15.3%, Open World 12.8%, Building 12.6%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly satisfying first-person arc of gathering resources, building up a home base, assigning workers, and turning survival into management.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Co-op 16.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 13%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is another great pick for players who enjoyed the tactile build-process-optimize loop and want more sandbox production with physical base expansion.

Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!

Why similar: Open World 16.7%, Co-op 16.1%, Base Building 15.6%, Management 13.5%, Crafting 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: This adds co-op to that same formula of open-world building, crafting, village growth, and delegated labor that Schedule we players often enjoy.

Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Crime 20.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Management 10.3%, Automation 8.6%, Base Building 7%

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Base Building 28.6%, Management 24.5%, Open World 16.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Despite the different perspective, it is fantastic for players who want deeper drug production, labor management, defense, and black-market colony storytelling.

Start from nothing and rise to the top as you expand your criminal empire in Drug Lord Tycoon.

Why similar: Crime 32%, Management 13.2%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%

Build a criminal empire from the streets up. Commit crimes in third-person, run and automate illegal businesses, recruit your own crime family, fight rival organizations, and take control of a seamless open-world city.

Why similar: Crime 24.1%, Management 11.4%, Automation 10.1%, Open World 9.8%, Base Building 8.2%

Start as a street dealer and rise to criminal power — produce and distribute various illegal substances across the dark streets of Hyland Point. Expand your empire by purchasing property, growing your business, acquiring new cars, and building a powerful underground network.

Why similar: Crime 32%, Management 13.2%, Open World 12.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Base Building 7.6%

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: Crime 39.6%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Co-op 7.1%, Stealth 6.4%

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: Crime 30.6%, Co-op 16.4%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 9%, Stealth 8.2%

Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.

Why similar: Crime 59.7%, Management 28.1%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4.4%, Action 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more strategy-heavy take on building a criminal organization, but it still scratches the itch of expanding a crime empire through businesses and underworld control.

Roadside Research is a 1 to 4 player co-op gas station simulator. Except you’re aliens. And undercover. Do very human things like restocking shelves while preparing for the invasion. Just don’t get caught.

Why similar: Management 26%, Co-op 25.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 14.7%, First-Person 9.5%

Build and manage your underground scam empire in a city ruled by chaos. Expand your operation through illegal means, grow your workforce, automate your schemes, and uncover the dark mysteries hidden beneath the town.

Why similar: Crime 31.9%, Automation 16.2%, Management 15.2%, Base Building 11.7%, Simulation 9.1%

Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.

Why similar: Co-op 16.9%, Management 15.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Automation 11.2%, Open World 9.9%

Drug Dealer Simulator: Free Sample is an introduction to the dark alleys of the ghetto, where you can start to expand your own crime empire! Get in touch with your contact and take your first steps in drug dealing business! 8 levels of dope business deals and constant adrenaline!

Why similar: Crime 40.8%, Simulation 23.4%, Management 17.8%, Co-op 11.1%, Action 4.9%

Step into the world of bootleg booze in this story-driven, single-player sim! Grow your crops, brew your drinks, bond with eccentric customers, and bottle it all under your own brand. Uncover the truth behind your brother’s arrest, complete quirky missions, and build your underground empire.

Why similar: Crime 26.4%, Simulation 17.4%, Open World 12%, Management 9.7%, Crafting 9.6%

Run your own scam centre and pay off your debt. Expand your business by recruiting workers through shady means. Bribe the police, trade with others, and use every strategy to survive in this city. Will you rise to power or fall under the pressure? The choice is yours.

Why similar: Crime 35.8%, Automation 17.7%, Simulation 15.1%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 8.2%

First-person homeless crime sandbox. Steal, drink, hallucinate and crush rival bums in chaotic online co-op.

Why similar: Crime 36.2%, Co-op 19.3%, Open World 13.1%, Multiplayer 12%, Simulation 10.7%

Craft your workshop as an alchemist!‌ Harness arcane devices to automate crafting. Sell alchemical goods, fulfill commissions, and rise to become a renowned alchemy magnate. ‌Multiplayer Supported!‌ Invite master designers to (ahem) contribute their expertise—let them optimize your production lines!

Why similar: Automation 26.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Crafting 11.7%, Multiplayer 11.2%, Building 10.9%

A clicker/management drug dealing simulator. Get your product cut and wrapped quickly and out on the streets. Build your crew, expand your operation, and climb the supply chain. Stay ahead of the cops, keep your crew in line, or pay the price.

Why similar: Crime 48.4%, Management 23.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Automation 10.2%, Strategy 5.1%

Uncover a goldmine in the used car market! Sniff out deals, buy low, modify, and sell high. Your journey from amateur grease monkey to car dealer magnate awaits. How fast will you rise in this lucrative venture?

Why similar: Management 24%, Open World 21.6%, Driving 19.2%, Simulation 16.7%, First-Person 9.5%

Welcome to Brighton! Join the police force of this fictitious American city and experience the day to day life of a police officer.

Why similar: Crime 37.4%, Co-op 17.7%, Open World 15.7%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Simulation 10.8%

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: Co-op 22.9%, Simulation 15.5%, Management 14.8%, Open World 13%, Base Building 11.9%

In a world where sweets and carbs are banned, take your baking underground. Build and upgrade your RV kitchen, bake forbidden treats, sell them across cities, manage your blood sugar, and stay one step ahead of the law. Play solo or team up with friends to grow your underground baking empire.

Why similar: Crime 31.7%, Co-op 15.5%, Open World 13.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Driving 10.1%

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: Co-op 20.1%, Management 19.3%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Building 11.1%, Simulation 11%

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: Management 29.8%, Multiplayer 29%, Simulation 27%, Building 7.7%, First-Person 6%

BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.

Why similar: Crime 31.6%, Open World 14.3%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Base Building 9.4%, Building 8.5%

Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!

Why similar: Automation 22.7%, Management 15.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 10.7%

Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. Get ready for a experience where you'll combine strategy, risk-taking, and decision-making to build your criminal empire.

Why similar: Crime 58.6%, Management 22.3%, Simulation 14.8%, Strategy 3.1%, Indie 1.2%

VISIT HIGHLAND! Build a weed empire from nothing on a broken tropical island. Grow, sell, expand, and survive the chaos solo or in co-op.

Why similar: Management 36.1%, Open World 19.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Co-op 12.8%, First-Person 11.6%

Discover the life of Dr Greenstuff, grow marijuana, coca, make meth', drugs and more to keep your legal/illegal business running.

Why similar: Simulation 56.2%, Open World 37.3%, Indie 6.5%

Sub Rosa is a multiplayer first-person shooter about tense deals, double-crosses, and the occasional high-speed car chase.

Why similar: Crime 29.8%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Open World 13.2%, Co-op 9.1%, FPS 8.8%

Become an elite SWAT commander and bring order to a city overwhelmed by chaos and corruption.

Why similar: Crime 28.2%, Co-op 25%, Multiplayer 16.7%, FPS 12.2%, First-Person 7.8%

Welcome to Klepto where there's no place like a burglarized home. In this burglary simulation you'll explore, terrorize and loot your way to success in a variety of open-world sandbox neighborhoods. **VR is NOT required for this game.

Why similar: Crime 44.7%, Simulation 19.1%, Open World 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.9%, Stealth 7.4%

We need to cook! You are a drug-designing genius, living a bland existence in a middle-class neighborhood in Utah. You decide you want more out of life, so you buy a beat-up RV, drive it into the desert, and cook drugs. Make immense profits! (Made by one dude, hope you enjoy)

Why similar: Simulation 49.7%, Action 14.8%, FPS 13.9%, First-Person 13.7%, Strategy 5.9%

Build your own Outdoor Store and Camping Business in the heart of Red Shore Valley! Arrange your shelves, manage your stock, construct facilities on your campsite, and take care of every guest. Grow from humble beginnings into a thriving business surrounded by nature!

Why similar: Management 18.8%, Automation 13%, Crafting 12.9%, Simulation 11.4%, Open World 11.2%