
You shake a hand, the city burns. In the noir 1920s, every weapon you sell changes the headlines, the war, and your daughter's fate. In this management sim, you manage not just a shop, but your conscience. Who will pay the price?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Choices Matter, Singleplayer, Story Rich.

You shake a hand, the city burns. In the noir 1920s, every weapon you sell changes the headlines, the war, and your daughter's fate. In this management sim, you manage not just a shop, but your conscience. Who will pay the price?

Halsey Row
People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.

AfterRoach
AfterRoach is a post-apocalyptic game where cockroaches rule the world. Inspect devices from the Old World and decide who gets water, food, and medicine. Every decision has consequences: be too harsh and the people may revolt; be too generous and the authorities will take notice.
People come to the shop on Halsey Row to sell the memories they can't carry and buy the ones they can't live without. Appraise what they bring. Decide what it's worth, and who you'll sell it to. Run an honest shop, or a darker one, and piece together what this street is hiding.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.5% ★, Choices Matter 10.7%, Trading 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Mystery 6.2%
AfterRoach is a post-apocalyptic game where cockroaches rule the world. Inspect devices from the Old World and decide who gets water, food, and medicine. Every decision has consequences: be too harsh and the people may revolt; be too generous and the authorities will take notice.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.9% ★, Shop Keeper 26.2% ★, Dystopian 20.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Multiple Endings 3.9%
A dystopian management game where you act as an energy dispatcher in a collapsing regime. Allocate power, make tough decisions, and balance stability, government pressure, and citizen survival in a dark retro-futuristic world.
Why similar: Political Sim 29.7% ★, Dystopian 17.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Choices Matter 9.1%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
A trading game about arming a war. Five kingdoms, one neutral village, one shop — yours. Sell good steel to a friend, cursed steel to an enemy, and let thirty years of war end the way you decide. You never draw a sword.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.3% ★, Trading 28.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Resource Management 7.9%, Choices Matter 5.9%
A Beholder series spin-off. Become a conductor of the Determination Bringer train: monitor passengers, report incidents, and carry out important Ministry assignments — whose level of secrecy depends only on your loyalty. And remember: mission success is very important to you!
Why similar: Political Sim 41.9% ★, Dystopian 15.9%, Investigation 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.9%, Multiple Endings 7%
Reveal the true value of the items coming into the shop. Each item has their own history. Dig deep to see what is behind them and become an expert appraiser. Begin a tug of war with customers. With their own expectations and knowledge, they never give up on money.
Why similar: Dystopian 17.8%, Shop Keeper 14.8% ★, Trading 14.4%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Simulation 11.8%
Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk shopkeeping simulator set in a dystopian space station. Craft, trade, and smuggle goods of questionable origin, navigate faction loyalties, and stop rampant AI by killing those it controls. Earn enough to buy out your shop before rising rent forces your hand.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 27.9% ★, Trading 19.9%, Crafting 9.8%, Dystopian 8.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
Not good, How about half? Every deal at this counter is a conversation — with kings, inspectors, widows and street kids who all remember how you treated them. The rift brings the goods. You set the price.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38% ★, Trading 25.8%, Crafting 10.7%, Management 6.6%, Simulation 6.5%
You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make!
Why similar: Political Sim 31.1% ★, Dystopian 21.5%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.2%, Lore-Rich 9.1%
Run a cozy magical pawnshop where you buy suspicious magical junk, uncover ridiculous enchantments, craft bizarre artifacts, haggle with eccentric customers, and turn magical trash into profit.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.5% ★, Trading 21.1%, Simulation 13%, Crafting 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
CAPITALIUM is a turn-based economic sim set during the Industrial Revolution. Build factories, trade across cities, negotiate with rivals and politicians, and grow through loans, investment, and acquisitions. Later, secure a royal charter, extend the railway, and build and name your own town.
Why similar: Political Sim 32.1% ★, Shop Keeper 21.3% ★, Trading 14.3%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 7.2%
A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.
Why similar: Political Sim 30.7% ★, Dystopian 19.1%, Multiple Endings 11%, Resource Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.3%
Run your own gem shop with a warm cup of coffee by your side ✨ Find rough stones, polish them into beautiful gems, and sell them to customers you can form meaningful friendships with ✨
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.9% ★, Trading 25%, Crafting 13.4%, Management 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%
Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.
Why similar: Political Sim 36.9% ★, Dystopian 20.1%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Multiple Endings 13.2%, Indie 6.4%
Inspect evidence, expose contradictions, and sign binding orders in a dystopian political thriller. Your laws return through the people who exploit them as thirty connected files decide District 089's fate.
Why similar: Political Sim 32% ★, Investigation 12.2%, Dystopian 11.6%, Multiple Endings 8.3%, Psychological 6.5%
Mistport sets you as a booth inspector, in a gloomy Victorian city. Inspect documents for ships that pull into the misty harbor, identify suspicious individuals, and uncover mysteries that will shape the city’s fate. Stay loyal to your post or venture into the mists of insanity. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.2% ★, Choices Matter 11.8%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Investigation 9.8%, Simulation 8.4%
You bought your dream home... but it wasn't all you chalked it up to be. As a member of its management committee, rewrite the rules to change the lives of your neighbours and your family for the better in this singleplayer management simulator. Or will you become what you sought to fight against?
Why similar: Political Sim 35.5% ★, Dystopian 18%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Multiple Endings 8.8%
A digital voyeur simulator where you watch strangers through surveillance cameras. Invade their privacy and witness their most intimate moments, but don’t interact with the subjects – anything could happen if you dare feed the monkeys!
Why similar: Political Sim 32.5% ★, Dystopian 16.3%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Resource Management 8.6%
Inspect the parents’ medical record and match the newborn who can only be theirs — that is the day’s work in this 1920s dystopian puzzle. A fire burned the birth records, and the Ministry put you in charge of giving the children back. Your choice goes into the report.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.7% ★, Dystopian 18.4%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Choices Matter 9.8%, Investigation 8.4%
You have been appointed Deputy Chief Prosecutor of Davelia. Your goal is to pay off your mortgage. Your tool is other people's prison sentences. Your conscience is your problem. The State of Davelia will not forget about you.
Why similar: Political Sim 28.6% ★, Dystopian 18.5%, Psychological 10.9%, Investigation 10.7%, Choices Matter 7.9%
Your probation as a health insurance Claims Adjuster begins now. Report to your terminal and inspect medical documents for reasons to deny coverage. Assume patient fraud. Your decisions have consequences: patients come back. Management is watching. A dystopian document thriller.
Why similar: Dystopian 21.3%, Political Sim 19% ★, Psychological 11.8%, Investigation 11.6%, Choices Matter 10%
The town is half empty, but the town hall still opens at nine. You are the clerk. Whatever your stamp approves becomes true — permits, licenses, names, deaths. Everyone who reaches your desk brings a reason, and most bring money. In the basement, a file explains why the town emptied.
Why similar: Political Sim 48.8% ★, Choices Matter 13.6%, Management 9.5%, Mystery 8.7%, Simulation 8.5%
Coin & Steel is a top down fantasy RPG blending blacksmithing, shop management, quests, and action combat. Forge and sell equipment, explore dangerous lands, battle monsters, expand into new businesses, and play card games at the local tavern.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.4% ★, Trading 24.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 5.6%
There is no money left, and no supplier to order from. Survivors bring what they have to your counter and tell you what they need. Trade goods for goods, tear the junk down for parts at the bench, and stake scavengers with gear off your own shelves to bring back what you cannot make.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.3% ★, Trading 21.9%, Simulation 10.8%, Crafting 8.2%, Resource Management 7.6%
Become a shopkeeper in the first geek store in a snowy 2000s town: sell CDs, snacks, and fan merch, influence your customers' lives, get involved in shady business, and grow your small store.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.5% ★, Trading 23.4%, Resource Management 8.1%, Multiple Endings 7.9%, Choices Matter 7.7%
A darkly humorous gun market simulator with RPG elements. Manage your shady arms business, verify or forge gun permits, navigate shifting laws, and make deals with rebels, the government, or even the Devil. Every choice shapes your fate in this chaotic world of war, profit, and deception.
Why similar: Political Sim 33.1% ★, Dystopian 14.5%, Multiple Endings 10%, Psychological 8.4%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Ministry of Truth: False Memory is a story-driven simulator in a totalitarian society. Become an official, manipulate facts, rewrite history, and provide the ‘truth’ to the public. Choose: obey or fight against the regime. The Great Father is watching you!
Why similar: Political Sim 35.2% ★, Dystopian 21.9%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Simulation 6.2%
Manage an underground witch’s shop in a world where magic is outlawed. Sell forbidden potions, survive government inspections, root out informants, and follow the fates of your customers. Every visitor could become a loyal regular... or the reason for your arrest.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 21.5% ★, Dystopian 19.7%, Trading 12.5%, Resource Management 10.4%, Choices Matter 9.4%
King of Jade: Stone Tycoon is a casual management simulation game. Inspect raw stones, polish the surface to reveal unique hidden jadeite, craft products of all sizes, and sell them to build your ultimate business empire!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.3% ★, Trading 18.1%, Simulation 14.4%, Crafting 13.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
You have been assigned as an operator, reading protocols that force you to make decisions using buttons and switches. Every decision shapes your fate — and decides whether you’ve done what was expected of you.
Why similar: Political Sim 37.9% ★, Dystopian 26.9%, Simulation 13.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 4.2%
A business simulation has never felt this epic. Trade stocks, build companies, take them public, unleash financial tidal waves, sit at the table of a high-stakes gambler’s night, and climb the Rich List. Then you realize: the other side of the board is called The Order.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.4% ★, Shop Keeper 23.3% ★, Trading 20%, Lore-Rich 8.8%, Multiple Endings 6.7%
Climb the ladder while burning it down. In this satirical management sim, you work for a corporation rolling out ARIA — an AI that's replacing your coworkers. Balance your performance cover against quiet sabotage, organize your resistance, and survive 8 quarters with your soul mostly intact.
Why similar: Political Sim 40.3% ★, Dystopian 18.6%, Management 7.6%, Choices Matter 7.5%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
Step behind the counter in an immersive medieval trading simulation. Buy low, haggle hard, and sell high! Upgrade gear at the blacksmith, infuse your goods with elemental magic, and research new skills to transform your humble stall into the realm's most famous marketplace.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.2% ★, Trading 28.3%, Simulation 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Management 7.1%
Brew & Boom is a narrative alchemy simulation with dark humor. Brew risky potions, serve unusual customers, and choose between rival factions—while your battered old cauldron may blow the entire workshop apart at any moment
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.3% ★, Resource Management 13.7%, Crafting 12.7%, Choices Matter 11.3%, Multiple Endings 9.2%
In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.2% ★, Trading 21.6%, Investigation 12%, Multiple Endings 8.5%, Mystery 8.1%
You have been appointed as an Observer for the 15th District of Chernograd. Inspect apartments, identify violators, record evidence and file reports. But what if order is just a convenient illusion?
Why similar: Political Sim 34.2% ★, Dystopian 16.8%, Multiple Endings 12.1%, Psychological 10.7%, Choices Matter 9.4%
A blacksmith shop sim where every sale changes a life. Forge magic swords as an undying elf, read each customer's ambition and ethics, and choose who gets the blade, then watch it make them a hero or a tyrant. When they die, the sword returns to your anvil to be reforged into the next.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 30.5% ★, Trading 17%, Crafting 11.1%, Resource Management 10.7%, Choices Matter 8.9%
Run a struggling roadside kiosk, hunt for cheap goods at the flea market, stock your shelves, set your own prices, and deal with strange customers, thieves, troublemakers, and the daily cost of staying in business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.7% ★, Trading 23.5%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.4%
Run a second-hand shop. Hear out your customers, value strange items, and make your offer. Some lie, some hide important details, and some deals may bring more into your shop than you bargained for.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.8% ★, Trading 23.8%, Resource Management 9.4%, Choices Matter 7.7%, Mystery 7%
You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you?
Why similar: Political Sim 34.9% ★, Dystopian 23.1%, Choices Matter 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.3%, Simulation 6.5%
Become mayor of a small Greek town and govern for 17 years. Citizens write you letters for years, the opposition never sleeps, and every promise is remembered. A satirical political city sim where the town never forgets.
Why similar: Political Sim 47.1% ★, Choices Matter 11.3%, Simulation 10.4%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 7.1%
Build your own medieval fantasy shop and sell armor, weapons, potions and more to earn money. Send out adventurers to gather goods and combine them to create more powerful and more valuable goods.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.1% ★, Trading 20.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Simulation 7.8%
A political life simulation: enter in middle age, assemble bills, run elections, take the money, bury the trail. There is no win condition — only how you are remembered when you die.
Why similar: Political Sim 45.4% ★, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 11.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Management 6.1%
Iron Contract is a solo 2D management game where you run an industrial defense company. Manage contracts, suppliers, stock, reputation, buildings and production capacity as your company grows from a small local operation into a stronger industrial actor.
Why similar: Trading 28.1%, Shop Keeper 24.2% ★, Resource Management 17.1%, Simulation 15.8%, Management 12.4%
Travel across a living medieval economy, buy goods where supply is strong, and sell where demand creates opportunity. Manage cargo, routes, escorts, seasonal markets, rival merchants, and risk in a focused, relaxing trading simulation.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.9% ★, Trading 31.6%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Management 7.3%
Article 7 is a short political thriller where you play as Arvenia’s Minister of Civil Authority during a national crisis. Review documents, weigh conflicting information, speak with members of the press, and decide whether to grant emergency powers to the Chancellor.
Why similar: Political Sim 51.1% ★, Dystopian 12.6%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Simulation 8.9%
Run a dragon's treasure shop. Cross-check six appraisal tools to uncover what each relic really is — and expose convincing forgeries. Restore worn treasures, forge new ones by hand, grow the shop, and pay the dragon's tribute before it comes due.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.6% ★, Trading 17.5%, Investigation 13.7%, Crafting 11.9%, Simulation 7.6%
Build a criminal empire in this retro strategy simulation. Trade across 12 cities, manage debt and risk, survive violent encounters, and invest before time runs out.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.1% ★, Trading 23.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Management 7.4%, Choices Matter 6.7%
Step into the desk of a state Propagandist! Design posters, shape public opinion, and censor any media that challenges the state. Enlighten the people, serve your glorious country, and uphold the vision of the Mother. Every poster you create can shift the fate of the nation.
Why similar: Political Sim 54.7% ★, Dystopian 18.7%, Choices Matter 12.4%, Story Rich 6%, Simulation 4.2%
Craft inventions and sell them to customers, then automate your workbench, workshop and store! Research new inventions or create your own from scratch. Set prices based on an economic model, unlock and craft upgrades, and vertically integrate your supply chain. Become the world's greatest inventor!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.6% ★, Trading 17.2%, Crafting 16.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Resource Management 9.3%
Trapped in an underground bunker with your finger on the button, interpret intelligence signals, question unreliable AI advisors, and decide whether to escalate, stand down, or unleash doomsday.
Why similar: Political Sim 46.2% ★, Dystopian 12.3%, Choices Matter 8.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Simulation 8.5%
Run a rural Soviet shop during shortages and decide who gets food. Your children are dying, and the nearest hospital is far beyond Herota.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.1% ★, Dystopian 15.5%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%, Resource Management 7.7%
A Simulator/Adventure game where you attend, craft, manage, and enter the nightmares of your patients. Each dream changes the rules and combines exploration, combat, and stealth.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.8% ★, Trading 20.5%, Crafting 16.1%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 8.5%
A fake therapist loses her magic and must face real patients with nothing but words. Manage appointments, money, and emotional collapse in a narrative RPG about lies, deduction, and cognitive dissonance. Are lies your weapon... or your redemption?
Why similar: Psychological 16.6%, Investigation 11.9%, Lore-Rich 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 11.3%
A desk investigation game set in a fictional 1970 communist state. Every morning, a new evidence bag arrives. Intercepted letters, coded messages, wiretap recordings. Somewhere in that paper trail is a network of names. Cross-reference. Decipher. Identify. Then decide what to do with what you know.
Why similar: Political Sim 25.7% ★, Dystopian 19.7%, Lore-Rich 10.5%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Investigation 10.1%
Rule as King Arthur and unite a fractured kingdom. Make difficult decisions, conquer rival lands, and balance your kingdom in this strategy adventure.
Why similar: Political Sim 28.2% ★, Resource Management 16.1%, Choices Matter 15.9%, Multiple Endings 9.9%, Simulation 8.7%
You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.
Why similar: Political Sim 26.5% ★, Shop Keeper 25.8% ★, Trading 18.6%, Resource Management 10%, Management 7.1%
You're dead, understaffed, and temporarily in charge of the Kingdom's admissions desk. Read lives, question souls, follow an incomplete rulebook, and stamp ASCEND, HOLD, DESCEND, or REFER—then live with the Kingdom your paperwork creates.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.7% ★, Investigation 14.4%, Psychological 13.8%, Lore-Rich 13.8%, Choices Matter 12%
Run a weaponsmith shop in dark medieval city of Greyhaven. Sell weapons, manage gold, debt, materials, and fame, while customers, beggars, bandits, and rumors reveal the consequences of every choice.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 50.1% ★, Choices Matter 14.6%, Management 8.6%, Simulation 8%, Multiple Endings 7.6%
The king holds the power — but the words are yours. Advise a young ruler through intrigue, war, and betrayal in a turn-based court drama, where the right counsel shapes a realm and the wrong one ends you.
Why similar: Political Sim 48.5% ★, Choices Matter 12.7%, Multiple Endings 12.4%, Resource Management 6%, Story Rich 5.8%