60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Shop Keeper, Simulation, Singleplayer, Life Sim.
Shop Crush is a shop-owner simulator and visual novel set in the early 2000s. Stock a wide variety of goods, haggle with shoppers, and manage your reputation. Get to know your regulars and peel back the illusions tied to each persona as you slowly uncover the horrifying truth.
Guildream
Kicked out by his father for not becoming fully human, the protagonist is left in charge of a neglected guild. Guildream is a casual and comedic simulation game where anyone can enjoy managing a quirky guild.
Shoku Pain
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
Kicked out by his father for not becoming fully human, the protagonist is left in charge of a neglected guild. Guildream is a casual and comedic simulation game where anyone can enjoy managing a quirky guild.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39% ★, Management 16.3%, Life Sim 16.1%, Point & Click 8.7%, Choices Matter 6.5%
Run a night-shift bakery inside a quarantine zone. Every customer looks human at first. Check their symptoms, fill the report, and make the call — bread, medicine, or the knife. Keep your supplies stocked and beware what waits outside the glass.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 35.3% ★, Psychological Horror 12.7%, Life Sim 12.3%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 7.8%
Listen to your customers, find out what they really want, and search for the right property to recommend in this real estate simulation and story-driven adventure. Work alongside your boss, Hisui Odate, at a small neighborhood agency and help each customer find a place they can truly call home.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 16.2%, Life Sim 14.9%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Simulation 7.8%
inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories is a cozy slice-of-life game about running a small-town convenience store, inspired by early 1990s Japan. Meet regulars, stock shelves, and watch quiet, everyday moments turn into meaningful stories.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 26.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.4%, Life Sim 10.8%, Visual Novel 9.8%, 1990's 8.5%
Run a secondhand bookshop in London, 1994. Every book remembers who owned it before — pressed flowers, letters, notes in the margins. Across books that should never have met, the same hand keeps writing. You inherited the rules with the shop: shelve carefully, and do not read the margins.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.5% ★, Management 12.6%, Psychological Horror 11.6%, Life Sim 11.3%, 1990's 7.9%
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: Shop Keeper 29.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Management 11.1%, Surreal 9.6%, Visual Novel 8%
Run a little shop that fixes people's moods. Serve customers, deal with six difficult siblings, and make choices that shape your shop, your family, and the whole town.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.6% ★, Life Sim 19.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%, Cute 5.2%
Run Your Game Cafe in This Funny, 2D, Pixel Art, Game Cafe Tycoon Manager Simulator, Meet Funny Friends , Make new Customers, Keep old Ones Happy, Make Money , Pay Power Bill & Rent Every day , Buy New Games , Update Old Games , Repair Devices , Keep Business Going, Don't Get Bankrupted!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.7% ★, Life Sim 17.9%, Management 14.7%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%, Simulation 8.4%
At your grandfather's old tea house, every customer who walks in has a story worth hearing. Brew drinks, serve an odd cast of regulars, build deep connections — and maybe find love along the way. Years of family secrets are waiting to surface.
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 22.1%, Shop Keeper 21.3% ★, Visual Novel 13.9%, Life Sim 11.6%, Female Protagonist 7.2%
It’s 1999 and Y2K is upon us. You are the owner of an independent video store that a corporation is eyeing off to purchase. Help your customers find the perfect video by listening to their stories and decide what the future is for your video store.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.6% ★, Dialogue Heavy 21%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Point & Click 9.2%, 1990's 4%
Play as Iris, a burnt-out goddess who opens a midnight bakery in a sleepless city. Read customers’ emotions as color and craft cakes to comfort them, while hiding from the gods searching for her.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 20.1%, Visual Novel 12.8%, Simulation 7.6%, 1990's 5.6%
Shake It: Lycoris is a bartender simulator where cozy vibes, smooth jazz, and a wide variety of cocktails blend into one unique atmosphere.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 24.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 23.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Point & Click 9.2%, Simulation 9%
🧺 A cozy 2D life sim about running a small-town laundry. Wash, dry, and iron clothes for townfolks. Upgrade your shop, decorate your space, and discover heartwarming stories behind every piece of clothing.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.3% ★, Life Sim 20.2%, Management 12.1%, Point & Click 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%
Buy mysterious (possibly cursed) goods from the dark web by night, then sell them in your curio shop by day. Balance profit against consequence and assemble an artifact capable of causing the apocalypse. All in a day’s work.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 49.3% ★, Management 17.2%, Life Sim 17.2%, Simulation 8.9%, Dark 5%
Going Once! is a cozy art gallery / auction house management game. Appraise and buy art, display it in your gallery and auction it off to the highest bidder!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 52.3% ★, Management 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 15.5%, Simulation 8.9%, Cute 5.2%
A calm, story-driven simulator where every crafted part matters. Run your tiny workshop, meet other robots, and discover how even the smallest detail can change a life in this forgotten city of machines.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.1% ★, Visual Novel 17.7%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Story Rich 4.1%
Lounge Café is an atmospheric coffee shop simulator where you play as Sara from Lucerne, running a small café in Binoville. Choose beans, craft drinks, and compete in the city’s major coffee tournament to become the best.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 65.9% ★, Management 24%, Simulation 5%, Life Sim 4%, Atmospheric 1.2%
A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers while you manage a small plant shop. Expand your plant collection, upgrade your shop & grow your business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.4% ★, Psychological Horror 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 10.1%
Welcome to 1989. In this retro style first-person job simulator You work alone in a tiny yellow drive-thru photo kiosk somewhere in suburban America. Customers want cassettes, family portraits, questionable passport photos... and memories they probably shouldn't keep.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.3% ★, Management 13.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Life Sim 10.2%, Retro 9.7%
Atmospheric simulator of the seller in a night stall of the 1993 model. Immerse yourself in the melancholy of the sleeping area: sell goods, count the change and communicate with customers.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.9% ★, Life Sim 20.7%, 1990's 17.5%, Simulation 16%, Story Rich 6.5%
Manage your café, meet new friends, and serve unique drinks as new stories unfold every day in Coffee & Fox! Can you handle everything this place has to offer?
Why similar: Shop Keeper 40.1% ★, Life Sim 16.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Management 7.5%
Homeward on the Wind is a story-driven life simulation set in the town of Clearbrook in 1992. Return to the past as Shen Mingzhu, revive her mother’s old general store, manage stock and upgrades, explore the town, meet its residents, and shape relationships through your choices.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 29.8% ★, Visual Novel 16.1%, Life Sim 15.8%, 1990's 9.7%, Female Protagonist 9.6%
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 47.5% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%, Management 9%, Dark 8.4%
Run your own sandwich shop! Stock your ingredients, prepare delicious sandwiches, take payments, customize and expand your store, and become the best sandwich shop in town!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 50.7% ★, Life Sim 18.6%, Management 17.5%, Simulation 8.2%, Cute 5%
As the boss, evaluate the proposals that come your way. Manage your nightclub’s reputation. Beat up thieves and put out fires.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 49.7% ★, Management 17.6%, Life Sim 13.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Cute 4.2%
With a brand spanking new degree in Literalchemy, use your witchy powers to change stories, craft tales, run a bookshop, and even find love in this puzzle, visual novel, shopkeeping sim!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Management 11%, Point & Click 6.4%
You lost your coal mine job, now you're a cashier at Poland's landmark convenience store. Scan groceries, verify IDs, grill hot dogs, and try to feed your family on what's left. A dark comedy about surviving late stage capitalism, one receipt at a time.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 38.2% ★, Life Sim 19.6%, Simulation 12.7%, Point & Click 10.2%, 1990's 5.8%
You inherited a taxi dispatch business but it came with debt attached. Hire drivers, dispatch fares, navigate Istanbul’s chaos, deal with bad customers and worse luck. You have 15 days to pay it off or lose everything. The meter is running.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 36.2% ★, Management 16.7%, Point & Click 11.2%, Simulation 6.8%, Retro 6.7%
可愛い後輩と2人っきり……冷凍庫の中で。 低体温症、矛盾脱衣、幻覚などの苦痛を乗り越えた先にあるのは、「真相」と「死」のみ。
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 25.2%, Psychological Horror 16.5%, Visual Novel 15.8%, Point & Click 9.6%, Hand-drawn 7.7%
A 1990s body-horror management sim. Buy alien corpses off the black market, harvest their organs at a basement autopsy table, and sell to rival factions. Bank $1.5 million in 30 days, and keep the heat off your back.
Why similar: Management 20.1%, Psychological Horror 16.9%, 1990's 14.8%, Shop Keeper 10.4% ★, Point & Click 9.2%
Run your own pub in this atmospheric and story-rich job simulator. Featuring a full brewing pipeline, dynamic NPCs, side quests, bar upgrades and expansions, branching dialogue, a freely explorable city, and a deep narrative set in dystopian Napolis City.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 33.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.3%, Psychological Horror 10.5%, 1990's 8.9%, Management 8.3%
A psychological horror RPG with visual novel elements, where you live the life of Hicha, a shut-in hikikomori trapped in an endless cycle of depression, anxiety, and routine.
Why similar: Life Sim 19%, Psychological Horror 17.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Management 8.3%
Become the host of an afterlife teahouse. For 49 days, serve the final cup to the departed. Experience a deep brewing system based on authentic traditions. Listen to the secrets of unique spirits, change their fates, and face the truth of your forgotten past.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 31% ★, Dialogue Heavy 19.8%, Life Sim 13.4%, Visual Novel 12.3%, Management 9.5%
An unsettling blend of life simulation and psychological horror with PSX style visuals. Rebuild your life, find a job, explore the town, do anything for ALISA
Why similar: Shop Keeper 20.1% ★, Psychological Horror 15.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13%, Life Sim 12.8%, Retro 11.2%
Your motel is busy for the first time in years. Antsy city-folk and dispossessed teens flood your rooms, and you can barely keep up. Now, after a week of all-nighters spent managing reservations, room service requests, and Yup! reviews, you begin to wonder… could you even fall asleep if you tried?
Why similar: Dialogue Heavy 19.9%, Psychological Horror 14.2%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Hand-drawn 10.3%, Management 9.9%
Arcadia Cafe - domestic horror in early 2000s. Work the night shift as a student at a roadside cafe. Meet bizarre guests, get cash for your job, but beware — homecoming may be much more horrible than you expect.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 32.4% ★, 1990's 12.9%, Psychological Horror 12.1%, Retro 9.8%, Female Protagonist 8%
Run a 2000s internet cafe. Hire a literal ghost apprentice, survive the city inspector, break up brawling groups — and end each day in MAIL.EXE, where every message has a price. Seven playable arcade cabinets, three difficulties, free demo.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.1% ★, Management 19.1%, 1990's 14.4%, Retro 8.5%, Simulation 6.3%
Grow a failing gym. Expand the facility, order and move equipment, run the gym shop. Hire staff and coaches. Train your own character. Compete in fitness contest to reach 5 stars.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 47.9% ★, Life Sim 23.4%, Simulation 17.2%, Management 11.5%
Run your own hardware store. Stock the shelves, set your prices, serve customers at the checkout, and reinvest your profits to grow the business. Order tools, restock the warehouse, and build the DIY shop of your dreams, one sale at a time.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 56.3% ★, Life Sim 17.2%, Management 16.5%, Simulation 10%
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 51.2% ★, Management 15.5%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Simulation 7.6%, Story Rich 7%
Become the Ocean’s Ultimate Dive Master
Why similar: Shop Keeper 57.5% ★, Simulation 19.3%, Management 11.3%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Atmospheric 4.7%
Experience life through the eyes of others in DEEPWOOD. A downloadable visual novel project.
Why similar: Visual Novel 23.4%, Psychological Horror 20.4%, Surreal 18.3%, Dialogue Heavy 16.5%, Hand-drawn 11.1%
A cozy shop-management and collecting sim. Stock and sell blind boxes and gachapons, open them yourself for the thrill of every unboxing, hunt rare and secret figures across dozens of series, set prices to match shifting demand, trade with customers, and expand your shop into a collector's paradise.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.7% ★, Life Sim 21.5%, Simulation 15.3%, Management 8.8%, Cute 5.4%
A story-driven visual novel with point-and-click elements about one evening shift at an unusual candy shop. Talk to customers, figure out who is human and who is supernatural, and make sure everyone gets the right sweet.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.8%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Point & Click 8.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%
Run a cozy store as a grandma in a forgotten town where the living and the dead collide. Grow your shop by serving customers, fulfilling requests, and managing daily life. Talk to townsfolk and wandering spirits, hear their stories, and help them find purpose and peace.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34.3% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.8%, Management 12.9%, Life Sim 12.5%, Visual Novel 7.4%
June. No matter what you do—or don’t—days keep moving. But some choices stay. Some things don’t come back. This is that kind of story.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 34% ★, Psychological Horror 15.9%, Life Sim 15.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%, Dark 8.5%
Design and run the arcade you always dreamed of owning in this ’80s-inspired management simulator. Fill your floor with games, keep your machines running, grow your reputation, and turn your neighborhood arcade into the ultimate quarter-crunching hangout!
Why similar: Shop Keeper 41.3% ★, Management 18.5%, Simulation 12.5%, Life Sim 10.1%, Retro 9.2%
How about running your own pastel stand across Brazil? Fry your customers’ pastéis and be careful not to burn yourself! Travel through different regions of the country, discover new ingredients, and upgrade your stand to attract more and more customers along the way.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.9% ★, Management 15.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.6%, Point & Click 9.5%, Simulation 6.1%
Every Sheikh-sized fortune has to start somewhere. Yours starts with a tiny baqala. Manage your shop, meet the locals, build your fortune, and invest across a 2002 Gulf city inspired by Old Dubai & Riyadh. Solo or with friends in online co-op. Become the Souq Boss.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 51.4% ★, Management 18.6%, Life Sim 9.4%, Simulation 8.2%, Retro 6.5%
Open your own blind box store in the anime city of Akihabara. Stock the shelves with the latest blind boxes, or unbox them to collect rare hidden editions. Create a trendy blind box shop that attracts customers and expands your business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.6% ★, Life Sim 19.4%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 12.5%
Open a little magic stand in a peaceful village! 'The Potion Stand' is a cozy tycoon where you serve cute sprites. Deduce their metaphorical orders, brew perfect drinks, and collect gold. Upgrade your stand and complete the heartwarming stories of regular sprites who visit every night.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 39.4% ★, Life Sim 20.3%, Simulation 13.2%, Point & Click 10.5%, Cute 5.2%
SoulBite is a 2D pixel-art restaurant sim. You're the chef of a small diner where guests share stories and secrets. Listen to their words, figure out what they truly crave, and serve the perfect dish. A cozy, heartwarming experience where every meal tells a story. Welcome, Chef.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 44.3% ★, Life Sim 21.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Dialogue Heavy 12.4%, Atmospheric 3.6%
As a merchant in a city caught between warring powers, build relationships with unique characters, expand your store, and discover the true price of doing business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 42.5% ★, Visual Novel 17.6%, Management 15%, Choices Matter 8.1%, Story Rich 7.4%
Set up gaming consoles, manage games, set prices, serve customers, hire staff, and grow your café to become the city's most popular gaming hub.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 45.3% ★, Life Sim 21.9%, Simulation 16.1%, Management 11.3%, Cute 5.4%
Manage and grow your cozy café from scratch in a world full of adorable talking cats. Craft authentic coffee drinks inspired by real barista techniques, upgrade your shop, serve your fluffy customers, and become beloved by all.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 43.9% ★, Management 18.4%, Choices Matter 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Dark 7.4%
You'll open a potion shop in Sacred Heart City and learn about the reasons for the decline of Sacred Heart City by meeting a wide variety of customers. This is a story-based business simulation game, the main gameplay is that the customer asks you to make the right potion according to the request.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 51.1% ★, Life Sim 21.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Story Rich 5.9%, Female Protagonist 4.7%
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 39.5% ★, Life Sim 16.1%, Management 13.8%, Choices Matter 6.2%, Cute 5.8%
Welcome to Anssoloin's new postman! After years of hard work, you've finally been able to buy your own post office by the sea. Learn more about the village and its residents through your work. Will you be able to fit in your new community? Sort the mail, discover new things, chat, and relax.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 46.9% ★, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Point & Click 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Simulation 9.6%
ATYPIAN은 고전 JRPG 세계와 사이버펑크가 결합된 배경의 스토리 어드벤처 게임입니다. 여관을 경영하며 손님들과 대화하고, 도시를 조사하며 단서를 모아 위기를 모면하세요. 신원을 의심받지 않고 무사히 10일을 보낼 수 있을까요?
Why similar: Life Sim 23.2%, Visual Novel 21.3%, Management 14.9%, Female Protagonist 12.6%, Simulation 10.6%
Manage your own game store and LAN house! Buy products, stock the shelves, set your prices, receive payments, organize your LAN house, and design your layout.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 53.1% ★, Life Sim 16.6%, Management 15.8%, Simulation 9%, Retro 5.6%
