Games Like Shop Tycoon

Claim real locations on a living world map, grow a persistent property empire, and manage upgrades, contracts, transport, companies, prestige cards, and city events alongside a shared online community.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Idler 17.2%, Capitalism 11.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 7.9%

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Life Sim 14.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 8%

Build your own hotel empire from scratch! Welcome guests, prepare rooms, hire staff, and transform a small motel into a five-star luxury resort. Can you keep your guests happy and reach the top in this fast-paced time management game ?

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Idler 13.4%, Life Sim 9.1%, Simulation 8.7%

Neighborhoods is a cozy city sim where you shape streets to help people thrive, gather, and develop strong opinions about a particular bench. We're reimagining the city builder as a city fixer.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Life Sim 18.6%, Capitalism 16.4%, Economy 11.5%, Building 7.2%

Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.

Why similar: Life Sim 18.4%, City Builder 16.6%, Sandbox 12.4%, Capitalism 10.9%, Management 9.5%

A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Economy 11.8%, Capitalism 11.1%, Base Building 7.4%

Manage your park in Amusement Tycoon! Build thrilling attractions, manage staff, and delight visitors to create the park of your dreams and achieve success!

Why similar: City Builder 26.7%, Capitalism 15%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 11.1%, Economy 10.6%

Build your city in multiple different hand-crafted worlds and manage all the complexities that a real mayor would. From city services to demand, finances, policies, approval ratings and re-election, Uber Urban offers a complete and innovative take on the city building genre.

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Sandbox 13.6%, Capitalism 13%, Economy 10.7%, Building 10.7%

Lead survivors to build a new home in an unknown wilderness. Develop your settlement, defend against threats, and explore the world alongside a lord who truly lives among your people. Let your lord act independently, or take direct control and write your own frontier legend.

Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Life Sim 14.1%, Simulation 11.3%, Third Person 8.8%

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Capitalism 14.4%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.8%

A real-world city-building simulation where you shape the future of downtown Windsor–Detroit. Zone, redevelop, and experiment with growth using real map data in a living urban sandbox.

Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Economy 6.7%, Building 6.6%

You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Capitalism 15%, Sandbox 14.4%, Economy 14.1%, Simulation 8.3%

Run the Eastern Underworld in this cozy city builder simulation! Design land layout, hire quirky soulkeepers, and punish sinful souls. Give souls a place to call home. Encounter legends from myths, explore worlds above...

Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Life Sim 9.6%

Become the richest business owner in this strategy-based simulator, choose your playstyle trying to balance ethics and profits in this chaotic low poly world. Will you keep your ethical businesses thriving or will you let it all crumble down for a quick buck?

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Capitalism 11.9%, Management 9.6%

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: City Builder 19.1%, Life Sim 14.2%, Capitalism 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Economy 9.2%

Start your new Business and grow it into an Empire and become the next Tycoon!

Why similar: City Builder 24.2%, Life Sim 17.2%, Capitalism 13%, Economy 8.9%, Building 8.9%

Run your own castle, trade goods, set prices, hire villagers, and expand your market into a thriving medieval empire. Customize your layout, keep order, and secure your prosperity… or lose it all.

Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Life Sim 20.6%, Sandbox 14.5%, Simulation 12.9%, Casual 8%

Manage your own parking lot. Administer, improve, and expand your establishment. New services and features are coming soon.

Why similar: Life Sim 20.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Capitalism 13.8%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.2%

Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Capitalism 14.7%, Life Sim 12.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Economy 10.4%

Bonanza Burger: Build, manage, and compete! Design your restaurant, hire a top-notch team, and battle rival managers. Conquer challenges, expand, and prove you're the ultimate fast-food mogul!

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Capitalism 12.9%, Building 9%

A calm 3D island town-builder spanning nine ages, from stone huts to electric streets. Raise workshops, wire production chains, work a living market, and grow a town that keeps producing while you're away. Settle a new island to advance the age — every shore you leave sends tribute home forever.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Life Sim 15.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Capitalism 8.6%

Glimvale is a solo cosy city-builder with idle mechanics where you manage, decorate, and grow a charming MMO village. Keep adventurers happy and shape the world at your own pace. After all, you’re the game master.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Life Sim 14.7%, Idler 14.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Economy 9.3%

Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Capitalism 13.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Economy 12.3%, Building 9.7%

An open world idle tycoon rpg about making money.

Why similar: Idler 20.4%, Capitalism 17.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Life Sim 11.9%, Economy 9.6%

Experience Construction Simulator 4 across three beautiful regions with unique campaigns and challenges. Over 100 missions and 80 detailed vehicles and machinery deliver a varied gameplay experience for your growing construction company.

Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 13.1%, Economy 7.8%, Building 7.7%

Britain's broadband is a mess, and you're the small company that says it can do better. Trench real UK streets, wire real homes to fibre, and size your network against the 8pm evening peak — when the whole town logs on at once. Dig up Britain. Sell broadband. Survive the evening peak.

Why similar: City Builder 32.4%, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 14%, Economy 10.8%, Top-Down 8.3%

A management and tycoon game where you build and manage a courthouse. From small-town traffic courts to high-profile criminal cases you are the one in control. Build your courthouse, hire and manage staff, schedule cases and balance the pressures of efficiency and reputation.

Why similar: City Builder 16.8%, Capitalism 16.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Economy 12.8%, Building 12.3%

Cooperative real time city building simulator with Swiss flair. Build a town together manage resources and budgets solve quirky everyday problems and experience a world that keeps running even when you are offline.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Life Sim 19.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 7.4%

Meet your Biibit: your virtual buddy who lives and grows on your desktop. They aren’t here to be controlled, but their autonomous growth might lead you to discover your B side.

Why similar: Life Sim 21%, Idler 18.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Casual 7.6%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 11.6%, Capitalism 11.4%, Economy 11.3%

Ever wanted to manage & build your own crypto empire? Trade crypto and invest into new properties to expand your business.

Why similar: Life Sim 15.5%, Idler 13.8%, Capitalism 11.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Top-Down 8.6%

Build your own Tax Empire! Collect taxes, expand your city, hire tax officers, control traffic, enact new policies and squeeze out as much revenue as you can on your road to riches.

Why similar: City Builder 27%, Capitalism 17.7%, Idler 16.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Economy 7.9%

Build a town or run a game studio, both staffed by AI characters with real personalities. Watch townsfolk work, argue, fight, and raid dungeons. Or play the RPG your own AI dev team designs, builds, and ships while you run the company. Runs 100% locally on your machine.

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Life Sim 18.2%, Idler 13.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Simulation 11.5%

A cozy village-builder and benevolent god game where you build freely, guide the Kinous, and spread kindness to bring your valley back to life.

Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Sandbox 18.1%, Third Person 8.2%, Exploration 7.5%, Top-Down 7%

If you had a plot of land, what would you build on it? In "I Am The Landlord," you'll play as a landlord who owns an apartment building in the city center, starting from an empty plot and using your design skills and creativity to construct unique apartments.

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Building 20.5%, Life Sim 16.6%, Simulation 13.7%, 3D 7%

Build what only you can in LEGO® Skylines. In this cozy, customizable city-builder, your choices bring a living, breathing metropolis to life. Go big or obsess over the details. No instructions. Unlimited space. And there’s just one rule. Make it yours.

Why similar: City Builder 37.3%, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 10.6%, Management 7%

Build the ultimate waterpark paradise in this classic tycoon simulation game! Design & customize water slides, pools, and saunas to fulfill your guests' needs. Combine creativity, strategy, and management to make a splash in the world of water parks and become the ultimate Aquapark Tycoon!

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Capitalism 13.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.3%

An open world idle tycoon rpg about making money.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.1%, Sandbox 18.8%, Idler 17.1%, Capitalism 12.5%, Economy 7.4%

Backyard Birdwatching is your virtual window to a relaxing afternoon in the Midwest. It's a simple, colorful management sim that teaches you about birds and how to attract them to your yard.

Why similar: City Builder 28.4%, Idler 21.7%, Life Sim 12.9%, Building 12%, Management 8.4%

My Littlest Skeleton is a cosy and relaxing simulation where you care for your very own little Skeleton chum! Pull your unique Skeleton back from the depths of the Nether Region. Attend to their needs, maintain their furnishings, choose from a variety of environments for your Skeleton to call home.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.2%, Idler 21%, Sandbox 17.8%, Cartoony 11.2%, Simulation 10.4%

"Drift to Island" is a sandbox multiplayer game where you build your home on a tropical island and enjoy island life. Ride a pony, fish, farm, or hire NPCs to help run the island. The game offers a relaxing and immersive experience, letting you create lasting memories with friends in a vibrant world

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Life Sim 18.8%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 8.6%, Simulation 7.9%

Rebuild an abandoned theme park in this first-person simulation. Build rides, shops, and decorations, keep guests happy, earn stars, unlock upgrades, hire staff, stop troublemakers, and turn your park into a famous attraction.

Why similar: City Builder 21.9%, Life Sim 15.7%, Idler 13.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Economy 8.2%

Build and manage the amusement park of your dreams! Idler Coaster is a Clicker that combines Management Tycoon and Business Simulation in a unique way! Build, upgrade, hire staff and research new attractions to achieve maximum profits!

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Idler 16.9%, Building 10.6%, Capitalism 10.5%, Management 8.2%

Vacations mean various things to people all over the world, but they always have one thing in common: the HOTEL. It’s time to take matters into your own hands and build that dream hotel just the way you always wanted!

Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Life Sim 19.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Building 8.3%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

Why similar: Capitalism 16.2%, Life Sim 15.5%, City Builder 15%, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 10.2%

Is a 2D top-down management and construction game in which players create and operate their own campground in a naturally generated environment.Each game begins with a unique property featuring plains, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, or coastlines.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.9%, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Building 11%, Casual 9.5%

A real estate investment and business simulator, with aspects of life simulator who puts you in the skin of someone who just lost everything including your parents and needs to win in life.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.7%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 13.7%, Economy 8.8%, Casual 8.5%

Cinema manager will get you into a tycoon imperium of movie theatres! Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day! Transform your business from a single screening room into a chain of exclusive cinemas! Design your movie theatre, choose the repertoire, and attract customers! It's time for a grand premiere!

Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Life Sim 20.3%, Economy 13.2%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.1%

Step into the shoes of a golf architect as you build and manage your own golfing paradise! Sharpen your strategy by designing incredible courses to challenge the most demanding golfers and watch your club flourish as you attract VIP players, hire quirky staff and hold prestigious tournaments.

Why similar: City Builder 18.6%, Capitalism 14.5%, Life Sim 12.6%, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

Meow Island is an idle tycoon game where you build a sky island paradise for adorable kittens! Open and upgrade food stores, explore new areas, unlock unique kittens, and fill the skies with cozy cat islands!

Why similar: City Builder 28.9%, Life Sim 19.6%, Idler 16.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Casual 7.6%

A relaxing simulation game about drifting endlessly across a digital ocean.

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Sandbox 19.1%, Idler 18.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Building 7.9%

Wake up and smell the coffee in Coffee Shop Simulator. Manage, and personalize your very own coffee shop. Craft the perfect coffee, serve up delicious pastries, and create a cozy place for coffee lovers from all walks of life.

Why similar: Capitalism 18.6%, Sandbox 17.2%, Economy 14.5%, Building 13.4%, Management 8.5%

Parkdens is a minimalistic and relaxing nature park building game where you can place tiles and choose variety of objects ranging from statues, sitting areas, shelters to bushes, playgrounds, trees etc. to populate the placed tiles.

Why similar: City Builder 37.2%, Sandbox 18.9%, Simulation 16.9%, Building 10.8%, Casual 10.6%

My Tiny Park is a management sim where you design and manage parks of all kinds - from schoolyard playgrounds to sprawling nature reserves. Balance budgets, attract visitors, and craft the perfect outdoor space in this relaxing yet strategic game!

Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 14.1%, Building 11.8%, Economy 10.4%

Become a nano flat owner! Furnish tiny spaces, rent them out for high prices, and earn massive profits. Start small, collect rent, reinvest, and expand your rental empire. Achieve financial freedom effortlessly in this cozy simulation game!

Why similar: Sandbox 18.6%, Building 16.9%, Capitalism 13.8%, Idler 12.9%, Simulation 7.7%

Real Estate 2 is a continuation of the business simulator, where you completely manage the real estate business, but wider and with more opportunities. Find the best deals, repair, organize transportation and sell with maximum profit. It's time to build your empire!

Why similar: City Builder 32%, Life Sim 22.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Exploration 7.9%, Building 7.8%

Your grandfather's construction company is now in your hands. Take over a business burdened by debt and lead it to success. Hire workers, build crews, purchase equipment, complete contracts, expand your office, and turn the company into a thriving construction empire.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Sandbox 15.9%, Simulation 14.6%, Capitalism 13.8%, Economy 7.6%

Witching Well is a magic sandbox where you craft spells, explore, shape your surroundings, and play at your own pace. Collect ingredients, craft magic, meet unique creatures, and transform the world around you.

Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Life Sim 18.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 7.1%

Build your city and survive elections in this city-building management sandbox. Choose campaign promises, manage approval, and aim for three terms. Your choices shape the story and outcome. Will you develop the city or use your power to build your personal fortune?

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Life Sim 13.5%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 12.5%, Management 9%

Build your Falafel empire in Falafel tycoon, Hire staff and train them to make awesome sandwiches and serve your customers to get more ratings and receive good reviews, Customize your restaurant, With 100+ object you can place in your restaurant to customize, The possibilities are endless.

Why similar: Life Sim 23.8%, Cartoony 17.2%, Simulation 14.9%, Economy 11.5%, Building 11.1%