Games Like Sim Companies

Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.

Why similar: Capitalism 34.9%, Economy 33.5%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This is widely considered the gold standard for deep, realistic economic and business management simulation.

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: Capitalism 27.9%, Economy 26.4%, Management 21.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a comprehensive business management experience where you must build and scale multiple companies in a living city.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.5%, Economy 20.7%, Management 14.4%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep business management mechanics, including product development, office design, and complex market competition.

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Why similar: Economy 18.1%, Capitalism 16.7%, Building 12.7%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the supply chain and production automation aspects that make Sim Companies so addictive.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Economy 35.5%, Management 20.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, competitive economic RTS that focuses entirely on market manipulation and supply chain dominance.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Economy 26.4%, Building 17.6%, Management 16.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features an incredibly detailed economic and logistics system that requires careful planning of production chains.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Trading 15.8%, Management 15.1%, Capitalism 11.3%, Resource Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A logistics-focused management game that challenges you to build efficient supply chains in a dynamic market.

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Economy 19.1%, Trading 16.9%, Capitalism 16%, Management 14.4%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A robust business management simulator that emphasizes product development and market competition.

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Why similar: Economy 27.7%, Management 27.4%, Simulation 11%, Building 7.8%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a tech startup, focusing on hiring, development, and competing in a digital marketplace.

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Economy 19.7%, Management 18.1%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Isometric 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the granular details of manufacturing and optimizing production lines to maximize efficiency.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: Economy 33.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 11.1%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Mastering intricate production chains and trade routes is the core of this highly polished economic strategy game.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Sandbox 20.8%, Crafting 19.2%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 13%, Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate game for players who love designing and optimizing complex, interconnected supply chains.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Economy 20.1%, Building 13.2%, Management 13%, Sandbox 12.1%, Isometric 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of production lines and the assembly of products in a competitive market environment.

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: Crafting 25.2%, Building 23.2%, Sandbox 19.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Translates the complex supply chain management of Sim Companies into a first-person, highly immersive 3D environment.

Manage and grow your own virtual airline in this business simulation. Plan operations by acquiring aircraft and scheduling flights. Monitor finances using realistic tools as you cooperate and compete with other players on a real-time market and turn your company into a flourishing business.

Why similar: Economy 22.9%, Capitalism 19.5%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Massively Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A highly realistic management simulation that focuses on the complex economics of the airline industry.

The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!

Why similar: Economy 25.5%, Management 21.7%, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 12.9%, Simulation 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on the economic necessity of logistics and moving goods efficiently to drive regional growth.

E-Startup is a sandbox business simulation game in a low-poly universe. Build, buy resources to create products and complete contracts, invest in the stock market to become rich and popular!

Why similar: Capitalism 23.2%, Trading 20.5%, Economy 16.7%, Sandbox 11.8%, Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox business simulator that lets you build and manage your own company from the ground up.

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: Economy 21.5%, Trading 16.9%, Management 15.6%, Capitalism 13.6%, Simulation 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a hands-on approach to retail management, pricing, and inventory control.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.7%, Economy 23.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game with a massive, simulated global economy where supply and demand dictate your success.

Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.

Why similar: Trading 26.1%, Economy 17%, Education 14.1%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features a player-driven economy where resource management and trade are essential for the survival of the world.

A competitive multiplayer real-time stock market investment game where players compete globally to achieve maximum investment returns. Trade live stocks in a simulated economy and manage your portfolio in a real-time virtual stock exchange.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.1%, Competitive 19.1%, Trading 18.3%, Economy 14.7%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the trading and investment aspects of an economy, mirroring the market side of Sim Companies.

Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!

Why similar: Capitalism 19%, Trading 16.6%, Economy 14.5%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique management game that blends legitimate business operations with illicit trade and expansion.

Make weapons, make money. An active incremental game where you amass as much money as you can by starting a Military Industrial Complex company. Produce multiple different weapons, research upgrades, manipulate the stock market, and lobby the government for favors.

Why similar: Capitalism 23%, Economy 16.9%, Trading 16.9%, Management 10.6%, Crafting 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: An incremental game that focuses on automation and scaling production, similar to the growth loop in Sim Companies.

Computer Tycoon is a highly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Why similar: Capitalism 21.7%, Trading 19%, Economy 16.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the long-term management of a computer company, from early prototypes to global dominance.

Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.

Why similar: Economy 25.9%, Asynchronous Multiplayer 20.9% ★, Management 14.9%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused simulation that emphasizes route planning and fleet economics.

Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.

Why similar: Economy 26.4%, Management 18.4%, Building 10.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive business simulation that covers various industries and management aspects.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: Economy 27.9%, Management 17.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with complex economic management and trade negotiations on a national scale.

Become the mayor and build the city of your dreams! In this game, anything is possible. Whatever you can imagine in a city-building and development simulator, you can do. Start from the very beginning and unlock new possibilities for developing your city in Global City!

Why similar: Capitalism 19.7%, Economy 18.3%, Building 11.2%, Isometric 10.5%, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that places a significant emphasis on resource management and economic production.

Start in your bedroom in year 2010. Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto coins. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies.

Why similar: Economy 23.3%, Management 17.8%, Trading 14.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Sandbox 12%

Craft a complex production line, earn idle cash and become an industrial tycoon!

Why similar: Capitalism 22.3%, Economy 16.6%, Management 16.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Building 12%

Why You'll Like It: A casual approach to the crafting and production mechanics found in more complex economic sims.

Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.

Why similar: Management 43.3%, Economy 28.1%, Strategy 18%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic management game that emphasizes trade routes and market-based growth.

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: Capitalism 14.5%, Economy 14.2%, Trading 14%, Management 13.8%, Building 8.7%

Build Your smartphone Empire in Mad Smartphone Tycoon, your main goal in this game is to create the ultimate smartphone that combines both performance and aesthetics. Expand your company, dominate the global market, become a tycoon in the world of mobile phones!

Why similar: Management 16.9%, Capitalism 13.4%, Building 12.4%, Trading 11.4%, Economy 10.9%

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: Capitalism 18.4%, Trading 17.8%, Economy 15.2%, Education 10.4%, Building 9.6%

Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! Start working with Prologue now. To avoid going bankrupt, you'll need to build new stores, set good prices and keep up with trends. A limited number of stores & services for Prologue are waiting for you.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.8%, Trading 19.1%, Economy 16.8%, Management 11.1%, Building 8.4%

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: Economy 20%, Trading 15.9%, Management 15.1%, Capitalism 12.9%, Simulation 11.4%

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 21.8%, Trading 18.9%, Economy 17.6%, Management 12.2%, Building 9.3%

Play the CEO of a multi-national conglomerate in this business simulation. Grow crops, raise livestock, build mines and oil wells to get the raw resources needed to make more than 75 types of consumer goods.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.8%, Economy 24%, Management 12%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 9%

Start running your own supermarket with Prologue already. Stock shelves, handle cashier tasks, process online orders, design & expand. Set the prices based on the market. Be prepared to face the consequences if you fail to make the nightly repayment to the gangs.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.2%, Economy 18.3%, Trading 17.8%, Management 11.3%, Building 9.5%

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: Capitalism 22.8%, Economy 19.1%, Education 14.4%, Management 12%, Sandbox 8.9%

Create and manage your own shipping empire. Control every aspect from route creation to marketing to staff handling and beat other managers to top the leaderboards.

Why similar: Economy 23.5%, Capitalism 20.7%, Management 15.6%, Building 14.7%, Resource Management 9.3%

Manage your product company ! Design concept and sell product on the market ! Dodge bankruptcy and rise to the top by making the best concept, the best pricing strategy and applying the best management ! Beat all those damn competitors !

Why similar: Capitalism 24.6%, Trading 21%, Economy 20.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 12.2%

CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

Why similar: Trading 26.8%, Capitalism 19.7%, Management 17.2%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 10.8%

Build your empire from a basement. Trade stocks, run companies, date, raise kids, dodge the SEC, and retire a legend — or go broke trying.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.4%, Trading 21%, Economy 17.6%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%

Your turn to manipulate the market! A financial market simulator where you can choose your own path. Manipulate news, events, and financial engineering to make billions. Or play honestly, growing companies the legal way.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.4%, Economy 15.7%, Trading 14.9%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 12.9%

A sci-fi management game where you build and optimize your computer's system from the ground up. Connect and configure interconnected nodes to efficiently download, process, and upload files. Manage your setup, solve system challenges, and become the ultimate system architect

Why similar: Economy 28.2%, Management 24.4%, Simulation 21.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Resource Management 9.9%

MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.

Why similar: Capitalism 26.2%, Trading 22.1%, Economy 19.9%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!

Why similar: Trading 16.5%, Capitalism 15.4%, Economy 15.2%, Management 11.9%, Building 9.3%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Economy 28.7%, Resource Management 18.6%, Management 16.9%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 9%

Build your retail empire inside a shopping mall. Open multiple stores, sabotage rivals, and play solo or with up to 8 players. Choose different match objectives or play endless mode and compete for retail domination.

Why similar: Capitalism 18.6%, Economy 17.3%, Trading 16.8%, Management 10.1%, Building 9.6%

Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.

Why similar: Management 19.9%, Resource Management 15.9%, Sandbox 15.2%, Crafting 13.9%, Simulation 13.7%

In Prosperous Universe start your galactic empire by trading on the real-time market exchange with other real players. Build your 1st base from humble beginnings & watch as your business flourishes with complex supply chain strategies. Economics, politics & realism fuel this immersive business MMO.

Why similar: Trading 21.5%, Economy 18.8%, Sandbox 10.7%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%, Management 9.8%

Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.

Why similar: Trading 19.2%, Economy 17.6%, Capitalism 15.4%, Management 10.8%, Sandbox 8.6%

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: Capitalism 22.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 13.9%, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 10.2%

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: Capitalism 20.8%, Trading 17.1%, Economy 16.9%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

Recycling Center Simulator: Prologue is a free business simulator game in which you make money from garbage. Collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improving your factory.

Why similar: Trading 20.2%, Economy 17%, Building 13.2%, Capitalism 11.5%, Management 9.5%

Start with one tiny office and a big idea, and grow it into a global computer company. Design your own CPUs, GPUs and laptops, launch your own OS, and outsmart your rivals. A laid-back tycoon that's easy to get into and hard to put down — made by one indie dev.

Why similar: Capitalism 29%, Economy 27.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 4.8%

Build rigs to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrency. Trade on the market to grow wealth. Expand your business into new offices. Hire skilled employees and assign tasks. Use cash from your mega farms to research new technologies and reach the goal of each scenario.

Why similar: Economy 22.9%, Management 18.1%, Trading 17.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Building 11.5%

Stardock's classic 2001 real-time economic strategy game, available now on Steam. Dive back into the timeless battle for one of the most ruthless environments ever created: international trade.

Why similar: Capitalism 21.7%, Trading 17.4%, Economy 16.9%, Building 10.4%, Management 10.3%

CoffeeBiz tycoon is a mix of entrepreneurship fun and complicated business simulation. Start your first coffee kiosk, brew, expand, hire, deal with competitors, build a well-known brand, risk, and do everything else needed to build prosperous and profitable business.

Why similar: Economy 22.6%, Management 22%, Capitalism 17.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 9.1%