
A turn-based simulation game, where you manage a game development company. You can choose to run the company honestly and diligently or resort to some unconventional methods.
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A turn-based simulation game, where you manage a game development company. You can choose to run the company honestly and diligently or resort to some unconventional methods.

Publish! A Game About Making Games
In this game, you can actually make real games.. literally! As the sole Game Designer you are the last hope for a failing company. Your mission: develop the ultimate game titles by stitching together absurd genres under your boss’s crazy demands. Get your game onto STIM before your Sanity hits zero!

Game Company Simulator
A weary ex‑developer, tired of pay‑to‑win and toxic workplaces, creates a simulation where you play as a game company boss. Recruit staff, push their potential, battle rivals, and aim to dominate the market with blockbuster hits to reach the pinnacle of success.
In this game, you can actually make real games.. literally! As the sole Game Designer you are the last hope for a failing company. Your mission: develop the ultimate game titles by stitching together absurd genres under your boss’s crazy demands. Get your game onto STIM before your Sanity hits zero!
Why similar: Game Development 40.1% ★, Capitalism 13.1%, Dark Humor 11.4%, Immersive Sim 7%, Resource Management 6.3%
A weary ex‑developer, tired of pay‑to‑win and toxic workplaces, creates a simulation where you play as a game company boss. Recruit staff, push their potential, battle rivals, and aim to dominate the market with blockbuster hits to reach the pinnacle of success.
Why similar: Game Development 41.7% ★, Capitalism 18.3%, Dark Humor 11.6%, Simulation 7.2%, Strategy 5.1%
Build and manage your dream game studio! Create hit games, develop custom hardware, generate posters for each title, manage your team’s needs, decide on company policies, follow market trends, decorate your studio and see it in first-person! Your legacy starts now — GameOn!
Why similar: Game Development 45.7% ★, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Capitalism 9.9%, Simulation 8.5%, Management 8.5%
Choose a different life to run a game company, and your business can spread across any game-related industries such as game development, engine development, game console development, etc., creating the best game company in your heart.
Why similar: Game Development 54.5% ★, Capitalism 27.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Casual 3.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Ever dreamed of creating a genre-defining masterpiece? Star of Games is a next-gen simulation management game centered on game dev. You'll act as an aspiring developer, starting from a humble garage startup and embarking on a glorious journey—from recreating classics to forging your own legends.
Why similar: Game Development 43.4% ★, Capitalism 10.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Crafting 9%, Life Sim 7.4%
Forge Your Dream Games, Build a Legendary Studio! Unearth and cultivate talented employees, leading your team through countless critical decisions as you rise from obscurity to claim the coveted Game of the Year award. This is your path to becoming a legend. Are you ready to write your own chapter?
Why similar: Game Development 42.4% ★, Capitalism 17%, Simulation 12%, Crafting 11.5%, Strategy 7.2%
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
Why similar: Game Development 40% ★, Capitalism 14.2%, Dark Humor 10.7%, Resource Management 9.3%, Life Sim 9.2%
The deckbuilding life-sim. Buy and upgrade cards to build combos capable of churning through your entire deck in a single turn! Sculpt your deck into an absurd money-making machine to climb the economic ladder and become the richest person in the galaxy!
Why similar: Solitaire 21% ★, Deckbuilding 17%, Capitalism 16.1%, Card Game 15.5%, Life Sim 9.7%
A co-op startup management sim where you make hard decisions, argue over priorities, manage chaos, and deal with deadlines, burnout, investors, and constant pressure. Failure is expected — and every disaster is wrapped in satire and dark humor.
Why similar: Game Development 29.3% ★, Capitalism 18%, Dark Humor 12.8%, Immersive Sim 8.7%, Life Sim 7.7%
Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!
Why similar: Game Development 45.5% ★, Resource Management 12.8%, Crafting 12.8%, Simulation 9%, Management 8.7%
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.1%, Deckbuilding 16.7%, Crafting 12.8%, Card Game 10.9%, Resource Management 10.3%
GameLaunchSimulator is a text-based management sim about the full journey of publishing an indie game. Build your studio, plan new projects, prepare store pages, grow wishlists, handle reviews, release windows, publishing deals, and post-launch operations, then bring an unknown game to real players.
Why similar: Game Development 42.4% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Crafting 11%, Capitalism 9.9%, Resource Management 9.9%
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: Game Development 44.7% ★, Capitalism 23.5%, Resource Management 8.1%, Management 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
A simulation game where we run a pawn shop. Take the first steps to open a thrift shop in Detroit and discover the experience of running a real thrift shop. Find, restore, and sell amazing items and build your own shop kingdom!
Why similar: Capitalism 21.2%, Modern 17.1%, Immersive Sim 15.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Life Sim 13.7%
Server Owner Tycoon has you step into the shoes of a game server owner to build your own online empire. Manage your staff members, catch the latest trends, keep users satisfied, research new features, and administer your server. Do you have what it takes to become the best server owner?
Why similar: Game Development 34.2% ★, Capitalism 20.9%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Life Sim 8.2%, Resource Management 7.4%
Card Game Arena is a platform for creating, publishing, and playing digital card games. Design complete card games using visual tools, then share and play them online through a shared ecosystem built for fair and competitive play.
Why similar: Game Development 56.2% ★, Card Game 18.2%, Deckbuilding 11.5%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 5%
The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)
Why similar: Game Development 31.7% ★, Modern 17.8%, Dark Humor 10.1%, Life Sim 9.8%, Immersive Sim 9.2%
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Why similar: Game Development 46.9% ★, Modern 14.7%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Life Sim 8.7%, Simulation 5.9%
You are an aspiring game developer in 2000. Hire personal, expand offices, design the games of your dreams and try to make money from them. Reach as high as you can. From a small company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Game Development 57.7% ★, Capitalism 15.1%, Simulation 10.9%, Strategy 5.8%, Resource Management 5.6%
The legends that brought you I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling present... STEAMULATOR 2018. Balance players, developers, money, and morality as you curate all your favorite games in this epic storefront challenge!
Why similar: Game Development 41.5% ★, Capitalism 26%, Card Game 14.3%, Management 8%, Simulation 4.4%
This game is a "Deck-Building Liver Development Card Game."You will nurture aspiring livestreamers (Livers) and help them become outstanding Livers.The goal is to earn as many LP (Liver Points) as possible.To achieve this, you'll need to build an optimized deck.
Why similar: Solitaire 32.5% ★, Card Game 21%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 9.8%, Deckbuilding 9.6%
Cats & Cakes: The Card Game is a cozy card-stacking bakery sim where you bake pastries, serve eccentric feline customers, and manage the chaos of your shop in real time. Build fame, decorate your bakery shop!
Why similar: Solitaire 27.4% ★, Card Game 18.3%, Crafting 13.5%, Deckbuilding 10.8%, Management 8.4%
"Indie game team of hardship and adversity. Make the best game ever!" You become the head of the indie game development team. Let's develop a game with the goal of GOTY, the best award in the game industry. Create a game through defense, run a team, and aim for the best award.
Why similar: Game Development 48.1% ★, Deckbuilding 17.4%, Card Game 10.7%, Simulation 7%, Management 6.7%
Strategy sim game where you build a newspaper! Hire reporters, assign them stories and create amazing front pages! Balance advertisers and politics as you grow the subscriber base. Win awards, complete goals and challenges, research new technology and choose your path as events unfold.
Why similar: Capitalism 23.4%, Modern 19.5%, Immersive Sim 12.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Satire 7.6% ★
Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
Why similar: Game Development 39.1% ★, Capitalism 23.1%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Management 7.6%, Life Sim 7.2%
Vaporware EX is a comfy 16-bit game dev simulator full of neon-infused nostalgia, set in the games industry of 199X. Lose the suit, put on a hoodie, and discover what it really takes to ship a game in this love letter to a bygone time where you still had to fit everything into a cartridge.
Why similar: Game Development 53.5% ★, Capitalism 20%, Management 7.1%, Resource Management 7.1%, Strategy 5%
The game industry is a roguelike! Your family has just acquired dozens of new game studios, and YOU'RE the nepo baby in charge of running them. Fire people, grow your network, and do whatever it takes to satisfy "The Board" - and that means maximizing profit!
Why similar: Game Development 41.2% ★, Capitalism 22%, Satire 9.8% ★, Resource Management 8.9%, Management 7.1%
Devices Tycoon is a unique business simulator that will make you feel like the owner of a company that creates your own devices! In the game you can create your own smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, headphones, operating systems and even your own processors!
Why similar: Game Development 29.6% ★, Capitalism 26.5%, Modern 13.9%, Life Sim 9.7%, Simulation 7.8%
Game Dev Company is a simulation of game dev company, where you can build company, add furniture,build develop department ,Develop your own games to make money and make your company the most famous game company.
Why similar: Game Development 68.2% ★, Simulation 13.2%, Strategy 8.8%, Management 8.1%, Casual 1.3%
Running a game studio Forming a team, resolving conflicts, allowing the team to unleash its maximum strength Exploring the market, creating games with higher ratings Unlocking technologies such as information, modularization, AI, collaboration, etc., to enable the studio to grow and expand
Why similar: Game Development 57.1% ★, Capitalism 19.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Anime 4.7%
Set up your own office. Expand your office as you wish. Transform from a small office to a large company.Don't forget to make your employees happy too.
Why similar: Game Development 49.2% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Management 9.7%, Immersive Sim 8.9%, Life Sim 7.9%
Cater Co. is a kitchen management game where you make food and fulfill your customers' orders. Sit back, earn $$$, buy upgrades and optimize your kitchen.
Why similar: Card Game 20.1%, Solitaire 14% ★, Crafting 13.4%, Resource Management 13.2%, Management 10.3%
Welcome to a place where sunshine is guaranteed and money is practically beachwear. In this fun first-person simulation, you start out in Miami Beach, sell, invest, optimize, and make the cash register ring. Because in the end, only one thing matters: Cash is King.
Why similar: Capitalism 28.3%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Life Sim 13.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Modern 11.3%
"Laundry Simulator" immerses you in the bustling laundry business. Manage a boutique shop, handling everything from everyday clothes to luxury garments, and sell related products. Efficiently manage resources, upgrade equipment, and optimize layout to attract customers with superior service.
Why similar: Capitalism 26.2%, Modern 20.7%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Life Sim 11.9%
Every swipe is a decision, every decision a potential path to glory or downfall. How will you lead?
Why similar: Game Development 48.7% ★, Card Game 18.8%, Immersive Sim 10.9%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 6.2%
A lighthearted resource-management game of running an indie game studio! Play as a first-time indie game producer, making critical decisions for your team's future while balancing quality against viral appeal. Will you become a laughingstock among players, or a shining star in the industry?
Why similar: Game Development 46.3% ★, Dark Humor 14.8%, Resource Management 14.5%, Anime 7.7%, Simulation 7.3%
Banker Simulator is a single-player game where you revive a bankrupt bank. With active and passive (idle) gameplay, make strategic decisions to grow your bank, satisfy customers, and tackle financial crises.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.7%, Crafting 16%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Life Sim 10.9%, Resource Management 9.1%
"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.
Why similar: Modern 22.5%, Card Game 14.8%, Crafting 12.5%, Life Sim 10.1%, Deckbuilding 9.3%
Culinarium is a card management cooking game where you stack ingredients to create recipes and cook dishes. For example, if you cut some Salmon slices on a cutting board and stack them with rice, soy sauce, and wasabi, you'll make a Salmon Nigiri.
Why similar: Solitaire 21.3% ★, Card Game 18.5%, Deckbuilding 17%, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 10.5%
Have you ever dreamed of owning a small place where you can sell coffee, tea, and cake to your lovely customers? Coffeehouse is exactly that! Take care of customer orders, make coffee, resolve customers problems and lose yourself in this first-person management game!
Why similar: Capitalism 23.7%, Immersive Sim 16.8%, Modern 15.7%, Life Sim 14.8%, Simulation 10.6%
In GamersGoMakers, you found a little company creating the first video games in history. Create your first game with only basic sound and simple graphics available in the year 1980. You´re one of the pioneers entering the rising global market for computer games.
Why similar: Game Development 54.7% ★, Simulation 19.4%, Management 14.3%, Strategy 9.1%, Casual 2.5%
Work Sucks, Let’s Play Dou Dizhu! The world's smallest card table, hidden in your taskbar Turn your taskbar into an invisible card table! Play 5+classic card games at a height of centimeters!
Why similar: Game Development 28.7% ★, Solitaire 23.5% ★, Card Game 17.8%, Crafting 11%, Deckbuilding 7.5%
Every applicant needs the money. Most of them are lying. Find it in the paperwork, stamp APPROVE or REJECT, call the next one in. The rules change every morning and nobody explains why. You are reviewing them. Somebody upstairs is reviewing you.
Why similar: Capitalism 42.4%, Immersive Sim 22.9%, Life Sim 14.8%, Simulation 10.1%, Resource Management 7.2%
Reality Rivals is the reality show you can play. Compete in challenges, form alliances, and survive the vote in this social strategy game. Every choice shapes the drama. Will you avoid Exile, and beat your Rivals?
Why similar: Capitalism 36.4%, Immersive Sim 20.6%, Life Sim 12.8%, Simulation 7.7%, Modern 7.4%
Run your own venture capital firm. Hunt deals, research founders, write the checks — then live with the results. Most bets fail. The one that doesn't pays for everything: a bigger fund, the corner office, a name every founder knows. Outrank the big firms, or take yours public.
Why similar: Capitalism 33.7%, Modern 19.6%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 10.8%, Resource Management 8.4%
Love Hotel Manager is a game where you own your own Love hotel! Manage and customize unique and whacky rooms while dealing with strange customers and their needs. Slowly expand your hotel to become a thriving business.
Why similar: Capitalism 25.9%, Immersive Sim 19.3%, Simulation 18%, Life Sim 17.6%, Resource Management 10.3%
Console War Giant is a turn-based management game that puts you in charge of a young company producing video game consoles! The gaming industry is still in its infancy. A place under the sun is yours to claim!
Why similar: Game Development 36.4% ★, Capitalism 26%, Crafting 14.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Management 6.7%
In the context of the first Internet wave sweeping the world, can the player play the role of an entrepreneur who has failed many times but never gives up, and become the world's number one Internet company in this great era?
Why similar: Capitalism 39.9%, Resource Management 16.9%, Immersive Sim 13.9%, Life Sim 13.2%, Simulation 7.3%
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: Capitalism 17.8%, Modern 16.4%, Crafting 14.5%, Management 13.5%, Immersive Sim 11%
Run a funeral business in this management sim. Organize ceremonies, support grieving families, manage staff and resources, and protect your reputation. Balance empathy and business to succeed.
Why similar: Dark Humor 23.7%, Simulation 18.8%, Card Game 16.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 12.4%
A complete tools suite for the Real Virtuality game engine powering Arma 3.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
Start in 1980 in your garage and build your software empire. Unlock languages from BASIC to Python, develop projects, hire programmers and upgrade your office. Survive deadlines, bugs and demanding clients in this tycoon simulation.
Why similar: Game Development 36.2% ★, Crafting 16.8%, Modern 15.4%, Resource Management 8.4%, Management 8.1%
This is your cyber begging companion: collect, craft, and trade hundreds of items, recruit a cast of eccentric NPCs, explore the sewers, build your business empire, dodge taxes, and buy votes on the black market. One day, you'll be shouting from the back of your own presidential campaign truck.
Why similar: Capitalism 24.4%, Dark Humor 18.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 7.8%
Manage your stocks, organize your resources, cook snacks and make friendships.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.9%, Immersive Sim 18.8%, Simulation 17.2%, Life Sim 17.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
Samples of assets for Arma 3 which provide a starting point for community members who want to create their own assets for the game. They cover a broad spectrum of topics, from scenario design to mod making.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
Unreal Paris is an update of the interactive experience working with VR Headsets & Desktop computer. This scene is an architectural visualization using Unreal Engine 4.
Why similar: Game Development 60.5% ★, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Life Sim 11.9%, Simulation 8.4%, Dialogue Heavy 5.8%
FAUST DUEL is a Blackjack-driven roguelike deck-builder. Play as Dr. Faust, who lost his wager and now joins Hell’s games. Within a limited number of rounds, earn enough chips to buy back your soul from its master.
Why similar: Solitaire 45.8% ★, Card Game 24.4%, Deckbuilding 15.1%, Strategy 9%, 2D 2.7%
Mobiles Tycoon is a brand new game about creating your mobile devices: smartphones and tablets. In the game you have to manage your company and develop your devices (smartphones and tablets), operating systems and processors
Why similar: Game Development 41.9% ★, Capitalism 28.8%, Management 8%, Modern 7.5%, Simulation 4.8%