Games Like Smooth Operators

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Management 50.6%, Simulation 25.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Indie 5.7%, Casual 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same addictive business-growth loop and management focus as Smooth Operators but centers on the gaming industry.

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: Management 52%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Casual 4.3%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a growing tech company, hiring staff and optimizing server infrastructure in a way that mirrors the call center management of the seed game.

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 48.2%, Simulation 25.8%, Strategy 19.9%, Indie 2.8%, Casual 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the architectural and management challenges of building and maintaining a successful skyscraper.

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: Management 49.7%, Simulation 25.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Indie 8%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive office management simulator where you design buildings, manage teams, and develop software products.

Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!

Why similar: Management 36.7%, Simulation 27.4%, Strategy 23.4%, Casual 6%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the core theme of managing emergency response services and staff, requiring quick decision-making and resource allocation.

Manage emergency services in any city in the world! Take calls and dispatch rescue forces. Handle difficult situations, now depending on the weather, and traffic. Help the citizens through cataclysms and natural disasters, becoming a better emergency number operator every day!

Why similar: Management 36.9%, Simulation 30.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Casual 12.9%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: An evolution of the emergency management genre that adds more depth and complexity to the dispatch and staff management mechanics.

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: Management 53.2%, Simulation 23%, Strategy 18.5%, Casual 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, granular simulation of running a business, perfect for players who enjoy the strategic complexity of management sims.

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: Management 72.6%, Simulation 26%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides an expansive business management experience where you must balance logistics, staff, and growth in a simulated city.

Enter the exciting world of Arcade ownership! Play through the 1980's arcade revolution by buying arcade machines for your customers to play! Customize your arcade to increase its popularity! Manage your finances, capitalize on newly released games, but beware the pitfalls that could bankrupt you!

Why similar: Simulation 27.7%, Management 24.8%, Strategy 24.4%, Casual 13%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the casual management feel of the seed game by tasking you with running a retro arcade business.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 50.4%, Simulation 31.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Indie 3.4%, Casual 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: While more comedic, it features excellent staff and facility management mechanics that require careful optimization to succeed.

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: Management 48.7%, Simulation 25.5%, Strategy 24%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on logistics and employee management within a manufacturing setting, emphasizing the same workflow optimization found in Smooth Operators.

«Smartphone Tycoon» — unique business simulator. Create your own company for the production of smartphones! Your main goal will be to achieve worldwide recognition and take the company to the temple of fame of the global market.

Why similar: Management 37.1%, Simulation 28.9%, Strategy 24.6%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the business side of the tech industry, requiring you to manage production and marketing to achieve success.

Tech Executive Tycoon is a simulation, strategy, role playing game that places you in the seat of CEO and entrepreneur of your very own tech company. Can you take your company to the top with top of the line products? Can you command a world class group of employees?

Why similar: Management 37.2%, Simulation 29.3%, Strategy 24.8%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a simulation of running a tech firm that emphasizes strategic decision-making and company growth.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Management 44.3%, Simulation 26.4%, Casual 12.1%, Strategy 10.7%, Indie 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a satisfying management experience where you must balance staff needs, visitor satisfaction, and facility expansion.

Tavern Master is all about managing your medieval tavern. You start with a very small room, couple of benches and tables and build your way up to a huge successful tavern with a kitchen, rooms for guests, group of loyal staff and much more!

Why similar: Management 54.6%, Simulation 25.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Indie 3.8%, Casual 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management sim where you grow a business from a small tavern into a large establishment, focusing on staff and resource management.

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: Management 44.2%, Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 19.7%, Casual 11%, Indie 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers complex airport management, requiring you to design layouts and manage staff to ensure efficient operations.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Management 43.2%, Simulation 26.7%, Strategy 22.4%, Indie 4.3%, Casual 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides deep facility and staff management mechanics within a complex, grid-based building environment.

Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.

Why similar: Management 41.4%, Simulation 22.9%, Strategy 18.1%, Casual 9.6%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A focused business simulator that tasks you with managing every aspect of a coffee shop, from staff to menu design.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Management 54%, Simulation 24.9%, Strategy 21.1%

Why You'll Like It: You are tasked with building and managing a school, which requires balancing budgets, staff performance, and student needs.

In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.

Why similar: Management 38%, Simulation 26.4%, Strategy 25.8%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the economic and logistical challenges of running an oil company, appealing to fans of business management sims.

Welcome to the big show! Ready the camera, unleash your creativity and and pile up the profits! Grow your operation with your razor-sharp business sense and usher in a new era for filmmakers worldwide.

Why similar: Simulation 30.5%, Management 27.7%, Strategy 27.7%, Casual 13.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: You manage a film studio, balancing production schedules, staff, and market trends in a similar management-heavy style.

Drill Deal is a fun oil business simulator. Start from a single tiny rig and expand it to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimize & grow your business. Look out for threats like weather, terrorists, fire, and others. Take care of your working crews.

Why similar: Management 35.5%, Simulation 26%, Strategy 23.7%, Casual 12.8%, Singleplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: A casual yet strategic management game that focuses on resource extraction and facility building.

Take the role of a manager or CEO of a record label, and try to make your mark on the music industry!

Why similar: Simulation 30.4%, Management 29.5%, Strategy 29%, Indie 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows you to manage a music label, focusing on the growth and strategic decisions required to dominate the industry.

Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.

Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Strategy 33.3%, Casual 18.3%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A management sim from Kairosoft that focuses on running a store, featuring the same addictive growth loop as the seed game.

Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.

Why similar: Management 48%, Simulation 26.9%, Strategy 23.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game tasks you with building and managing a recreation center, focusing on staff and facility maintenance.

Streamer Simulator is a simulation being streamer. Change your old life for the better. You can become the world’s greatest streamer in history.

Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Strategy 26.9%, Management 19.2%, Casual 14.5%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a digital career, mirroring the progression and growth mechanics of Smooth Operators.

Space Station Manager is an exciting game where you own a space company, your main goal is to build a space station, make profit, grow your business, build an economical network, and expand beyond the solar system.

Why similar: Simulation 40.8%, Casual 18.5%, Management 18.3%, Indie 14.4%, Strategy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a management experience set in space, requiring you to balance resources and staff to keep a station operational.

Manage a team of ghosthunters and free London from paranormal terror in turn-based battles. Develop your own strategy and build your business well.

Why similar: Management 44.3%, Strategy 20.5%, Simulation 19.3%, Casual 10.5%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines base-building and management with a unique theme, requiring you to manage a team of ghost hunters.

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: Management 44.9%, Strategy 28.4%, Simulation 26%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder and management game focuses on the economic aspects of real estate development.

Trimmer Tycoon is a fast survival game. You’re the new owner of a beard-trimming salon - Shavy. Customers start flowing in with absurd wishes for their beards. Can you satisfy their beardy dreams and keep up with the ever-increasing rent?

Why similar: Management 38.8%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 21.1%, Casual 9.2%, Indie 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A simple, casual management game about running a lawn care business that shares the indie, management-focused DNA of the seed game.

Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Why similar: Management 55.5%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Indie 5.7%, Casual 5.5%

In Startup Freak you take the role of a budding entrepreneur, and grow your very own software startup from humble beginnings to a multi-million dollar company. Along the way you will have to overcome countless challenges. But the ultimate question you must answer: are you a Startup Freak?

Why similar: Management 33.1%, Simulation 29.6%, Strategy 26.7%, Indie 9.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Wall Street Tycoon is a business simulation game where you’re the CEO of a new investment company. Your job is to grow the company, hire employees, and manage the business!

Why similar: Simulation 31%, Strategy 29.6%, Management 27.2%, Indie 11%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!

Why similar: Management 52.3%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 18.1%, Casual 4.9%, Indie 4.3%

Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?

Why similar: Management 31.9%, Simulation 27.8%, Strategy 21.2%, Casual 10.4%, Indie 8%

«Smartphone Tycoon - Lite» — unique business simulator. Create your own company for the production of smartphones! Your main goal will be to achieve worldwide recognition and take the company to the temple of fame of the global market.

Why similar: Simulation 38.8%, Strategy 36.6%, Indie 14%, Management 10.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Run a music talent agency and make platinum-selling records!

Why similar: Simulation 39.6%, Casual 21.1%, Management 17.6%, Strategy 17.3%, Indie 2.8%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Management 49.9%, Simulation 25.6%, Strategy 22.1%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks. Gain experience, earn promotions, and when the time comes, launch your own company to begin a new business adventure.

Why similar: Simulation 42.6%, Management 36.9%, Casual 20.5%

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: Management 40.3%, Simulation 27.6%, Strategy 22.8%, Indie 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!

Why similar: Management 47.8%, Simulation 26.6%, Strategy 23.4%, Singleplayer 2.2%

The only game of its kind where you can feel like a real internet celebrity! Record videos, interact with your subscribers, buy better equipment and gain fame!

Why similar: Management 31%, Simulation 25.6%, Strategy 22.7%, Casual 11.4%, Indie 8.1%

Manage your transport company! Be a transportation entrepreneur, with control over everything in your business. Work, earn, invest and expand!

Why similar: Management 38.6%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 20.3%, Casual 10.9%, Indie 7.9%

Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!

Why similar: Management 48.1%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 18.4%, Casual 9.2%, Indie 3.2%

This Game is Basically a Market Management Simulator. Make Your Store Get The Best Profit With Various Upgrades and Unlocks. Including Basic Clicking stuff, Managing Your Own Market , Upgrading and A game with the theme of reaching to going to next level.

Why similar: Management 54.5%, Simulation 31%, Casual 13.9%, Singleplayer 0.6%

Epic Car Factory puts you in the drivers seat of your very own car company. Build, market, hire, fire, and more in this fast paced business simulation. The failure and success of the company depends entirely on your decisions and how you react to the ever changing market place.

Why similar: Management 39.8%, Simulation 36.2%, Strategy 24%

Can you take control of a mail distribution company where your business will need to adapt to a growing city? Will you be able to handle the pressure of new delivery opportunities or are other delivery businesses step in to pick up the slack and impact your profit margin.

Why similar: Simulation 43.5%, Management 32%, Casual 13.8%, Indie 10.7%

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 44.7%, Simulation 20.7%, Strategy 18.1%, Casual 9.5%, Indie 5.5%

Your job is to connect all the users from different projects to their servers in the procedurally generated network. In an ever changing office environment you'll have a lot of nifty tools to help you save your job and keep everyone from losing their cool. Are you up for the challenge?

Why similar: Management 37.8%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 22.9%, Casual 9.9%, Indie 4.4%

Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!

Why similar: Simulation 40.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Management 17.1%, Casual 16.6%, Indie 6.5%

In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.

Why similar: Management 39.1%, Simulation 32.2%, Strategy 27.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%

Market Tycoon is a Tycoon game where you Grow your Market from a small Mini Market all the way up to a Hyper Market. Manage, create, and customize your market from wall paint to placing cashiers, shelves, and fridges.

Why similar: Management 36.6%, Simulation 24.4%, Strategy 20.1%, Casual 9.9%, Indie 8.2%

Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!

Why similar: Management 50.5%, Simulation 24%, Strategy 23%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Ready to manage your Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game? This is your chance! Fantasy World Online Tycoon will let you build and control any aspect of a MMORPG. Build spawns of Monsters, Quests and Dungeons. Be the CEO of your company, hire specialists and evolve your game!

Why similar: Simulation 37.4%, Strategy 36.1%, Indie 13.8%, Management 12.2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Welcome to Laptop Tycoon!Compete with the tech giants! You will have the opportunity to show your skills in business management. Start your own laptop company! Choose and hire the best people for your company, buy and upgrade your own office and start building your dream laptop.

Why similar: Management 37%, Simulation 33%, Strategy 30%

Take full control as you turn a quiet, empty shopping center into a thriving hub of life and profit. Stock shelves, set your own prices, handle payments, hire and train staff, and manage everything down to the finest detail. Every decision counts — and every success is truly yours.

Why similar: Management 47.6%, Simulation 28.2%, Casual 13.4%, Indie 8.6%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Management 48.2%, Simulation 28.8%, Strategy 21.7%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Open your own electronics store and grow it from a small shop into a modern technology hub. Manage deliveries, prices, and store equipment, take care of customers, expand the product range, and become a master in the world of electronics retail!

Why similar: Simulation 42.1%, Management 36.2%, Casual 15.7%, Indie 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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: Management 42.3%, Simulation 26%, Strategy 22.5%, Casual 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Management 38.1%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 20.3%, Casual 9.1%, Indie 7.3%