60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Management, Economy, Capitalism.
Why did the beloved game shops of our childhood fade away? Live through 25 years of gaming history (1985–2010) as a shop owner in this management sim.
Retro Game Store Simulator
Run your own Video Game Store in 1984. Everyday until the end of 1989 gives you the opportunity to stock shelves, cycle your inventory, manage your prices, and analyze historical trends to make your game store profitable. Use era-relevant technology and systems to prove that gaming is not dead!
Game Store Chronicle
Run your own game store! Stay ahead by following the timeline of gaming history and preparing for key events that has shaped the industry. Stock shelves, set prices, and sell consoles, games, and accessories. Strategize to grow your business and dominate the market!
Run your own Video Game Store in 1984. Everyday until the end of 1989 gives you the opportunity to stock shelves, cycle your inventory, manage your prices, and analyze historical trends to make your game store profitable. Use era-relevant technology and systems to prove that gaming is not dead!
Why similar: 1980s 20.2%, Economy 14%, Life Sim 12.1%, 1990's 11.2%, Simulation 10.1%
Run your own game store! Stay ahead by following the timeline of gaming history and preparing for key events that has shaped the industry. Stock shelves, set prices, and sell consoles, games, and accessories. Strategize to grow your business and dominate the market!
Why similar: Capitalism 14.1%, 1980s 13.4%, Economy 13.4%, Life Sim 11.8%, Historical 11.5%
Build your own game development studio from scratch, create and release games, unlock new tools and platforms, and grow from solo dev to successful company in this lighthearted game dev tycoon sim.
Why similar: Game Development 45.8% ★, Economy 20.6%, Life Sim 16%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 5.5%
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 42.3% ★, Simulation 16.6%, Life Sim 11.8%, Economy 11.1%, Management 9.7%
A challenging business and studio management simulation where you create games, manage staff and cash flow, react to a changing industry, and fight to stay alive.
Why similar: Game Development 20.3% ★, Simulation 19.3%, 1980s 16.6%, 1990's 12.1%, Capitalism 9.8%
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
Why similar: 1980s 20.9%, Economy 17.8%, Life Sim 15.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Management 9.3%
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 55.5% ★, Simulation 25.1%, Capitalism 18.5%, Indie 0.9%
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 48.9% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Life Sim 13.6%, Management 13.4%, Capitalism 7.1%
In Game Tycoon 2 you find yourself in the middle of the big players. Get into the act and experience the fascination of the game development. Reach your goal and become the Game Tycoon!
Why similar: Game Development 38.8% ★, 1980s 14.3%, Life Sim 12.6%, Economy 11.8%, Simulation 11.1%
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 45.4% ★, Simulation 27.2%, Management 17.4%, Economy 7.8%, Indie 2.2%
An in depth game development simulation game
Why similar: Game Development 43.3% ★, 1980s 14.6%, Economy 13.3%, Simulation 11.5%, 1990's 11.2%
Manage movie theatres and make your very own Hollywood Pictures!
Why similar: Simulation 27.1%, 1990's 23.8%, Capitalism 19.7%, Management 17.3%, Retro 12.2%
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 43.7% ★, Simulation 21%, Economy 12.4%, Capitalism 11.8%, Management 10.5%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Game Development 33% ★, Management 23.5%, Economy 22.7%, Simulation 17.6%, 2D 1.8%
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 36.4% ★, Economy 14.5%, Capitalism 14.5%, Life Sim 12.4%, Management 9.9%
In Mad Television Tycoon, you take control of a TV station. Accept the challenge and lead your network to success. Your task is to create a diverse schedule, maximize advertising revenue, and outshine the competition.
Why similar: 1980s 16.7%, Economy 15.4%, Capitalism 15%, 1990's 13.6%, Historical 11.3%
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 53.9% ★, Simulation 17.3%, Economy 12.4%, Capitalism 9.5%, Management 6.4%
Streaming Platform Manager is a tycoon game, where you can build your own streaming empire.
Why similar: Life Sim 20.4%, Capitalism 17.6%, Simulation 16%, Economy 13.8%, Management 11%
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 30.3% ★, Capitalism 14.6%, 1980s 13.9%, Simulation 12.2%, 1990's 10.5%
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: Game Development 44.3% ★, Economy 16.6%, Capitalism 15.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 10.8%
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 53% ★, Economy 16.6%, Simulation 16.3%, Capitalism 12.3%, 2D 1.2%
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 45.3% ★, Economy 18.5%, Management 13.1%, Life Sim 11.8%, Simulation 11.4%
Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!
Why similar: Capitalism 23.2%, Economy 22.1%, 1980s 20.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Management 14.2%
A mature visual novel exploring the relationships between elderly English women and young Gambian men, blending humor and drama while examining desire and humanity.
Why similar: 1980s 25.5%, Life Sim 19.7%, 1990's 19.2%, Simulation 14.1%, 2D Platformer 7.6%
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 41.1% ★, Economy 17.1%, 1980s 11.1%, Management 10.4%, 1990's 9.6%
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 66% ★, Simulation 21.6%, Management 11.6%, Indie 0.8%
Startup Village is an entrepreneurship and management simulation board game. Players experience the entire startup cycle: securing funding and hiring staff (Startup Phase), followed by 12 months of realistic business operations (Management Phase) .
Why similar: Simulation 30.2%, Life Sim 27.8%, Economy 15.9%, Management 11.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.5%
Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue is a free simulation game in which you begin your journey as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing and research stuff. Create best game on the planet!
Why similar: Game Development 45.4% ★, Economy 17.2%, Capitalism 13.6%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 10.9%
Ad Agency Tycoon is an Advertising Agency simulator set in the 60's. Choose the perfect combination for your propagandas, develop your company and conquer the golden age of publicity! Your advertising will come to life and face the tough market and the most feared of all: the public.
Why similar: 1980s 20.5%, Economy 18.5%, Capitalism 17.2%, 1990's 13.8%, Simulation 13.6%
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 35.1% ★, Economy 14.4%, Capitalism 14.4%, Life Sim 13.7%, Management 9.2%
Build your own videogame-studio from the early days of videogaming to the future of the industry. Develop the games of your dreams, take care of your employees and mange your business.
Why similar: Game Development 49.6% ★, Economy 20.3%, Management 12.4%, Simulation 9%, Conversation 8.1%
Mad Valley is an economic and life simulation game set in vivid pixelized aesthetics of 1980s California.
Why similar: 1980s 26.7%, Economy 18.5%, Life Sim 17.3%, Capitalism 15.1%, Simulation 12.1%
Live the dream of an ambitious developer in App Empire Tycoon! Start small, crafting simple apps and tackling tricky clients. Grow your skills, attract investors, and expand your portfolio as you chase greatness. Can you build the ultimate tech empire and make history?
Why similar: Game Development 42.3% ★, Simulation 23.9%, Economy 20%, Management 10.3%, 2D 2.7%
From nobody to famous game producer in 3 years: that’s the journey you will live! Experience the trials and tribulations of game development in this life simulation game: live through the process of founding a small team and learning how to work together to develop a successful game.
Why similar: Game Development 27.2% ★, Life Sim 16.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 10.5%, Economy 9.9%
Roulette Simulator 2024 presents players with the greatest modern Roulette gambling simulation. Experience the highs and the lows in real time as you try to beat the roulette wheel during the intensity of each spin!
Why similar: Game Development 68.6% ★, Simulation 28.5%, Indie 2.9%
Your wife passed away before the bell ring of the millennium. The sun still rises, you are together with your daughter Wei ran.It’s the path of growth for both of you. "Fragment" is a new form of interactive narrative game. Step into the time machine and grow up again with Wei Ran!
Why similar: Life Sim 17.4%, Economy 16.4%, 1990's 16.3%, Capitalism 15.4%, Simulation 11.1%
Start from zero: no money, no shelter, no ID. Struggle to survive by taking on odd jobs in the subway and at the market until you can scrape together enough to buy a diploma and get to work. Upgrade your IQ by building a computer. And here's a twist: COMPUTER GAMES also boost your IQ in this game!
Why similar: 1990's 30.4%, Retro 17.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Life Sim 13.8%, Capitalism 12.1%
Become the biggest game publisher! Find developers, negotiate contract and market the games. Grow your company and design your offices.
Why similar: Game Development 31.4% ★, Simulation 26.4%, Economy 14.7%, Capitalism 13.9%, Management 12.8%
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 45.2% ★, Economy 13.8%, Life Sim 11.4%, Capitalism 9.9%, Management 9.4%
Manage your own video store in this management simulation. Sell and rent movies, organize shelves, and attract customers in a nostalgic experience inspired by classic video stores.
Why similar: Simulation 30.9%, 1990's 22.7%, Management 18.4%, Economy 15.4%, Retro 11.1%
Manage a game studio making the world’s greatest MMORPG. Hire designers, coders, and testers, create a fantasy world, then welcome hundreds of virtual players. If they get bored they will cancel their subscription and your investors will have your head. You can even play the game you create.
Why similar: Game Development 38.3% ★, Life Sim 14.5%, 1990's 12%, Management 10.7%, Retro 8.6%
A celebration of pioneering 1980s games, this new-and-old collection of classic C64™ games originally published by Cosmi includes a medieval styled remake of Forbidden Forest with all new graphics and audio, new comic book stories and remade box art, plus a trove of archival bonus material!
Why similar: Game Development 28.4% ★, 1980s 27.1%, Historical 19%, Retro 14.7%, Simulation 9.1%
Build and manage your dream retro video game store! Buy, sell, and stock games, consoles, and collectibles. Set your own prices, hire staff, and expand your shop to become the ultimate gaming destination.
Why similar: Economy 23.1%, Life Sim 19.6%, Simulation 17.6%, 1990's 15.8%, Management 14.1%
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
Why similar: Game Development 39.8% ★, Life Sim 14.6%, Management 11.4%, 1990's 10.1%, Simulation 8.2%
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: Game Development 43.1% ★, Economy 18.5%, Management 14.3%, Capitalism 12.6%, Simulation 11.5%
Run your very own pub in a cozy Finnish village from the 90s! You can run it alone or team up with up to 7 of your friends! Manage your pub's tables, appliances, inventory, and more! Don't forget to take a drink for yourself every once in a while too.
Why similar: Simulation 29.7%, 1990's 25.8%, Economy 25.5%, Management 18.1%, Indie 1%
GameBuilder BASIC (GB BASIC) is a retro Fantasy Console that generates ROMs compatible with the popular handheld game console.
Why similar: Game Development 39.9% ★, 1980s 22%, 1990's 16.9%, Retro 8.5%, Simulation 7.3%
Arcady Village is a relaxing game about managing your own Arcade Hall. Get to know the residents of Arcady Village, learn about their favorite Arcade Games and beat their Highscores.
Why similar: 1980s 22.9%, 1990's 18.3%, Life Sim 17.5%, Retro 13.4%, Management 10.6%
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: Life Sim 22.3%, Capitalism 17.9%, Simulation 17.6%, Economy 16.1%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.3%
Choose the right products, make your own donuts, work as a cashier, hire cashiers, handle deliveries and make your small shop a big success by keeping your customers happy!
Why similar: Life Sim 29.5%, Simulation 25.5%, Capitalism 23.2%, Economy 20.9%, Indie 0.9%
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 29.7% ★, Capitalism 18%, Life Sim 16.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Economy 9.6%
With up to 4 players, go from a tiny unknown game store to the biggest gaming emporium in town! Sell gaming products in-store, build up your reputation, and grow your business!
Why similar: Simulation 26.1%, Economy 24.4%, Management 17.1%, Capitalism 16.5%, Life Sim 15.1%
Build your gang, recruit members, plan precise crimes, and seize territory through drug dealing, theft, and other illegal activities that impact the city's operations. Face off against rival gangs and outsmart the police to establish a new order in the city.
Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, 1990's 24.8%, Economy 16.2%, Capitalism 15.2%, Management 11.5%
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: Economy 25.2%, Management 21.3%, Capitalism 21.2%, Life Sim 18%, Simulation 14.2%
Bodega is an immersive tycoon where the options are limitless. Take charge of many small bodegas located across 1990s NYC to satisfy customers from all walks of life. Accompanied by a bodega cat, you and your companion will overcome any challenge thrown at you.
Why similar: Economy 23.8%, Capitalism 23.8%, Life Sim 17.8%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 10.5%
My Child New Beginnings is a parenting simulator where you go through everyday life of growth. After a series of traumatic events that you and your child went through, you now get to rebuild life together in a new region of Norway.
Why similar: Simulation 35.7%, Life Sim 30.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Emotional 7.6%, Story Rich 3.5%
Classic single player game
Why similar: 1980s 26.1%, 1990's 15.9%, Simulation 13%, Historical 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12%
Three beautiful women! But two of them are secretly androids! Play as himbo Flex Hamstring, choose between Anika, Mina, and KIMBOT 3000, and avoid the machinations of the evil Richard Spunk in this hilarious love letter to classic PC dating sims!
Why similar: 1990's 23.1%, Life Sim 19.4%, 1980s 19%, Simulation 13.7%, Interactive Fiction 8%
A complete tools suite for the Real Virtuality game engine powering Arma 3.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
Jimmy Jumps is a throwback platformer that combines the simplicity of classic platformers with the mechanical depth of speedrunning. Compete for high scores in over 90 hand-crafted levels!
Why similar: 1980s 31.9%, Retro 21.9%, Score Attack 19.4%, 1990's 12.2%, 2D Platformer 11.7%
