Games Like SweatShop

An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

Why similar: Incremental 49.1%, Casual 29.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive incremental game that set the standard for satisfying clicker progression and upgrade loops.

Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!

Why similar: Casual 52.5%, Incremental 47.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic business-themed incremental game that perfectly mirrors the goal of scaling production and hiring managers.

In Idle Weaponshop, you are handed your very own weapon shop to manage. Design and sell weapons, build up your local community, hire employees, and send adventurers off into danger for fun and profit... all before prestiging to earn powerful bonuses, all so you can do it all over again.

Why similar: Casual 39.2%, Incremental 39.2%, Strategy 21.7%

Why You'll Like It: Directly mirrors the shop management theme of the seed game with a focus on crafting and selling items.

The world's greatest communism simulator!

Why similar: Incremental 52.4%, Casual 29%, Strategy 12.9%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar production-chain management style with a humorous take on resource accumulation and scaling.

Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.

Why similar: Incremental 46.4%, Casual 31.7%, Strategy 12%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational clicker experience that emphasizes constant growth through hero upgrades and prestige mechanics.

Dwarf Shop is a Shop Simulator with, you guessed it, Dwarves! Help the Dragon Clan lure their very own dragon by amassing piles and piles of glorious gold. Send one dwarf deep into the caves to find ingredients while the others craft various equipment and sell them to unsuspecting customers!

Why similar: Casual 37.9%, Incremental 32.2%, Strategy 29.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar management and crafting loop where you run a shop while balancing inventory and customer demand.

Start from nothing and grow into a legendary Slayer. Explore countless dimensions, collect souls, unlock powerful upgrades, craft powerful gear, defeat epic bosses, and enjoy a deep idle RPG with active and offline progression.

Why similar: Casual 44.4%, Incremental 40.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Indie 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a layer of active movement to the traditional incremental loop, keeping the gameplay engaging over long sessions.

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

Why similar: Casual 34%, Incremental 32.3%, Strategy 24.1%, Indie 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on production chains and automation, requiring strategic planning to optimize your output.

Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!

Why similar: Casual 44.1%, Strategy 23.6%, Incremental 19.3%, Indie 13%

Why You'll Like It: Combines shop management with pixel-art aesthetics and a focus on resource gathering and inventory organization.

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: Incremental 56.3%, Strategy 43.7%

Why You'll Like It: A business simulation that focuses on the retail management aspect of growing a small store into an empire.

Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!

Why similar: Incremental 56.3%, Strategy 24.1%, Casual 16.5%, Indie 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep incremental strategy with complex faction management and persistent upgrades.

Pop the top on some legendary action with Soda Dungeon, the fresh and fizzy hit mobile RPG adventure, now available on your desktop! Manage your team as you raid the local dungeons, upgrade your tavern, and attract new party members. Gold, legendary items, and more await you.

Why similar: Casual 44.7%, Incremental 38.5%, Strategy 12%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends shop management with incremental dungeon crawling, allowing you to upgrade your tavern to attract better heroes.

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: Casual 55.4%, Incremental 44.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on retail management and store expansion with classic clicker-style progression.

In Shop manager: video game tycoon your uncle entrusts you his video game shop. Your goal is to make it profitable so that one day you can inherit your business.

Why similar: Casual 49.9%, Strategy 35.1%, Indie 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A business simulation that captures the feel of running a niche shop with incremental growth elements.

Build, link and upgrade factories to produce and sell products.

Why similar: Casual 71.4%, Incremental 28.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and efficiency of production, perfect for players who enjoy the management side of incremental games.

You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power. Complete missions, mine ore, kill enemies, research new tech, return to base to upgrade ship and repeat.

Why similar: Casual 44.3%, Strategy 30.7%, Incremental 25%

Why You'll Like It: An incremental management game that applies the familiar clicker loop to a sci-fi setting.

Recruit Ninjas, Hire Workers, build your base, train your Ninjas and send them on Missions!

Why similar: Strategy 70.8%, Indie 29.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused incremental game that tasks you with building and expanding a ninja-themed business.

Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.

Why similar: Casual 77.3%, Indie 22.7%

Why You'll Like It: A business management simulation that uses incremental upgrades to grow your facility and attract more customers.

Tech Store Simulator is a game in which you have to build your own tech store. Buy goods, put them on the shelves, sell them at an inflated price and beat the thieves!Also in the game there is a huge number of opportunities to customize the store and make it the way you would like it in life

Why similar: Casual 59%, Strategy 41%

Why You'll Like It: A retail management game that allows for incremental upgrades to your store's inventory and layout.

Become the new king of cryptocurrency! Bitcoin Farm is a clicker game where you will aim to undermine a maximum of Bitcoins!

Why similar: Casual 76%, Indie 24%

Why You'll Like It: A simple business-themed incremental game that focuses on generating wealth through digital assets.

Build PCs of different rarities, hire workers with buffs and debuffs, and expand your shop. Train stats in special rooms, customize floors and colors, and relax in a cozy idle indie game in Early Access that grows with feedback from the community.

Why similar: Casual 85.8%, Indie 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a crafting and management loop that rewards players for optimizing their business processes.

In this game you will have an exciting immersion in the world of mining. You can earn the crypto currency and after selling it, follow the exchange rates, choose the currency that you like more and buy equipment to improve your farm.

Why similar: Casual 76%, Indie 24%

Why You'll Like It: Features basic clicker mechanics centered around resource gathering and facility upgrades.

Feel like a real Achievement hunter! Earn Achievements, upgrades and get the most Achievements on Steam!

Why similar: Casual 36.6%, Strategy 28.3%, Incremental 23.5%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist clicker game that focuses on the pure satisfaction of unlocking achievements and incremental numbers.

A short incremental game about catching bugs and running a shop filled with parakeets. Upgrade equipment, purchase game-breaking abilities, and maximize the profits of your Budgie-powered empire!

Why similar: Casual 43.4%, Incremental 37.9%, Strategy 18.7%

A cozy incremental game where you run your own bookstore! Buy hundreds of upgrades, unlock new customers and book types, hire different staff members and build the most profitable bookstore in the world!

Why similar: Incremental 46.6%, Casual 42.2%, Indie 11.2%

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: Incremental 39.9%, Casual 33.1%, Strategy 21%, Indie 6%

Ever wanted to know what achievement hunting is like? Earn money, buy games, and idle for achievements with the goal of reaching 100,000 achievements.

Why similar: Casual 67.5%, Incremental 25.1%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A meta-clicker game that focuses on the satisfaction of numbers going up through simple, repetitive actions.

Astro Emporia is a CASUAL turn based randomised trading game where your objective is to make as much money in a limited amount of turns.

Why similar: Casual 52.5%, Strategy 33.2%, Indie 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy and management game that tasks you with running a shop in a space-themed setting.

Help save Christmas in this idle builder game! Build workshops and presents!

Why similar: Casual 51.5%, Strategy 33.5%, Indie 15%

Why You'll Like It: A seasonal incremental game that uses simple mechanics to build up your production output.

Build your workshop and turn it into a fashion business. Interact with your customers and design unique collections to sell in your store. Upgrade your workshop until you rule the fashion industry.

Why similar: Casual 76.7%, Indie 23.3%

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Why similar: Incremental 56.4%, Strategy 43.6%

Buttons Up! is a incremental button collecting game where you hoard Buttons and keep them safe from stealing intruders. Get those Buttons Up by buying buildings, using skills and by automating your income.

Why similar: Casual 36.4%, Incremental 35.5%, Strategy 25.9%, Indie 2.2%

Build and manage your own goblin shop. Craft unique weapons with minigames and negotiate their price! Hire workers to help you run the business! Become the richest merchant in the kingdom!

Why similar: Strategy 79.6%, Indie 20.4%

Chicken Farm is a management game with clicker aspects, where you buy chickens, catch the eggs, work at the market, sell your chickens and ultimately profit.

Why similar: Incremental 34.2%, Casual 32.5%, Strategy 23.1%, Indie 10.3%

You are dropped into a forest with one goal - making money and paying off your 100k debt. Collect resources, make deals, upgrade, build and hire workers to do the job for you. 🐕

Why similar: Incremental 41.4%, Casual 33.1%, Strategy 20.4%, Indie 5.1%

Catx11 is a short incremental game. Harvest crops, buy upgrades, hire cats, fight bosses, and level up your gear! Many different strategies and ways to play.

Why similar: Casual 37%, Incremental 33.4%, Strategy 29.6%

Upload Simulator Silicon is an incremental game about uploading, making money, hacking, and ascending as a powerful entity that controls the very laws of the universe using powerful technologies you discover throught your journey.

Why similar: Casual 58%, Incremental 42%

ULTRATAP is an incremental game about defeating monsters and bosses, getting stronger and enjoying the process. Buy upgrades, complete quests and equip powerful items.

Why similar: Casual 43.5%, Incremental 27%, Strategy 25%, Indie 4.5%

Paperwork is a first-person office-building incremental game where you optimize an office to generate more and more money. Step into the office of Clarity, become a productive worker and watch profits grow.

Why similar: Incremental 78.3%, Casual 16.3%, Indie 5.4%

Embark on an e-commerce startup journey in E-Shop Tycoon! Optimize warehouse logistics, hire and train staff, and design unique office spaces as your business grows. Handle industry events and marketing crises. Come grow your startup into an e-commerce giant!

Why similar: Casual 64.9%, Strategy 35.1%

You're broke, smash piggy banks, bills must be paid. A short active incremental game. Get money, upgrade, and get debt free!

Why similar: Incremental 37.3%, Casual 29.1%, Strategy 24.1%, Indie 9.5%

Slot Grind is an incremental slot machine game where you spin, earn money, and put it back into upgrades. Unlock new machines with better payouts, improve them, and automate your slots as your profits grow, until you finally pay off your debts.

Why similar: Incremental 51%, Casual 35.4%, Indie 13.6%

FINAL PROFIT is a story driven shop-sim RPG. Gather products and find customers. Spend your hard-earned profits on upgrades and investments. Make far-reaching choices as you expand your business. And explore a world full of secrets on your quest to defeat capitalism by becoming the best at it!

Why similar: Incremental 45.6%, Casual 43.4%, Indie 10.9%

Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!

Why similar: Casual 46.9%, Incremental 46.6%, Indie 6.5%

Build turrets to destroy balls & earn cash, spend it to upgrade and get stronger

Why similar: Incremental 37.9%, Casual 29.9%, Strategy 25.3%, Indie 6.8%

Citalis is a fast paced city simulation game where you must carefully manage your city to avoid crime and disasters such as floods and droughts - all whilst making a profit!

Why similar: Casual 74.3%, Incremental 14.7%, Indie 11.1%

Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...

Why similar: Incremental 47.1%, Casual 30.5%, Strategy 16.7%, Indie 5.7%

Absurd incremental game where you turn even liquid assets into financial glory! Spin for jackpots and hire veteran gamblers to automate the madness. Use permanent upgrades and 'mishaps' to accelerate your progress! Simple. Messy. Addictive.

Why similar: Casual 34.5%, Incremental 34.3%, Strategy 22.9%, Indie 8.4%

Chill incremental game about dice making money. 🎲 Upgrade your dice to make more money, to upgrade your dice to make even more money! 😲🤯

Why similar: Casual 57.6%, Incremental 42.4%

Run your own Shooting Range. Manage your supplies, rent guns, and sell ammo packs. Expand and upgrade your shop; level up your popularity to get even better equipment. Open various cases and sell the skins you got from them. Join shooting tournaments and much more!

Why similar: Casual 59.6%, Indie 20.4%, Strategy 20%

Incredicer is a short, incremental dice game where you roll dice, earn money, upgrade and buy helper hands to automate and increase your income.

Why similar: Incremental 39.1%, Casual 30.5%, Strategy 20.9%, Indie 9.5%

In Typing Incremental, type words to earn money, spend money to unlock new words. Repeat until you can prestige to gain permanent bonuses.

Why similar: Incremental 84%, Indie 16%

Smashing Bottles is a short and satisfying incremental game where you break bottles to earn money, upgrade your bat, discover new bottles, and cause chaos! Will you smash enough bottles to buy the universe?

Why similar: Incremental 39%, Casual 37.2%, Strategy 15.1%, Indie 8.7%

Star Merchant is a galactic trading sim where you become a space entrepreneur. Buy and sell items, fight pirates, upgrade your ship and try to meet your goal without going broke!

Why similar: Strategy 46.2%, Casual 40.9%, Indie 12.9%

Welcome to Coin Factory. Build your first coin maker factory and explore the different synergies and combinations. Level up your buildings and become the ultimate money maker. Strategize and plan ahead. Unlock new buildings and compete in the global leaderboard!

Why similar: Casual 62%, Strategy 31.2%, Indie 6.8%

An incremental game where you go from small-scale MMO development studio up to global market domination. Improve your server infrastructure, address the technical challenges of running an MMO, release new games, and become the world's #1 MMO game studio.

Why similar: Incremental 40.4%, Strategy 34.5%, Casual 25%

Scratchers is an incremental game where you scratch cards to earn cash, unlock upgrades, and hire little scratchers to do the scratching for you. Discover rare cards, and optimize your earnings as you climb to scratcher supremacy!

Why similar: Casual 57.1%, Incremental 42.9%

your pawnshop will usher in guests with different needs every day, bargain with them, let the income soar! With the expansion of pawnshops, activities such as sending shop assistants and responding to emergencies are also essential. you seem ordinary transaction may cause the butterfly effect.

Why similar: Casual 100%

More Sushi! is a short incremental game about running a conveyor belt sushi restaurant. Serve customers, buy upgrades, hire helpers, and unlock new sushi! Pay off the owner's debt, then turn used plates into stars to buy permanent upgrades.

Why similar: Incremental 55.4%, Casual 39.9%, Indie 4.7%

Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.

Why similar: Strategy 70.4%, Indie 29.6%