Games Like System Overload

Take control of a 90s television station in Retro TV Tycoon! Acquire rights to hit sitcoms and cult movies, schedule 24/7 broadcast grids, sign lucrative sponsor contracts, upgrade your newsroom, and expand your antenna transmission network to dominate the airwaves.

Why similar: Time Management 25.1%, Simulation 25.1%, Management 14.7%, 1990's 14.3%, Resource Management 8.7%

From the creator of hack_me and dev_me, a continuation of the acclaimed hacker simulator in 2016 and 2017 - hack_me 3 is already on Steam!

Why similar: Hacking 42.8% ★, Simulation 40.5%, Indie 16.8%

When the number of computers in existence and their processing capacity exceeds that of all mankind, a point of technological singularity is encountered. A massive economic and systematic crisis hits the entire world. Nobody knows the exact cause, and all solutions to fix it, are failing.

Why similar: Hacking 47.8% ★, Simulation 40.8%, Indie 11.4%

hack_me 2 is a story about hacker-beginner, who is going to confront to new World Order, where is no place for personal secrets.

Why similar: Simulation 57.4%, Hacking 33.6% ★, Indie 9%

Hacker Evolution Duality is the hacking simulation game, developed by exosyphen studios. Based on the successful Hacker Evolution game series, it has been completely redesigned to offer an impressive and new gaming experience.

Why similar: Hacking 54.5% ★, Simulation 31.7%, Indie 13.8%

Take control of an elite global team of hackers, intercepting communications between corporations, governments, and criminals all around the world. You can protect humanity by exposing messages between dangerous individuals or exploit corporations to increase your fortune. The choice is yours.

Why similar: Hacking 35.8% ★, Simulation 29.1%, Indie 13.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Management 9.8%

Mankind is about to reach its next step of evolution. Uncover the dark secret behind mankind's fastest technological evolution in recent history. It's not going in the right direction.

Why similar: Simulation 42%, Hacking 40.9% ★, Indie 17.1%

You just started your job as an Airline Gate Agent. You have the tasks of making sure people get to their destinations safely and happily. Do you best to respond to their requests promptly. You will have various tasks to complete to accomplish this goal.

Why similar: Simulation 34.5%, Time Management 17.4%, 1990's 13.9%, Choices Matter 11.6%, Indie 11.3%

It's time for a SECOND Hack Run! Test your skills again as you hack your way through strange and secretive organizations to discover their hidden agendas! Hack Run ZERO uses old school prompts (like dos and unix) to help you navigate from system to system.

Why similar: Hacking 42.8% ★, Simulation 34.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Indie 10.6%

Fizz Flow is a strategy and management game that takes place in a setting without competition regulations. In old America, where the beverage industry is on the rise, build your own factory, make your own unique recipes, weaken your opponents and maintain your hard earned success at the market!

Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Resource Management 20%, Time Management 15.5%, Management 13.9%, Indie 10.7%

EchoLink: Recursion is an active incremental hacking simulation spanning 1990s dial-up to 2150s megacities. Hack through time by infiltrating networks, building proxy chains, and automating routines. Every reset reboots you with exponential upgrades. Grow a skill tree and rewrite history.

Why similar: Hacking 37.2% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Management 11.5%, 1990's 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%

Run a bank. Survive the cycle. Build an empire. A deep banking strategy sim on a real IFRS 9 credit model and a tick-by-tick balance sheet. Eleven divisions, twelve personality archetypes, five macro scenarios — and a regulator that actually scores you.

Why similar: Simulation 35.5%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 11%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Multiple Endings 9.5%

A deeply niche arthouse game by a band you’ve probably never heard of, made for about twelve people. It will make you suffer. Beat it and you get some file from the band; it changes sometimes. Not that it matters—you won’t finish it. Nobody has even figured out how to walk.

Why similar: Simulation 56.5%, Indie 26.5%, Difficult 17%

IO Interloper is a hacking heist game all about peering through security cameras, piloting drones, duping rubes, and saying I'M IN in a really gruff voice.

Why similar: Simulation 42.7%, Hacking 37.8% ★, Indie 17.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Out there is a world of corporate corruption and government lies. You are a lone hacker armed with a terminal and a personal proxy. Break in. Cause damage. Get paid.

Why similar: Hacking 54% ★, Simulation 40.9%, Indie 5.1%

In Electric Car Tycoon you get to start the electric car revolution with your own car company. Start with an experimental model in your garage and grow your company to hundreds of factories and workers around the world. Research new technologies and improve your models. Create the best electric car

Why similar: Simulation 51.5%, Management 21%, Indie 11.8%, Strategy 8.5%, 2D 7.2%

Find the most effective way to construct and manage a hospital. Build your hospital smart and avoid excess time and resources consumed by examining your patients unnecessary. You can choose to micromanage your patients or hope that your doctors are able to identify the cause of their symptoms.

Why similar: Simulation 59%, Indie 22.1%, Management 18.9%

Vacation towns are looking to upgrade their local attractions and your skills are needed! Can you get the gondola working at the ski resort? Will the fairgrounds get constructed in time for the festival? Find out in Build-a-lot: On Vacation!

Why similar: Simulation 38.9%, Time Management 21.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Management 10.9%, Resource Management 10.7%

Hard Work is a 3D factory simulation game.

Why similar: Simulation 41.9%, Indie 17.9%, Strategy 15.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 11.9%

Build your own TV network, license shows, schedule prime-time slots, hire writers, sign sponsors, and fight for ratings week by week.

Why similar: Time Management 22.1%, Simulation 21.6%, Management 16.3%, Resource Management 15.2%, Choices Matter 8.6%

Daruma Observation Log is a roguelite observation sim where you breed darumas, harvest mysterious energy, and escape a collapsing facility ravaged by disasters to unlock permanent upgrades. Zero comfort, zero cuteness—just nonstop tension and brutal choices.

Why similar: Simulation 40.8%, Time Management 26%, Management 14.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, 2D 4.8%

Big Tech Time is a simulation game about building your own modern tech company. Grow your company and hire skilled employees. Research promising technologies and develop top-tier software. Unlock upgrades to keep up with constant innovation. Start from the ground up and reach for the top!

Why similar: Simulation 40.1%, Management 24.1%, Indie 16.2%, Strategy 13.3%, 2D 4.6%

I'm Tom and I just got a job as a bartender. Now I have to wipe down the same sticky counters where I used to leave my own marks. In this dive, even the rats look like they're hungover. Alright, the boozers won't pour their own drinks - time to get back to work.

Why similar: Simulation 30.5%, Indie 14.2%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Time Management 10.4%, Choices Matter 8.7%

Welcome to Auto Dealership Tycoon, own and operate your own car dealership. Watch your Customer Satisfaction Rating, if it sinks too low customers will stop coming! Special customers will visit your Dealership on occasion! Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

Why similar: Simulation 54.3%, Management 23.6%, Indie 22.2%

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 45.3%, Indie 18.7%, Management 17.1%, Strategy 16.8%, Singleplayer 2.1%

A hyper-stressful, strictly manual elevator simulation! You're the corporation's new "control system" (a human). Drag and drop sticky notes to transport employees. Amidst massive clock-out rushes and blaring complaints, can you survive this extreme one-man shift?!

Why similar: Time Management 26.7%, Simulation 24.5%, Management 12.7%, Retro 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Welcome to Lunch Island! Where the sun always shines, everything comes in perfect individual servings and the only meal served is, LUNCH! Head to the beach and finish the Ice Cream Sandwich event or head to the City and supply Comic Con with pretzels and coffee? Compete in Competitions! Who has the best Hot Dog on Lunch Island?

Why similar: Simulation 51.7%, Management 25.6%, Indie 22.7%

A fast-paced air traffic management sim where you route planes, manage runways and gates, and grow a single dirt airstrip into a sprawling international hub across five distinct locations.

Why similar: Simulation 38%, Time Management 20.7%, Arcade 11.1%, Management 10.3%, Resource Management 10.1%

Manage your dream nightclub in Party Hard Tycoon, a business simulation game where you're tasked with throwing the most profitable party ever. It takes place in the same universe as tinyBuild's 2015 hit Party Hard.

Why similar: Simulation 50.4%, Indie 18.9%, Strategy 16.9%, Management 13.8%

As The Light Goes Out is a simulation game utilizing Emergency and Rescue services from across the globe as its background. Become the Emergency Services Commander and take charge of the Fire, Police, and Paramedic departments! Instruct your teams and ensure public safety！

Why similar: Simulation 40.9%, Time Management 21.5%, Resource Management 19.1%, Management 11.5%, Indie 5.5%

Build, Manage and Maintain a Lumber Mill deep in the Forest!

Why similar: Simulation 47.3%, Indie 21.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Management 14.4%

Take control of a sprawling cyberpunk metropolis. Operating from a sleek, asymmetrical command interface, you must manage high-speed vehicle pursuits, deploy tactical units, and survive a grueling 10-level crime escalation. The neon streets are burning, and you are the only voice on the wire.

Why similar: Simulation 32%, Management 15.2%, Time Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.3%

«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: Simulation 44.1%, Management 24.4%, Indie 15.4%, Strategy 14.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Take charge of airport operations. Manage aircraft maintenance, ground support, equipment, and taxiway movements, then leave the office to inspect aircraft, investigate damage, clear FOD, respond to emergencies, and keep flights moving safely and on schedule.

Why similar: Simulation 35.5%, Time Management 22.2%, Management 16.3%, Resource Management 14.9%, Choices Matter 5%

Feel like a game developer! Start alone and take small steps, grow out of a small indie studio, a big company!

Why similar: Simulation 61.3%, Indie 27.7%, Strategy 7.8%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Retro Hacker simulates hacking from a computer terminal with a text based operating system.

Why similar: Hacking 41.8% ★, Simulation 25.5%, Time Management 16.2%, Choices Matter 7.8%, Indie 7.5%

You are in charge of the village called "Aegers Borg" manage the village her resources through assigning villagers, resolving events or by completing special rituals, develop and prepare the village because "winter is coming".

Why similar: Simulation 29.4%, Resource Management 20.8%, Management 17%, Strategy 10.4%, Arcade 7.4%

Incomprehensible interface errative puzzle game. No instructions! This product includes 3 different puzzles.

Why similar: Simulation 45.8%, Indie 25.7%, Difficult 21.2%, 2D 4.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptoeconomics, Mining, Hashrate... You might have already heard of it all somewhere, haven’t you? They appear more and more frequently in the News. Is it the beginning of cryptocurrency era? Will the global economy change?

Why similar: Simulation 37.4%, Management 18%, Indie 14.5%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 10%

A brutally challenging puzzle novel RPG. Reincarnate as a dark lord, plan your path, and conquer the world. *NOT a passive idle game*

Why similar: Time Management 20.5%, Difficult 15.2%, Simulation 14.8%, Management 11%, Multiple Endings 8.3%

Toilet Tycoon is an unusual economic simulation in which you can prove your skills as a leader of the sanitarian installations of a whole town! On your way to the top, you have calculate wisely and should always keep an eye on your opponents - else you simply will be flushed...

Why similar: Simulation 65%, Indie 25.7%, Management 9.3%

Ever wanted to be a hacker? Hack your way into the heart of a mysterious organization to uncover their secrets. Hack RUN® is a game which uses 'old school' command prompts (like DOS or UNIX) that simulate a real operating system. Learn the commands of each system to help you navigate through your adventure.

Why similar: Hacking 50.6% ★, Simulation 36.9%, Strategy 12.5%

Run the internet your way. Build infrastructure, control traffic, stop outages, and grow a basement hosting startup into a global powerhouse.

Why similar: Simulation 34.7%, Time Management 21.4%, Management 17%, Resource Management 17%, Strategy 8.8%

DotSec is a modern hacking simulator where you can choose your path as a Black Hat, White Hat, or Gray Hat hacker. The choices you make will directly impact your journey through the hacking world while also guiding you through complex puzzles and challenges.

Why similar: Simulation 44.5%, Hacking 33.3% ★, Indie 12.7%, Choices Matter 9.5%

50Year's is the strategy game that you protect clan and nations.

Why similar: Simulation 64.2%, Indie 27.4%, Strategy 8.4%

RxB is a turn-based 2D game where you play as the defender (Blue). You compete against the game which takes the role as an attacker (Red).

Why similar: Hacking 46.3% ★, Simulation 17.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Management 10.9%, Strategy 7.5%

Take the role of an astronomer exploring the depths of the universe. Build large telescopes to explore distant stars. Discover a habitable planet or an unknown anomaly in a far corner of the galaxy. Get scientific grants, publish your results and explore new technologies.

Why similar: Simulation 50.9%, Indie 21%, Strategy 18.2%, Management 9.9%

以上帝视角重回校园，你能扮演好班主任的角色吗？

Why similar: Simulation 55%, Indie 23.4%, Management 6.3%, Multiple Endings 5.9%, Choices Matter 5.5%

Command fire rescue operations under pressure. Receive emergency calls, dispatch units and make critical decisions in a realistic emergency response strategy simulation.

Why similar: Simulation 31.1%, Time Management 21.6%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 12.5%, Strategy 10.6%

NITE Team 4 is a military hacking simulation game that explores the world of cyberwarfare and features realistic mission scenarios.

Why similar: Hacking 61% ★, Simulation 23.5%, Indie 8.3%, Strategy 7.3%

Take over a small dungeon that no adventure is interested in as a new manager. You'll start with almost nothing and recruit minions, accumulate money, construct facilities, develop technology, explore the realm, have the dungeon's name up, defeat other dungeons and win the championship of the Dungeon League.

Why similar: Simulation 42%, Indie 18.5%, Strategy 16.6%, Resource Management 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

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: Simulation 33.3%, Management 21%, Indie 11.9%, Strategy 10.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

You are the unseen hand — the resistance's digital arm inside a regime that has begun burning books. Crack the Concord's networks from a green-phosphor terminal, cover every log you touch before the trace fills, and get paid off-grid. 24 missions. Three you are not meant to win.

Why similar: Hacking 45.1% ★, Simulation 25%, Indie 9.3%, Retro 6.6%, Strategy 5.5%

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: Simulation 34.7%, Management 25.6%, Indie 13.6%, Strategy 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%

Hacker's Life is a game where you take the seat of a hacker, infect devices all over the world with malware, and join a hacker group to pull off bigger attacks. See your malware take control of the world and become famous for your hacking skills, but be careful not to get busted.

Why similar: Hacking 36.5% ★, Simulation 17.2%, Management 11.9%, Time Management 11.1%, Arcade 7.6%

Swap dreams to more suitable, as sweet FOR PAID USERS.

Why similar: Simulation 40.5%, Time Management 26.7%, Management 13.2%, Resource Management 13%, 2D 4.9%

Lift Attendant is a minimalist puzzle game where you control elevators to transport passengers to their destinations. Your objective is to transport passengers as efficiently as possible. Earn money based on your efficiency and use money to upgrade your elevators to further improve efficiency!

Why similar: Time Management 23.9%, Resource Management 16.8%, Simulation 16.7%, Management 13.8%, Retro 11.7%

Dehumanize kids and make money.

Why similar: Simulation 42.8%, Management 22%, Strategy 17.8%, Indie 17.5%

Simulate to be the president of a university, run a start-up university, and strive to make it a world famous university.

Why similar: Simulation 37.9%, Management 17%, Time Management 15.6%, Resource Management 15.4%, Indie 4.9%

Manage your own space station bar! Customize your station, hire staff, improve your menu, decorate, and add attractions like arcades and dance clubs!

Why similar: Simulation 33.3%, Management 22.4%, Time Management 16.5%, Indie 10.5%, Resource Management 8.3%