- #1 Travellers Rest
97% matchVery Positive88% of 17,329 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Why similar: Management 35.9%, Building 20%, Medieval 16.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the tavern-management loop while adding farming and crafting elements that deepen the gameplay experience.
- #2 Tavern Keeper 🍻
96% matchVery Positive95% of 4,453 reviews2025
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!
Why similar: Management 40%, Building 33.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly detailed approach to tavern design and staff management that mirrors the core appeal of Tavern Master.
- #3 Inn Tycoon
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 801 reviews2025
Dev: Evil Goose GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 26.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Management 24.8%, Building 19.3%, Medieval 16%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses specifically on the hospitality and management aspects of running a medieval inn, making it a direct thematic parallel.
- #4 Ale & Tale Tavern
95% matchVery Positive89% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING! Play with friends, feed and quench the thirst of the entire world!
Why similar: Management 43.4%, Building 30.8%, Simulation 18.4%, Indie 2.1%, 3D 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines tavern management with light adventure and cooking mechanics, creating a similar cozy medieval atmosphere.
- #5 TasteMaker
94% matchVery Positive83% of 1,298 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.
Why similar: Management 31%, Building 25.5%, Simulation 9.7%, Crafting 8.1%, Time Management 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar sandbox-style restaurant management experience with a strong emphasis on building and layout optimization.
- #6 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
94% matchVery Positive93% of 43,576 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
Why similar: Management 26.9%, Medieval 19.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 12%, Simulation 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on crafting, it shares the same medieval aesthetic and satisfying, slow-paced management loop.
- #7 Blacksmith Master
93% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Management 22.3%, Building 19.4%, Medieval 15.4%, Resource Management 14%, City Builder 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: It applies the same 'Master' management formula to a blacksmith shop, focusing on production chains and shop expansion.
- #8 Recipe for Disaster
92% matchMostly Positive71% of 718 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
Why similar: Management 37%, Building 23.8%, Simulation 12%, Time Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim focuses on the chaotic and rewarding process of running a successful kitchen and dining establishment.
- #9 Winkeltje: The Little Shop
91% matchVery Positive88% of 1,814 reviews2022
Dev: Sassybot
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Winkeltje: The Little Shop is all about building, decorating, and running your own old-world fantasy shop. Buy low, sell high - from nails and apples to swords and alchemic love potions. Impress your customers, craft items, and be the master of your very own shop.
Why similar: Management 36.5%, Building 25.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Time Management 10.5%, Crafting 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a cozy, shop-keeping management experience that shares the same relaxing progression feel as Tavern Master.
- #10 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
90% matchVery Positive90% of 1,300 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Management 26.3%, Building 20.9%, Medieval 15.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Simulation 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the production and management side of medieval brewing, which is a key component of Tavern Master's charm.
- #11 The Tenants
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,702 reviews2022
Dev: Ancient Forge
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Why similar: Management 31.3%, Building 23.7%, City Builder 16.3%, Time Management 9.4%, Simulation 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the core loop of renovating and managing properties to satisfy customer needs, albeit in a modern setting.
- #12 Kingdoms and Castles
89% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Management 21.2%, City Builder 17.2%, Building 14.8%, Medieval 14.5%, Resource Management 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a broader city-building experience that shares the same medieval aesthetic and focus on resource management.
- #13 Foundation
88% matchVery Positive86% of 23,739 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Management 16.9%, Medieval 16.1%, Building 13.6%, Resource Management 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder emphasizes organic growth and grid-less building, which appeals to players who enjoy the creative freedom of Tavern Master.
- #14 Little Big Workshop
89% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 27.8%, Building 20.5%, Simulation 18.8%, Resource Management 14.6%, Strategy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features a similar isometric management style where you oversee production and staff in a charming, stylized environment.
- #15 Ravenous Devils
86% matchVery Positive93% of 9,704 reviews2022
Dev: Bad Vices Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A horror cooking simulator where the secret ingredient is crime. Improve your shops, buy new tools, expand your menu, and above all, make your customers happy.
Why similar: Management 45.1%, Resource Management 24.2%, Time Management 13%, Simulation 11.4%, Relaxing 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim offers a darker, more narrative-driven take on running a kitchen and shop in a historical setting.
- #16 Shop Titans
87% matchMostly Positive78% of 17,821 reviews2020
Dev: Kabam Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 182.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Shop Titans is the ultimate RPG shopkeeper simulation. Craft powerful equipment, stock your shop and sell to aspiring heroes… at a markup! Hire heroes and explore dungeons to gather valuable materials to craft with. There’s never a dull moment in the world of Shop Titans!
Why similar: Management 35.8%, Medieval 24.2%, Resource Management 15.8%, Simulation 12.9%, Crafting 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the shop-keeper fantasy with deep crafting and management mechanics set in a fantasy world.
- #17 Settlement Survival
86% matchVery Positive86% of 7,916 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Management 22.4%, Building 21.8%, City Builder 17.2%, Medieval 17%, Resource Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the growth and management of a medieval settlement, sharing the same satisfying expansion mechanics.
- #18 Going Medieval
84% matchVery Positive89% of 20,881 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Management 33.7%, City Builder 19.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Historical 9%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more complex colony-sim experience that allows for intricate medieval building and management.
- #19 Medieval Dynasty
84% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 32.5%, Management 19.8%, Medieval 18.7%, Crafting 10.9%, Simulation 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It blends first-person survival with village management, offering a more immersive perspective on medieval life.
- #20 TM - Prologue
85% matchVery Positive93% of 1,207 reviews2021
Dev: UntitledStudio
Windows · Mac
Median: 54 minMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
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: Building 17.5%, Management 16.4%, Medieval 13.5%, Resource Management 11%, City Builder 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: As the official prologue to the seed game, it offers a condensed version of the same mechanics.
- #21 Farthest Frontier
82% matchVery Positive86% of 24,477 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: Building 23.9%, Management 17.8%, City Builder 13.3%, Medieval 13.1%, Resource Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title provides a deep, challenging medieval city-building experience with a heavy focus on resource logistics.
- #22 Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻
82% matchVery Positive92% of 4,372 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!
Why similar: Management 27.8%, Building 23%, Resource Management 16.5%, Medieval 14.7%, Simulation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the day-to-day operations of a tavern, emphasizing the hands-on management tasks.
- #23 Patron
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,163 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Management 18.5%, Building 16.4%, Medieval 13.9%, Resource Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: A social-focused city-builder that emphasizes the management of citizens and resources in a medieval setting.
- #24 Mad Games Tycoon 2
81% matchVery Positive94% of 7,643 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 15.0 hrsMean: 36.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 39.9%, Building 20.8%, City Builder 14.4%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: While the theme is different, the core management and expansion mechanics are highly comparable to Tavern Master.
- #25 City Tales - Medieval Era
80% matchVery Positive90% of 571 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: Building 22.3%, Management 21.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Resource Management 12.9%, Simulation 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the relaxing aspects of building and managing a medieval town, matching the cozy vibe of the seed game.
- #26 Supermarket Simulator
79% matchVery Positive92% of 82,065 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 34.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Why similar: Management 43%, Simulation 23.9%, Building 16.9%, Resource Management 11%, Multiplayer 1.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a very hands-on, first-person management experience that mirrors the day-to-day operations of a business.
- #27 News Tower
77% matchVery Positive94% of 4,335 reviews2025
Dev: Sparrow NightPub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Why similar: Management 33.1%, Building 17.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Time Management 7.8%
- #28 Hotel Architect
77% matchVery Positive94% of 1,712 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: Management 28%, Building 23.8%, City Builder 16.4%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 5.8%
- #29 Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 45,769 reviews2023
Dev: Toxic DogPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Builder. Farmer. Hunter. Trader. Ranching certainly isn’t your average job. Think you have the skills to turn your family’s rundown homestead into the most prosperous ranch in the valley? Then it’s time to head out into the wilderness in this captivating single and multiplayer open-world simulator.
Why similar: Management 56.3%, Simulation 26.7%, Relaxing 11.4%, Multiplayer 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar progression from a small, dilapidated space to a fully functioning, profitable business.
- #30 Tavern Tycoon - Dragon's Hangover
81% matchMixed67% of 833 reviews2019
Dev: Terapoly
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Run your fantasy RPG tavern - let travellers take shelter for the night and serve 'em the best mead of their life with a good dose of humor.
Why similar: Management 55.1%, Simulation 20.1%, Building 12.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Indie 2.4%
Why You'll Like It: A direct genre peer that focuses on the challenges of running a fantasy tavern with management and strategy elements.
- #31 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
79% matchMixed66% of 5,998 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.7 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Resource Management 17.4%, Building 17.1%, Medieval 15.5%, Simulation 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed look at managing a medieval village with a focus on survival and resource production.
- #32 Mad Games Tycoon
78% matchVery Positive91% of 4,416 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 37.4%, Building 19.7%, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 10.9%, Crafting 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series provides a classic management simulation experience with deep economy mechanics.
- #33 Espresso Tycoon
76% matchVery Positive85% of 1,273 reviews2023
Dev: DreamWay GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!
Why similar: Management 36.7%, Building 31.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Relaxing 5.3%
- #34 Tavern Legends
75% matchVery Positive91% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: CROWFORGE Games
Windows
In Tavern Legends, you run your own medieval tavern: pour beer, create meals, design your taverns, and assemble your staff. Win over guests from all walks of life and build your reputation as a legendary innkeeper.
Why similar: Management 27.3%, Building 22.7%, Medieval 16.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Time Management 9.2%
- #35 Kingdoms Reborn
75% matchVery Positive91% of 9,605 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Management 24.5%, Building 13%, Medieval 12.5%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #36 The Guild 3
76% matchMixed61% of 7,892 reviews2022
Dev: Purple LampPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
Why similar: Medieval 31%, Building 17.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 9.1%
- #37 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
74% matchVery Positive84% of 2,599 reviews2023
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.
Why similar: Management 42.2%, Resource Management 23.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Relaxing 9.2%, Stylized 5.5%
- #38 Manor Lords
72% matchVery Positive84% of 87,232 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.4 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Medieval 21.1%, City Builder 18.6%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 11.1%
- #39 Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,663 reviews2026
Dev: Blood Pact Studios
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your very own video store in the early 90s! Rent, sell, decorate and expand your business from the ground up and relive the golden ages of video rentals!
Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 19.4%, Resource Management 18.9%, Simulation 13.5%, Relaxing 7.2%
- #40 Inn Tycoon: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Evil Goose Games
Windows
Welcome to Inn Tycoon: Prologue! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Management 21.3%, Building 19.8%, Medieval 15.7%, Resource Management 14.2%, Simulation 7.8%
- #41 A Hero's Rest: An RPG Town Simulator
73% matchMixed70% of 178 reviews2024
Dev: Vanargand Games
Windows
Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.
Why similar: Management 16.9%, Building 15.5%, Medieval 14.4%, Resource Management 13%, City Builder 12.7%
- #42 Big Ambitions
71% matchVery Positive93% of 12,848 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 56.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Time Management 8.5%, Top-Down 3.9%
- #43 Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,481 reviews2020
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.
Why similar: Management 68.9%, Simulation 23.2%, Relaxing 4.1%, Indie 1.5%, 3D 1.2%
- #44 Medieval StartUp
71% matchVery Positive98% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Editions Aspic Games
Windows
Medieval StartUp is a unique mix of tavern management, crafting, and exploration set in a rich medieval world. Manage your tavern, craft unique items, recruit staff, and explore a mysterious marsh full of hidden secrets and rare resources.
Why similar: Management 31.5%, Medieval 19.5%, Building 15.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Crafting 9.4%
- #45 Startup Company
72% matchVery Positive81% of 6,200 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 54.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #46 Tavern Manager Simulator: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Try running a tavern for a day in Prologue.
Why similar: Management 29.9%, Building 29.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Relaxing 7.2%, Crafting 5.2%
- #47 Project Hospital
71% matchVery Positive89% of 9,130 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Why similar: Management 33%, Building 20.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Simulation 11%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #48 Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition
73% matchMixed55% of 4,065 reviews2019
Dev: Klabater
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crossroads Inn, a real-time management sim, unfolds in Delcrys' unique fantasy realm. Construct and oversee your inn, delight traveling heroes, and achieve renowned status for your services across the kingdom.
Why similar: Management 31.2%, City Builder 30.1%, Time Management 13.1%, Crafting 10.1%, Strategy 7.1%
- #49 Gladiator Guild Manager
69% matchVery Positive81% of 3,937 reviews2024
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.
Why similar: Management 26.8%, Building 21.8%, Medieval 17%, City Builder 13%, Resource Management 12.8%
- #50 Two Point Museum
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 11,825 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.1 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: Building 29.9%, Management 25.1%, City Builder 18.7%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 7.8%
- #51 The Wandering Village
67% matchVery Positive92% of 8,187 reviews2025
Dev: Stray Fawn StudioPub: Stray Fawn Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?
Why similar: Management 37.2%, City Builder 21.7%, Resource Management 21%, Simulation 13.8%, Relaxing 5.2%
- #52 Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,221 reviews2022
Dev: Auroch DigitalPub: Fireshine Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Brew your perfect beer in this relaxing home brewing sim. Use a realistic chemistry simulation to brew hoppy IPAs to creamy stouts. Customise your brewing space, create recipes and label your beer, unlock new equipment and enter competitions. Learn to brew, refine your craft and become a Brewmaster!
Why similar: Management 44.4%, Simulation 21.4%, Crafting 15.7%, Relaxing 11%, Indie 2.6%
- #53 Old Market Simulator
67% matchVery Positive88% of 5,087 reviews2024
Dev: Alcedo Games
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Old Market Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you manage your market by ordering goods, growing produce, raising animals, fishing, and crafting items in your workshop, while hiring employees and expanding your business.
Why similar: Management 40.2%, Resource Management 19.3%, Simulation 16.9%, Medieval 14.7%, Stylized 3.5%
- #54 Internet Cafe Simulator 2
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,073 reviews2022
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.
Why similar: Management 62.7%, Simulation 27.4%, Atmospheric 3.2%, 3D 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.8%
- #55 Dealer's Life 2
69% matchVery Positive85% of 4,155 reviews2022
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Your favorite pawn shop experience is finally getting a sequel! Haggle like your life depends on it in this funny tycoon game. You never know WHAT is gonna stumble through that door!
Why similar: Management 76.6%, Simulation 17.8%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.9%, Casual 1.5%
- #56 Wrap House Simulator🌯
66% matchVery Positive89% of 3,028 reviews2025
Dev: Broken Lyre EntertainmentPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to Wrap House Simulator! Run your own wrap shop, chop, grill, and serve in this cooking adventure. Customize your shop, master the grill, and survive the rush solo or co-op with up to 6 players. Keep up with orders, satisfy customers, and build your dream restaurant!
Why similar: Management 35.7%, Building 20%, Simulation 19.2%, Resource Management 18.4%, Atmospheric 2.5%
- #57 Service Please
66% matchVery Positive84% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Dynamic Dice
Windows
Service Please is a top-down restaurant management and tycoon game focused on relaxed gameplay and steady progression. Manage customers, organize staff, upgrade your menu, and build your restaurant step by step.
Why similar: Management 21.7%, Building 18.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, City Builder 12.5%, Time Management 7.4%
- #58 Coffee Shop Tycoon
67% matchVery Positive85% of 598 reviews2022
Dev: Riff Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 38%, Building 15.6%, Simulation 14.5%, Resource Management 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%
- #59 Frozenheim
68% matchMixed70% of 3,869 reviews2022
Dev: Paranoid InteractivePub: Untold Tales
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Lead your Viking clan onto unknown shores and carve out a future for your people in the fjords of Frozenheim. Gather resources, expand, and watch your settlement grow to a bustling town that will withstand the harshness of winter and wrath of other clans.
Why similar: Management 29.7%, Resource Management 25%, Medieval 19.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #60 Bakery Simulator
68% matchMixed67% of 2,320 reviews2022
Dev: Live Motion GamesPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.
Why similar: Management 27%, Resource Management 20%, Time Management 15.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Crafting 9.9%