- #1 TCG Card Shop Simulator: Prologue
97% matchVery Positive94% of 5,770 reviews2024
Dev: OPNeon Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Open your local game store early with the Prologue version, which includes main gameplay of the full version, but with limited progression. Stock shelves with booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, sell cards to customer.
Why similar: Management 18.3%, Economy 16.2%, Simulation 13.2%, Capitalism 11.6%, Collectathon 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: This free standalone version delivers the same core loop of stocking packs, pricing inventory, and growing a card store in a slimmer format.
- #2 Supermarket Simulator
96% matchVery Positive92% of 83,799 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 34.6 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 22.6%, Economy 22.3%, Simulation 19.9%, Trading 10.8%, Capitalism 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It nails the same first-person rhythm of ordering stock, filling shelves, setting prices, serving customers, and steadily expanding your retail space.
- #3 Grocery Store Simulator
95% matchVery Positive91% of 6,171 reviews2024
Dev: EXPERIMENT ONE
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Grocery Store Simulator is a 1-4 player co-op game where you build and manage your own supermarket by stocking shelves, setting prices, hiring staff, and customizing your store, all while expanding your business and keeping customers happy.
Why similar: Economy 24.4%, Management 24%, Shop Keeper 14.6% ★, Simulation 14.5%, Immersive Sim 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Like TCG Card Shop Simulator, it is all about hands-on shop operation, inventory flow, customer service, and upgrading a small store into a larger business.
- #4 Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 481 reviews2022
Dev: Henry's HousePub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Open your own Card shop by the seaside! Buy, trade and sell Cards, OR keep them for your own collection! Earn reputation with customers, beat your shop goals, unlock new decorations, and host exciting events to bring everyone to the best Card shop in town!
Why similar: Capitalism 18.9%, Economy 18.6%, Management 16.7%, Trading 15%, Collectathon 14.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, built around running a card shop, managing stock and customers, and dealing in collectible cards with fluctuating value.
- #5 King of Retail
94% matchVery Positive88% of 3,556 reviews2022
Dev: Freaking GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
Why similar: Economy 17.4%, Management 16%, Capitalism 15.3%, Shop Keeper 14.4% ★, Trading 13.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is one of the best pure retail-management games on Steam, with deep control over store layout, pricing, staffing, and product strategy.
- #6 Winkeltje: The Little Shop
94% matchVery Positive88% of 1,827 reviews2022
Dev: Sassybot
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 12.0 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: Economy 17.6%, Shop Keeper 17.4% ★, Management 17.3%, Capitalism 16.2%, Trading 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the same cozy-but-capitalist appeal of stocking goods, managing margins, crafting products, and growing a charming little store.
- #7 Shoppe Keep
93% matchMixed62% of 2,886 reviews2016
Dev: Strange FirePub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 33.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Run an adventurers shop – a serious business in a fantasy environment. Stock your store with dangerous weapons, fancy hats, sturdy armour and magical potions.
Why similar: Management 35.4%, Simulation 29.5%, Economy 16.6%, Capitalism 6.8%, Shop Keeper 3.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: This earlier entry also focuses on directly running a store floor, setting up merchandise, and balancing upkeep with profit growth.
- #8 Dealer's Life 2
91% matchVery Positive85% of 4,224 reviews2022
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 13.3 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 17.1%, Trading 16.3%, Capitalism 15.5%, Economy 14.7%, Shop Keeper 14.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part is buying low, selling high, and chasing rare valuable items, this pawn-shop sim scratches that exact trading-and-profit itch.
- #9 Shoppe Keep 2
92% matchMixed56% of 2,235 reviews2019
Dev: Strange FirePub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Shoppe Keep returns bigger and better than ever! Build your business empire and defend it from thieves. Explore the open-world in single-player or with up to 4 players online. Renovate and design your store, cook, fish, hunt for products, charm customers, evolve the town, and make your millions.
Why similar: Management 34.5%, Trading 32.5%, Capitalism 26.4%, First-Person 5.2%, Sandbox 1.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its first-person fantasy shopkeeping has you stocking shelves, handling customers, and expanding your business in a very similar hands-on way.
- #10 Gas Station Simulator
90% matchVery Positive88% of 27,404 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Buy an abandoned gas station and restore it to its full glory. Renovate, upgrade and expand upon the offered services to keep up with your clients demands.
Why similar: Economy 30.9%, Management 27.6%, Simulation 27.3%, Relaxing 5.1%, First-Person 4.6%
Why You'll Like It: Although the theme is different, the game shares the same active first-person cycle of stocking products, serving customers, hiring staff, and upgrading a shop.
- #11 Big Ambitions
89% matchVery Positive93% of 13,452 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 29.5%, Economy 25.7%, Capitalism 18.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Life Sim 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It broadens the fantasy into a whole business sim, but still delivers the appeal of building and optimizing retail operations from the ground up.
- #12 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,512 reviews2010
Dev: EasyGameStationPub: Carpe Fulgur LLC
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!
Why similar: Capitalism 58.5%, Management 19.1%, Simulation 13.1%, Shop Keeper 6.1% ★, Singleplayer 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is a classic shop sim where pricing, inventory choices, customer interactions, and the temptation to maximize profit are the whole game.
- #13 No Umbrellas Allowed
89% matchVery Positive81% of 1,474 reviews2021
Dev: Hoochoo Game Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Reveal the true value of the items coming into the shop. Each item has their own history. Dig deep to see what is behind them and become an expert appraiser. Begin a tug of war with customers. With their own expectations and knowledge, they never give up on money.
Why similar: Management 26.7%, Simulation 23.8%, Trading 12.1%, Economy 12%, Shop Keeper 10% ★
Why You'll Like It: Its appraisal-and-resale loop gives you the same satisfaction of evaluating goods, setting prices, and making hard profit-driven decisions about inventory.
- #14 Potionomics
87% matchVery Positive90% of 7,357 reviews2022
Dev: Voracious GamesPub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Why similar: Capitalism 34.1%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 19.8%, Card Game 14.4%, Life Sim 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is another strong pick if you enjoy the merchant side of things, with inventory management, pricing strategy, and a shop built around valuable collectible goods.
- #15 Moonlighter
88% matchVery Positive81% of 23,893 reviews2018
Dev: Digital SunPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
Why similar: Management 65.6%, Simulation 29.1%, Singleplayer 5.4%
Why You'll Like It: It combines collecting loot with running a store, including setting prices and deciding what to sell versus what to keep, which feels very familiar here.
- #16 Final Profit: A Shop RPG
86% matchVery Positive95% of 660 reviews2023
Dev: Brent Arnold
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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: Capitalism 19.8%, Shop Keeper 18.9% ★, Economy 15.6%, Management 15.5%, Simulation 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is heavily focused on running a store, optimizing sales, and expanding your business, with a strong emphasis on profit strategy and merchandise decisions.
- #17 Another Brick in The Mall
86% matchVery Positive83% of 2,448 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Management 30%, Economy 19.3%, Shop Keeper 18.1% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Capitalism 15.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is a more top-down take on retail management, but it excels at store layout, staffing, supply chains, and profit optimization.
- #18 Shop Titans
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 17,962 reviews2020
Dev: Kabam Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 189.4 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: Economy 19.2%, Shop Keeper 17.6% ★, Management 17.4%, Trading 15.1%, Collectathon 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: This merchant sim is more menu-driven, but the loop of managing stock, selling desirable items, and growing a specialty shop is still very comparable.
- #19 Supermarket Together
82% matchVery Positive94% of 98,029 reviews2024
Dev: DeadDevsTellNoLies
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Why similar: Management 22.4%, Simulation 21.3%, Economy 21.1%, Trading 10.4%, Capitalism 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: It translates the same stock-shelves-and-serve-customers formula into a co-op format while keeping the store growth and inventory-management focus.
- #20 Internet Cafe Simulator 2
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,194 reviews2022
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.
Why similar: Management 30.5%, Simulation 21.1%, Economy 20.8%, Life Sim 10.7%, Immersive Sim 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the same appeal of building up a niche hobby-focused business, improving the space, and balancing customer satisfaction against constant reinvestment.
- #21 Travellers Rest
84% matchVery Positive88% of 18,025 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 20.6 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 38.1%, Life Sim 22.2%, Collectathon 19.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Immersive Sim 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: Running a tavern here involves the same satisfying cycle of stocking goods, customizing the business, and scaling up operations over time.
- #22 Tavern Master
82% matchVery Positive92% of 13,253 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 60.9%, Simulation 30.6%, Relaxing 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.9%, 3D 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: It is less hands-on minute to minute, but the management of customers, staff, expansion, and profitable service hits a similar management vibe.
- #23 Cafe Owner Simulator
83% matchMixed63% of 1,109 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 16.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.
Why similar: Economy 29.4%, Management 22.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Life Sim 11.4%, Immersive Sim 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is another first-person business builder where you renovate, supply, manage, and grow a customer-facing shop from humble beginnings.
- #24 Weed Shop 3
81% matchVery Positive94% of 4,142 reviews2022
Dev: Weed GamesPub: Weed Games
Windows
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
BUILD YOUR VIRTUAL WEED EMPIRE: Grow the hottest strains & crossbreed new ones, roll your own Blunts, sell Bongs, hire Growers, make Solventless Concentrates, handle Rival Dealers, befriend Influencers, smoke Dabs, ride a Dolphin, and More! WELCOME TO WEED SHOP 3!
Why similar: Economy 30%, Management 28.2%, Life Sim 12.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: If you like building a niche retail business around stock, customers, upgrades, and maximizing margins, this follows a surprisingly similar progression loop.
- #25 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
80% matchVery Positive93% of 44,514 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 11.3 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%, Simulation 17.6%, Trading 16.7%, Capitalism 16.2%, Life Sim 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Selling self-made products through a storefront with supply and pricing considerations makes it a good fit if you enjoy the merchant half of the seed game.
- #26 Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,130 reviews2026
Dev: Blood Pact Studios
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Shop Keeper 21% ★, Management 19.7%, Economy 17.7%, Simulation 13.7%, Trading 10.2%
- #27 Dealer's Life
81% matchVery Positive93% of 1,327 reviews2019
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game!
Why similar: Management 16%, Economy 15.5%, Capitalism 15.4%, Shop Keeper 14.8% ★, Trading 14.4%
Why You'll Like It: The original still delivers a strong loop of item valuation, negotiation, and shop profit management that will appeal to the trading side of TCG Card Shop Simulator.
- #28 Card Shop Simulator Multiplayer
77% matchVery Positive84% of 2,183 reviews2025
Dev: ShaneGame
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Open a card shop with your friends, you can cooperate in a shop or compete with individual shops on the same street! Collect nice cards with different elements and play card dual with your friends to win their cards from their collection!
Why similar: Trading Card Game 22.4% ★, Collectathon 16.4%, Simulation 12%, Management 11.3%, Economy 11%
- #29 Convenience Stories
79% matchVery Positive93% of 300 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Customize your own store with a wide variety of products and business goals.
Why similar: Simulation 65.8%, Life Sim 24.8%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 2.6%, Indie 0.8%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim is all about optimizing product mix, store layout, and customer flow in a small retail business that steadily grows bigger.
- #30 Supercar Collection Simulator
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,654 reviews2025
Dev: Kiki Games
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Start your own diecast store! Unbox surprise car packs, expand your collection, oin exciting races with customers on the tracks, and play online trading games. A world full of speed and excitement is waiting for you in your store!
Why similar: Trading Card Game 15.3% ★, Economy 12.7%, Management 11.6%, Capitalism 10.5%, Collectathon 10.3%
- #31 Barn Finders
79% matchVery Positive82% of 4,431 reviews2020
Dev: Duality Games
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Search for valuable items stashed in abandoned barns. Take part in storage auctions, bid high and buy yourself a chance to find exclusive items hidden in the past.
Why similar: Economy 25.2%, Simulation 22.7%, Trading 20.9%, Management 19.7%, First-Person 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its buy-salvage-sell structure offers a similar thrill of turning interesting finds into storefront profit while improving your operation over time.
- #32 Tabletop Game Shop Simulator
75% matchVery Positive85% of 484 reviews2026
Dev: LudogramPub: Knight Fever Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Run your own tabletop game shop! Stock shelves, glue & paint minis, battle customers on game night, and grow your store into the ultimate nerd paradise.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 17.5% ★, Management 16%, Collectathon 15.4%, Capitalism 14.2%, Simulation 11.4%
- #33 Sports Card Shop Simulator
75% matchVery Positive92% of 166 reviews2026
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Open packs, search for rare cards, and build the best sports card shop. Hunt for holos, autos, and numbered variants to satisfy your collection obsession. Design custom cards and enjoy the thrill of pulling those creations from a fresh pack!
Why similar: Trading Card Game 15.6% ★, Economy 13.3%, Management 12.3%, Capitalism 10.3%, Collectathon 10%
- #34 Biz Builder Delux
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Run any store you like to build up your own buzzing business burg!
Why similar: Simulation 65.4%, Life Sim 25.5%, Casual 6%, Singleplayer 2.3%, Indie 0.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is a broader shop-management game, but it still delivers the same addictive loop of stocking products, tweaking strategy, and expanding retail success.
- #35 Megastore Simulator
74% matchVery Positive93% of 1,923 reviews2026
Dev: Yolo Games Studio
Windows
Median: 12.6 hrsMean: 36.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Megastore Simulator is a first-person management & tycoon game. Start small and grow into a massive two-floor megastore with forklifts, pallet jacks, and staff. Unlock and manage departments like Bakery, Clothing, Electronics, Sports, Music, Toys, Grocery, Seafood, and Vending Machines
Why similar: Management 17.8%, Economy 16.9%, Simulation 11.5%, Capitalism 10.7%, Trading 10.2%
- #36 Storage Hunter Simulator
74% matchMostly Positive78% of 4,140 reviews2025
Dev: Raccoons StudioPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Play as one of the bidders for abandoned warehouses and uncover hidden treasures! Storage Hunter is a garage auction simulation game. Bid, win, and sell for profit! Become the king of storage auction.
Why similar: Economy 15.6%, Capitalism 14.1%, Shop Keeper 13.9% ★, Management 13.9%, Trading 12.1%
- #37 Bookshop Simulator
73% matchVery Positive93% of 1,577 reviews2026
Dev: Blep Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Open your own bookshop! Order books, stock your shelves, and earn revenue. Use your profits to decorate, expand, and hire staff. Collect rare books that give powerful abilities. Adopt a cat to keep you and your customers company along the way!
Why similar: Economy 16.8%, Management 15.4%, Capitalism 14%, Trading 12.9%, Shop Keeper 11.2% ★
- #38 Gacha Capsule Shop Simulator - Akihabara
73% matchVery Positive80% of 404 reviews2026
Dev: UGC90
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
What's it like to open a shop in Akihabara? Sourcing, displaying, hiring(Staff & Robots), setting your own prices. From a little shop to a legendary otaku shop filled with rare figures. Conquer Akihabara with your gacha business skills. (and sometimes physical means too)!
Why similar: Economy 18.5%, Management 17%, Collectathon 15%, Capitalism 14.9%, Simulation 12.1%
- #39 Mall Simulator
73% matchVery Positive83% of 3,240 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 24.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!
Why similar: Economy 19%, Management 18.5%, Capitalism 16%, Trading 12.5%, Simulation 11.3%
- #40 TCG Multiplayer Card Shop Simulator
76% matchMixed50% of 248 reviews2025
Dev: Alkame Games
Windows
Multiplayer TCG Card Shop Simulator. Dive into the world of TCG Card Shop multiplayer gaming by opening your own local game store! Stock your TCG Card shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them open to collect the cards yourself.
Why similar: Trading Card Game 18.4% ★, Economy 13.9%, Management 12.9%, Collectathon 10.9%, Capitalism 10.7%
- #41 FeeBay Simulator
72% matchVery Positive91% of 160 reviews2026
Dev: Lake Country Games
Windows
Flip fake trading cards for real profit in FeeBay Simulator, a comedic marketplace tycoon game. Snipe underpriced cards from clueless and scammy sellers, grade your best pulls, open mystery lots, rip packs and run your own storefront to build a reselling empire.
Why similar: Trading Card Game 18.4% ★, Economy 11.9%, Collectathon 11.6%, Shop Keeper 11.3% ★, Capitalism 10.6%
- #42 Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,087 reviews2015
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.
Why similar: Management 62.2%, Simulation 31.8%, Singleplayer 2.7%, Casual 2.1%, Indie 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter, more whimsical merchant sim, yet its core focus on producing desirable goods and running a profitable specialty shop fits the same fantasy.
- #43 Console Shop Simulator
72% matchVery Positive93% of 522 reviews2025
Dev: Lance Games
Windows
Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.
Why similar: Economy 20.7%, Capitalism 19.1%, Management 19%, Simulation 12.6%, Trading 10.8%
- #44 Liquor Store Simulator
71% matchVery Positive87% of 602 reviews2025
Dev: Tovarishch GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Open your own Liquor Store! Buy goods, manage your store, hire staff. Who knows, maybe you will be able to make a real alcohol empire out of a small store.
Why similar: Economy 16.9%, Management 15.7%, Shop Keeper 15% ★, Trading 12.4%, Capitalism 11.7%
- #45 Table Battle Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 105 reviews2026
Dev: Kiki Games
Windows
Ready to build your own figure empire? Open surprise boxes, collect rare warriors, and manage your shop. Set up your table, master strategic tabletop battles, and become the city's ultimate collector!
Why similar: Trading Card Game 15.2% ★, Economy 12.6%, Management 11.4%, Capitalism 10.4%, Collectathon 10.2%
- #46 Tobacco Shop Simulator
70% matchVery Positive90% of 949 reviews2025
Dev: Business Tycoon
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Run your tobacco shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and never let your customers leave the store empty-handed. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.
Why similar: Economy 19.1%, Shop Keeper 18.4% ★, Management 13%, Simulation 11.4%, Capitalism 10.4%
- #47 Returns Outlet Simulator
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 919 reviews2025
Dev: Twisted Twice Games
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 38.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.
Why similar: Economy 18%, Shop Keeper 16.6% ★, Management 15.7%, Trading 13.7%, Simulation 7.6%
- #48 Figure Shop Simulator
69% matchVery Positive85% of 369 reviews2026
Dev: Gnome Games
Windows
Run your own figure shop! Produce figures with 3D printers, stock your shelves, set prices, and offer the best shopping experience to your customers. Manage your storage, expand and design your store. Try to complete collection sets, follow market trends, and grow your business!
Why similar: Economy 25.4%, Trading 18.6%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Life Sim 8.7%
- #49 Car Dealer Simulator
69% matchVery Positive89% of 10,250 reviews2025
Dev: Garage Monkeys
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Uncover a goldmine in the used car market! Sniff out deals, buy low, modify, and sell high. Your journey from amateur grease monkey to car dealer magnate awaits. How fast will you rise in this lucrative venture?
Why similar: Trading 24.2%, Management 24.2%, Simulation 17.7%, Life Sim 12.9%, Immersive Sim 9%
- #50 Toy Shop Simulator
71% matchVery Positive81% of 202 reviews2025
Dev: PaperPixel Games
Windows
Run your own toy store! Arrange shelves, set prices, process payments, and manage staff. Expand and design your shop, handle online orders, deliver with a scooter, trade rare toys, and ensure security. Create a magical shopping experience in Toy Shop Simulator!
Why similar: Economy 20.5%, Management 17.9%, Capitalism 15.3%, Trading 14.1%, Simulation 12.2%
- #51 Gamer Stop Simulator
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 316 reviews2026
Dev: Red Axe Games
Windows
Gamer Stop Simulator is a simulation game where you manage a video game store. Buy games and consoles from customers, repair broken devices, test games, and add rare items to your collection. Negotiate prices, expand your store, and grow your business in this exciting retail experience!
Why similar: Collectathon 20%, Economy 16.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Capitalism 13%, Life Sim 11.1%
- #52 Blind Box Shop Simulator
69% matchVery Positive87% of 229 reviews2026
Dev: NovaraGames
Windows · Mac
Open your own blind box store in the anime city of Akihabara. Stock the shelves with the latest blind boxes, or unbox them to collect rare hidden editions. Create a trendy blind box shop that attracts customers and expands your business.
Why similar: Shop Keeper 25.5% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Management 18.3%, Economy 14%, Life Sim 10.9%
- #53 Plant Nursery Simulator
67% matchVery Positive93% of 349 reviews2026
Dev: Robot Assembly
Windows
Run your own cozy Plant Nursery in this relaxing sim. Grow crops, stock shelves, and help customers. Expand with greenhouses, hire staff, and decorate your dream shop. Perfect for fans of wholesome farming and sim games.
Why similar: Economy 19.4%, Management 19.1%, Simulation 18.1%, Trading 13.4%, Capitalism 10.7%
- #54 Shooting Range Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 203 reviews2026
Dev: Buffed GamesPub: KNGL Studio
Windows
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: Economy 17.4%, Management 15.2%, Capitalism 13.3%, Trading 12%, Simulation 9.8%
- #55 Arcane Merchant
67% matchVery Positive85% of 279 reviews2026
Dev: Findie Studios
Windows
Open your own shop in the heart of a Medieval Fantasy realm! Stock your shelves with everything from potions and swords to mysterious crystals and legendary artifacts. Set your prices, earn your customers' trust and become the richest merchant in the town!
Why similar: Economy 16.2%, Management 15.8%, Shop Keeper 15.7% ★, Trading 11.8%, Collectathon 10.7%
- #56 Weed Supermarket Simulator
66% matchVery Positive88% of 409 reviews2026
Dev: DreamWay GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Weed Supermarket Simulator is a chill store sim where you grow weed, develop new strains, set prices, and keep your shelves stocked. Expand your business and optimize it for maximum profit. Manage employees, handle inventory, and turn your shop into a high-performing business.
Why similar: Economy 18.4%, Management 18.1%, Capitalism 14.9%, Trading 13.9%, Simulation 11.7%
- #57 Pharmacy Store Simulator
68% matchMostly Positive74% of 73 reviews2026
Dev: Art Games Studio S.A.
Windows
Run your own Pharmacy! Sell medicines, advise customers, validate prescriptions, and fulfill them. Start small and expand your business - make it big in the medicine world!
Why similar: Economy 19.2%, Management 18.4%, Simulation 16.4%, Trading 13.2%, Capitalism 9.1%
- #58 Supercar Collection Simulator: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive93% of 88 reviews2025
Dev: Kiki Games
Windows
Start your own toy car store! Open surprise boxes, expand your collection and start selling. A world of speed awaits you in your shop!
Why similar: Trading Card Game 17% ★, Economy 15.2%, Management 13.5%, Trading 11.7%, Simulation 8.6%
- #59 Rest Area Simulator
66% matchVery Positive86% of 648 reviews2026
Dev: Oriseus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Take over the gas station and convenience store at a roadside rest area and expand by purchasing new businesses. Manage a living world shaped by dynamic economy and random events. Upgrade your facilities, satisfy your customers, and play solo or with friends.
Why similar: Economy 20.4%, Management 19.3%, Shop Keeper 18.8% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Capitalism 9.1%
- #60 Tailor Simulator
66% matchVery Positive91% of 464 reviews2026
Dev: Zoady
Windows
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: Economy 17.3%, Management 15.4%, Capitalism 15.1%, Shop Keeper 15.1% ★, Simulation 8.7%