- #1 TCG Card Shop Simulator: Prologue
97% matchVery Positive94% of 5,511 reviews2024
Dev: OPNeon Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 17.9%, Economy 16.7%, Simulation 12.1%, Capitalism 12.1%, Collectathon 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: This free standalone slice distills the same shelf-stocking, pack-opening, pricing, and shop-expansion loop into a shorter version.
- #2 Supermarket Simulator
96% matchVery Positive92% of 80,575 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.1 hrsMean: 33.2 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: Economy 23%, Management 22%, Simulation 18.4%, Trading 11.5% ★, Capitalism 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was the hands-on first-person retail grind, this nails the same restocking, cashiering, pricing, and growth cadence in a grocery setting.
- #3 Grocery Store Simulator
95% matchVery Positive91% of 6,002 reviews2024
Dev: EXPERIMENT ONE
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.7 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 30.1%, Management 27.2%, Simulation 16.6%, Immersive Sim 7.9%, First-Person 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like TCG Card Shop Simulator, it focuses on physically running a small store day to day while balancing inventory, customers, and expansion.
- #4 Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive72% of 472 reviews2022
Dev: Henry's HousePub: Akupara Games
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 7.7 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 19.6%, Economy 18.8%, Management 16.4%, Trading 15.6% ★, Collectathon 13.8%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam, centering on running a card shop, buying and selling singles, managing customers, and building your own collection.
- #5 King of Retail
94% matchVery Positive88% of 3,551 reviews2022
Dev: Freaking GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 18%, Capitalism 16.1%, Management 16%, Trading 14% ★, Shop Keeper 13.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: It offers one of the deepest retail-management systems on Steam, with merchandising, staffing, pricing strategy, and store layout all mattering.
- #6 Dealer's Life 2
94% matchVery Positive85% of 4,118 reviews2022
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 13.1 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: Trading 17.7% ★, Management 17.7%, Capitalism 16.8%, Economy 15.7%, Shop Keeper 13.7% ★
Why You'll Like It: Its core loop of spotting valuable items, setting profitable prices, and chasing rare finds hits the same collector-capitalist dopamine.
- #7 Storage Hunter Simulator
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,777 reviews2025
Dev: Raccoons StudioPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 14.4 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 16.4%, Capitalism 15.2%, Management 14.2%, Shop Keeper 13.3% ★, Trading 13.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: The thrill of discovering valuable inventory and flipping it for profit makes it a good fit for the seed game's collector and reseller mindset.
- #8 Winkeltje: The Little Shop
92% matchVery Positive88% of 1,803 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: Economy 18.2%, Management 17.3%, Capitalism 17.2%, Shop Keeper 16.1% ★, Trading 14.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: This cozy shop sim is all about sourcing products, arranging your store, setting prices, and optimizing a niche retail business.
- #9 Shoppe Keep 2
93% matchMixed56% of 2,224 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 33.8%, Trading 33.7% ★, Capitalism 27.4%, First-Person 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: This gives you a first-person specialty-shop experience with stocking shelves, serving customers, hiring help, and gradually scaling up.
- #10 Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 7,432 reviews2010
Dev: EasyGameStationPub: Carpe Fulgur LLC
Windows
Median: 5.1 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 60.7%, Management 18.7%, Simulation 12.2%, Shop Keeper 5.2% ★, Singleplayer 2.5%
Why You'll Like It: It remains one of the best shopkeeper games for haggling, inventory control, and squeezing profit out of a beloved little store.
- #11 Shop Titans
90% matchMostly Positive78% of 17,716 reviews2020
Dev: Kabam Games, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 179.4 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 20.6%, Management 18.1%, Shop Keeper 17% ★, Trading 16.6% ★, Collectathon 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the fantasy of running a hobby-focused store, crafting or stocking goods, and growing your business around specialist customers.
- #12 Supermarket Together
88% matchVery Positive95% of 88,985 reviews2024
Dev: DeadDevsTellNoLies
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.5 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 22.1%, Economy 21.7%, Simulation 19.9%, Trading 10.9% ★, Capitalism 10%
Why You'll Like It: Even though it is co-op focused, the manual shelf-stocking, ordering, checkout work, and store growth feel very close to the seed game's routine.
- #13 Dealer's Life
89% matchVery Positive93% of 1,304 reviews2019
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game!
Why similar: Capitalism 16.7%, Management 16.5%, Economy 16.5%, Trading 15.7% ★, Shop Keeper 14.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, it turns pricing judgment, collection knowledge, and buy-low-sell-high instincts into the main challenge.
- #14 Gas Station Simulator
87% matchVery Positive88% of 26,842 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 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 32.1%, Management 27.5%, Simulation 25.8%, Relaxing 5.2%, First-Person 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same first-person small-business itch with hands-on tasks, employees, inventory, and a constant cycle of reinvestment.
- #15 Big Ambitions
86% matchVery Positive93% of 12,519 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.8 hrsMean: 24.0 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 29.3%, Economy 26.2%, Capitalism 19.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Life Sim 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: This is broader and more sandboxy, but few games match its sense of building, staffing, stocking, and scaling a personal retail empire.
- #16 Shoppe Keep
89% matchMixed62% of 2,877 reviews2016
Dev: Strange FirePub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 32.1 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 37.1%, Simulation 29.2%, Economy 17.9%, Capitalism 7.5%, Trading 3.9% ★
Why You'll Like It: This earlier entry shares the same appeal of personally operating a small fantasy shop while juggling stock, thieves, and customer flow.
- #17 Potionomics
86% matchVery Positive91% of 7,207 reviews2022
Dev: Voracious GamesPub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 14.2 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 35.8%, Management 20.7%, Simulation 18.6%, Card Game 14.2%, Life Sim 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It blends specialty-shop management with card-driven negotiation, making it a great fit if you like commerce plus collectible systems.
- #18 PC Building Simulator
85% matchVery Positive94% of 52,392 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 37.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Why similar: Simulation 29.5%, Management 27%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Life Sim 12%, Relaxing 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its niche-business atmosphere, customer orders, upgrades, and hardware obsession give it a similar hobbyist-shop feel.
- #19 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
83% matchVery Positive93% of 42,947 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 10.9 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 25.8%, Trading 17.8% ★, Capitalism 17.3%, Simulation 16.5%, Life Sim 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Although more crafting-focused, it delivers the same pleasure of running a specialty store, serving customers, and optimizing margins.
- #20 Moonlighter
84% matchVery Positive82% of 21,581 reviews2018
Dev: Digital SunPub: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 66.5%, Simulation 28.3%, Singleplayer 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Running your store by day and chasing valuable stock by night recreates the same satisfying loop of collecting goods and turning them into profit.
- #21 Another Brick in The Mall
84% matchVery Positive83% of 2,425 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 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 29.9%, Economy 20.4%, Shop Keeper 17.3% ★, Capitalism 16.3%, Simulation 14.7%
Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the optimization side more than the first-person side, this gives you strong shop layout, staffing, and customer-economy management.
- #22 Weed Shop 3
82% matchVery Positive94% of 4,106 reviews2022
Dev: Weed GamesPub: Weed Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 40.2 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 30.7%, Management 28.2%, Life Sim 12%, Simulation 10.6%, Immersive Sim 10%
Why You'll Like It: This is a sillier retail sandbox, yet it still leans hard into stocking product, serving customers, and growing a specialized storefront.
- #23 Internet Cafe Simulator 2
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 12,978 reviews2022
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.
Why similar: Management 31%, Economy 21.8%, Simulation 20.3%, Life Sim 10.8%, Immersive Sim 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: This shares the scrappy-business progression of starting small, handling operations yourself, and expanding into a more efficient enterprise.
- #24 Tavern Master
81% matchVery Positive92% of 12,821 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 11.6 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 61.8%, Simulation 29.6%, Relaxing 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.9%, 3D 1.2%
Why You'll Like It: It swaps cards for hospitality, but the staffing, layout, service flow, and business growth hooks are very familiar.
- #25 Saleblazers
81% matchVery Positive88% of 1,877 reviews2023
Dev: AIRSTRAFE INTERACTIVE
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 19.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Fight. Sell. Survive. Live off the land, build your perfect shop, and defend against nightly horrors in this open world survival shop simulator for 1-8 players.
Why similar: Economy 25.4%, Capitalism 23.4%, Shop Keeper 20.3% ★, Simulation 12.3%, Immersive Sim 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: This combines shopkeeping, inventory management, and running a player-built store with a more open-ended survival-sandbox structure.
- #26 Travellers Rest
80% matchVery Positive88% of 16,540 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.4 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 37.8%, Life Sim 21.9%, Collectathon 20.4%, Simulation 9.1%, Immersive Sim 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: Managing stock, crafting products, serving customers, and steadily upgrading a cozy venue makes it a natural shop-management adjacent pick.
- #27 Card Shop Simulator Multiplayer
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,787 reviews2025
Dev: ShaneGame
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 21.3% ★, Collectathon 16.7%, Economy 11.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 11.4%
- #28 Arcade Paradise
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,922 reviews2022
Dev: Nosebleed InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Turn a rundown laundromat into a RADICAL ’90s arcade. Featuring over 35 fully playable arcade games, you must manage your business, and reinvest profits to expand your neon kingdom. Balance dirty laundry with pixel-perfect fun as you build the greatest arcade empire ever.
Why similar: Management 60.8%, Simulation 23.3%, First-Person 9.8%, 3D 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: Building a small business around a niche hobby scene and reinvesting profits into better offerings gives off a similar entrepreneurial vibe.
- #29 Supercar Collection Simulator
77% matchVery Positive86% of 1,555 reviews2025
Dev: Kiki Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 15.2% ★, Economy 12.9%, Capitalism 11.3%, Collectathon 10.9%, Management 10.6%
- #30 Coffee Shop Tycoon
79% matchVery Positive85% of 596 reviews2022
Dev: Riff Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 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 37.5%, Economy 29.4%, Simulation 21.4%, Relaxing 3.9%, 3D 2.6%
Why You'll Like It: It is more tycoon-style and less hands-on, but experimenting with products, prices, and customer demand scratches a similar management itch.
- #31 Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
75% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,586 reviews2026
Dev: Blood Pact Studios
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.5%, Shop Keeper 19.2% ★, Economy 19.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Trading 11.3% ★
- #32 Tabletop Game Shop Simulator
76% matchVery Positive92% of 386 reviews2025
Dev: LudogramPub: Knight Fever Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 16.9% ★, Management 16.5%, Collectathon 16%, Capitalism 15.7%, Simulation 11.3%
- #33 Mall Simulator
75% matchVery Positive91% of 2,672 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 19.5%, Management 18%, Capitalism 16.7%, Trading 13.2% ★, Simulation 10.6%
- #34 Merchant of the Skies
78% matchVery Positive86% of 2,255 reviews2020
Dev: Coldwild Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Why similar: Economy 29.3%, Trading 27.6% ★, Management 27.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Relaxing 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Its trading, inventory, and gradual empire-building focus will appeal if the economic progression mattered more to you than the store theme.
- #35 Bookshop Simulator
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,007 reviews2025
Dev: Blep Games
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 18.2%, Management 16.5%, Capitalism 14.6%, Trading 14.1% ★, Simulation 9.5%
- #36 TCG Multiplayer Card Shop Simulator
76% matchMixed50% of 228 reviews2025
Dev: Alkame Games
Windows
Multiplayer TCG Card Shop Simulator game. Dive into the world of multiplayer gaming by opening your own local game store! Stock your shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them open to collect the cards yourself.
Why similar: Trading Card Game 17.2% ★, Economy 14.1%, Management 12.8%, Capitalism 11.3%, Collectathon 10.9%
- #37 Console Shop Simulator
73% matchVery Positive93% of 468 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 21%, Capitalism 19.9%, Management 18.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Trading 11.2% ★
- #38 Liquor Store Simulator
74% matchVery Positive88% of 514 reviews2025
Dev: Tovarishch GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 17.4%, Management 15.7%, Shop Keeper 13.8% ★, Trading 13.3% ★, Capitalism 12.4%
- #39 Waterpark Simulator
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 9,416 reviews2025
Dev: CayPlay
Windows
Median: 9.5 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Why similar: Economy 22.5%, Management 20.7%, Capitalism 19%, Simulation 11.7%, Life Sim 8.9%
- #40 Megastore Simulator
72% matchVery Positive93% of 685 reviews2026
Dev: Yolo Games Studio
Windows · Linux
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 run Bakery, Clothing, Electronics, Sports, Music, Toy & Grocery departments.
Why similar: Economy 18.6%, Management 18.3%, Capitalism 11.6%, Trading 11.5% ★, Simulation 11%
- #41 Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 2,067 reviews2015
Dev: Daylight StudiosPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 11.7 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 63.1%, Simulation 31%, Singleplayer 2.6%, Casual 2.2%, Indie 1.1%
Why You'll Like It: It is a lighter take on niche retail, but the joy of producing stock and selling it through your own shop maps well to the seed's loop.
- #42 Toy Shop Simulator
73% matchVery Positive81% of 192 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 20.8%, Management 17.7%, Capitalism 15.9%, Trading 14.7% ★, Simulation 11.4%
- #43 Gamer Stop Simulator
73% matchMostly Positive70% of 261 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 17.2%, Simulation 14.3%, Capitalism 13.8%, Life Sim 11.2%
- #44 Tobacco Shop Simulator
71% matchVery Positive90% of 858 reviews2025
Dev: Business Tycoon
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 19.9%, Shop Keeper 17.2% ★, Management 13.3%, Capitalism 11.2%, Simulation 10.8%
- #45 Returns Outlet Simulator
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 613 reviews2025
Dev: Twisted Twice Games
Windows
Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.
Why similar: Economy 19%, Management 16.2%, Shop Keeper 15.9% ★, Trading 14.9% ★, Life Sim 7.7%
- #46 Shooting Range Simulator
71% matchVery Positive87% of 161 reviews2025
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 18.4%, Management 15.7%, Capitalism 14.5%, Trading 13.1% ★, Simulation 9.6%
- #47 Car Dealer Simulator
70% matchVery Positive89% of 8,319 reviews2025
Dev: Garage Monkeys
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 20.1 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 25.3% ★, Management 24.2%, Simulation 16.4%, Life Sim 12.9%, Immersive Sim 9.1%
- #48 Figure Shop Simulator
71% matchVery Positive89% of 274 reviews2025
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 26.4%, Trading 19.8% ★, Management 16.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Life Sim 8.8%
- #49 Clothing Store Simulator
70% matchVery Positive90% of 1,218 reviews2025
Dev: Kiki Games
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Are you ready to shape fashion world? Make a brand deal, order products, fill the aisles, dress the mannequins and start selling. Dresses, shirts, coats, pants, nightwear, underwear, shoes and more are waiting for you.
Why similar: Economy 20.2%, Management 18%, Capitalism 14.6%, Trading 13.4% ★, Simulation 11.1%
- #50 Recycling Center Simulator
69% matchVery Positive87% of 2,774 reviews2024
Dev: Balas GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 10.5 hrsMean: 15.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Why similar: Management 22.3%, Economy 20%, Capitalism 15.9%, Simulation 13%, Life Sim 10.5%
- #51 Plant Nursery Simulator
68% matchVery Positive96% of 263 reviews2025
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 20%, Management 19.2%, Simulation 17.1%, Trading 14.2% ★, Capitalism 11.3%
- #52 Electronics Store Simulator
69% matchMostly Positive73% of 66 reviews2025
Dev: Digital MelodyPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Open your own electronics store and grow it from a small shop into a modern technology hub. Manage deliveries, prices, and store equipment, take care of customers, expand the product range, and become a master in the world of electronics retail!
Why similar: Simulation 23.1%, Management 19.2%, Capitalism 18.9%, Economy 11%, Immersive Sim 8.8%
- #53 Motel Manager Simulator
68% matchVery Positive85% of 1,469 reviews2024
Dev: Denzone Games
Windows
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Restore an old motel alongside a shop and a gas station. Design, furnish, decorate and rent rooms. provide products for customers and fuel for cars. Hire employees to help you and be the boss of your own empire.
Why similar: Economy 25%, Management 22.2%, Trading 16.4% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Life Sim 9.7%
- #54 Casino Simulator
69% matchVery Positive82% of 809 reviews2024
Dev: Lodos Games
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 58.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Casino Simulator Expand Your Casino From Scratch, Hire Employees, Customize It, Gamble, Enjoy Your Own Casino
Why similar: Simulation 34%, Economy 32.2%, Life Sim 19%, First-Person 4.9%, 3D 4%
- #55 Supercar Collection Simulator: Prologue
68% matchVery Positive93% of 76 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 16.5% ★, Economy 16.2%, Management 14%, Trading 12.8% ★, Simulation 8.4%
- #56 Cash Cleaner Simulator
66% matchVery Positive92% of 7,200 reviews2025
Dev: Mind Control GamesPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 12.5 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...
Why similar: Management 34.9%, Simulation 20.6%, Life Sim 17.4%, Immersive Sim 10.3%, Relaxing 7.7%
- #57 Grocery Store Tycoon
67% matchVery Positive88% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Spyder Lab Gaming
Windows
Build and manage your own grocery store in first person. Run the register, stock inventory, hire employees, and expand your business from a small market into a thriving retail operation.
Why similar: Economy 29.4%, Management 25.7%, Simulation 16%, Life Sim 10.7%, Immersive Sim 9.7%
- #58 Hypermarket Simulator
67% matchVery Positive88% of 269 reviews2025
Dev: Croissant Games
Windows
Run a massive hypermarket with diverse departments—from sportswear and electronics to plants, home décor, and more—featuring a growing catalog of over 540 products. Manage your staff by assigning tasks, training them, sending them on break, or firing them as you build the ultimate retail operation.
Why similar: Simulation 24.3%, Economy 20.4%, Management 16.4%, Trading 14.7% ★, Life Sim 14.2%
- #59 Schedule I
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 288,530 reviews2025
Dev: TVGS
Windows
Median: 18.5 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 97%
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Why similar: Management 54.2%, Simulation 38.3%, First-Person 7.6%
- #60 Candy & Toys Store Simulator
67% matchVery Positive84% of 189 reviews2024
Dev: Ox Games
Windows
Run your own candy and toys store. Order supplies, receive deliveries, stock shelves, hire employees, set prices, and expand your business. Unlock a Gaming Club across the street, place arcade machines and billiard tables, set profits, and collect earnings.
Why similar: Economy 32.1%, Management 27.2%, Simulation 18.3%, Life Sim 12.8%, Relaxing 4.6%