60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Game Development, Singleplayer, Simulation, Programming.
“Quit your job, take out a loan and make a top seller game” sounded like a great idea two months ago. Now, you’re chasing bizarre bugs, combining features that should never go together, and striving to capture that mysterious thing called “fun”. Every decision is yours—and so are the consequences.
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A career-sim roguelite about surviving the software industry. Take the job, inherit someone else's legacy monolith, ship commits, fix the bugs you planted, then outrun the tech debt that compounds while you sleep. Rent's due, burnout's real, and your bank balance and your nerves are both stats.
Traveler Stories: Journeys of Real People
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
A career-sim roguelite about surviving the software industry. Take the job, inherit someone else's legacy monolith, ship commits, fix the bugs you planted, then outrun the tech debt that compounds while you sleep. Rent's due, burnout's real, and your bank balance and your nerves are both stats.
Why similar: Game Development 30.2% ★, Programming 26.9% ★, Time Management 14.6%, Life Sim 11.2%, Multiple Endings 6.4%
"Is this really the life you want?" A visual novel with simple life-sim elements, based on 80% true stories from world travelers. Step behind the bar in Tokyo, encounter extraordinary lives, and challenge your values. A simulation to rediscover yourself and open the door to a "new you."
Why similar: Game Development 38.6% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Immersive Sim 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%, Choices Matter 5.6%
In DevLife you start your career just before hitting 18. It's up to you to choose who you want to be - a graphic designer or maybe a programmer? Will it be a Website design or Mobile Applications? It is up to you to decide! And what if you chose wrong? Well... You will have to live with that!
Why similar: Game Development 34% ★, Programming 28.5% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Life Sim 12.1%, Modern 4.5%
A programming puzzle game where you step into the role of a gameplay programmer, write code to build the core mechanics of a wide variety of games, and solve increasingly challenging development problems.
Why similar: Game Development 47.9% ★, Programming 43.8% ★, Simulation 5.1%, Indie 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Build and manage your dream game studio! Create hit games, develop custom hardware, generate posters for each title, manage your team’s needs, decide on company policies, follow market trends, decorate your studio and see it in first-person! Your legacy starts now — GameOn!
Why similar: Game Development 48.9% ★, Life Sim 13.1%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Simulation 8.3%, 3D 4.2%
"Create the games you want, at the time you want, and live doing only what you love." In this realistic life simulation game, an independent game developer dreams of such a life, struggling with money and time while paying taxes until death. Whether this life is happy or truly lonely, you decide.
Why similar: Game Development 40.5% ★, Programming 18% ★, Time Management 15.9%, Life Sim 14.6%, Choices Matter 6.1%
Ever dreamed of creating a genre-defining masterpiece? Star of Games is a next-gen simulation management game centered on game dev. You'll act as an aspiring developer, starting from a humble garage startup and embarking on a glorious journey—from recreating classics to forging your own legends.
Why similar: Game Development 47.1% ★, Programming 18.6% ★, Life Sim 12.7%, Simulation 9.9%, Time Management 5.5%
Play as the developer of a tropical island game in this unique puzzle adventure! 🏝 Edit various object properties to achieve your goals and unlock more of the story. Experiment, undo, and repeat; no action is irreversible. Flex your creative skills to make an experience that is entirely your own!
Why similar: Game Development 51.2% ★, Programming 13.4% ★, Simulation 6%, Story Rich 5.6%, Exploration 4.7%
Use programming and autonomous robots to dodge bullet hells, defeat enemies, and solve challenges in a virtual world. With the power of programming, you can even create a world of your own.
Why similar: Game Development 38% ★, Programming 36.7% ★, Level Editor 22.5%, 3D 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Play as an aspiring software developer in a world dominated by soul-sucking corporations. Will you achieve your goals and build a career in the software industry, or will burnout crush you first?
Why similar: Programming 24.2% ★, Time Management 20.3%, Life Sim 19.1%, Immersive Sim 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%
《我16岁辍学做游戏！》是一款双结局的游戏开发模拟游戏。讲述一位16岁学生在辍学游戏开发和正常上学导致的不同结局。 制作目的是为了给对独立游戏行业一无所知的人指引一条正确的道路。
Why similar: Game Development 45.8% ★, Life Sim 16.6%, Time Management 12%, Simulation 7.6%, Multiple Endings 6.6%
Rhythm Game Studio is a micro game editor designed specifically for creating your own rhythm games. With an easy-to-use block coding interface and robust rhythm-specific features, you can design and share your tiny rhythmic creations.
Why similar: Game Development 36.9% ★, Programming 29.6% ★, Level Editor 26.2%, Family Friendly 2.7%, Indie 1.8%
you are a game developer who writes game code according to the tasks assigned by the company. You need to drag and drop nodes and connect them to build a complete behavioral logic!
Why similar: Programming 46.1% ★, Game Development 43.6% ★, Simulation 7%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 1%
Monster-taming turn-based RPG. Explore Nyoo Owtearowa to befriend Notemon, build them a home, investigate the recent Notemon aggression, help the townsfolk and discover everything that awaits you in this delightful and mysterious New Zealand-inspired place.
Why similar: Game Development 41.4% ★, Programming 33.4% ★, Level Editor 20.2%, Family Friendly 2.3%, Colorful 1.9%
Build your dream indie game studio from a tiny office into an industry legend. Hire developers, create games, research engines, survive reviews, fight bugs, decorate your office, and make one more release.
Why similar: Game Development 58.6% ★, Time Management 20.6%, Exploration 7.7%, Simulation 6.1%, Choices Matter 5%
Every swipe is a decision, every decision a potential path to glory or downfall. How will you lead?
Why similar: Game Development 45.5% ★, Immersive Sim 12.4%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Story Rich 7.1%
A game developer life and company management simulator where you build, grow, and dominate your own studio. Play solo, or collaborate and compete with friends in multiplayer.
Why similar: Game Development 39.9% ★, Programming 33.1% ★, Time Management 9.5%, Simulation 5.3%, Modern 4.8%
Build your game empire! Manage a company, develop hits, win honors. Recruit, innovate, cultivate, invest. Real exp, free dev, pers. cult., fun play.
Why similar: Game Development 44.3% ★, Programming 31% ★, Life Sim 11.3%, Simulation 6.8%, Immersive Sim 4.7%
The world's first Unity programming learning game with C-Sharp. Explore, solve, and modify code in themed challenges from basics to expert levels. Dive into a one-of-a-kind learning adventure, mastering Unity along the way.
Why similar: Game Development 39.3% ★, Programming 35.6% ★, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Simulation 5.3%, Atmospheric 3.7%
Gokai Awesome Simulator + is a premium version of Gokai Awesome Simulator (now known as Gokai Awesome Simulator Lite) with tons of new content than the original!
Why similar: Game Development 55.4% ★, Time Management 28.7%, Simulation 9%, Story Rich 5.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
Why similar: Game Development 39% ★, Programming 29.5% ★, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Life Sim 11.3%, Simulation 5.7%
You started a part-time job as a hotel employee. Get through the day in various ways. Maybe... maybe it's not one day, but night
Why similar: Time Management 21.1%, Life Sim 20.3%, Multiple Endings 14.1%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%
Crapht Box is a Fantasy Physics Sandbox, inspired by the Fantasy Console genre. It brings a simulated world with a number of disks and tools, and leaves you to play, program, create and share disks.
Why similar: Game Development 41.3% ★, Programming 24.4% ★, Level Editor 15.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Exploration 5%
Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.
Why similar: Time Management 18.3%, Life Sim 16%, Immersive Sim 14.8%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Choices Matter 9.1%
Unreal Paris is an update of the interactive experience working with VR Headsets & Desktop computer. This scene is an architectural visualization using Unreal Engine 4.
Why similar: Game Development 54.8% ★, Life Sim 16.9%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Simulation 6.9%, Atmospheric 5.6%
Think the N stands for Nostalgia? It doesn’t. N-OS is my personal story inside a retro desktop. Explore logs, chat with digital voices, run weird applications, fix broken code and piece together a Neuro-OS before my deadline hits.
Why similar: Programming 29.6% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Simulation 14.8%, Multiple Endings 8.6%, Choices Matter 8%
You are an aspiring game developer in 2000. Hire personal, expand offices, design the games of your dreams and try to make money from them. Reach as high as you can. From a small company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Game Development 59.7% ★, Time Management 11.6%, Programming 10.9% ★, Simulation 10.3%, 3D 4.8%
Game Director Story is an unflinching and satirical look behind-the-scenes at how big-budget AAA games are made. Based on first-hand accounts by industry veterans, Players experience the emotional roller coaster of guiding a team through the agonizing decisions and compromises needed to ship a game.
Why similar: Game Development 36% ★, Time Management 16.9%, Life Sim 11.7%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Choices Matter 9.7%
Dive into a sandbox operating system simulator and learn to code with FantasyLang. Personalise your desktop, build and tweak apps, uncover hidden secrets, and venture into the darknet. Shape the system however you like. Your OS, your rules.
Why similar: Game Development 40% ★, Programming 34.4% ★, Time Management 7.7%, Simulation 7.1%, Immersive Sim 6.5%
The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)
Why similar: Game Development 33.5% ★, Time Management 17%, Life Sim 16.3%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Modern 7.1%
An in depth game development simulation game
Why similar: Game Development 49.6% ★, Time Management 17.4%, Level Editor 11.4%, Choices Matter 10%, Simulation 7.1%
Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong dream.
Why similar: Game Development 39.9% ★, Programming 38.4% ★, Story Rich 7.1%, Atmospheric 4.1%, Adventure 3.4%
Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?
Why similar: Game Development 45.1% ★, Time Management 21.1%, Life Sim 18.1%, Story Rich 6.1%, 3D 4.3%
The Gazebo is a short, narrative, psychological horror set in a garden during a snow storm. Tend to the plants, shovel snow, and complete other tasks for seven nights while getting to know your daytime counterpart Sara.
Why similar: Time Management 21.5%, Multiple Endings 18.9%, Immersive Sim 13.1%, Life Sim 12.8%, Atmospheric 12.6%
Roulette Simulator 2024 presents players with the greatest modern Roulette gambling simulation. Experience the highs and the lows in real time as you try to beat the roulette wheel during the intensity of each spin!
Why similar: Game Development 71.3% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Indie 6.7%, 3D 4.3%, Singleplayer 1.7%
Take a team of hackers under your strict guidance and become known to the whole world. Expand your hideout and hack various companies around the world. Become the most famous group in the world!
Why similar: Game Development 41.1% ★, Programming 32% ★, Life Sim 16.1%, Simulation 6.6%, 3D 2.9%
A bite-sized visual novel set in Taiwan's game industry. A love story about making games.
Why similar: Game Development 51.9% ★, Programming 37.6% ★, Modern 6.3%, Adventure 1.7%, Indie 1.4%
Unleash your brainpower in Linkito and ignite the insurgency! Link, build, solve, defuse, and decode by using your logic. Craft your own challenges in the level editor or tackle community creations.
Why similar: Game Development 34.3% ★, Programming 30.1% ★, Level Editor 24.8%, Simulation 5.2%, Story Rich 4.4%
It's time to become the Game Developer you always wanted to be. Make use of a large array of features, and player skills to create stunning 10 / 10 games. Compete with and eventually acquire other dynamic Ai Studio's. Raise the talent of your team and studio's in an effort to dominate the market.
Why similar: Game Development 45.7% ★, Time Management 15.1%, Immersive Sim 12.9%, Simulation 6.9%, Multiple Endings 5.9%
BrickWorks is a game creation platform, with a focus on ease-of-use, accessibility and community.
Why similar: Game Development 42.9% ★, Programming 34.9% ★, Level Editor 13.8%, 3D 3.5%, Simulation 3.5%
Start in 1980 in your garage and build your software empire. Unlock languages from BASIC to Python, develop projects, hire programmers and upgrade your office. Survive deadlines, bugs and demanding clients in this tycoon simulation.
Why similar: Game Development 34.4% ★, Programming 29.7% ★, Time Management 21.3%, Simulation 6.5%, Modern 5.5%
Navigate the challenges of life without a job in Unemployment Simulator, a first-person survival experience where you manage your day-to-day needs, search for work, and try to stay afloat. Balance basic needs like food, hygiene, and sanity while facing the harsh realities of unemployment.
Why similar: Life Sim 22.4%, Immersive Sim 20.8%, Time Management 19.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Simulation 9.4%
Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.
Why similar: Programming 68.2% ★, Level Editor 21.6%, Simulation 10.2%
You earn money by doing various kinds of work that you receive as a "Freelance" over the computer. With the money you earn, you can customize the house, improve yourself, have fun and more.
Why similar: Game Development 25.4% ★, Life Sim 19.1%, Programming 18.3% ★, Immersive Sim 17.1%, Simulation 7.8%
Game-ready 3D worlds, built around your assets and your eye. Drop in the models you already have, say how the place should feel, and walk the complete landscape Thalyn resolves around them — terrain, water, paths, light and atmosphere as one. No code, no 3D skills. Export to Roblox and glTF.
Why similar: Game Development 44.1% ★, Level Editor 27.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Atmospheric 8.2%, 3D 4.2%
Card Game Arena is a platform for creating, publishing, and playing digital card games. Design complete card games using visual tools, then share and play them online through a shared ecosystem built for fair and competitive play.
Why similar: Game Development 62.1% ★, Level Editor 24.5%, Simulation 7.6%, Indie 4.5%, 3D 1.4%
In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of a single developer.
Why similar: Game Development 26.6% ★, Programming 25.6% ★, Life Sim 20.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Atmospheric 5.2%
The Adventurezator is an emergent adventure game about creating emergent adventure games! When Pigs Fly is our adventure campaign of courage, intrigue, and betrayal (and dumbness) - created using the Adventurezator itself!
Why similar: Game Development 45.8% ★, Level Editor 34.8%, Multiple Endings 6.5%, Adventure 4.4%, 3D 3.7%
Embark on a buggy adventure in "I made this Game in 3 Days"! I'm not kidding when I say this roguelike masterpiece was birthed in just 72 hours. Dive headfirst into a realm of whimsical chaos, where every bug is a feature and every glitch is a delightful surprise.
Why similar: Game Development 62.7% ★, Programming 30.5% ★, Choices Matter 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.8%
"EYE TO ME" is a modern-era adventure game. I am creating your "video game" and showing it while eating fries at a store. I wanted a place to share memories with you. You stare at me with big eyes.
Why similar: Game Development 35.4% ★, Life Sim 14.4%, Immersive Sim 14.2%, Atmospheric 8.4%, Exploration 8.1%
An open-ended programming puzzle game with a minimalist, abstract, Assembly-like programming language.
Why similar: Programming 61.4% ★, Level Editor 20.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Atmospheric 7.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%
Start as an indie dev in this clicker and improve your resources, skills and tools to create multiple titles at once, manage several studios and become a corporation that dominates the industry.
Why similar: Game Development 32.8% ★, Time Management 25.3%, Programming 20.4% ★, Immersive Sim 18.4%, Simulation 1.9%
Modify the world around you with pseudocode as you journey through blended realities and discover why Frank became a game developer in the first place.
Why similar: Game Development 39.4% ★, Programming 37.2% ★, Story Rich 6.7%, Atmospheric 5.3%, Emotional 4.3%
A complete tools suite for the Real Virtuality game engine powering Arma 3.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
ORDER POINT is a horror game about working at a package pickup station. On a winter night, you serve unsettling customers. Mysterious visitors create an ominous atmosphere. Be careful — not everyone can be trusted.
Why similar: Immersive Sim 27.9%, Life Sim 25.8%, Multiple Endings 9.6%, Simulation 9%, Choices Matter 8.2%
Comfy Plushpals! — The Cozy Raising Simulator RPG — (with Rizz ✨😏✨) Created by ⚾️ 42 with Godot 4.2 stable and blender 4.2
Why similar: Game Development 35.2% ★, Life Sim 17.2%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Multiple Endings 9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Samples of assets for Arma 3 which provide a starting point for community members who want to create their own assets for the game. They cover a broad spectrum of topics, from scenario design to mod making.
Why similar: Game Development 100% ★
