- #1 Painter Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 60 reviews2023
Dev: SolvertoPub: FreeMind S.A.
Windows
PAINTER SIMULATOR is a new generation game in which the emphasis is placed on the player's imagination and perceptiveness. Create the world in the colors you want to see with a brush.
Why similar: Simulation 51.5%, Casual 26%, Indie 22.5%
- #2 Painting PC
96% matchVery Positive92% of 117 reviews2026
Dev: OisoiPub: Oisoi Studio
Windows
Painting PC is a relaxing painting game where you take on commissions, earn money, gain fans, unlock new tools, and work your way towards becoming a famous artist.
Why similar: Simulation 55.3%, Casual 29.9%, Indie 14.8%
- #3 Canvas The Gallery
95% matchVery Positive92% of 320 reviews2017
Dev: CoughE
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Use spraypaint to paint whatever you want in a blank art gallery. Send your galleries to your friends for them to view your artwork.
Why similar: Simulation 48.5%, Casual 30.2%, Indie 21.3%
- #4 Colormeleons
94% matchVery Positive86% of 76 reviews2020
Dev: Meleons
Windows
A painting meleon without any talent - and a talent without money. Help your meleon-artist to satisfy his need for recognition in this ultimate Idle-Painting-game where everything is about being part of a great community to reach your goals together with other players to become a famous painter!
Why similar: Simulation 48.1%, Casual 30.5%, Indie 21.4%
- #5 Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist
93% matchVery Positive95% of 1,373 reviews2023
Dev: Flamebait Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Embark on your struggling artist adventure. Draw and sell art to cheeky critics to reclaim your lost art career. Explore the endearing art-starved town of Phénix and show them you're a true artist!
Why similar: Simulation 55.6%, Casual 25.2%, Indie 19.2%
- #6 Tabletop Playground
94% matchMixed69% of 273 reviews2020
Dev: Plasticity StudiosPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 61%
The modern digital tabletop game for fans and creators! Featuring deep customization and choice, enjoy more immersive tabletop sessions with friends than ever before. Build new rule sets for traditional games, play custom-made games by the community or create your own and share them with the world.
Why similar: Simulation 49.5%, Casual 28.4%, Indie 22.1%
- #7 Vermillion - VR Painting
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 658 reviews2021
Dev: Thomas van den Berge
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
It’s time to discover your inner artist! With Vermillion, you get a fully equipped oil painting studio in your home, without any of the mess. Ready for the unrivaled sense of accomplishment from creating your first painting?
Why similar: Simulation 54%, Casual 27.8%, Indie 18.2%
- #8 Different Strokes
91% matchVery Positive93% of 1,588 reviews2022
Dev: Different Folks
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 49%
A collaborative online painting game where players can create, edit, and rate each other's art!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #9 SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,593 reviews2022
Dev: Goose MindedPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A unique artist sim game with realistic paint mixing, physics and numerous painting tools. Upgrade and customize your studio, complete tasks, sell and expose art, buy instruments and get famous!
Why similar: Simulation 53.6%, Casual 31.2%, Indie 15.2%
- #10 Art Reborn: Painting Connoisseur
90% matchVery Positive95% of 362 reviews2023
Dev: MuccyGames
Windows · Mac
Dear curator, you are about to embark on a journey to captivate the audience! You will be in charge of an art gallery.Impress the museum curators around the world with these masterpieces, collect badges, apply for support funds, and learn the value of art!
Why similar: Simulation 64.1%, Casual 35.9%
- #11 SuchArt: Creative Space
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,158 reviews2021
Dev: Goose MindedPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Why similar: Simulation 66.3%, Casual 21.1%, Indie 12.6%
- #12 Passpartout: The Starving Artist
89% matchVery Positive88% of 6,976 reviews2017
Dev: Flamebait Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?
Why similar: Simulation 47.6%, Casual 32.8%, Indie 19.6%
- #13 Painters Guild
88% matchMixed67% of 544 reviews2015
Dev: Lucas Molina
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Painters Guild is a management sim where you control an art academy in the Italian Renaissance. Paint artwork as beautiful as the Mona Lisa. Hire painters like Leonardo da Vinci and millions of randomly generated ones. Expand and customize your guild with furniture and more.
Why similar: Simulation 50.2%, Casual 28.9%, Indie 20.9%
- #14 The Sandbox
87% matchMixed55% of 575 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
READY FOR CRAFTING VIRTUAL WORLDS ON YOUR PC?The acclaimed world-building game featuring a unique mission-based approach is coming onto PC via Steam Early Access. With over 16 million players on mobile & tablets versions and 1,500,000 pixel blocks creations shared in the Online Gallery to date, this PC version is taking world...
Why similar: Simulation 55.6%, Casual 24%, Indie 20.4%
- #15 Art Shop Simulator
84% matchVery Positive91% of 102 reviews2025
Dev: Lovheim Studios
Windows
Buy and sell art, manage employees, and grow your shop in this immersive simulator set in Europe. Curate a unique collection, attract customers, and become the premier art dealer. Transform your humble gallery into a thriving art empire!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #16 We, Junk Artists
83% matchVery Positive96% of 273 reviews2026
Dev: Perfect Day StudioPub: Spiral Up Games
Windows
A "collage-and-guess" multiplayer game for up to 8 players. Turn ordinary items into outside-the-box "masterpieces," guess each other's creations, and unleash your wild imagination around the campfire. Design & Guess is now live, with more ways to have fun on your own. Here, everyone is an artist!
Why similar: Casual 73.3%, Indie 26.7%
- #17 Painting VR
86% matchMostly Positive69% of 84 reviews2022
Dev: OisoiPub: Oisoi Studio
Windows
Take a break from the stress of daily life with this must-have virtual painter’s studio. Even if you think you’re not a creative person, Painting VR might prove you wrong. Be amazed by what you can create with unlimited supplies of paint, canvases, and all the tools you need.
Why similar: Simulation 63.8%, Indie 19.2%, Casual 16.9%
- #18 Museum of Other Realities
85% matchVery Positive90% of 442 reviews2020
Dev: MOR Museum Inc.
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 65.0 hrs≥1hr: 31%
An immersive multiplayer art showcase in virtual reality, the Museum of Other Realities is a space to connect, share, and experience a growing collection of mind-bending VR art with others.
Why similar: Simulation 64.2%, Casual 35.8%
- #19 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
82% matchVery Positive88% of 86 reviews2025
Dev: Bosphorus Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Color Factory is a relaxing factory-building game where strategy meets automation. Start with basic colors, refine them into vivid shades, and craft canvases of all sizes. Optimize your machines, scale operations at your own pace, and master automation to build a masterpiece of efficiency.
Why similar: Simulation 82.5%, Indie 17.5%
- #20 Pixel Sketch
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,016 reviews2017
Dev: mimicryTeam
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Become the best painter in the universe in this colorful online game!
Why similar: Simulation 57.3%, Casual 42.7%
- #21 Pixel Paint Together 🖌️
81% matchVery Positive92% of 119 reviews2024
Dev: Jofer's Games
Windows
A relaxing color by numbers game! Color with your friends! Lots to paint! No hidden fees!
Why similar: Casual 60.3%, Indie 39.7%
- #22 Diorama Builder
80% matchVery Positive94% of 515 reviews2024
Dev: Virtual Arts Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The pleasure of assembling, admiring, and interacting with your own Dioramas collection, without ever losing a piece.
Why similar: Simulation 58.9%, Casual 28.1%, Indie 13%
- #23 Artist Life Simulator
81% matchVery Positive81% of 196 reviews2022
Dev: Interactive FatePub: Interactive Fate
Windows
Live the life of a starving artist in 19th century alternative history. Survive poverty, alchoholism, madness, depression, and 67 different feelings. Paint masterpieces by combining inspirations, sell them for riches (or scraps) and create a painting that will change the world.
Why similar: Simulation 49.3%, Casual 28.2%, Indie 22.6%
- #24 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
82% matchMixed42% of 1,516 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Use your godly powers to craft amazing pixel worlds or destroy the universe! Play with physics, over 200 elements and controllable heroes. Make your own games or levels, and then share your creations online. There are no limits to your creativity and imagination!
Why similar: Simulation 74.3%, Indie 25.7%
- #25 My Dream Setup
77% matchVery Positive91% of 6,981 reviews2023
Dev: Campfire Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 65%
My Dream Setup is a simulation game about building the room you've always dreamed of. A huge selection of furniture, computers and their accessories, posters, pictures, plants, and other interior details await you. Try all of them and create your dream setup.
Why similar: Simulation 54.3%, Casual 27.9%, Indie 17.8%
- #26 Spray Paint Simulator
78% matchMixed63% of 190 reviews2025
Dev: North Star Video GamesPub: Whitethorn Games
Windows
Bring color to the world in Spray Paint Simulator! Restore worn-out surfaces with a fresh coat of paint and watch them come back to life. Use your spray tool with precision, cover every inch, and enjoy the satisfaction of a flawless finish.
Why similar: Simulation 61.7%, Casual 38.3%
- #27 Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Club Transcendia
Windows
Conductor is an audiovisual experience creation engine that encourages you to craft, save, and share funky environments with its vibrantly creative tool-set alongside all of your favorite media.
Why similar: Simulation 60.4%, Casual 39.6%
- #28 Artist Idle
79% matchMixed64% of 522 reviews2019
Dev: YDKR
Windows
Draw pictures, sell them and become a famous artist.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #29 Project Lounge
78% matchMixed65% of 111 reviews2021
Dev: Aivaras IvoškusPub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Project Lounge is a 3D social game that encourages people to socialize in enviroments full of interactable objects such as drawboards, vinyl players and even arcade machines!
Why similar: Casual 58.8%, Indie 41.2%
- #30 Pixel With Your Friends
75% matchVery Positive100% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: SkyCat Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
In "Pixel With Your Friends" you have to restore artworks pixel by pixel for a museum. You can color the artworks alone or together with a friend online!
Why similar: Casual 92.9%, Indie 7.1%
- #31 Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox
77% matchVery Positive91% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Devon Wiersma
Windows
Bombing!! is a creative graffiti sandbox where every inch of the environment can be painted.
Why similar: Simulation 60.2%, Casual 39.8%
- #32 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
76% matchMixed63% of 70 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue is a free simulation game in which you begin your journey as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing and research stuff. Create best game on the planet!
Why similar: Simulation 52.9%, Casual 33%, Indie 14.2%
- #33 Paver: Tidy Up Together
73% matchVery Positive87% of 360 reviews2026
Dev: Games Together
Windows
Transform a chaotic area into a satisfying work of art. Follow the paver layout plan and place 4,064 pavers in their correct locations. Work alone or together with friends, develop useful skills, and restore the plaza piece by piece.
Why similar: Simulation 56.7%, Casual 35.3%, Indie 8%
- #34 Collectibles!
76% matchMixed48% of 96 reviews2024
Dev: VERY HUGE CORP.
Windows · Linux
Collectibles! — a true paradise for collectors! Collect unique items, share them with friends, and show off your achievements on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Simulation 61.6%, Casual 38.4%
- #35 Master Of Pottery
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,938 reviews2026
Dev: AZGames
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Master of Pottery is a pottery-themed creation + simulation game. Make pottery, open exhibitions, complete orders, train apprentices, run your own showroom and start a relaxing pottery journey.
Why similar: Simulation 52.7%, Casual 28.6%, Indie 18.7%
- #36 Interior Designer
74% matchMixed56% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: RoomvasPub: Games Operators
Windows
Step into the world of Interior Designer. Embark on client jobs, dominate the Design League, and create stunning interiors. Shape your spaces, and unleash your style. Your masterpiece awaits.
Why similar: Simulation 58.3%, Casual 32%, Indie 9.7%
- #37 Indie Game Sim
75% matchVery Positive91% of 58 reviews2016
Dev: Valadria
Windows · Mac
Become an indie game developer! Make your own games by hand and publish them on a fantasy market like Steam. Earn fans, receive brutal reviews, and battle your inner demons. Can you become the creator of your dreams?
Why similar: Simulation 70%, Indie 30%
- #38 Art of Destruction
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 97 reviews2022
Dev: ZHANG FAN
Windows · Mac · Linux
A physics sandbox simulation game about constructing and demolishing structures. If you like destroying stuff or just mess around, then this game is for you!
Why similar: Simulation 62%, Casual 38%
- #39 Replicube
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 737 reviews2025
Dev: Walaber Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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: Simulation 100%
- #40 Cashrooms
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 62 reviews2024
Dev: NoHead Games
Windows
Cashrooms is an interior design simulator where you can regularly receive items, sell and trade them on Steam to create the room of your dreams.
Why similar: Simulation 53.4%, Casual 33.8%, Indie 12.7%
- #41 Theme Park Architect
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 77 reviews2024
Dev: Creye Games
Windows
Theme Park Architect is the future of theme park simulation in the making. Build your dream park one detail at a time with total creative freedom at scales you never dared to try before, and join a growing community of Creatives to share the passion!
Why similar: Simulation 70.9%, Casual 29.1%
- #42 Game Builder Tycoon
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 184 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.
Why similar: Simulation 63.8%, Casual 31.2%, Indie 4.9%
- #43 Bridge Constructor Playground
72% matchMixed69% of 294 reviews2014
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Bridge Constructor Playground offers people of all ages an introduction to the topic of “bridge building”. This game gives you the freedom to let your creative side run riot – nothing is impossible. Across 30 innovative levels you have to build bridges over deep valleys, canals or rivers.
Why similar: Simulation 48.5%, Casual 31.8%, Indie 19.7%
- #44 Project Explore
72% matchMixed67% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Fern Nigro
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.
Why similar: Simulation 48.2%, Casual 28.6%, Indie 23.2%
- #45 Garden Ink
67% matchVery Positive99% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Kranich
Windows · Mac · Linux
Paint, combine and discover! Garden Ink is a cozy sandbox game. Combine decorations and use painting tools to customize your world. With hand-painted graphics and a relaxing soundtrack, it’s time to discover every cute surprise.
Why similar: Casual 64.2%, Indie 35.8%
- #46 AI Pixel Battle
65% matchVery Positive97% of 146 reviews2026
Dev: MONO ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
AI Pixel Battle is a drawing battle game where you draw original monsters to defeat your opponents. The AI analyzes your monster's appearance to determine its abilities, decides the winner, and narrates how the battle unfolds. Unleash your creativity and create your own monster!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #47 Draw With Unknown
70% matchMixed67% of 122 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Take your brush and create your best work! Draw with friends or strangers!
Why similar: Casual 62.3%, Indie 37.7%
- #48 Creature Crafter
67% matchVery Positive87% of 844 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Lochner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Create your own creatures to explore online worlds with friends and collect new parts to upgrade your stats and abilities! Complete quests, battle enemies, challenge friends to minigames, or just have fun roleplaying — the possibilities are endless when your imagination is the limit!
Why similar: Simulation 100%
- #49 Please, Touch The Artwork
67% matchVery Positive84% of 510 reviews2022
Dev: Thomas Waterzooi
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 1.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A cozy puzzler with story. Recreate paintings by applying lines & colors in a specific order. Explore beautiful mazes & collect letters of a poem. Help two sweethearts find a path towards each other. Three games in one. Hints when stuck. 160+ paintings, 3~4 hours, set to a chill soundtrack.
Why similar: Casual 53.2%, Simulation 46.8%
- #50 Dream Garden
66% matchVery Positive86% of 79 reviews2025
Dev: Campfire Studio
Windows · Mac
An easygoing simulation game about creating tiny, Japanese inspired garden dioramas. Use a wide selection of plants, decorations and tools to build and nurture the zen garden retreat of your dreams.
Why similar: Simulation 51%, Casual 29%, Indie 20%
- #51 Garden Galaxy
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,668 reviews2022
Dev: Anneka Tran
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!
Why similar: Casual 59.7%, Indie 40.3%
- #52 Indoorlands
67% matchVery Positive81% of 279 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: Simulation 58.8%, Indie 21.9%, Casual 19.3%
- #53 Sand:box
65% matchVery Positive94% of 1,758 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 78.9 hrs≥1hr: 51%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Simulation 54.6%, Casual 25.7%, Indie 19.7%
- #54 Little Corners
64% matchVery Positive93% of 355 reviews2025
Dev: Meteor PixelPub: Weekend Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Peel, place, and arrange stickers across tiny windows into different worlds. Relax and unwind to lofi beats, collect unique stickers and share your cozy creations with the world.
Why similar: Simulation 52.5%, Casual 36.2%, Indie 11.4%
- #55 Purplis Sandbox
69% matchMixed66% of 211 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGOLITEPub: DRAGOLITE STUDIO
Windows
Create your own worlds, build interesting mechanisms and just beautiful buildings, everything depends on your imagination.
Why similar: Simulation 87.2%, Indie 12.8%