- #1 Painter Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 55 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 51.9%, Casual 25.7%, Indie 22.5%
- #2 Canvas The Gallery
96% matchVery Positive92% of 320 reviews2017
Dev: CoughE
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.7 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 48.7%, Casual 29.6%, Indie 21.7%
- #3 Tabletop Playground
95% matchMixed70% of 266 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 49.9%, Casual 28%, Indie 22.1%
- #4 Colormeleons
94% matchVery Positive87% of 75 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 48.5%, Casual 30.1%, Indie 21.4%
- #5 Vermillion - VR Painting
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 652 reviews2021
Dev: Thomas van den Berge
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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 54.5%, Casual 27.4%, Indie 18.1%
- #6 Passpartout 2: The Lost Artist
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 1,308 reviews2023
Dev: Flamebait Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 6.0 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 55.8%, Casual 25%, Indie 19.2%
- #7 Different Strokes
92% matchVery Positive93% of 1,526 reviews2022
Dev: Different Folks
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 48%
A collaborative online painting game where players can create, edit, and rate each other's art!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #8 Passpartout: The Starving Artist
91% matchVery Positive88% of 6,909 reviews2017
Dev: Flamebait Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 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 48%, Casual 32.3%, Indie 19.7%
- #9 Art Reborn: Painting Connoisseur
91% matchVery Positive95% of 357 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 64.6%, Casual 35.4%
- #10 SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 4,549 reviews2022
Dev: Goose MindedPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 54%, Casual 30.8%, Indie 15.2%
- #11 SuchArt: Creative Space
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,140 reviews2021
Dev: Goose MindedPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
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 66.5%, Casual 20.9%, Indie 12.6%
- #12 Painters Guild
89% matchMixed67% of 541 reviews2015
Dev: Lucas Molina
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
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 50.6%, Casual 28.5%, Indie 20.9%
- #13 The Sandbox
88% matchMixed55% of 571 reviews2015
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.5 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 56%, Casual 23.7%, Indie 20.3%
- #14 Art Shop Simulator
85% matchVery Positive92% of 97 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%
- #15 Painting VR
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 74 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 64.2%, Indie 19.2%, Casual 16.7%
- #16 Museum of Other Realities
86% matchVery Positive90% of 437 reviews2020
Dev: MOR Museum Inc.
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 64.4 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 64.7%, Casual 35.3%
- #17 Color Factory: Automation Meets Canvas
84% 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 82.6%, Indie 17.4%
- #18 Pixel Sketch
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,015 reviews2017
Dev: mimicryTeam
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become the best painter in the universe in this colorful online game!
Why similar: Simulation 57.8%, Casual 42.2%
- #19 Pixel Paint Together 🖌️
82% matchVery Positive93% of 101 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%, Indie 40%
- #20 Artist Life Simulator
82% matchVery Positive83% of 189 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 49.7%, Casual 27.8%, Indie 22.6%
- #21 My Dream Setup
79% matchVery Positive91% of 6,455 reviews2023
Dev: Campfire Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 64%
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 54.6%, Casual 27.5%, Indie 17.9%
- #22 The Sandbox Evolution - Craft a 2D Pixel Universe!
83% matchMixed42% of 1,512 reviews2016
Dev: PIXOWL INC.
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 43%
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 73.9%, Indie 26.1%
- #23 Conductor: Creative Joy Engine
81% matchVery Positive81% 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 60.9%, Casual 39.1%
- #24 Spray Paint Simulator
80% matchMixed64% of 181 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 62.2%, Casual 37.8%
- #25 Project Lounge
81% matchMixed65% of 107 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 58.5%, Indie 41.5%
- #26 Bombing!!: A Graffiti Sandbox
79% matchVery Positive92% of 116 reviews2021
Dev: Devon Wiersma
Windows
Bombing!! is a creative graffiti sandbox where every inch of the environment can be painted.
Why similar: Simulation 60.7%, Casual 39.3%
- #27 Pixel With Your Friends
77% matchVery Positive100% of 84 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 92.8%, Indie 7.2%
- #28 Art of Destruction
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 95 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 62.5%, Casual 37.5%
- #29 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
78% matchMixed61% of 66 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 53.3%, Casual 32.5%, Indie 14.2%
- #30 Replicube
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 610 reviews2025
Dev: Walaber Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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%
- #31 Garden Galaxy
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,593 reviews2022
Dev: Anneka Tran
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Discover, collect and organise to create your own unique garden in this relaxing idle / creative sandbox!
Why similar: Casual 64.4%, Indie 35.6%
- #32 Artist Idle
77% matchMixed64% of 516 reviews2019
Dev: YDKR
Windows
Draw pictures, sell them and become a famous artist.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #33 Interior Designer
75% matchMixed58% of 60 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 58.8%, Casual 31.5%, Indie 9.7%
- #34 Indie Game Sim
76% matchVery Positive91% of 57 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 70.2%, Indie 29.8%
- #35 Diorama Builder
72% matchVery Positive94% of 498 reviews2024
Dev: Virtual Arts Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The pleasure of assembling, admiring, and interacting with your own Dioramas collection, without ever losing a piece.
Why similar: Simulation 59.5%, Casual 27.5%, Indie 13%
- #36 Bridge Constructor Playground
76% matchMixed69% of 286 reviews2014
Dev: ClockStonePub: Headup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 48 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 48.9%, Casual 31.3%, Indie 19.7%
- #37 Cashrooms
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 61 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 53.9%, Casual 33.4%, Indie 12.7%
- #38 Sand:box
70% matchVery Positive94% of 1,486 reviews2023
Dev: smellymoo
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
"Falling sand" style particle sandbox, now with circuits and stickmen!
Why similar: Simulation 53.9%, Casual 26.3%, Indie 19.9%
- #39 Collectibles!
72% matchMixed47% of 91 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 62.1%, Casual 37.9%
- #40 Game Builder Tycoon
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 137 reviews2024
Dev: AM PlayhousePub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 64.2%, Casual 30.8%, Indie 5%
- #41 Project Explore
73% matchMixed67% of 242 reviews2017
Dev: Fern Nigro
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 2.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
A 2D sandbox survival game designed for creators, players, and everyone else.
Why similar: Simulation 48.6%, Casual 28.2%, Indie 23.2%
- #42 Master Of Pottery
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 2,894 reviews2019
Dev: AZGames
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.3 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 52.9%, Casual 28%, Indie 19.1%
- #43 Two Point Museum
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 11,346 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: Simulation 66%, Casual 34%
- #44 Puzzle Gallery: Jigsaw Art Collection
67% matchVery Positive100% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Minimol Games
Windows
🧩 Handcrafted jigsaw puzzles made by top-notch artists. Never AI, never generic stock images. Relax and discover unique collections piece by piece.
Why similar: Casual 81.6%, Indie 18.4%
- #45 Draw With Unknown
71% matchMixed67% of 122 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Take your brush and create your best work! Draw with friends or strangers!
Why similar: Casual 62%, Indie 38%
- #46 Little Corners
65% matchVery Positive96% of 276 reviews2025
Dev: Meteor PixelPub: Weekend Games
Windows
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 53%, Casual 35.5%, Indie 11.5%
- #47 Dream Garden
67% matchVery Positive88% of 68 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 51.4%, Casual 28.6%, Indie 19.9%
- #48 Carefully Stamped
67% matchMixed62% of 138 reviews2025
Dev: Rogue Duck Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Craft and sell charming postcards to your customers in a relaxing sandbox full of color and creativity. Carefully Stamped is a cozy job simulator where you are a postcard designer. Take on new orders, craft the cutest mail, write a wholesome note and collect stamps to send your postcards 🎟️✉️
Why similar: Simulation 59.7%, Casual 40.3%
- #49 Indoorlands
68% matchVery Positive81% of 269 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 59.1%, Indie 21.9%, Casual 19%
- #50 Purplis Sandbox
70% matchMixed67% of 209 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 87.3%, Indie 12.7%
- #51 Crayon Physics Deluxe
69% matchVery Positive86% of 1,153 reviews2009
Dev: Kloonigames
Windows · Mac
Median: 30 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
Why similar: Casual 50.9%, Indie 38%, Simulation 11.2%
- #52 Resonite
66% matchVery Positive81% of 1,475 reviews2023
Dev: Yellow Dog Man Studios
Windows
Enter a novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #53 Sandbox Anything
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 71 reviews2019
Dev: Fizzostia
Windows
A creative building-like game, where the objective is to throw physics enabled objects to create structures to allow the objective of the level to be completed. Can be a very challenging puzzler or an easy, sit back and relax game. Includes built in Level Editor and extensive Multiplayer functionality.
Why similar: Simulation 48.8%, Casual 28.7%, Indie 22.5%
- #54 Creature Crafter
66% matchVery Positive88% of 821 reviews2022
Dev: Daniel Lochner
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 34.8 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%
- #55 Train Yard Builder
66% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: GameFormatic S.A.Pub: Frozen Way
Windows
Enter the world of Train Yard Builder and customize your railway to your heart's content. Work with different models of trains and wagons, control them the way you want, and use modeler tools to unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Simulation 63.1%, Casual 36.9%