Games Like The Tenants

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 25.8%, Economy 24.2%, Life Sim 17%, Time Management 10.1%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the management scope to an entire city, allowing you to build a business empire with deep economic simulation.

Clean your worries away with this relaxing renovation simulator! Buy, fix, sell, and become a local legend. Or grab your power tools and build anything from scratch! With the online 2-4 players co-op mode, you can play both in sandbox and story mode together.

Why similar: Design & Illustration 28.9% ★, Economy 15.2%, Building 12.7%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Base Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most refined renovation and interior design experience, mirroring the core creative loop of The Tenants.

House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!

Why similar: Design & Illustration 33.1% ★, Building 13.2%, Sandbox 9.6%, Immersive Sim 9.4%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the definitive renovation simulator, focusing on the same satisfying process of buying, fixing, and selling properties.

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: City Builder 26.4%, Management 17.9%, Building 12.4%, Economy 12.1%, Life Sim 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: For those who enjoy the complex management and layout planning aspects of The Tenants, this provides a highly detailed simulation experience.

Unleash your inner designer and renovate the hotel of your dreams! Embark on a makeover journey to turn this worn-out place into a successful getaway. Play with thousands of furniture pieces and accessories, and manage the hotel to get 5-star reviews!

Why similar: Design & Illustration 26.4% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Economy 12.7%, Life Sim 11.2%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly combines the renovation mechanics of The Tenants with the operational management of a hospitality business.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Management 23.8%, Building 18.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a polished building and management experience with a focus on designing functional spaces for specific AI needs.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 34.6%, Building 26.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the humorous tone and deep management mechanics found in The Tenants while focusing on hospital operations.

Your quintessential construction simulator is here. Take a dodgy loan, restore a property, move in the locals, attend to their grievances, then celebrate with a pint in this fully-simulated, open-world 1980's Britain.

Why similar: Life Sim 22.4%, Building 19.5%, Immersive Sim 16.2%, Base Building 16.1%, Sandbox 13.9%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the 1980s, this game provides a gritty and realistic take on property management and construction.

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: Design & Illustration 26.7% ★, Economy 17.8%, Management 14.7%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the hands-on business management and renovation aspects of running a service-based property.

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 31.2%, Building 23.8%, City Builder 16.4%, Time Management 9.4%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a relaxing yet engaging management experience centered on building and expanding a medieval business.

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 25%, Management 23.4%, Life Sim 13.3%, Building 10.1%, Immersive Sim 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a grounded look at managing inventory, pricing, and store layout to maximize profits.

Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.

Why similar: Design & Illustration 25.3% ★, Economy 13.5%, Life Sim 11.3%, Management 9.5%, Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the design and management of a business, requiring you to balance aesthetics with customer satisfaction.

Paralives is a life simulation game about building homes, lives and bonds. Through both hardship and success, where will your story take you?

Why similar: Life Sim 39.7%, Building 27.8%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 8.6%, Relaxing 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a highly intuitive building mode and life-simulation elements that align with the creative side of The Tenants.

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Economy 28.2%, Building 9.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and growth of a business, appealing to those who enjoy the economic strategy of The Tenants.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Economy 23.1%, Management 20.8%, Building 18%, Time Management 15.4%, Sandbox 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep building and management mechanics, allowing you to design office spaces while running a tech company.

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: God Game 33.9% ★, City Builder 24.8%, Building 13.4%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 11%

Why You'll Like It: This god-game provides a broader scale of management and building that will appeal to fans of the city-builder aspects of The Tenants.

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Management 22.3%, City Builder 20.6%, Building 17.4%, Economy 14.8%, Sandbox 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled creative building tools alongside deep management systems for running a complex facility.

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 21.5%, City Builder 20.1%, Building 17%, Economy 15.2%, Base Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the design and management of a large retail space, emphasizing layout and economic efficiency.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Building 23%, Management 22.7%, Sandbox 17.6%, Economy 15.1%, Relaxing 7%

Why You'll Like It: This management game focuses on designing exhibits and managing visitor flow, similar to the spatial planning in The Tenants.

Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.

Why similar: Life Sim 26.9%, Management 23.5%, Immersive Sim 20.8%, Relaxing 10.1%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines kitchen management with restaurant design, appealing to those who enjoy the hands-on aspects of The Tenants.

Espresso Tycoon - a coffee shop simulator. Create your brand, decorate the coffee shop, manage your employees, and take care of your customers. Use the 3D coffee editor to create coffee recipes, order supplies, and collect rating points. Build the whole coffee business and complete all the missions!

Why similar: Design & Illustration 24.1% ★, Management 15.8%, Building 15.2%, Life Sim 12%, Immersive Sim 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a focused management experience centered on building and decorating a coffee shop.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Building 16.1%, Management 15.3%, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the intersection of layout design and complex management, requiring you to balance infrastructure with occupant needs.

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Economy 21%, Management 20.6%, City Builder 19.6%, Building 12%, Base Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep dive into business management and office design, perfect for fans of the economic side of The Tenants.

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: Design & Illustration 27.5% ★, Economy 14.4%, Management 12.3%, Building 11.6%, Immersive Sim 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the day-to-day management of a retail store, including staff and inventory control.

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 27.2%, Life Sim 25.3%, Sandbox 16.9%, Relaxing 14.2%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique shop-management loop that emphasizes customer interaction and product customization.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Management 16.8%, Economy 16.6%, Building 13.6%, Base Building 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to build and manage a school, focusing on the same spatial and operational planning found in property management games.

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Management 50.6%, Economy 19.4%, Simulation 13%, Sandbox 5.2%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: This classic management game focuses on the growth and economic strategy of a business, mirroring the progression of a rental empire.

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: City Builder 22.6%, Building 15.3%, Life Sim 15.1%, Economy 11.9%, Management 11.6%

Unpacking is a zen puzzle game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking.

Why similar: Life Sim 40.7%, Relaxing 35%, Simulation 10.8%, Casual 7.8%, Indie 3%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on organization, it captures the satisfying design and placement mechanics that make The Tenants so enjoyable.

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Economy 17.3%, Management 15.4%, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 11.5%

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 17%, Management 14.6%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title emphasizes the management of a complex facility, requiring careful planning of infrastructure and passenger flow.

Make the dwelling of your dreams a reality in this apartment management sim!

Why similar: Life Sim 26.1%, City Builder 22.8%, Management 16.2%, Building 12.4%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This Kairosoft classic is all about managing apartments and keeping tenants happy, making it a direct thematic relative.

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 16.7%, Management 14.8%, Life Sim 14.2%, City Builder 13.2%, Immersive Sim 10.9%

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 16.4%, Immersive Sim 14.7%, Management 14.4%, Life Sim 14.4%, Building 12.5%

TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.

Why similar: God Game 21% ★, Economy 13.6%, Management 13.5%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 10.3%

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: Design & Illustration 23.7% ★, Economy 16.4%, Life Sim 14.1%, Management 14%, Immersive Sim 10.4%

"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.

Why similar: Life Sim 33.3%, Building 17.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Sandbox 10.9%, Immersive Sim 9.5%

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 22.1%, Economy 21.6%, Immersive Sim 17%, Building 14.3%, Relaxing 9.4%

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Management 15.8%, Economy 12.7%, Building 12.3%, Time Management 11.7%

Hotel Owner Simulator is a hotel management game where you start from a small hotel and grow your business by creating beautifully designed rooms, adjusting room sizes and layouts by placing each individual wall, negotiating high prices, and expanding your empire. Lets build, and manage the resort.

Why similar: Design & Illustration 25.2% ★, Economy 14.6%, Management 12.8%, Life Sim 12.3%, Building 11%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Why similar: God Game 24.7% ★, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 13.3%, Management 12%, Sandbox 9.2%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Building 16.8%, Management 15.5%, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

Chef is a Restaurant Management game in which you create your own character, acquire supreme cooking skills, customize restaurants, design unique menus, and devise innovative recipes with a realistic editor.

Why similar: Management 59.6%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 14.8%, Relaxing 7.1%, Indie 1.6%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 38.7%, Economy 11.9%, Management 11.1%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.7%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 30.3%, Building 24.4%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, City Builder 8.4%

A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.

Why similar: Sandbox 28.6%, Simulation 24.5%, Management 21%, Economy 14.1%, Relaxing 8.2%

Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Life Sim 17.7%, Management 14.6%, Building 14.3%, Sandbox 11.1%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 26.3%, Economy 20.8%, Building 15.4%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 10.9%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Management 15.5%, Economy 15.1%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 11%

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Economy 16.5%, Management 15%, Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.6%

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 21.2%, Management 18.5%, Life Sim 17.4%, Immersive Sim 11.8%, Building 10.6%

Estate Agent Simulator lets you enter the exciting world of the real estate market. You can buy, decorate, advertise, rent or sell houses. You can buy vacant land and build houses. Environmental factors will affect the rental prices of houses.

Why similar: Design & Illustration 21.3% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 13.5%, Life Sim 12.7%, Management 11.7%

Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

Why similar: Economy 16.6%, Management 14%, Life Sim 13.9%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 10.7%

Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!

Why similar: Management 20%, Life Sim 18.5%, Economy 16.1%, Time Management 15.1%, Building 14.3%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Economy 17.3%, Management 16.6%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.8%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Economy 15.1%, Building 14.9%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.3%

Renovate and manage a ruined office building. Clean, repair, and furnish rooms, rent them to picky tenants, fix printers and coffee machines, enjoy an exaggerated office joke system, and survive daily chaos. Turn neglect into profit — money doesn’t print itself, even if the printer tries.

Why similar: Life Sim 18.5%, Economy 17.7%, Management 15.9%, Immersive Sim 14.1%, Building 13.5%

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 15%, Building 13.5%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 11%

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 25.1%, Economy 18.6%, Time Management 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 14.3%