- #1 Business Tycoon
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tycoon Games
Windows
Build a business empire across the United States. Create companies, open and upgrade assets. Expand across industries, dominate markets, control a growing share of the economy, and build a trillion-dollar fortune.
Why similar: Capitalism 33.7%, Simulation 19.3%, Economy 15.8%, Text-Based 12.8%, Idler 9.4%
- #2 Wall Street Raider
96% matchVery Positive93% of 228 reviews2026
Dev: Ronin SoftwarePub: Hackjack Games
Windows
Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!
Why similar: Capitalism 39.5%, Text-Based 19.3%, Economy 16.9%, Simulation 13.7%, Management 10.7%
- #3 System Integrator
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Fusat Games
Windows
Run an IT company with secretary Misaki. Blend contracts, staffing, and in-house services while balancing factions and reputation in a macro management sim.
Why similar: Capitalism 30.1%, Simulation 29.7%, Text-Based 23.5%, Economy 16.8%
- #4 Hollywood Mogul 4
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: HMdesignerPub: My Indie Game Company LLC
Windows
Own the studio. Run the studio. Make the movies. Play Hollywood Mogul 4 and run your own Hollywood movie studio in a complex, immersive, business strategy simulation that is TEXT-BASED with NO GRAPHICS and MINIMAL SOUND.
Why similar: Capitalism 36.6%, Text-Based 28.6%, Simulation 22.1%, Management 12.8%
- #5 CEO
94% matchMostly Positive72% of 93 reviews2022
Dev: Salty Olives
Windows
Play the CEO of a multi-national conglomerate in this business simulation. Grow crops, raise livestock, build mines and oil wells to get the raw resources needed to make more than 75 types of consumer goods.
Why similar: Capitalism 39.9%, Economy 20.4%, Simulation 20.4%, Management 10.5%, Multiplayer 8.9%
- #6 Capitalism Plus
95% matchVery Positive84% of 122 reviews2016
Dev: Enlight Software Limited
Windows
Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.
Why similar: Capitalism 47.5%, Simulation 25.3%, Economy 14.2%, Management 13%
- #7 Stock Market Tycoon: Challenge
93% matchMixed69% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: AethernaGames
Windows
A competitive multiplayer real-time stock market investment game where players compete globally to achieve maximum investment returns. Trade live stocks in a simulated economy and manage your portfolio in a real-time virtual stock exchange.
Why similar: Capitalism 31.6%, Idler 17%, Economy 13.2%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #8 Empire Origin
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rod's DeskPub: Empire Enterprises
Windows
Multiplayer Incremental Idle tycoon with a stock market that actually works. 200 stocks, real options pricing, Fed rate decisions, 55 businesses across 10 tiers, real estate, banking, taxes, and a 530-node research tree. Multiplayer shares one market. There's also a casino.
Why similar: Capitalism 35.8%, Multiplayer 17%, Simulation 15.6%, Economy 14.8%, Idler 10.1%
- #9 OIL.EXE
91% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2026
Dev: Subroutine Gaming
Windows · Mac · Linux
Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
Why similar: Capitalism 32.1%, Text-Based 21.2%, Economy 13.2%, Idler 13.1%, Simulation 10.6%
- #10 Box Office Mayhem: Theatre Tycoon
90% match8 user reviews84% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: Tidefall Interactive
Windows · Linux
Box Office Mayhem is a business management game where you simulate running your own movie theatre. Navigate through signing movie deals, managing day to day operations, and struggle as movie goers have unpredictable behavior. Play solo against AI competitors or take it online against friends!
Why similar: Capitalism 39.5%, Economy 20.9%, Multiplayer 19.2%, Simulation 17.7%, Management 2.6%
- #11 MARGIN: Raj Minerals
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 9J
Windows
Run a mining company in India. Build production lines, set your own prices and decide when to sell. Keep the bills paid while visitors and hands-on minigames interrupt the working day. After your shift, ride home through a jungle that feels a little less familiar each night.
Why similar: Idler 28.6%, Capitalism 27.4%, Simulation 26.4%, Economy 9%, Management 8.5%
- #12 Corporate Simulator
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Moumou Games
Windows
Climb from intern to CEO in this idle/incremental game where your company runs on a living spreadsheet. Hire, crush morale, rig the audits, and rack up ISO certifications... all the way to burnout or a golden retirement. 18 playable visual themes, dozens of hours of progression.
Why similar: Capitalism 31.8%, Idler 24.7%, Simulation 19.6%, Text-Based 9.1%, Economy 8%
- #13 Pitch & Pixel
88% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: Robert Kolloch
Windows · Linux
Battle through 30 years of digital agency history — optimize sales & marketing, deliver projects, grow your team and outsmart your rivals. Fully simulated market and freely chosen path to success — boutique with quality or agency group? You decide.
Why similar: Capitalism 41.3%, Simulation 18.9%, Economy 16.8%, Management 13.5%, Text-Based 9.6%
- #14 Liquidity
85% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Kitchen Table Studios
Windows
It's 1995 and the bank is yours. Set rates, approve loans, take deposits, deal in stocks, satisfy the regulator, and try not to break too many rules. A deep banking and finance management sim wrapped in a mid-1990’s desktop.
Why similar: Capitalism 37.8%, Economy 17.7%, Simulation 17.1%, Text-Based 14.5%, Management 13%
- #15 Idle Tiers
86% match8 user reviews13% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: IdleClick Games
Windows
A real idle game with more than 2000 upgrades and deep management
Why similar: Capitalism 26.2%, Idler 22.1%, Text-Based 16.8%, Economy 13.8%, Simulation 12.8%
- #16 Guild Hall Simulator: Prologue
84% matchMixed43% of 45 reviews2025
Dev: Obsessive Games
Windows
Build your guild. Shape your story. In Guild Hall Simulator, you don't slay dragons — you send others to do it. Manage gold, assign quests, upgrade your hall, and wrangle rowdy adventurers who drink too much. Will your guild rise to fame...or collapse under a mountain of paperwork (and slimes)?
Why similar: Capitalism 34.4%, Economy 18.7%, Simulation 17.2%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Management 12.5%
- #17 God of Stocks
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Obys Byte Games
Windows
An incremental management game about manipulating the market to get filthy rich. Buy low, sell high, chain absurd combos and earn divine blessings from stock market gods. Will you play it safe or risk everything?
Why similar: Capitalism 39.9%, Idler 25.4%, Economy 16.8%, Simulation 11.3%, Management 6.6%
- #18 Idle Crush Factory
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RyanJakob
Windows
Idle Crush Factory is a physics-based incremental idle game where you crush shapes and build an automated factory that can run at bottom of your screen while you work. Earn cash, unlock upgrades, optimize your gears, and scale your factory in a satisfying progression loop. Wishlist now.
Why similar: Capitalism 39.1%, Idler 25.7%, Economy 12.9%, Simulation 12.4%, Management 9.9%
- #19 Capitalism 2
86% matchVery Positive83% of 579 reviews2017
Dev: Enlight Software LimitedPub: Enlight Software Limited
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.
Why similar: Capitalism 45%, Economy 24.7%, Simulation 18%, Management 12.3%
- #20 MakeThatMoney
87% matchMixed43% of 54 reviews2017
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
MakeThatMoney is a text based management game. You start with 500$, and need to find the best and quickest route to becoming a millionaire. What's the best job to work at, mini mart or office? Do you have the degree required to work in an office environment?
Why similar: Capitalism 45.5%, Text-Based 23.1%, Simulation 22.9%, Management 8.5%
- #21 Padel Tycoon
81% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: Santiago Piedras Gonzalez
Windows
Build a padel empire from a single bucket of used balls to the Lunar Major in the world's first padel business game. Buy courts, hire managers to run them and watch the numbers climb across three locations. An idle clicker with 20 businesses, 46 upgrades and an empire that earns while you're away.
Why similar: Capitalism 37%, Idler 27.1%, Economy 15.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Management 9.2%
- #22 Terachain
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jabuticabra Games
Windows
Terachain is a short incremental game about generating the largest possible chain reaction in a weird alien machine. What's the biggest reaction possible with a single click? Earn billions or trillions of points by increasing the attributes of these strange spinning pieces.
Why similar: Capitalism 33.7%, Idler 28%, Economy 18%, Management 10.4%, Simulation 9.9%
- #23 A Very Simple Idle Game
80% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: NooGames
Windows
Idle game with a twist: reward grows while you wait and resets with each purchase. 6 upgrades, 3 currencies, prestige and super upgrades. Simple but deep.
Why similar: Idler 27.6%, Capitalism 25.1%, Economy 15.6%, Text-Based 13%, Management 9.5%
- #24 +1%
82% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: IdleClick Games
Windows
Idle clicker game with a percentage based math inside. Compound percent is used for all calculations. Slow start, exponential growth and lots of fun!
Why similar: Idler 23.2%, Capitalism 20.3%, Text-Based 18.6%, Economy 16%, Simulation 11.2%
- #25 Fund Manager: Buy Side
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Dal Studio
Windows
An asset-management simulation about other people's money. Raise capital into a public ETF and a private fund, earn fees, and grow the firm. Three worlds move on rates, FX, commodities and earnings — not random numbers — and every price is a trade between thousands of bots on a live order book.
Why similar: Capitalism 27.2%, Simulation 26.9%, Text-Based 22.3%, Economy 13%, Management 10.5%
- #26 Stakeholder Game
83% matchMixed41% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: BoneAppsPub: Bone Apps
Windows · Linux
Investment business simulation game. Become the richest billionaire ever! Build your financial empire out of merged companies and increase your capital.
Why similar: Capitalism 40.7%, Economy 20.5%, Simulation 19.2%, Idler 12.9%, Management 6.6%
- #27 Supermarket Simulator
77% matchVery Positive92% of 84,255 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 35.0 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: Simulation 25.7%, Capitalism 21.3%, Multiplayer 19.4%, Economy 19.3%, Management 14.3%
- #28 Evil overlord Clicker
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MOTZA GAMES
Windows
Evil Overlord Clicker is a fast, satisfying incremental game where you smash endless walls, farm resources, and grow your dark empire. Recruit and upgrade minions, prestige for permanent buffs, and face tougher walls with unique effects.
Why similar: Capitalism 36.1%, Idler 25.3%, Economy 14.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 11.1%
- #29 Galactic Overthrow
78% matchNo user reviews81% of 32 reviews2026
Dev: Ace High Arcade
Windows
Build a massive galactic empire and conquer many galaxies in this incremental game of space conquest. Manage resources, expand your reach, and grow your influence with a casual spin on a 4x theme.
Why similar: Capitalism 33.8%, Idler 21.4%, Economy 13.2%, Simulation 13%, Multiplayer 10.3%
- #30 The Completionist: 1980-1989
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Frosty PopPub: Frosty Pop
Windows · Mac · Linux
Run a scrappy pop culture magazine through the 1980s. Hire writers, editors, and researchers. Manage a Kanban board. Prestige through Volumes. Try not to go broke. Strategic idle sim. Commodore 64 aesthetic. No micro-transactions.
Why similar: Capitalism 33.1%, Idler 21.4%, Economy 14.1%, Text-Based 13.7%, Simulation 9.3%
- #31 Trashy Cashy
77% matchNo user reviews66% of 128 reviews2026
Dev: Challenging Games
Windows
A short, 3-6-hour incremental game about building a business by selling trash. Become a partner in the mysterious "Trashy Cashy" franchise. Unpack trash, ship it off, and rake in outrageous profits. Don't ask too many questions. Sounds simple, right?
Why similar: Capitalism 37.5%, Idler 26.1%, Economy 15.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Management 8.5%
- #32 BankingSim
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Loose Change Games
Windows · Linux
BankingSim puts you in charge of a growing bank. Issue loans, set interest rates, manage risk, and deal with defaults as you grow your financial empire.
Why similar: Capitalism 51.8%, Economy 19.7%, Simulation 16.7%, Management 11.9%
- #33 Boss Simulator
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 25 reviews2025
Dev: 饭饭游戏
Windows
Boss Simulator is a management simulation game with role-playing elements. As the Boss of an online game company, you “have to”: manipulate employees into overtime machines, and roll out more and more monetization systems to keep players spending—all to get your company IPO as quickly as possible!
Why similar: Capitalism 54.1%, Simulation 31.5%, Management 14.4%
- #34 Real Estate Investor
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Highground Entertainment
Windows
Real Estate Investor is a deep, turn-based economic simulation focused on realistic property investing. Hunt for bargains, haggle over the price, and turn run-down flats into a thriving portfolio. Sign the deed, collect the rent, quit the rat race and become a property millionaire.
Why similar: Capitalism 43.4%, Economy 21.6%, Simulation 18.7%, Text-Based 9.3%, Management 7.1%
- #35 Corner Cafe Capitalist
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AstroDev
Windows · Linux
Master the daily grind in Corner Cafe Capitalist, a business management simulator. Tweak your recipes, set prices, purchase supplies, and hire staff by night, then watch your strategy test the morning rush by day. Can you scale your humble corner cart into a thriving city-wide refreshment empire?
Why similar: Capitalism 40.8%, Economy 23.4%, Simulation 22.4%, Management 13.5%
- #36 Poly Plaza ULTIMATE
74% matchMixed54% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: GOOD BUILD
Windows
An open world idle tycoon rpg about making money.
Why similar: Capitalism 38.6%, Idler 27.3%, Simulation 14%, Economy 12.5%, Management 7.6%
- #37 Brewconomy
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fainware
Windows
Brewconomy is a relaxing yet challenging builder about farming, crafting, and trade. Begin with a small family workshop and grow into a thriving company. Automate production chains, expand industries, and balance resources to master your own economy.
Why similar: Capitalism 37.5%, Idler 26%, Economy 17.6%, Simulation 10.3%, Management 8.6%
- #38 Dry Powder
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gigipapero
Windows
A turn-based financial simulator where you try to become the richest. Trade stocks, bonds, and real estate, use leverage and survive market crashes. It balances someone who wants to learn about investing ("buy the stock that goes up") with someone who wants to experiment ("barbell this round")
Why similar: Capitalism 56%, Simulation 22.9%, Economy 21.1%
- #39 Goblins & Garage Sales
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: gamedevcharles
Windows
Bid on abandoned warehouses, storage lots and garages to uncover the rarest, oldest and most magical treasures! Goblins and Garage Sales is a storage hunter simulation game where you bid, repair, haggle, and most importantly, profit! Maybe even help the locals rebuild their town along the way.
Why similar: Capitalism 33.4%, Simulation 30.5%, Economy 22.5%, Management 13.6%
- #40 Phone Era 手機時代
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RealDreamer
Windows · Linux
From brick phones to 5G, build your phone empire. This is a deep business simulation spanning 40 years of mobile phone history (1985-2030). Design phones across three technological eras, manage a global supply chain, fight OS ecosystem wars, and battle 20+ AI competitors.
Why similar: Capitalism 40.6%, Simulation 26.5%, Economy 19.3%, Management 13.6%
- #41 Law Firm Simulator
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: dizzy
Windows
Law Firm Simulator is a business management sandbox where you build and run your own legal empire. Hire lawyers, take on clients, manage complex cases, expand your offices, and grow a small practice into the city’s most prestigious law firm.
Why similar: Capitalism 42.2%, Simulation 26.8%, Economy 17%, Management 14%
- #42 Raccoon Inc.
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Fatima Makes Games
Windows
Bin Dive is tired of eating from the trash! Help this enterprising raccoon build a business up from flipping junk to a sprawling mega corporation unlike the world has ever seen. Start businesses, upgrade them, hire animals to help you, sit back and watch the money flow in this idler tycoon.
Why similar: Capitalism 42.2%, Idler 19.3%, Economy 16.7%, Simulation 14.3%, Management 7.5%
- #43 Sauna Simulator
70% matchMixed57% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: S1NGLE
Windows
Run your own sauna: buy a room, equip it with an oven and start earning money from it. Hire employees, ensure safety and, of course, have fun!
Why similar: Capitalism 45.4%, Economy 21.3%, Simulation 18.6%, Management 14.6%
- #44 Screen Saver
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Distinguished Games
Windows
Explore an old operating system in this incremental game about software that pays its users. Type stories, earn money, upgrade your software, and unlock new programs. Discover how lucrative the Screen Saver OS can be!
Why similar: Capitalism 29%, Simulation 24.4%, Idler 24.2%, Economy 11.9%, Management 10.6%
- #45 CD Market - Music Label Sim
68% matchVery Positive96% of 136 reviews2026
Dev: Lost Star Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
CD Market is a music industry management sim where you build a record label on your own terms, from vinyl to digital. Stay small, or grow into something bigger. Discover artists, shape careers, and survive decades of changing formats, trends, rivals, and crises.
Why similar: Capitalism 36.8%, Simulation 22.2%, Economy 15%, Text-Based 13.5%, Management 12.5%
- #46 Buddy TCG
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gemzar
Windows
Your childhood isn't gone, it's right here! Remember when you were young, selling lemonade, mowing lawns, just to purchase "buddy" playing cards? Remember when the neighbor kid was bragging with his shiny golden buddy card? That kid can finally be you! I LOVE YOU BUDDY!
Why similar: Capitalism 30.1%, Idler 30%, Simulation 27.8%, Economy 12%
- #47 Hyperspace Hub Manager
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Uncanny Mercantile
Windows
Master hyperspace trade in this sci-fi sim! Manage tariffs on 5 exotic resources, grow your Ecumenopolis, and outwit smugglers. Strategic fun for all!
Why similar: Capitalism 40.9%, Simulation 25.3%, Economy 24.8%, Management 9%
- #48 Fleet Manager: Logistics Simulator
70% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Woodheadgames Studio
Windows
Build a delivery empire from a single bicycle to an orbital fleet. Hire specialists, unlock cities, optimize routes, and conquer weather, events, and the cosmos — all while your fleet runs without you.
Why similar: Capitalism 28.6%, Idler 26.8%, Simulation 26.1%, Economy 11.6%, Management 6.9%
- #49 Clickbait Tycoon
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: FrostyVoid Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a clickbait media empire in pixel-art 1980s New York. Publish outrageous stories, hire outrage algorithms, battle editors-turned-monsters raise Pocket Pals, and sell out - again and again - until you own the news. And the weather.
Why similar: Idler 38.9%, Simulation 25.9%, Capitalism 25.5%, Management 9.8%
- #50 Unbox Super Card
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Althea Games
Windows
Buy CardBoxes, reveal valuable cards, build your automated opening factory, and Prestige to grow your fortune even faster. Complete every collection and become the ultimate card collector.
Why similar: Capitalism 47.9%, Idler 20.6%, Economy 17.9%, Management 8.4%, Simulation 5.2%
- #51 HYPERSCALE
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IBD Collective
Windows
Build infastructure, manage the grid, fight thermal runaway, and keep the community alive. This is a data centre and grid management simulator/idle clicker
Why similar: Capitalism 42.1%, Idler 31.5%, Simulation 15.2%, Management 11.2%
- #52 Kicksharing Tycoon
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Kulix Games
Windows
Build your own kicksharing empire from a small garage startup to a global company. Manage scooters, expand across cities, face vandals, rivals, and tough regulations. Every decision shapes your path to success—or downfall.
Why similar: Capitalism 26.1%, Idler 21.6%, Simulation 21.5%, Text-Based 15.5%, Economy 9%
- #53 Investment Fund Game
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 57 Software
Windows
Investment Fund Game is a singleplayer sandbox simulation where you become the manager of an investment fund. Buy stocks, bonds, commodities. Test different investment strategies, track your performance, and compete with AI-driven funds using their own approaches.
Why similar: Capitalism 42.7%, Simulation 25.1%, Economy 20.5%, Management 11.7%
- #54 Werner Waffenwerke: Arms Tycoon
67% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Stobi Games UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Build your own armaments empire. Develop customised weapons, build and expand factories, manage staff, production and finances, and sell your products on the global market. Transform a run-down family business into the world’s most valuable corporation.
Why similar: Capitalism 47.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Economy 18.3%, Management 12.8%
- #55 Streaming Platform Manager
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Empera Games
Windows
Streaming Platform Manager is a tycoon game, where you can build your own streaming empire.
Why similar: Capitalism 38.2%, Text-Based 19.1%, Simulation 18.6%, Economy 13.5%, Management 10.6%
- #56 Scan N Go: Store Simulator
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LIGHTREACHGAMES LLC
Windows
Your stylized store simulator where customers are fruits has arrived! Upgrade and expand your store, stock shelves, hire employees, order products, serve humanoid fruits, and play with up to 8 friends in online coop!
Why similar: Simulation 26.4%, Capitalism 23.8%, Multiplayer 19.8%, Economy 17.6%, Management 12.4%
- #57 Upgrade! Inc.
66% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: rexty
Windows · Linux
Upgrade! Inc. is a satisfying text-based idle game about unlock and upgrade a series of production lines, hire employeesa nd researching for powerful bonuses. Simple, cozy, addictive, and endlessly engaging. Start your empire today!
Why similar: Idler 33.1%, Simulation 22.7%, Capitalism 19.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Management 7.3%
- #58 Investor Incremental
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Final Offer
Windows
From 0 to Hero investing simulation game. Start as a dead end job worker and work your way to financial freedom. Supports both minmaxing and relaxing playstyles.
Why similar: Capitalism 37.9%, Economy 21.2%, Simulation 21%, Idler 12.9%, Management 7.1%