- #1 Tavern Master
97% matchVery Positive92% of 12,957 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Building 17.5%, Management 16.4%, Medieval 13.5%, Resource Management 11%, City Builder 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is the full version of the seed game, offering the complete experience of building and managing a massive medieval tavern.
- #2 Inn Tycoon
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 801 reviews2025
Dev: Evil Goose GamesPub: GameDev.ist
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 26.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Medieval 19%, Building 17.8%, Management 14.7%, Resource Management 14%, Time Management 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the architectural and service-based challenges of running a medieval inn.
- #3 Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻
96% matchVery Positive92% of 4,372 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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: Building 24.5%, Resource Management 21.1%, Medieval 20.1%, Management 19.1%, Simulation 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on running a medieval pub, focusing on hands-on service and renovation.
- #4 Travellers Rest
95% matchVery Positive88% of 17,329 reviews2020
Dev: Isolated Games
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Craft, farm, build and cook! In Travellers Rest you will have to use all the available tools to become the best tavern keeper in the realm. Create unique dishes and drinks to please your customers as you discover the world and its colorful characters.
Why similar: Management 23.7%, Medieval 22%, Building 20.6%, Resource Management 15%, Crafting 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Combines tavern management with farming and RPG elements in a charming pixel-art style.
- #5 Blacksmith Master
94% matchVery Positive84% of 2,580 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Medieval 17.7%, Building 17.3%, Resource Management 14.9%, Management 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to manage a medieval shop, focusing on crafting and resource management.
- #6 Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition
94% matchMixed55% of 4,065 reviews2019
Dev: Klabater
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crossroads Inn, a real-time management sim, unfolds in Delcrys' unique fantasy realm. Construct and oversee your inn, delight traveling heroes, and achieve renowned status for your services across the kingdom.
Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, Time Management 17%, Management 14.1%, Crafting 9.7%, Strategy 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: A deep medieval tavern management sim that focuses on complex economy and social systems.
- #7 TasteMaker
93% matchVery Positive83% of 1,298 reviews2023
Dev: Jelle Booij
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Building 23.2%, Management 18.1%, Time Management 12.6%, Crafting 10.1%, Strategy 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: A restaurant tycoon game that emphasizes building, design, and menu management.
- #8 A Hero's Rest: An RPG Town Simulator
92% matchMixed70% of 178 reviews2024
Dev: Vanargand Games
Windows
Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.
Why similar: City Builder 17.1%, Medieval 14.9%, Resource Management 12.5%, Building 12.5%, Time Management 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on managing an adventurer's town, providing services to heroes much like a tavern.
- #9 Little Big Workshop
91% matchVery Positive84% of 3,371 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Building 19.3%, Simulation 17.9%, Strategy 17%, Management 16.8%, Resource Management 16.4%
Why You'll Like It: A charming management game where you organize a factory floor, sharing the same satisfying building-up loop as the seed game.
- #10 Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
89% matchVery Positive93% of 43,576 reviews2022
Dev: niceplay gamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Medieval 24.6%, Management 16.8%, Resource Management 16.4%, Crafting 15.9%, Simulation 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: A unique shop management game with a medieval aesthetic and satisfying crafting mechanics.
- #11 First Feudal
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 634 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Building 15.8%, Medieval 15.3%, Resource Management 14%, Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building a medieval settlement from the ground up with deep resource management.
- #12 Gladiator Guild Manager
88% matchVery Positive81% of 3,937 reviews2024
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Medieval 19.3%, Building 19.3%, Management 15.3%, Resource Management 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: A management-focused strategy game where you build and train a team, similar to hiring staff in a tavern.
- #13 Graveyard Keeper
89% matchVery Positive86% of 52,820 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Why similar: Management 21.2%, Medieval 21.2%, Building 20.6%, Crafting 19.1%, Simulation 13%
Why You'll Like It: A dark, humorous medieval management sim that shares the resource-gathering and expansion loops.
- #14 Foundation
86% matchVery Positive86% of 23,739 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 30.8%, Medieval 17.2%, Building 11.3%, Resource Management 10.4%, Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city builder that allows for organic medieval town growth and management.
- #15 Medieval Dynasty
86% matchVery Positive90% of 50,786 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Building 31.2%, Medieval 23.1%, Crafting 14.3%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Blends survival and management, allowing you to build a village and manage its inhabitants in a realistic medieval setting.
- #16 Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,481 reviews2020
Dev: Innervoid InteractivePub: Digital Tribe
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 56.7%, Simulation 30.1%, 3D 4.9%, Indie 4.3%, Relaxing 3.3%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep customization for restaurant management, focusing on menu creation and staff oversight.
- #17 Going Medieval
83% matchVery Positive89% of 20,881 reviews2026
Dev: Foxy VoxelPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 31.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Management 18.9%, Strategy 12.3%, Historical 10.8%, Crafting 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes building and managing a medieval castle, offering deep architectural control.
- #18 Fabledom
84% matchVery Positive85% of 7,484 reviews2024
Dev: Grenaa GamesPub: Dear Villagers
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Set in a wholesome fairytale world, Fabledom is a laid-back City builder. Enjoy the growth of your settlement, interact with your neighbors and defend your kingdom from magical creatures. All to find true love and live happily ever after!
Why similar: City Builder 36.4%, Resource Management 20.6%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, fairytale-inspired city builder that captures the charm and medieval aesthetic of the seed game.
- #19 Two Point Hospital
84% matchVery Positive92% of 34,521 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Building 31%, Management 29.2%, Simulation 20%, City Builder 9.3%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A polished management sim that focuses on efficient room layout and staff management, similar to the core loop of the seed game.
- #20 Project Highrise
85% matchVery Positive85% of 4,762 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Building 31.5%, Management 28%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 14.5%, City Builder 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A skyscraper management game that mirrors the vertical building and layout planning found in tavern management.
- #21 Kingdoms and Castles
82% matchVery Positive94% of 31,097 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Medieval 16.2%, Resource Management 14.1%, Building 12.9%, Management 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A strategy-focused city builder where you manage a medieval kingdom against external threats.
- #22 Dungeon Village 2
82% matchVery Positive87% of 660 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 8.5 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Recruit adventurers and monsters to create your own RRG-style town!
Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 18.2%, Building 16.1%, Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A management sim where you build a town to attract adventurers, sharing the service-oriented gameplay of the seed game.
- #23 Big Ambitions
81% matchVery Positive93% of 12,848 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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 37.5%, Resource Management 16.5%, Time Management 16.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Top-Down 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A deep business simulation that allows you to manage multiple types of shops, scaling up from small beginnings.
- #24 Megaquarium
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,695 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 31.5%, Management 22.2%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A management game centered on building and maintaining a complex facility, similar to the layout planning in the seed game.
- #25 Gas Station Simulator
80% matchVery Positive88% of 27,112 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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: Building 35.8%, Management 27.6%, Simulation 27.2%, Relaxing 5%, Indie 3.5%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a hands-on management experience where you renovate and run a business, mirroring the fixer-upper progression.
- #26 Clanfolk
79% matchVery Positive92% of 3,845 reviews2022
Dev: MinMax Games Ltd.Pub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
Why similar: Medieval 32.2%, Building 29.4%, Crafting 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Indie 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony sim that focuses on survival and management, sharing the resource-gathering and building elements.
- #27 RimWorld
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 239,676 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.8 hrsMean: 262.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Management 21.1%, Building 21.1%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 12%
Why You'll Like It: A deep colony management sim that offers unparalleled control over staff and facilities, appealing to fans of complex management loops.
- #28 Banished
79% matchVery Positive90% of 43,119 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Medieval 12.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Resource Management 8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic survival city-builder that focuses on resource management and population growth in a medieval setting.
- #29 Game Dev Tycoon
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,810 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 50.4%, Simulation 27.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Indie 6.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic business simulation that captures the addictive start small and expand loop found in the seed game.
- #30 Inn Tycoon: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Evil Goose Games
Windows
Welcome to Inn Tycoon: Prologue! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff. Create a top-notch hospitality empire and become the ultimate Inn Tycoon!
Why similar: Medieval 17.9%, Building 17.5%, Resource Management 15%, Management 12.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #31 Car Manufacture: Prologue
77% matchVery Positive86% of 314 reviews2023
Dev: STEREO GAMES S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Build a car factory in the beginning of XX century. Discover new cars and technologies. Manage employees. Make tons of money and stay on top. Car Manufacture: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try this automotive tycoon game.
Why similar: Building 18.6%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 13.7%, Time Management 13.1%, Strategy 9.4%
- #32 Tavern Manager Simulator: Prologue
74% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2024
Dev: One More Time
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 2.5 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Try running a tavern for a day in Prologue.
Why similar: Building 30.8%, Management 20.1%, Simulation 19.2%, Crafting 7.4%, 3D 7.1%
- #33 City Tales - Medieval Era
72% matchVery Positive90% of 571 reviews2026
Dev: Irregular ShapesPub: Firesquid
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Building 20.3%, Resource Management 14%, Management 12.4%, Medieval 11.6%
- #34 Saloon Simulator: Prologue
73% matchVery Positive87% of 867 reviews2024
Dev: Glivi Games S.A.Pub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Saloon Simulator Prologue lets you restore an abandoned Saloon and discover that managing it isn't just about creating drinks and meals. Clean up, organize, and choose the right friends - all to become the most recognizable business in the Wild West!
Why similar: Management 28.7%, Crafting 23%, Resource Management 21.9%, Simulation 14.6%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #35 Cafe Owner Simulator: Prologue
75% matchMixed66% of 1,452 reviews2022
Dev: Second RealityPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Prologue to the Cafe Owner Simulator, where you can restore your own abandoned building, complete tasks at various levels, and start building a restaurant business from zero.
Why similar: Building 27.8%, Resource Management 23%, Management 20.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Atmospheric 5.2%
- #36 Siege Survival: Gloria Victis Prologue
75% matchVery Positive87% of 983 reviews2020
Dev: Black Eye GamesPub: Ravenscourt
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.6%, Medieval 18.5%, Time Management 17.3%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 10.1%
- #37 Beer Factory - Prologue
73% matchVery Positive85% of 2,018 reviews2023
Dev: AKELPub: CreativeForge Games
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Beer Factory - Prologue is a business simulation and management game. Take the challenge and manage your own beer factory, employees, production lines, as well as the import and export of merchandise.
Why similar: Resource Management 34.5%, Management 24.6%, Simulation 21.3%, Crafting 10.7%, 3D 4.8%
- #38 Tavern Tycoon - Dragon's Hangover
76% matchMixed67% of 833 reviews2019
Dev: Terapoly
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Run your fantasy RPG tavern - let travellers take shelter for the night and serve 'em the best mead of their life with a good dose of humor.
Why similar: Management 38.5%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 19.7%, Building 13.7%, Indie 6%
- #39 Mall Simulator: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive88% of 653 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! Start working with Prologue now. To avoid going bankrupt, you'll need to build new stores, set good prices and keep up with trends. A limited number of stores & services for Prologue are waiting for you.
Why similar: Management 25.2%, Building 24.8%, Resource Management 23.9%, Simulation 16.3%, 3D 4.2%
- #40 Urbek City Builder: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive94% of 1,703 reviews2022
Dev: Estudios KremlinoisPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free 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. Try it yourself for free!
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Building 21%, Resource Management 17.5%, Management 15.2%, Strategy 9.3%
- #41 Train Station Renovation - First Job
73% matchVery Positive86% of 865 reviews2020
Dev: Live Motion Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Welcome to the prologue to Train Station Renovation. This is where you will learn and teach how to renovate these small and the largest train stations in the world.
Why similar: Simulation 33.1%, Strategy 32.5%, Indie 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 10.1%
- #42 Car Trader Simulator - Welcome to the Business
74% matchMixed64% of 468 reviews2020
Dev: Live Motion Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Welcome to the prologue to Car Trader Simulator. Here you will learn all the most important in mechanics and economics in the game and you will play your first mission.
Why similar: Strategy 34.4%, Simulation 32.1%, Indie 12.3%, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #43 Gas Station Simulator: Prologue - Early Days
71% matchVery Positive86% of 4,256 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainmentPub: Movie Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 55%
The "Early Days" prologue to Gas Station Simulator where you buy an abandoned gas station in the middle of nowhere, fix it up and start running it.
Why similar: Building 25.9%, Time Management 23%, Management 20.9%, Simulation 14.6%, 3D 5.3%
- #44 Tavern Legends
69% matchVery Positive91% of 128 reviews2025
Dev: CROWFORGE Games
Windows
In Tavern Legends, you run your own medieval tavern: pour beer, create meals, design your taverns, and assemble your staff. Win over guests from all walks of life and build your reputation as a legendary innkeeper.
Why similar: Building 21.4%, Medieval 20.1%, Management 16.6%, Time Management 16%, Crafting 10.1%
- #45 Tavern Keeper 🍻
66% matchVery Positive95% of 4,453 reviews2025
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 84%
From the creators of Game Dev Tycoon comes Tavern Keeper 🍻, a cosy-chaotic management sim, featuring a powerful decoration sandbox and a magical storybook RPG!
Why similar: Building 37.2%, Management 28.1%, Strategy 17.2%, Simulation 16.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #46 Ale & Tale Tavern: First Pints
67% matchVery Positive94% of 4,725 reviews2024
Dev: Scienart GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
This is the free version of the game "Ale & Tale Tavern". Get ready for a thrilling mix of genres: a cooperative, first-person, open-world fantasy tavern simulator, action, fishing, hunting, exploration, and completing fun and diverse quests. And, of course, COOKING!
Why similar: Time Management 22.4%, Medieval 20.9%, Management 17.4%, Simulation 14%, Stylized 8.4%
- #47 Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue
70% matchVery Positive93% of 1,553 reviews2020
Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 32%
Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.
Why similar: Medieval 31%, Management 27.5%, Strategy 18%, Simulation 16.8%, Indie 5.7%
- #48 Medieval StartUp
67% matchVery Positive98% of 52 reviews2025
Dev: Editions Aspic Games
Windows
Medieval StartUp is a unique mix of tavern management, crafting, and exploration set in a rich medieval world. Manage your tavern, craft unique items, recruit staff, and explore a mysterious marsh full of hidden secrets and rare resources.
Why similar: Medieval 25.7%, Management 20.9%, Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Simulation 13%
- #49 Mr. Prepper: Prologue
69% matchVery Positive83% of 2,554 reviews2020
Dev: Rejected GamesPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Mr. Prepper: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game Mr. Prepper, featuring an essential part of the story.
Why similar: Resource Management 32.2%, Time Management 31.1%, Crafting 18.1%, Simulation 17.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #50 Ironsmith Medieval Simulator: Prologue
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 110 reviews2020
Dev: The EpicLorePub: SIG Publishing
Windows
Ironsmith: Medieval Simulator - Prologue allows you to become the local blacksmith in medieval reality. Master your skills by ceaselessly crafting tools and weapons for various social classes.
Why similar: Medieval 39.8%, Simulation 38.1%, Indie 14.5%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #51 Service Please
66% matchVery Positive84% of 85 reviews2026
Dev: Dynamic Dice
Windows
Service Please is a top-down restaurant management and tycoon game focused on relaxed gameplay and steady progression. Manage customers, organize staff, upgrade your menu, and build your restaurant step by step.
Why similar: City Builder 17.8%, Building 15.4%, Resource Management 12.9%, Management 11.8%, Time Management 11.6%
- #52 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 502 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Resource Management 20.8%, Management 17.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Building 12%, Strategy 11.6%
- #53 Game Builder Tycoon - Prologue
67% matchMixed61% of 67 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: Building 31.7%, Management 28.1%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 14.7%, Relaxing 5.7%
- #54 Feudal Baron: King's Land
68% matchMixed42% of 85 reviews2024
Dev: Sim Farm S.A.
Windows
Feudal Baron: King’s Land is classic-style city-builder. Turn a humble settlement into a medieval town, build workshops and churches, repel raids, and manage your subjects. Ensure steady supplies – or squeeze every last penny from the people.
Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Medieval 15.2%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 10.5%, Time Management 10.2%
- #55 Dungeon Tycoon: Prologue
65% matchVery Positive96% of 370 reviews2024
Dev: Lunheim Studios
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm in this free version of Dungeon Tycoon. Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
Why similar: Building 33%, Management 31.5%, Dungeons & Dragons 12.1% ★, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 11.2%