Games Like Turmoil

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 50.3%, Economy 16.8%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 10%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the same accessible management and strategic pacing where timing and resource allocation dictate your success.

Drill Deal is a fun oil business simulator. Start from a single tiny rig and expand it to a large complex of connected platforms. Optimize & grow your business. Look out for threats like weather, terrorists, fire, and others. Take care of your working crews.

Why similar: Economy 27.6%, Management 23.1%, Resource Management 22.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a very similar core gameplay loop of extracting oil, managing resources, and expanding operations in a stylized tycoon setting.

Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.

Why similar: Management 25.4%, Economy 23.4%, Resource Management 17.5%, Capitalism 13.4%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on resource management, production chains, and capitalist strategy within a growing economic landscape.

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: Management 27.1%, Economy 23.8%, Capitalism 21.3%, Multiplayer 8%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deeply engaging business management experience centered around running a company and maximizing profits over time.

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: Resource Management 27.8%, Management 26.2%, Economy 24.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends resource management, logistics, and economic strategy with a distinct historical-themed setting.

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

Why similar: Management 46%, Strategy 16.3%, Simulation 14.6%, Economy 14.5%, 2D 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical construction and financial management similar to balancing infrastructure costs in Turmoil.

Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.

Why similar: Mining 61.7% ★, Simulation 13%, Economy 9.8%, Management 6.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses you directly in the gritty, reward-driven world of prospecting and extracting earth's valuable resources.

Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!

Why similar: Mining 47.3% ★, Resource Management 14%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 8.7%, Simulation 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the addictive incremental resource-gathering loop of digging deeper to uncover greater riches.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Mining 56% ★, Resource Management 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on mining, resource extraction, and setting up automated processing systems for profit.

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 26.2%, Capitalism 23.9%, Economy 21.2%, Time Management 12.6%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an expansive business simulation where you build and manage enterprises from scratch in a living city.

Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Why similar: Resource Management 26.4%, Time Management 22.9%, Management 19.1%, Relaxing 11%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your time-management and logistical planning skills through quick, strategic puzzle-like sessions.

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: Capitalism 24.7%, Management 18.9%, Economy 18.1%, Time Management 17.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to manage a growing business, balance resources, and time your releases for maximum market impact.

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: Management 26.6%, Resource Management 16.8%, Economy 15.1%, Capitalism 13.4%, Relaxing 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines light management and layout optimization with a charming, easy-to-learn economic simulation loop.

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: Management 21.6%, Capitalism 18.4%, Economy 14%, Resource Management 13%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers top-down management gameplay where building efficient infrastructure and managing budgets are key.

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Management 32.5%, Strategy 26.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Relaxing 12.9%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes minimalist design and real-time efficiency management reminiscent of Turmoil's pipe-laying mechanics.

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 35%, Resource Management 19.3%, Time Management 13.1%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines building design with micro-management and keeping customers satisfied to grow your business.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Resource Management 42.6%, Strategy 19.4%, Management 17.1%, Economy 13.1%, Simulation 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Tests your resource management under intense pressure and unforgiving temporal constraints.

Manage your own farm in the game Farm Manager 2018! To expand your farm business, produce cheap and sell your products in high prices. Control the process of land cultivation, employ the best staff, buy the most appropriate farm equipment, raise livestock and process the harvested crops.

Why similar: Management 25.7%, Economy 24.3%, Resource Management 22.6%, Strategy 8.5%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on agricultural economics, hiring workers, and optimizing seasonal production cycles for profit.

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

Why similar: Management 58.4%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 10.3%, Multiplayer 4%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a humorous, highly polished simulation experience focused on efficient layout and staff management.

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: Economy 29.3%, Management 29%, Resource Management 13.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges your logistical and financial planning skills by managing a bustling, resource-driven hub.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: Economy 28.1%, Management 26%, Strategy 16.5%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Simulation 10%

Why You'll Like It: Combines political strategy and island economic management with a tongue-in-cheek historical tone.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: Management 29.1%, Strategy 22.2%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Economy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex supply chains, resource trading, and building a thriving empire.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Resource Management 47.1%, Multiplayer 32.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers first-person resource extraction and massive factory automation for optimization enthusiasts.

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Management 33.8%, Economy 21.8%, Simulation 14%, Relaxing 11.9%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Appeals to management fans who enjoy carefully balancing financial ledgers with creative infrastructure building.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Resource Management 41.5%, Management 21.4%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate test of resource logistics and supply chain optimization on an alien planet.

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: Management 30.9%, Economy 22.8%, Resource Management 16.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep city-planning and economic simulation for players who love managing complex logistical grids.

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Strategy 37.6%, Simulation 24.8%, Management 24.8%, Resource Management 6.4%, Multiplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends resource gathering, base building, and survival management in a strategic post-apocalyptic setting.

Fill your quota or die. Mine increasingly absurd amounts of coal using some dubious, but effective, mining techniques. Or relax and mine at your own pace in peaceful mode.

Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Capitalism 16.8%, Time Management 13.7%, Management 13.1%, Economy 11.6%

Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!

Why similar: Mining 34.9% ★, Management 12.9%, Time Management 11.8%, Resource Management 10%, Capitalism 9.4%

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Resource Management 28.9%, Management 25.4%, Simulation 19.4%, Relaxing 10.9%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation, resource management, and cute visuals in a relaxed strategy framework.

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Management 26.2%, Resource Management 20.2%, Economy 18.7%, Strategy 17.7%, Simulation 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features whimsical factory management and production scheduling that mirrors running an efficient operation.

Step into the grit of the early 20th-century oil boom. Build your drilling empire from the dirt up chop timber, maintain rusty machinery, and manage a rugged crew. Strike black gold, overcome ruthless crises, and turn raw earth into an unimaginable fortune. The rush begins now.

Why similar: Resource Management 29.5%, Management 25.4%, Economy 21.4%, Simulation 10.6%, Historical 9.5%

Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!

Why similar: Mining 29.8% ★, Capitalism 16%, Management 13.1%, Economy 12.3%, Resource Management 11.9%

Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Economy 25%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 15.2%, Historical 7.9%

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 20%, Capitalism 15.9%, Time Management 15.2%, Economy 12.7%, Resource Management 12.2%

Drill Deal is a unique simulator in a fun style that will draw you for hours. It's a building simulator like never before. Feel the thrill of a drill hitting underwater oil fields. Sell the precious substance and make your oil rig more efficient.

Why similar: Management 33%, Economy 19%, Resource Management 17.4%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 12.9%

Mine, refine, and sell gemstones in Gemporium, a cute, fast-paced shop management game. Upgrade your tools, expand your store, and master the daily rhythm of digging, polishing, and turning a profit to pay off your debt, one gem at a time.

Why similar: Mining 33.9% ★, Time Management 14.7%, Management 11.7%, Capitalism 11%, Resource Management 10.2%

Car manufacturing company simulator. Turn-based, fast paced, covers 100 years of automotive history.

Why similar: Capitalism 24.2%, Economy 17.1%, Management 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 13%, Resource Management 10.4%

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Simulation 39.8%, Indie 18.5%, Strategy 17.3%, Singleplayer 12.8%, 2D 11.6%

Curious Expedition is a roguelike expedition simulation set in the late 19th century. Together with famous personalities you will venture on unprecedented expeditions to regions never explored before for fame, science and treasures.

Why similar: Turn-Based Strategy 63.7%, Strategy 19.7%, 2D 11.5%, Singleplayer 5.1%

1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.

Why similar: Management 19.1%, Economy 17.1%, Resource Management 15.1%, Capitalism 12%, Strategy 10.9%

Start with one tiny office and a big idea, and grow it into a global computer company. Design your own CPUs, GPUs and laptops, launch your own OS, and outsmart your rivals. A laid-back tycoon that's easy to get into and hard to put down — made by one indie dev.

Why similar: Time Management 21.7%, Capitalism 19.4%, Economy 17.4%, Management 13.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.3%

An explosive combination of mining sim and city builder. Your dream of building your own thriving town starts with few explosive charges and a yellow truck. As you mine the landscape and the money starts to roll in you'll be able to expand your empire, buying buildings, shops and facilities.

Why similar: Mining 28.6% ★, Management 13.6%, Time Management 12.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Capitalism 9.8%

Play solo or co-op with up to 5 players to find oil, store crude, refine fuels, and sell them at gas stations and shop. Dig for gems and fossils, upgrade your gear, lease new land, and dominate the city as the biggest oil supplier!

Why similar: Mining 36.4% ★, Economy 17%, Resource Management 15.8%, Management 15.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%

TerraForge combines deep incremental mining with hands-on shopkeeping. Dig for rare ores, craft legendary gear, decorate your shop, sell and haggle with customers. Adjust to dynamic market trends, and rebuild your town from the ground up.

Why similar: Mining 32.8% ★, Time Management 17.9%, Economy 12.6%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 10.7%

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Why similar: Capitalism 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.8%, Economy 14.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 11.2%

In Oil Enterprise, you enter the multi-million dollar business of black gold as a shrewd businessman. Accept the challenge and grow from a small-scale en-trepreneur, investing in your first oilfield, to a global oil magnate.

Why similar: Management 32.7%, Economy 30%, Strategy 19.1%, Simulation 13.7%, Indie 4.4%

Build and automate a mining operation from the ground down. Survey deposits, extract and refine valuable gems and metals, synthesize high-value composites, hire workers, and ship your products to expanding markets. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.

Why similar: Mining 30.4% ★, Time Management 25.1%, Capitalism 15.3%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 9.6%

Stacklands is a village builder where you stack cards to collect food, build structures, and fight creatures. 🃏 For example, dragging a Villager card on top of a Berry Bush card will spawn Berry cards which the villagers can eat to survive. 🃏 Play your cards right and expand your village!

Why similar: Management 58.5%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 8.9%, 2D 7.8%, Singleplayer 4.1%

Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Why similar: Strategy 58.1%, Simulation 26.5%, Singleplayer 15.4%

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Simulation 48.7%, Strategy 30.1%, Singleplayer 12.8%, Indie 8.4%

Get ready to earn while you learn in Oil Strike ’75, a fun, exciting, and educational new game from Cadal Corp! Run an oil rig and discover new oil deposits at the bottom of the sea – no matter the cost. Who knows what you’ll find in the official prequel to Still Wakes the Deep?

Why similar: Management 29.9%, Capitalism 26.5%, Economy 21.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 4.2%

An incremental mining game, where you mine through massive blocks using guns, fire, lasers and nuclear missiles. Discover new ores, unlock new worlds and weapons as you progress through the upgrades tree and become the ultimate Artillery Miner!

Why similar: Mining 39.8% ★, Management 15.8%, Economy 13.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Relaxing 6.8%

The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Why similar: Strategy 35.7%, Simulation 19.7%, Multiplayer 16.2%, 2D 14.6%, Singleplayer 8.7%

Embrace the technological evolution and build up your hydroelectric empire in Barrage, a turn-based strategy game where players compete to build majestic dams, exploit the power of running water, and bring their faction to victory!

Why similar: Asynchronous Multiplayer 22.4% ★, Resource Management 15%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.8%, Management 14.2%, Capitalism 14%

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Resource Management 44.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Multiplayer 16.7%, PvP 6.5%, PvE 6.2%

Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

Why similar: Mining 29.3% ★, Capitalism 16.1%, Management 13.1%, Economy 12.7%, Resource Management 11.8%

Economic strategy about managing your own brewery and pubs. Brew and sell beer. Ruin your competitors. Become a monopolist in the beer market of the city!

Why similar: Time Management 20.3%, Management 18.3%, Economy 18.3%, Capitalism 13%, Strategy 8.5%