Games Like Turmoil

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 27.8%, Management 23%, Resource Management 22.9%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the most direct thematic and mechanical DNA with Turmoil, focusing on oil extraction and management in a stylized environment.

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 25.3%, Economy 23.5%, Resource Management 17.8%, Capitalism 13.3%, Strategy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title provides a complex, satisfying economic simulation that rewards players for optimizing supply chains and resource extraction.

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 17%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 10%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the addictive 'one more turn' management loop found in Turmoil as you grow your business from humble beginnings.

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 55.8% ★, Resource Management 18.2%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, satisfying loop of mining for resources and building automated systems to maximize your profits.

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Management 34.2%, Economy 20.8%, Resource Management 16.8%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Turmoil, this game requires careful logistics and efficiency management to succeed in a competitive economic market.

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 26.8%, Time Management 22.7%, Management 19.2%, Relaxing 11%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on time-management and efficiency, requiring you to carefully plan and execute logistics under pressure.

DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

Why similar: Management 49.9%, Relaxing 24.4%, Simulation 12%, 2D 6.7%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a highly engaging loop of resource gathering and management wrapped in a charming, humorous aesthetic.

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 17.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Capitalism 11.9%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Set during the California Gold Rush, this game mirrors the historical resource-management and expansion themes of Turmoil.

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

Why similar: Management 46.1%, Strategy 16.2%, Economy 14.6%, Simulation 14.6%, 2D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building and managing a complex structure, requiring careful resource allocation and strategic planning.

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 27.9% ★, Capitalism 16.8%, Time Management 13.7%, Management 13.1%, Economy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct take on the mining and management genre, focusing on the economic realities of running a resource extraction business.

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 17%, Economy 15.2%, Capitalism 13.3%, Relaxing 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim focuses on optimizing space and resources to maintain a successful business, mirroring the strategic planning of Turmoil.

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 34.5% ★, Management 13%, Time Management 11.8%, Resource Management 10%, Capitalism 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy-heavy mining game focuses on underground resource management and operational expansion.

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

Why similar: Management 58.6%, Simulation 21.9%, Strategy 10.2%, Multiplayer 4%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: It brings a humorous, tongue-in-cheek tone to the management genre while requiring precise logistical planning.

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 25.2%, Strategy 19.9%, Simulation 15.1%, Historical 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It blends management and simulation with a historical setting, requiring you to handle resources and logistics during transit.

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Management 32%, Economy 23.2%, Resource Management 18.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the automation and efficiency aspects of management, challenging you to optimize your production processes.

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon.

Why similar: Time Management 45.9%, Management 37.7%, Simulation 9.8%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game is a masterclass in time-management and resource allocation, forcing you to balance training, work, and social needs.

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 28.1%, Management 26.1%, Economy 24.9%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy game features a unique economic management loop that requires balancing expansion with market control.

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: Economy 32.7%, Management 31.1%, Simulation 16.8%, Relaxing 14.1%, Singleplayer 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the hands-on management of a service business, requiring you to balance customer needs with operational efficiency.

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 12.5%, Resource Management 11.6%, Capitalism 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the spirit of the 19th-century boomtown era with a focus on simulation and strategy.

Recettear is the story of an item shop, the girl who lives in it, and the fairy who turned her life upside down. Recette Lemongrass finds herself in charge of an item shop built into her house, in order to pay back a loan her father took and then skipped out on - and Tear, her newfound fairy "companion", won't take no for an answer!

Why similar: Capitalism 69.7%, Management 15.7%, Simulation 5.9%, Strategy 2.9%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines shop management with resource gathering, offering a charming and addictive economic gameplay loop.

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 21.5%, Capitalism 19.5%, Resource Management 17.3%, Relaxing 14.2%, Historical 10%

Why You'll Like It: The game features a unique, tactile approach to resource management and crafting within a charming, stylized world.

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 48.8%, Strategy 30.1%, Singleplayer 12.7%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: While physics-based, it shares the satisfying 'planning and execution' loop found in Turmoil's drilling phases.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Economy 23.8%, Management 23%, Resource Management 21.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the logistics of manufacturing and business growth, perfect for fans of Turmoil's upgrade-focused progression.

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%, Economy 24%, Capitalism 21.4%, Multiplayer 8%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic tycoon experience that focuses on scaling your business through smart investment and management.

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 24.5%, Management 18.9%, Economy 18.4%, Time Management 17.4%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This deep management sim allows for extensive control over your business operations and physical workspace design.

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 47.2% ★, Resource Management 14.2%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This incremental game focuses on the core appeal of mining and upgrading, offering a relaxing, long-term progression loop.

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 20.2%, Economy 18.4%, Management 18.3%, Capitalism 13%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A focused management simulation that tasks you with mastering the economy and production of a specific craft.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Multiplayer 36.7%, Strategy 32.3%, Simulation 21.9%, Singleplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While a different genre, it shares the minimalist, resource-focused management loop that makes Turmoil so addictive.

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: Strategy 22.2%, Resource Management 17.4%, Simulation 14.8%, Economy 13.5%, Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a challenging resource-management experience that requires careful planning to survive and grow.

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 33.9%, Economy 22%, Simulation 14%, Relaxing 11.8%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers deep management tools and creative freedom, appealing to those who enjoy building and optimizing systems.

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 29.7% ★, Capitalism 15.9%, Management 13.1%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 12.1%

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 33.8% ★, Time Management 14.6%, Management 11.7%, Capitalism 11%, Resource Management 10.4%

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 15.8%, Time Management 15.2%, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 12.4%

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 32.9%, Economy 19.1%, Resource Management 17.7%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12.8%

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

Why similar: Capitalism 24.2%, Economy 17.3%, Management 14.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.9%, Resource Management 10.6%

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 18.3%, Economy 14.1%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 9.5%

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 32.6%, Strategy 26.3%, Simulation 14.4%, Relaxing 12.9%, 2D 5.6%

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 12.9%, Economy 10%, Management 6.2%, Singleplayer 2.9%

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

Why similar: Capitalism 15.8%, Economy 14.9%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Resource Management 12.4%, Management 11.2%

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 21.6%, Capitalism 19.4%, Economy 17.7%, Management 13%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.1%

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 30.3%, Strategy 19%, Simulation 13.6%, Indie 4.3%

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 15.3%

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 22.3% ★, Resource Management 15.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.7%, Management 14.2%, Capitalism 13.9%

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 29.2% ★, Capitalism 16%, Management 13.1%, Economy 12.8%, Resource Management 12%

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 63.6%, Strategy 19.8%, 2D 11.6%, Singleplayer 5%

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 30%, Capitalism 26.4%, Economy 21.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Singleplayer 4.1%

TerraForge is a mining simulation game mixed with a bit of shop management. You dig for ores, craft items, research new blueprints, improve your shop, sell your items and slowly grow your own little mining town.

Why similar: Mining 32.7% ★, Time Management 17.7%, Economy 12.7%, Management 11.9%, Resource Management 10.9%

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 19.5%, Time Management 13.1%, Simulation 9.6%, Strategy 7.7%

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 58.7%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 8.9%, 2D 7.7%, Singleplayer 4.1%

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 36.2% ★, Economy 17.1%, Resource Management 16%, Management 15.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Turns raw rock into valuable minerals and jewelry grade gemstones through a hands on production chain. Mine ore, crush it into fragments, refine it, and scale your operation with better machines and smarter workflow. Optimize every stage of the pipeline to maximize efficiency, quality, and profit.

Why similar: Mining 30.5% ★, Time Management 25.1%, Capitalism 15.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 9.6%

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Management 34.7%, Resource Management 29.6%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 7.2%, 2D 5.6%

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 43%, Strategy 19.2%, Management 17%, Economy 13.2%, Simulation 5.4%

Fracture Field is an idle/incremental quarry mining game. Shatter rocks with timed swings then invest your earnings into upgrades. Build a fleet of drones to automate your empire, bomb tough layers, and unlock powerful prestige upgrades on your journey to master the quarry.

Why similar: Mining 44.9% ★, Resource Management 16.8%, Management 11.7%, Economy 8.1%, Relaxing 7%

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 30.9%, Economy 22.1%, Management 20.4%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 6.9%

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 39.9%, Indie 18.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Singleplayer 12.8%, 2D 11.6%

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: Asynchronous Multiplayer 19.1% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Economy 12%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10.5%

Ore Factory Squad is a co-op mining and factory-building game with procedural mining and fun at its core! Play alone or with friends, buy properties, dig deep for valuable resources, complete contracts, upgrade and automate production lines and grow your factory from zero to industry!

Why similar: Mining 46.9% ★, Capitalism 13.3%, Management 13%, Economy 12.2%, Resource Management 7.1%

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: Economy 24.8%, Management 23.3%, Historical 17.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Strategy 11.1%