- #1 Two Point Campus
97% matchVery Positive88% of 8,220 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: Management 29.1%, Building 20.4%, Simulation 13.3%, City Builder 7.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the closest mechanical sibling, replacing hospitals with customizable universities while retaining the same humorous tone, staff management, room building, and campaign structure.
- #2 Project Hospital
96% matchVery Positive89% of 9,400 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Why similar: Medical Sim 54.2% ★, Management 15.2%, Building 9.8%, Simulation 7.1%, City Builder 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: This is a deeper and more realistic hospital-management simulation centered on designing departments, hiring specialists, diagnosing patients, and solving hospital bottlenecks.
- #3 Two Point Museum
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 13,533 reviews2025
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Why similar: Building 23.6%, Management 20.1%, Simulation 16.1%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: From the same studio, it applies the accessible Two Point formula of constructing rooms, staffing facilities, and handling visitor needs to a comedic museum setting.
- #4 Galacticare
94% matchVery Positive86% of 662 reviews2024
Dev: Brightrock GamesPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses - for money! Save the (literal) Galaxy in story mode, or head into sandbox to design the hospital of your dreams.
Why similar: Medical Sim 55.1% ★, Management 15.1%, Building 13.6%, Simulation 7.7%, Funny 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its eccentric sci-fi hospitals, unusual illnesses, room layouts, and story-driven objectives strongly echo Two Point Hospital's comic medical-management appeal.
- #5 Fable Hospital
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: AMGames TC
Windows
Fable Hospital is a medieval hospital management simulator with a touch of fantasy and humor. Cure hilarious diseases, manage an eccentric team, and gather resources in a world full of satire and fun.
Why similar: Medical Sim 54.1% ★, Management 13.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Building 7.7%, Sandbox 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a themed hospital-management experience focused on expanding a medical facility, assigning staff, and treating patients within a fantasy setting.
- #6 Big Pharma
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,939 reviews2015
Dev: Twice CircledPub: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Medical Sim 56% ★, Management 18.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Building 6.7%, Sandbox 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: Rather than managing wards, you design and optimize medicine-production lines, making it an excellent healthcare-themed management game for players who enjoy efficiency puzzles.
- #7 Planet Coaster
92% matchVery Positive91% of 72,226 reviews2016
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Building 28.6%, Management 26.9%, Simulation 17.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Funny 5.2%
Why You'll Like It: Its intuitive construction tools and guest-focused park operations deliver the same creative facility-building satisfaction on a much larger entertainment scale.
- #8 Let's School
91% matchVery Positive93% of 7,470 reviews2023
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!
Why similar: Medical Sim 41.6% ★, Management 15.9%, Building 11.5%, Simulation 7.5%, City Builder 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the satisfying loop of laying out functional rooms, recruiting staff, managing schedules, and growing a charming institution through a campaign.
- #9 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
91% matchMostly Positive79% of 932 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?
Why similar: Management 23.2%, Building 18%, Simulation 14%, Sandbox 7.8%, Comedy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Build and run a busy emergency-services headquarters, balancing specialized rooms, personnel, vehicles, and escalating public-safety demands.
- #10 Project Highrise
90% matchVery Positive85% of 4,823 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 37.2%, Building 27.9%, Simulation 19%, Sandbox 5.7%, Strategy 5.5%
Why You'll Like It: You construct and operate a high-rise full of specialized rooms, tenants, services, and logistics, with strong emphasis on spatial planning.
- #11 Parkitect
89% matchVery Positive94% of 8,154 reviews2018
Dev: Texel Raptor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
Why similar: Management 27.6%, Building 24.3%, Simulation 14.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, City Builder 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: This theme-park builder emphasizes efficient layouts, staff logistics, guest happiness, and a cheerful stylized presentation reminiscent of Two Point's charm.
- #12 Megaquarium
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,794 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 31.2%, Building 29.1%, Simulation 17.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Strategy 2.7%
Why You'll Like It: Designing exhibits, managing staff, caring for animals, and keeping visitors happy makes this a relaxed but surprisingly detailed facility-management alternative.
- #13 Fun Hospital
89% matchMixed64% of 614 reviews2018
Dev: OrangesGame Technology Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 32.4 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Build your own theme hospital! Here, you might meet patients with a lot of hair, or no hair; strange aliens, evil guy, super hero…
Why similar: Medical Sim 74.5% ★, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 5.8%, Indie 1.8%, Casual 1.8%
Why You'll Like It: Its lighthearted hospital-building gameplay, colorful presentation, and focus on treating quirky patients make it a casual thematic match.
- #14 Prison Architect
87% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26%, Building 25.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9%
Why You'll Like It: Although its theme is darker, its room-by-room construction, staff deployment, prisoner flow, and emergent operational problems closely match the management side of Two Point Hospital.
- #15 Planet Zoo
84% matchVery Positive91% of 97,899 reviews2019
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 31.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Why similar: Management 34%, Building 24.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, City Builder 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: This detailed zoo builder combines attractive construction tools with staff management, guest needs, animal care, and long-term organizational growth.
- #16 Little Big Workshop
85% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 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: Management 28.9%, Simulation 26.5%, Building 21.6%, Strategy 8.2%, Sandbox 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: Its colorful miniature style and hands-on production-floor organization make it a charming choice for players who enjoy optimizing rooms and workers.
- #17 Hospital Manager
86% matchMixed46% of 255 reviews2015
Dev: CCCPPub: Microids Indie
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Experience something novel, bursting with extraordinary phenomena and strange situations in your hospital! Only you have the power to make the best decisions and to make your hospital the most popular one! But beware: Several events will add some spice to your life! Embark on the career of your life!
Why similar: Medical Sim 67.1% ★, Management 23.5%, Simulation 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: This is a straightforward hospital-management option centered on developing a medical facility and handling the practical needs of patients and staff.
- #18 SimAirport
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,050 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Management 29.7%, Building 25.3%, Simulation 13.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It turns facility logistics into the main challenge, with detailed terminal planning, staff workflows, queues, and passenger satisfaction to manage.
- #19 Hospitalize
86% matchMostly Negative40% of 171 reviews2016
Dev: Illeris
Windows
Find the most effective way to construct and manage a hospital. Build your hospital smart and avoid excess time and resources consumed by examining your patients unnecessary. You can choose to micromanage your patients or hope that your doctors are able to identify the cause of their symptoms.
Why similar: Simulation 53.2%, Management 41%, Indie 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This hospital tycoon game focuses on organizing departments, managing employees, and keeping an expanding healthcare operation functioning efficiently.
- #20 Game Dev Tycoon
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 45,135 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.5 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 56.8%, Simulation 27.4%, Strategy 4.8%, Sandbox 3.1%, Indie 2.1%
Why You'll Like It: While much simpler in scale, its playful progression from a small operation to a complex business will appeal to players who enjoy accessible management campaigns.
- #21 Evil Genius 2: World Domination
82% matchMixed69% of 13,253 reviews2021
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!
Why similar: Management 29.9%, Building 27.6%, Simulation 19.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Sandbox 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: Designing a lair, assigning minions, managing specialized rooms, and coping with escalating disruptions offers a more mischievous take on facility management.
- #22 Academia : School Simulator
82% matchVery Positive81% of 3,240 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Management 30.5%, Building 23%, Simulation 13.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Build a school from individual classrooms and facilities while balancing student needs, staff, budgets, and daily operations.
- #23 Jurassic World Evolution
81% matchVery Positive87% of 55,314 reviews2018
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 28.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Why similar: Building 32%, Management 29.8%, Simulation 16.5%, Sandbox 9.1%, City Builder 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished campaign of building attractions, employing scientists, managing visitor expectations, and responding to unpredictable operational crises.
- #24 Airport CEO
81% matchVery Positive83% of 8,359 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Management 31.8%, Building 25.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Sandbox 11%, City Builder 9%
Why You'll Like It: Running an airport requires careful terminal layout, employee management, passenger routing, and constant expansion under growing demand.
- #25 The Tenants
80% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,782 reviews2022
Dev: EndGameLoop Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Why similar: Management 34.1%, Building 26.6%, City Builder 11.7%, Simulation 11%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Its management loop revolves around designing usable spaces, responding to occupant problems, improving properties, and expanding a service business.
- #26 Tavern Master
79% matchVery Positive92% of 13,319 reviews2021
Dev: Untitled Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 12.0 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: Management 41.2%, Building 29%, Simulation 18.4%, City Builder 5.4%, Strategy 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: You expand and decorate a service business while hiring workers, arranging functional spaces, and keeping a growing stream of customers satisfied.
- #27 Hotel Architect
77% matchVery Positive94% of 2,389 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: Management 25.9%, Building 22.5%, Simulation 13.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, City Builder 9.6%
- #28 RimWorld
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 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: Management 31.7%, Building 20.9%, Simulation 16%, Sandbox 12.8%, City Builder 9%
Why You'll Like It: Its emergent staff needs, construction planning, medical crises, and unpredictable disasters make it a more demanding but deeply satisfying management sandbox.
- #29 Another Brick in The Mall
79% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Management 36.3%, Building 26%, Simulation 16.4%, City Builder 8.2%, Sandbox 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: Build and automate a shopping complex, balancing retail layouts, employee workflows, supply chains, and customer traffic.
- #30 Recipe for Disaster
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 729 reviews2022
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Recipe for Disaster is a management sim that captures the fast-paced, drama-filled environment of a professional kitchen and dining room. Build your dream restaurant, create recipes, design menus and manage your staff, all while contending with demanding customers and disastrous situations!
Why similar: Management 39.5%, Building 26.2%, Simulation 17.9%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 4%
Why You'll Like It: Managing a restaurant kitchen's staff, menus, layouts, and chaotic orders captures the hectic but humorous operational problem-solving of Two Point Hospital.
- #31 Cities: Skylines
77% matchVery Positive93% of 292,422 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Building 25.4%, Management 23.7%, City Builder 18%, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #32 Tropico 6
76% matchVery Positive88% of 29,546 reviews2019
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 27.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
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: Management 29.3%, Simulation 18.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.1%
- #33 Planet Coaster 2
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 14,789 reviews2024
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 31.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
Why similar: Building 27.3%, Simulation 21.3%, Management 17%, Sandbox 12.8%, City Builder 10.1%
- #34 Doctor Dash ASMR Hospital
75% matchVery Positive88% of 99 reviews2024
Dev: Friedegggames OUPub: Brightika, Inc.
Windows
💊 Your dream hospital awaits! 🏥❤️ Addictive levels and unique locations ✈️ Hours of entertainment in the time-management genre ⏰
Why similar: Medical Sim 68.4% ★, Management 14.8%, Simulation 13.7%, Casual 1.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #35 Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
75% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2021
Dev: Squidpunch StudiosPub: Vincent Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.
Why similar: Management 26%, Building 21.4%, Simulation 13.2%, City Builder 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #36 Let's Build a Zoo
74% matchVery Positive89% of 4,118 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Why similar: Management 29.6%, Building 22.2%, Simulation 19.9%, City Builder 11.2%, Sandbox 11.2%
- #37 Healing Spree
76% matchMixed55% of 106 reviews2021
Dev: ParoPub: Milk Bottle Studio
Windows
Healing Spree is a tongue-in-cheek hospital simulator featuring co-op for up to 4 players. Play as doctors on call to diagnose, help, and treat as many patients as humanly possible while maintaining your sanity AND friendships!
Why similar: Medical Sim 73.7% ★, Simulation 8.8%, Funny 5.9%, Comedy 4.8%, Strategy 4.4%
- #38 PC Building Simulator
73% matchVery Positive93% of 52,766 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 39.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Why similar: Building 27.7%, Simulation 26.6%, Management 26%, Sandbox 9.8%, Funny 6.1%
- #39 Prescribe and Pray
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 81 reviews2026
Dev: Nuclear Rabbits
Windows
Awaken the incompetent doctor within you! Diagnose strange patients, examine their absurd symptoms… and prescribe treatments that could change their lives… or cut them short. Your actions will have consequences.
Why similar: Medical Sim 69% ★, Management 13.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Comedy 7%, Singleplayer 1.2%
- #40 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
73% matchVery Positive92% of 5,245 reviews2008
Dev: Frontier
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.
Why similar: Management 34.3%, Building 22.3%, Simulation 20%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 3.3%
- #41 Prison Tycoon®: Under New Management
73% matchMixed62% of 184 reviews2021
Dev: Abylight StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management
Why similar: Medical Sim 40.1% ★, Management 20.5%, Building 16.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 5.6%
- #42 CURE - A Hospital Simulator
69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,000 reviews2025
Dev: Sentinel Games
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Manage the night shift of an ER during the apocalypse, solo or with friends online: Diagnose patients. Design and grow your hospital, and defend against the undead while treating the living. If you're a creator, connect the game to Twitch and make the audience your patients for even more fun!
Why similar: Medical Sim 70.3% ★, Management 19.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Multiplayer 1.4%
- #43 Town to City
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,135 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: Building 27.4%, Management 24.9%, City Builder 16.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #44 RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
71% matchVery Positive94% of 8,330 reviews2014
Dev: Chris Sawyer ProductionsPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 54%
One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!
Why similar: Management 35.3%, Simulation 21.3%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Classic 5.8% ★
- #45 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
71% matchVery Positive90% of 5,872 reviews2014
Dev: Chris Sawyer ProductionsPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 38%
This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.
Why similar: Management 36.7%, Simulation 20.1%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 9%, Classic 6% ★
- #46 Doctor Life Simulator
70% matchMixed64% of 141 reviews2025
Dev: Bleeding Edge StudioPub: Blackburne Games Studio FZ LLC
Windows
Step into the shoes of a dedicated medical professional in Doctor Life Simulator. Experience the challenges and triumphs of running your own medical practice, from diagnosing complex illnesses to performing life-saving surgeries.
Why similar: Medical Sim 61.7% ★, Management 16.7%, Simulation 9.7%, Building 9.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #47 Go-Go Town!
66% matchVery Positive93% of 2,784 reviews2026
Dev: Prideful Sloth
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
Why similar: Management 26%, Building 23.4%, Simulation 14.3%, City Builder 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #48 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
70% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: Management 30.2%, Building 23.7%, Simulation 13%, City Builder 10.5%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #49 RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
69% matchVery Positive87% of 3,024 reviews2020
Dev: Frontier DevelopmentsPub: Atari
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
Why similar: Management 31.8%, Building 24.2%, Simulation 13.1%, City Builder 9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #50 Heart's Medicine - Hospital Heat
70% matchVery Positive96% of 366 reviews2017
Dev: Blue GiraffePub: GameHouse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
The long awaited sequel to "Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal". An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring doctor at Little Creek Hospital!
Why similar: Medical Sim 83.3% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Indie 1.6%, Casual 1.5%
- #51 Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 330 reviews2019
Dev: Jarrod Brown
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.
Why similar: Medical Sim 45.6% ★, Management 15.8%, Building 14.3%, Simulation 8.6%, Sandbox 6.2%
- #52 My Time at Portia
68% matchVery Positive91% of 44,320 reviews2019
Dev: Pathea GamesPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 36.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!
Why similar: Building 40.1%, Simulation 33.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Singleplayer 3.3%, Casual 3%
- #53 Graveyard Keeper
69% matchVery Positive85% of 56,175 reviews2018
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 37.2%, Building 24.1%, Simulation 20.2%, Sandbox 14.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%
- #54 Mini Motorways
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,480 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Management 35.2%, Simulation 23.8%, Building 18.3%, Strategy 9.9%, City Builder 6.1%
- #55 Parkasaurus
68% matchVery Positive93% of 3,179 reviews2020
Dev: Washbear Studio
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Why similar: Management 28.3%, Building 22%, Simulation 12.5%, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #56 Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal
68% matchVery Positive94% of 884 reviews2016
Dev: Blue GiraffePub: GameHouse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
An intense, but also funny, medical drama that deals with a lot of life-changing decisions. Become an aspiring surgeon at Little Creek Hospital!
Why similar: Medical Sim 86.7% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Casual 1.6%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #57 Park Beyond
67% matchMixed63% of 1,331 reviews2023
Dev: Limbic EntertainmentPub: Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Park Beyond is a theme park simulation game that gives you the freedom to create and manage the Parks of your Dreams! Whether you love to manage finances and visitor experience, or just create fun and cozy parks, the game has something in store just for you!
Why similar: Management 29.6%, Building 25.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Sandbox 10.6%, Funny 5.4%
- #58 Indoorlands
66% matchVery Positive81% of 279 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!
Why similar: Management 29.4%, Building 24.7%, Simulation 16%, Sandbox 7.9%, City Builder 7.2%