Games Like Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

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: Crafting 34.7%, Management 22.8%, Dark Humor 18.4%, Simulation 10.5%, Story Rich 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the dark humor, crafting, and management loops found in the seed game but in a medieval setting.

Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!

Why similar: Dystopian 42.5%, Simulation 29.7%, Puzzle 22.2%, Singleplayer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive spaceship dismantling and repair simulation that matches the hands-on, high-stakes mechanical work of the seed game.

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: Dystopian 35.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Multiple Endings 12.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Story Rich 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly captures the stressful, satirical, and repetitive nature of a job simulation where every decision carries heavy consequences.

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: Crafting 41.5%, Management 25.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Choices Matter 10.4%, 2D 6%

Why You'll Like It: The hands-on, puzzle-based crafting mechanics mirror the tactile repair process of Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop.

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: Management 48.5%, Simulation 36.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a similar experience of managing a service-based business while performing hands-on repairs and maintenance tasks.

Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?! is a wacky simulation game where you manage your very own weapon shop and expand its business across an incredible potato world.Use your potato smiths to forge weapons and sell them to questing heroes.

Why similar: Management 50%, Crafting 28.7%, Simulation 19.3%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on management and crafting with a quirky, humorous art style that feels very similar to the seed game's tone.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Spaceships 46.9% ★, Roguelite 18.5%, Roguelike 10.5%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite space survival game that requires intense ship management and strategic decision-making.

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Spaceships 66.4% ★, Simulation 18.5%, Roguelike 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: A deep space simulation that emphasizes ship management, survival, and the gritty reality of maintenance.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Why similar: Roguelite 28.8%, Management 28.1%, Roguelike 18.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Adventure 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It effectively balances shop management during the day with roguelite dungeon exploration at night.

Hit the road in this massive sequel to the million-selling Cook, Serve, Delicious series. Manage your food truck, cook delicious dishes and serve customers as you take the road trip of a lifetime across war-torn America.

Why similar: Management 59.7%, Simulation 22.3%, 2D 14.4%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: The high-pressure, task-based management gameplay mirrors the frantic pace required to satisfy customers under a time limit.

In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.

Why similar: Simulation 89.1%, Singleplayer 5.7%, Adventure 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game features the same dark, humorous take on space-based maintenance and cleaning tasks.

Reveal the true value of the items coming into the shop. Each item has their own history. Dig deep to see what is behind them and become an expert appraiser. Begin a tug of war with customers. With their own expectations and knowledge, they never give up on money.

Why similar: Management 21.9%, Dystopian 20.5%, Simulation 14.6%, Choices Matter 13.1%, Story Rich 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that features a strong satirical narrative and deep, choice-driven gameplay.

Be the tax collector of a shady city hall in this narrative-driven resource management game. Talk to debtors, manage a team, make difficult choices, and challenge the city's moral decay. It's their money, but it's your job.

Why similar: Satire 27.8% ★, Narrative 16.5% ★, Management 11.2%, Roguelite 10.7%, Multiple Endings 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A satirical job simulation that uses minigames to manage resources and survive in a harsh environment.

An ironic adventure with cyberpunk aesthetics set in a world where humans have been replaced by dinosaurs. Become a top-notch repair shop mechanic: fix gadgets, have heart-to-heart talks, and offer drinks to your customers — everything to fulfill your ultimate dream.

Why similar: Crafting 29.5%, Management 18.2%, Multiple Endings 10.8%, Choices Matter 10%, Story Rich 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines crafting and management within a unique, story-rich world that shares the seed game's aesthetic charm.

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Management 50.1%, Simulation 26.3%, 2D 20.5%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game features complex submarine management and repair in a hostile, high-pressure environment that requires constant attention.

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 30.7%, Crafting 18.6%, Roguelite 16.4%, Simulation 10.2%, Story Rich 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It masterfully combines management, exploration, and humor into a satisfying gameplay loop.

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

Why similar: Management 64.2%, Simulation 33.1%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A satirical management simulation that uses humor to make complex organizational tasks engaging and fun.

Deep Sixed is a roguelike space sim that will force you to use strategy, ingenuity and duct tape to keep your ship (and your skull) in one piece as you risk exploring a mysterious nebula protected by dangerous alien creatures.

Why similar: Simulation 29%, Roguelite 22.6%, Adventure 16.6%, Roguelike 11.1%, Choices Matter 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on space survival and ship maintenance under constant threat, mirroring the seed game's pressure-filled mechanics.

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 40.6%, Story Rich 18.6%, Simulation 17.5%, Atmospheric 11%, 2D 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers deep management and survival mechanics with dark humor and emergent storytelling.

In a world where robots have replaced all human jobs, step into the "Job Simulator" to learn what it was like 'to job'.

Why similar: Simulation 72.8%, Atmospheric 17.8%, Singleplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential job-based simulation game that leans heavily into satire and interactive, task-based gameplay.

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: Management 37.6%, Roguelite 27.5%, Atmospheric 16.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation with dark themes and satirical undertones that require careful resource balancing.

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: Management 37.6%, Choices Matter 16.5%, Story Rich 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Atmospheric 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that focuses on training and resource allocation with a humorous, retro-inspired narrative.

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 66%, Simulation 27.2%, 2D 4%, Singleplayer 2.3%, Adventure 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that focuses on building a business through iterative design and resource management.

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

Why similar: Management 62.6%, Simulation 27.2%, 2D 7.5%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A complex management simulation that focuses on building and maintaining a functional structure.

Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!

Why similar: Management 53.5%, Simulation 21.7%, Choices Matter 11.5%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management and crafting simulation that features a quirky aesthetic and deep business-building mechanics.

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 75.1%, Simulation 22.2%, Singleplayer 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep management simulation that allows for extensive control over running various types of businesses.

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: Management 56%, Simulation 29%, Singleplayer 7.4%, Adventure 3.9%, 2D 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic shop management game that incorporates dungeon-crawling elements to source your inventory.

Shop Titans is the ultimate RPG shopkeeper simulation. Craft powerful equipment, stock your shop and sell to aspiring heroes… at a markup! Hire heroes and explore dungeons to gather valuable materials to craft with. There’s never a dull moment in the world of Shop Titans!

Why similar: Crafting 42.8%, Management 40.1%, Simulation 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management and crafting game that focuses on customer interaction and inventory expansion.

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 48.6%, Crafting 33.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Adventure 6.1%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management and crafting game that offers a task-oriented gameplay loop in a cozy, yet demanding, setting.

In 1980, you land a teller job at Kertasia Bank thanks to your distant uncle. But the bank follows bizarre rules set by a foolish government. Face strict policies, tough customers, and moral choices while saving for your mom’s medical bills. Your fate is in your hands.

Why similar: Satire 18.2% ★, Narrative 15.4% ★, Dystopian 15%, Dark Humor 14.8%, Choices Matter 7.2%

Social welfare survival horror based on real events. Endure emotional pain and societal pressure. Stay entertained. Survive the routine and become the hero of your studio apartment—battle inner demons, hide skeletons in the closet, and most importantly… keep the bathroom clean.

Why similar: Dark Humor 30.4%, Roguelite 10.8%, Story Rich 10.5%, Surreal 10.2%, Simulation 9.2%

NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.

Why similar: Management 32%, Dystopian 30.5%, Simulation 20.6%, Dark Humor 16.9%

Gamestonk is the first roguelite shop simulator. Manage the last videogame store in town, keep up with the latest releases, trade smuggled retros, select your modifiers strategically, hire workers, and deal with pesky shoplifters.

Why similar: Management 33.1%, Roguelite 29.6%, Roguelike 19.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?

Why similar: Satire 54.7% ★, Management 19.9%, Simulation 12.3%, Story Rich 5.5%, 2D 5.4%

Build your own furniture empire after getting fired from Furnox Corp 🖕. Chop down trees, process wood, automate your growing production lines and sell clever furniture sets for bonus cash. Explore a handcrafted world packed with weirdos, secrets and trees begging for violence.

Why similar: Crafting 58%, Simulation 19.7%, Atmospheric 19%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Run a quaint electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo. Grow your business by carefully restoring iconic video game consoles, cell phones, music players, and other nostalgic devices. Talk to customers, hear their stories, and see how your decisions impact both their lives and your shop.

Why similar: Management 32.7%, Crafting 25.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Multiple Endings 8.7%, Choices Matter 8.7%

Become a dishonest computer repairman, steal rams. Burn the motherboards!

Why similar: Simulation 74.2%, Multiple Endings 22.5%, Singleplayer 3.4%

A dark and satirical management sim, where you take control of a recycling factory with a twist: it recycles humans. Your job is to decide who gets to escape our dying planet in a cozy spaceship and who sacrifices their blood, sweat and tears for humanity. Literally.

Why similar: Dystopian 26.7%, Management 19.1%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 9.7%

NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.

Why similar: Dark Humor 35.4%, Management 31%, Dystopian 23.3%, Simulation 10.3%

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you - only creaking metal echoes and endless dark. Overcome random events, system failures, and the downward spiral of your sanity to see your mission through.

Why similar: Dark Humor 22.7%, Roguelite 15.5%, Management 11.6%, Choices Matter 8.9%, Story Rich 8.6%

In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.

Why similar: Management 31.2%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Story Rich 11.2%, Atmospheric 11%

Become a phone repair technician, get the opportunity to look into the personal data of customers. Influence their destinies if you dare!

Why similar: Satire 27.4% ★, Management 23.1%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Choices Matter 10.9%, Story Rich 9.7%

Fight, Scavenge, Survive, and File Your Taxes. A grim yet hilarious space strategy roguelite where you must balance hull integrity against your company's relentless profit margins. Warning: Contains lethal doses of dark humor and corporate exploitation.

Why similar: Dark Humor 28.5%, Management 19.9%, Roguelite 18.9%, Roguelike 13%, Story Rich 9.9%

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: Multiple Endings 16.2%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Management 15.5%, Dark Humor 13.2%, Simulation 9.5%

Run your own hot dog shop in the foggy town of Grimshore. Cook and serve by day, solve your meat shortage by night, and try not to ask too many questions. How far will you go to keep the grill running?

Why similar: Dark Humor 31.4%, Simulation 18.5%, Management 18.1%, Adventure 12.1%, Atmospheric 11.1%

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door. Each decision you make, whether it is to let in a stranger, to use your resources on something, or to risk the safety of the bunker.

Why similar: Dystopian 28%, Choices Matter 14.6%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Puzzle 11.2%, Story Rich 11%

Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!

Why similar: Crafting 54.4%, Story Rich 15.6%, Adventure 12.9%, 2D 10.9%, Simulation 5.4%

Meat shop simulator where you play as a ZOMBIE! Sell meat to humans by day, butcher them by night, and manage a dark business through stealth and resource management all while eating BRA-A-A-INS!

Why similar: Management 27.5%, Dark Humor 27%, Crafting 21.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Atmospheric 8.5%

An absurd backyard bomb-building simulator. Raise funds, plan your approach, hunt down rare parts, and assemble your atomic masterpiece while staying calm and avoiding suspicion from nosy neighbors and federal agents.

Why similar: Dark Humor 31.9%, Crafting 28.3%, Simulation 15.7%, Management 14.5%, Adventure 8.5%

Rise of Gun - immerses you in a world of zombie apocalypse as a gun store owner. Buy parts, craft, sell, upgrade your store and hire workers. Help to humanity survive

Why similar: Dark Humor 32.7%, Management 26.6%, Crafting 26.1%, Atmospheric 8.8%, Adventure 5.8%

Check it, clean it, sort it, ship it. Welcome to the life of a cash cleaner. Take jobs from underworld contacts and clean some cash. Just don't try to leave...

Why similar: Dark Humor 39.3%, Management 30.5%, Multiple Endings 16.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%

The Majority of People navigate progress, politics and preposterous propulsive plans in this satirical point-and-click adventure. Featuring highly debatable democracy, problematic project managers and the belief that Anthony's underdeveloped prefrontal cortex will lead to your salvation!

Why similar: Satire 36.5% ★, Dark Humor 21.8%, Surreal 9.8%, Story Rich 8.5%, Choices Matter 8.2%

Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.

Why similar: Roguelite 28.7%, Crafting 26.5%, Roguelike 20.2%, Simulation 13.2%, 2D 8.5%

The Test: Reality Check is one of multiple installments in an ongoing social experiment that can be classified as an atmospheric, psychological-simulation with horror elements. Dive deep into your own psyche to find answers to questions you've kept locked away, hidden from yourself for far too long.

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.7%, Roguelite 17.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Surreal 11.2%

Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers. Experience the challenge of managing a business in space and growing your market

Why similar: Management 66%, Simulation 30.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%

Escape from an incredibly dangerous, randomly generated tower in a slapstick, roguelite adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!

Why similar: Dark Humor 51%, Roguelite 29.1%, 2D 10%, Adventure 9.8%

Alchemy with patients' lives and health insurance! A quack doctor simulation game. DON'T imitate any of this!

Why similar: Dark Humor 24.3%, Management 23.9%, Satire 12.2% ★, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Story Rich 9.3%

A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!

Why similar: Dark Humor 27.8%, Roguelite 21.9%, Roguelike 15.5%, Surreal 11.5%, Multiple Endings 10.8%

In Idle Weaponshop, you are handed your very own weapon shop to manage. Design and sell weapons, build up your local community, hire employees, and send adventurers off into danger for fun and profit... all before prestiging to earn powerful bonuses, all so you can do it all over again.

Why similar: Management 42.7%, Crafting 22.3%, Simulation 22.2%, 2D 10.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%