Games Like Urban Entrepreneur

Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Capitalism 15.8%, Automation 15.5%, Time Management 13.5%, Economy 11.5%

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Capitalism 14.3%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Economy 11.3%, Time Management 9.1%, Automation 8%

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: Colony Sim 19.2%, Capitalism 11%, Base Building 9.3%, Building 9.3%, Management 9.1%

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: Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Capitalism 12.8%, Management 12.3%, Economy 10.1%

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: Colony Sim 17.9%, Capitalism 16%, Economy 11.1%, Management 9.4%, Moddable 8.9%

Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Economy 13.8%, Capitalism 13.4%, Management 10.9%, Time Management 10.3%

Build and manage a top-secret facility. House mysterious creatures and dangerous inmates in this sandbox management game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3%, Moddable 12%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 9.3%, Time Management 9.2%

Smooth Operators is a classic Tycoon/Simulator game where you are the Building Architect, Hiring Manager, and Business Developer! Expand your building, Hire employees, and manage your own customer service company and lead it to financial success! But for gods sake - Keep your employees happy!

Why similar: Capitalism 18.6%, Automation 15.4%, Economy 11%, Management 10.4%, Time Management 8.7%

Create a confectionery empire in Sweets Inc, the business management simulation game where you take the helm of your very own sweets manufacturing company. Design delectable treats, build and manage your factories, and market your products across the continent to become an industry tycoon!

Why similar: Automation 15.5%, Economy 13.7%, Management 12.8%, Building 11.5%, Capitalism 10.7%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Capitalism 13.9%, Moddable 13.3%, Automation 11.1%, Economy 9.6%, Management 8.5%

Factory Automation game that takes simulation to new heights! Dive into a world where you have the power to turn your small CPU factory into a world-leading factory, becoming a pillar in the global economy.

Why similar: Automation 18.4%, Economy 14.3%, Capitalism 14.2%, Base Building 10.5%, Time Management 8.5%

Run your own backpacker hostel in this cozy management sim. Start from humble beginnings and grow your hostel to be the most legendary, or infamous, spot in town. Host influencers, pub crawls, and complete local-themed sponsorships to build your fame and achieve that prestigious 10/10 rating.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, Capitalism 15%, Management 13.2%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 9.1%

Build and manage your own TV station. License shows, create schedules, attract viewers, sell advertising, grow your audience, and compete for the top spot in the ratings in this broadcasting management tycoon.

Why similar: Capitalism 24%, Time Management 20.4%, Economy 15.6%, Building 11.7%, Management 10.1%

Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Capitalism 19.5%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.6%, Base Building 9.5%

Build a bottle-cap factory, automate the line, and survive quarterly reviews from investors who judge you on a single number. A satirical factory-management roguelite: hit their KPI, buy back every share, and show them the door.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.5%, Automation 18.5%, Economy 15.2%, Colony Sim 11.4%, Management 11.3%

Welcome to Dacan Express! Build, manage, and expand your own logistics empire in this solo-developed management game. Hire staff, negotiate contracts, and keep your couriers on the move. 👉 Please Wishlist the game on Steam!

Why similar: Automation 13.6%, Economy 13.3%, Capitalism 13%, Time Management 12%, Management 9.6%

Beer Factory Crew puts you in shoes of a production facility manager. Your goal is to produce finished shipments of beer and sell them. You can manage inventories and work in progress, machine orders, worker assignements and research new items.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16.8%, Time Management 12.9%, Automation 12.8%, Economy 12.3%, Management 9%

Industrial Garbage is a game where combination is the key and money is your limit. You will have to manage yourself carefully and ensure that you complete orders in time, or else...

Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Capitalism 16.4%, Time Management 10.8%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 8.5%

Build and manage a seaside holiday park. From a simple campground with a bar to luxurious bungalows with a restaurant: you decide what your park looks like. You play as the owner and walk around the park yourself. Every guest and staff member has their own personality, needs and preferences.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Capitalism 20.6%, Time Management 16.6%, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%

Manage the most unpredictable resource - people - in this WASD tycoon! Plan projects, hire a dream team, assign tasks to specialists, and monitor the budget while upgrading your office. Balance between team burnout, complex contracts, and the wrath of upper management.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.1%, Economy 18.3%, Time Management 16%, Management 15.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

Why similar: Colony Sim 15.4%, Capitalism 13.5%, Time Management 11.8%, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.9%

Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.

Why similar: Automation 19.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Capitalism 10.4%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.7%

SIM Chef is a restaurant management simulator. Build and decorate, manage employees, create hundreds of classic dishes and drinks, make decisions and become the number one in the world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3%, Capitalism 16.6%, Automation 12.9%, Economy 11.1%, Immersive Sim 9.7%

Battle through 30 years of digital agency history — optimize sales & marketing, deliver projects, grow your team and outsmart your rivals. Fully simulated market and freely chosen path to success — boutique with quality or agency group? You decide.

Why similar: Capitalism 28%, Economy 18.1%, Management 15.6%, Automation 13.9%, Sandbox 9.5%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1%, Automation 14.3%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.9%, Management 9.7%

Build the ultimate waterpark paradise in this classic tycoon simulation game! Design & customize water slides, pools, and saunas to fulfill your guests' needs. Combine creativity, strategy, and management to make a splash in the world of water parks and become the ultimate Aquapark Tycoon!

Why similar: Capitalism 18.1%, Time Management 14.2%, Economy 11.5%, Immersive Sim 9.7%, Sandbox 9%

"Airport Renovator Simulator" is a game that allows you to engage in airport reconstruction! In this captivating game, you have the opportunity to transform an old, outdated airport into a modern and functional air transportation hub and begin serving thousands of people every day.

Why similar: Capitalism 21.3%, Time Management 16.9%, Economy 14.3%, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Building 10.2%

A hands-on, first-person datacenter tycoon. Order hardware, haul the boxes, rack the servers, patch every cable and subnet every switch then keep it all online through power cuts, heatwaves and hardware failures as your empire grows.

Why similar: Capitalism 24.8%, Economy 16.3%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 11.9%

Take on the role of a warehouse manager overseeing a bustling hub of automated activity. In this immersive simulator, you'll delve into the intricacies of logistics as you control robots, construct efficient road networks, and fine-tune traffic flow to optimize your warehouse operations.

Why similar: Automation 16.8%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Economy 12.7%, Capitalism 12.1%, Management 10.1%

Build automated chip factories in a post-collapse 2047. Process silicon wafers, research advanced tech, and scale from basic processors to legendary quantum chips. Optimize your production lines, outmaneuver mega-corps, and dominate the semiconductor market.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Capitalism 17%, Economy 10.3%, Building 8.2%, Simulation 7.8%

Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.

Why similar: Capitalism 16.1%, Automation 15.2%, Time Management 14.8%, Economy 12.7%, Management 11.5%

A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.8%, Time Management 15.2%, Economy 15.1%, Moddable 12.5%, Colony Sim 10%

Manage your own adult supermarket! Hire staff, stock shelves with 70+ unique adult products, set prices, expand your store, and satisfy your customers’ desires. Unlock new items and create the ultimate shopping experience for adults!

Why similar: Economy 19.2%, Time Management 13.4%, Management 12.9%, Capitalism 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%

An automation game about making paperclips. With Vikings.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25%, Automation 22.6%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Theme Park Together is a co-op theme park simulator where you build and run your own amusement park with friends. Build rides, serve guests, handle maintenance and cleaning, expand your park, and overcome the chaos together.

Why similar: Time Management 17.7%, Capitalism 17.6%, Economy 13%, Immersive Sim 11.2%, Automation 11%

From 1986 to 2026, design and engineer the world's most advanced CPUs. Run your own fabs or manufacture for rivals. Research groundbreaking tech, manage your team, buy and build offices, and dominate the market through decades of cutthroat competition. Become the ultimate hardware tycoon.

Why similar: Capitalism 20.2%, Economy 14.5%, Time Management 11.7%, Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.3%

Multiplayer Incremental Idle tycoon with a stock market that actually works. 200 stocks, real options pricing, Fed rate decisions, 55 businesses across 10 tiers, real estate, banking, taxes, and a 530-node research tree. Multiplayer shares one market. There's also a casino.

Why similar: Capitalism 25.9%, Economy 17%, Automation 16.4%, Time Management 10.5%, Management 8.2%

In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.

Why similar: Automation 23.5%, Economy 14.6%, Building 13.2%, Capitalism 13.1%, Management 9.6%

Design laptops from the PCB up and build a global tech empire! Balance complex heat and power mechanics, manage your corporate budget, and conquer international markets. Do you have what it takes to become the ultimate Laptop Architect?

Why similar: Capitalism 19.6%, Economy 15.8%, Automation 15.2%, Building 11.7%, Logic 10.5%

Build and optimize your industrial empire in this grid-based idle game. Place factories, power plants, and research labs strategically to maximize efficiency through adjacency bonuses. Upgrade your buildings, manage power consumption, and watch your profits soar while you're away.

Why similar: Colony Sim 16%, Automation 16%, Time Management 13.9%, Building 9.3%, Economy 9.2%

Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 11.1%, Economy 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%

A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, Automation 15.4%, Economy 13%, Capitalism 12.9%, Management 9.4%

Build and run your own kebab restaurant in a single-player management simulation. Set prices, hire staff, serve customers, keep the shop clean, upgrade the interior, and turn a small counter into a thriving food business.

Why similar: Time Management 20.2%, Capitalism 19.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Economy 11.4%, Strategy 10.7%

Become an entrepreneur and develop your retail outlet. Order goods and place them in the warehouse, give orders to customers by scanning QR-code, design and expand your premises, hire employees and learn new skills!

Why similar: Economy 18.1%, Time Management 13.6%, Management 12.5%, Immersive Sim 12%, Capitalism 11.2%

Warehouse Tycoon is a business management game in which you control all parts of your warehouse: Buying/selling products, designing your warehouse, and most importantly making a profit.

Why similar: Capitalism 21.9%, Economy 15.7%, Time Management 13.8%, Management 12.4%, Building 10.8%

Build a cloud provider from a garage to a hyperscaler - rack the hardware, run every cable, route the traffic, keep customers online. A first-person infrastructure sim where ports, power, fault domains, RSTP and BGP do real work, not flavour text. Readable for newcomers, honest for engineers.

Why similar: Automation 18.9%, Time Management 14.3%, Immersive Sim 13.2%, Management 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.

Why similar: Capitalism 19%, Economy 14%, Time Management 12.4%, Automation 12.3%, Management 10.2%

Build, equip, manage and sell! Those are the four cornerstones of this tycoon game. Produce anything from wooden cutlery to modern electronics to rockets. Build factories, setup production processes, buy and upgrade machinery, and take order over everything related to large company operations.

Why similar: Capitalism 19.4%, Automation 17.8%, Economy 15.6%, Sandbox 10.7%, Management 10.6%

From a single tree to an entire industry! Manage and automate your lumber business in this relaxing, yet challenging Sawmill Simulator. Start small, grow rich, dominate the market.

Why similar: Time Management 16%, Economy 14.8%, Automation 12.6%, Management 12.2%, Base Building 9.7%

Comic Company Manager is a comic book themed management game. Create your own comic publishing company and design your own ideas from combining 100+ concepts. Hire and manage artists to create comics for you and expand your company. Grow to dominate the industry

Why similar: Capitalism 21.7%, Economy 13.8%, Time Management 13.4%, Management 11.4%, Building 10.1%

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 19.7%, Economy 13.9%, Moddable 12.4%, Management 10.6%, Time Management 10.5%

SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Economy 12.3%, Management 10.7%, Building 8.8%

AI Startup Simulator is a first-person business sim about building your own AI company. Start in a cramped storefront, buy and install hardware, complete client jobs to acquire datasets, then train AI models to automate tasks and launch services as you grow into a successful AI company.

Why similar: Capitalism 22.9%, Automation 20.1%, Economy 13.6%, Sandbox 12.1%, Immersive Sim 11.8%

Become the owner of a snake ranch! As a small dragon, raise your ranch from the ground up. Gather and manage resources, build various facilities to house your snakes, make sure they are cared for to keep them happy, and collect their beautiful scales, to forge stronger equipment and scale up!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Automation 14.5%, Time Management 13.9%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

Filmmaker Tycoon is a next generation movie tycoon simulation game! You're the producer of your very own movie studio! Hire actors, build movie sets, make films, move up in the industry, and watch your finished films in Filmmaker Tycoon.

Why similar: Economy 14.9%, Capitalism 14.6%, Management 11.6%, Building 10.4%, Time Management 9.4%

A drug plantation management game with basebuilding, strategy and combat elements. Expand your plantation, hire workers, and plan new smuggling routes. But be ready to face a heavy response by law enforcement by hiring guards, buying weapons and building defences.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.5%, Capitalism 16.1%, Automation 15.1%, Economy 14.3%, Management 10.4%

AutoMaker is an automotive business simulator. Start at the dawn of the automotive history, build your factory, research technologies and design cars as you progress through the ages to the current era and beyond.

Why similar: Economy 19.5%, Capitalism 18.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.7%

A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5%, Automation 22.7%, Base Building 12.8%, Economy 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

Elfgineer is a cozy factory game where you design the most important factory in the world, Santa's workshop. Automate toy production, craft festive contraptions and unlock new recipes, machines and technologies. Build, optimize and maximize christmas spirit before time runs out on Christmas Eve!

Why similar: Automation 20.9%, Time Management 18%, Building 11.9%, Immersive Sim 11.9%, Base Building 10%

Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!

Why similar: Capitalism 21%, Economy 14.1%, Moddable 12.1%, Management 11.1%, Building 9.9%