- #1 Youtubers Life 2
97% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,280 reviews2021
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Start from humble beginnings and take charge of the daily life of a wannabe influencer. Balance your day between creating trend-based content, completing tasks to earn money, and building trust with your neighbors to uncover their stories. Are you ready to embark on your road to fame?
Why similar: Life Sim 15%, Memes 13.6%, Time Management 13%, Character Customization 10.5%, Management 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands on the original formula with more content, improved mechanics, and a deeper social simulation experience.
- #2 Streamer Life Simulator
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 7,896 reviews2020
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Streamer Life Simulator is a very comprehensive streamer life simulation game. Be the most popular streamer in the world.
Why similar: Life Sim 39.6%, Simulation 20.8%, Funny 8.7%, Casual 6.8%, Adventure 5%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a more gritty, immersive first-person perspective on the challenges of becoming a successful online content creator.
- #3 Game Dev Tycoon
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 45,066 reviews2013
Dev: Greenheart Games 💚
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 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 53.5%, Simulation 20.9%, Casual 5.2%, Strategy 5.2%, Indie 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: This classic management game shares the same satisfying loop of creating products and managing your business growth over time.
- #4 Mad Games Tycoon 2
94% matchVery Positive94% of 7,786 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 37.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 40.8%, Character Customization 18%, Cartoon 14.9%, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 5.8%
Why You'll Like It: This deep management simulation allows you to build a game development empire with complex business and production mechanics.
- #5 Esports Life Tycoon
95% matchMixed61% of 715 reviews2020
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Manage your own esports squad, expand your gaming house, and defeat legendary teams to become the best in the world!
Why similar: Management 13.4%, Time Management 12.1%, Life Sim 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Character Customization 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Created by the same developers, this game applies the management and career-focused gameplay to the world of professional esports.
- #6 The Sims™ 4
94% matchVery Positive86% of 199,405 reviews2020
Dev: MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 53.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Why similar: Life Sim 29.3%, Character Customization 20.7%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Funny 11.1%, Simulation 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard of life-sims, it provides unparalleled depth in character customization and managing daily routines.
- #7 PC Building Simulator
93% matchVery Positive93% of 52,731 reviews2019
Dev: Claudiu KissPub: The Irregular Corporation
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 39.3 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: Life Sim 27%, Management 23.9%, Simulation 19.8%, Funny 11.1%, Casual 4.8%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a technical, hands-on simulation experience that mirrors the hardware-focused aspects of a content creator's life.
- #8 Startup Company
92% matchVery Positive81% of 6,219 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 54.2%, Simulation 19.6%, Strategy 6.5%, Resource Management 5.6%, Casual 4.1%
Why You'll Like It: This business management game focuses on building a successful tech company, mirroring the growth phases of a YouTube channel.
- #9 Big Ambitions
91% matchVery Positive93% of 13,452 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 33.5%, Life Sim 23.9%, Time Management 16.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Simulation 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This advanced life-sim combines business management with realistic city living and character progression.
- #10 Internet Cafe Simulator 2
91% matchMostly Positive73% of 13,194 reviews2022
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Internet Cafe Simulator 2 is an extremely comprehensive and detailed internet cafe business simulation game.
Why similar: Memes 30.2%, Management 22.5%, Life Sim 20.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Funny 6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a detailed, immersive simulation of managing a business while balancing the daily needs of your character.
- #11 The Tenants
90% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,769 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: Life Sim 29.7%, Management 25.6%, Time Management 25.1%, Simulation 6.7%, Casual 3.8%
Why You'll Like It: It blends life-simulation with property management, requiring you to balance client needs and financial growth.
- #12 Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator
89% matchVery Positive84% of 2,786 reviews2023
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Create and manage your dream restaurant! Menus, purchasing, décor, staff, equipment, customers… and don't forget the actual cooking! Experience the daily life of a restaurateur and earn your awards from the Michelin Guide.
Why similar: Life Sim 24.5%, Management 19.7%, Resource Management 16.5%, Family Friendly 14.4%, Simulation 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This detailed simulation focuses on the pressure and rewards of running a business while maintaining high quality standards.
- #13 Supermarket Simulator
86% matchVery Positive92% of 83,799 reviews2025
Dev: Nokta Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 34.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Why similar: Management 33.8%, Simulation 21.2%, Life Sim 20.8%, Resource Management 12.9%, Singleplayer 3.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly satisfying retail management experience that rewards efficiency and strategic growth.
- #14 Gas Station Simulator
87% matchVery Positive88% of 27,404 reviews2021
Dev: DRAGO entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
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 26.9%, Memes 20%, Simulation 19%, Funny 13.8%, Casual 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: This game features an engaging loop of hands-on management, renovation, and expansion similar to growing a channel.
- #15 Empire TV Tycoon
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 900 reviews2015
Dev: Dreamsite Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!
Why similar: Management 22.9%, Memes 20.8%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Resource Management 9.9%, Comedy 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to managing a television station, offering a similar strategic approach to media production.
- #16 Streamer Daily
88% matchVery Positive87% of 1,167 reviews2020
Dev: Mehan Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Did you think it was easy to streaming? Do you think streamers earn money by playing games? Can you reach the summit by facing all the challenges of streaming? Then be a real streamer instead of playing this game !!!
Why similar: Simulation 19.1%, Memes 14.9%, Management 11.4%, Casual 9.1%, Adventure 9%
Why You'll Like It: An indie-focused simulation that captures the grind of starting a streaming career from your bedroom.
- #17 House Flipper
86% matchVery Positive94% of 111,419 reviews2018
Dev: EmpyreanPub: Frozen District
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
Why similar: Management 26.2%, Simulation 25.6%, Family Friendly 18.6%, Casual 10.3%, Singleplayer 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: This casual simulation game focuses on renovation and business progression, capturing a similar 'work-life' satisfaction.
- #18 Dealer's Life 2
84% matchVery Positive85% of 4,224 reviews2022
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Your favorite pawn shop experience is finally getting a sequel! Haggle like your life depends on it in this funny tycoon game. You never know WHAT is gonna stumble through that door!
Why similar: Memes 40%, Management 25.3%, Funny 9.7%, Cartoon 9.7%, Simulation 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: This trading and management game focuses on the negotiation and profit-driven aspects of running a small business.
- #19 Tube Tycoon
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 602 reviews2018
Dev: Teal Fire
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The only game of its kind where you can feel like a real internet celebrity! Record videos, interact with your subscribers, buy better equipment and gain fame!
Why similar: Management 38%, Simulation 24.5%, Casual 13%, Strategy 11.6%, Indie 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game is a dedicated simulation of the YouTube experience, focusing specifically on video production and audience growth.
- #20 Software Inc.
84% matchVery Positive94% of 7,806 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Management 29.8%, Time Management 27.5%, Character Customization 19.3%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 4.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex, deep business management experience for those who enjoy the strategic side of Youtubers Life.
- #21 RE0: VTuber Life
82% matchVery Positive88% of 266 reviews2024
Dev: Stone Lake
Windows
RE0: VTuber Life is a VTuber simulation game where you manage the protagonist’s daily life, livestream schedule, friendships, gossip intake, and fan interactions—all leading to multiple possible endings.
Why similar: Memes 30.9%, Time Management 22%, Life Sim 19.2%, Funny 10%, Comedy 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: This niche simulation focuses on the specific subculture of VTubing with unique pixel-art aesthetics and time-management mechanics.
- #22 Academia : School Simulator
83% matchVery Positive86% of 3,073 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 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 37.3%, Family Friendly 17.4%, Funny 16.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: This management game requires you to balance infrastructure and character needs, similar to managing your Youtuber's household.
- #23 Startup Panic
82% matchMixed55% of 288 reviews2022
Dev: AlgorocksPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Quit your job and build an exciting startup! Survive the tech bubble, compete with rival CEOs and expand your office from bedroom programmer up to the heights of global corporate sabotage! As long as you don't get hacked... or kidnapped...
Why similar: Time Management 18.1%, Management 13.6%, Resource Management 13.1%, Character Customization 12.2%, Comedy 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the time-management and high-stakes decision-making required to turn a small project into a massive success.
- #24 Vtuber Simulator : Vtuber模擬器
81% matchVery Positive86% of 451 reviews2021
Dev: 阿煙
Windows
Customize your own character, streaming, training, and become a famous Vtuber!
Why similar: Life Sim 30.8%, Memes 18.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Comedy 10.7%, Funny 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a focused look at the content creation process within the VTuber community.
- #25 Gamer Career Tycoon
81% matchVery Positive81% of 289 reviews2018
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Start your life as a simple gamer in the year 2000. Find popular games to stream or compete in 8 different Esports. Who will you be? Play your career and story. Can you become the most famous broadcaster or the best progamer in the world?
Why similar: Management 26%, Simulation 21.9%, Comedy 16.1%, Casual 12.8%, Funny 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This career-focused simulation allows you to manage the life and progression of a professional gamer.
- #26 Two Point Campus
79% matchVery Positive88% of 8,156 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 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 33.6%, Comedy 13.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Funny 12.3%, Family Friendly 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This management simulation features the same charming, humorous tone and focus on building successful institutions.
- #27 Please Subscribe: Streamer Career
80% matchVery Positive83% of 130 reviews2022
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Please Subscribe is the sequel to Gamer Career Tycoon from 2018. Develop your own livestream channel from the ground up. Manage and operate, overcome challenges, learn new tricks in order to rise in the charts, and possibly, become the next big internet superstar.
Why similar: Life Sim 28.2%, Management 26.1%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward simulation of the streamer lifestyle with a focus on career progression and audience management.
- #28 Streamer Life Simulator 2
77% matchVery Positive81% of 6,964 reviews2026
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In the second game of the series, competition has increased and now everyone wants to be a streamer. Are you ready to stream until your cpu burns out?
Why similar: Memes 25.6%, Life Sim 23%, Comedy 10.7%, Character Customization 9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #29 AdVenture Capitalist
79% matchVery Positive88% of 60,370 reviews2015
Dev: Hyper Hippo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 68.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Why similar: Memes 22.5%, Life Sim 16.4%, Management 12.8%, Character Customization 12.2%, Comedy 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This idler game focuses on the pure economic growth and automation aspects found in management simulations.
- #30 The Escapists
78% matchVery Positive90% of 16,192 reviews2015
Dev: Mouldy Toof StudiosPub: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 82%
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
Why similar: Simulation 23.9%, Funny 16.3%, Strategy 16.2%, Comedy 13.5%, Singleplayer 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: While different in theme, it shares the core loop of managing daily routines and character stats to achieve a specific goal.
- #31 Game Corp DX
78% matchVery Positive88% of 3,083 reviews2015
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!
Why similar: Management 53.9%, Simulation 16.9%, Funny 5.4%, Comedy 5.2%, Casual 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A simplified, accessible management game that captures the essence of building a successful studio.
- #32 The Sims™ 3
77% matchVery Positive86% of 34,328 reviews2011
Dev: The Sims StudioPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 14.2 hrsMean: 87.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.
Why similar: Life Sim 45.1%, Character Customization 18.6%, Simulation 12.6%, Funny 5.2%, Comedy 4.7%
- #33 Youtubers Life 3
76% matchMixed51% of 491 reviews2026
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows · Mac
Live the experience of becoming the best content creator of the moment. Start from scratch, create epic VODs, share your best moments on Instalife, build your dream house, and overcome challenges as you forge your path to fame. Welcome to the Youtuber life!
Why similar: Life Sim 35.8%, Character Customization 25.6%, Funny 15.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Casual 5%
- #34 Mad Games Tycoon
76% matchVery Positive91% of 4,423 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 35.4%, Resource Management 18.3%, Cartoon 17%, Simulation 11.7%, Casual 5.2%
- #35 Dealer's Life
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,327 reviews2019
Dev: Abyte Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game!
Why similar: Memes 42.5%, Management 24.8%, Funny 13%, Simulation 8.5%, Casual 5.1%
- #36 Cooking Simulator
74% matchVery Positive85% of 19,686 reviews2019
Dev: Big Cheese Studio
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A realistic cooking sim where every ingredient reacts with real physics. Master 80+ dishes in Career mode or go wild in Sandbox as you cook, experiment, or cause total kitchen chaos in a fully interactive chef’s playground.
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, Management 12.6%, Funny 12%, Memes 11.4%, Family Friendly 10%
- #37 Internet Cafe Simulator
75% matchMostly Positive73% of 10,315 reviews2019
Dev: Cheesecake Dev
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Internet Cafe Simulator is an internet cafe business simulation game. Build the best internet café in the world!
Why similar: Management 34.5%, Simulation 27.5%, Funny 12.9%, Adventure 7.7%, Indie 6.2%
- #38 Office Simulator
72% matchVery Positive84% of 156 reviews2025
Dev: Tzn Games
Windows
Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks. Gain experience, earn promotions, and when the time comes, launch your own company to begin a new business adventure.
Why similar: Life Sim 25.5%, Time Management 24.9%, Family Friendly 10.4%, Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.1%
- #39 Scrap Mechanic
69% matchVery Positive92% of 122,134 reviews2026
Dev: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 64.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
Why similar: Funny 29.4%, Simulation 19.5%, Open World 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Adventure 12%
- #40 Waterpark Simulator
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 13,339 reviews2026
Dev: CayPlay
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Why similar: Management 26.3%, Life Sim 24.1%, Comedy 15%, Funny 11.8%, Simulation 11.2%
- #41 Growing Up
72% matchVery Positive88% of 3,699 reviews2021
Dev: Vile Monarch
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This is the story of your life. Experience the entire journey from toddler to adulthood. Go to schools, learn new things, meet new friends, and have wild adventures! Every choice you make will influence your future career, and decide who your romantic partner will be. Who will you become?
Why similar: Life Sim 39.2%, Management 20.7%, Character Customization 15.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Adventure 5.5%
- #42 Campus Life
73% matchMostly Negative31% of 95 reviews2025
Dev: GameFormatic S.A.Pub: Frozen Way
Windows · Mac
In Campus Life you’ll experience your final year of college. Study, party and join campus events! Everything that happens during this one academic year will be entirely up to you.
Why similar: Time Management 23.5%, Life Sim 21.7%, Character Customization 15.4%, Family Friendly 12.3%, Funny 9.7%
- #43 Streamer's Life
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 145 reviews2019
Dev: Just Making Games
Windows
RPG-Simulation game where you can create your own streamer and see whether you can overcome difficulties of being streamer or not.
Why similar: Memes 55.4%, Simulation 29.6%, Indie 10.6%, Realistic 4.4%
- #44 City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
71% matchVery Positive92% of 1,889 reviews2021
Dev: Binogure Studio 🐺
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend, it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
Why similar: Management 33.7%, Life Sim 30.1%, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 6.2%, Casual 5.4%
- #45 King of Retail
70% matchVery Positive88% of 3,556 reviews2022
Dev: Freaking GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The store is your kingdom! Expand your humble boutique into a thriving business: hire the right staff, decorate your displays, and lure in customers. Even your wildest ideas can turn a profit. Why not start a business that sells only white T-shirts and ketchup? PCs and beans? Your rule, your rules!
Why similar: Management 26.8%, Character Customization 20.7%, Family Friendly 16.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Casual 7.6%
- #46 GameDev Life Simulator 🎮🕹
71% matchMixed58% of 153 reviews2023
Dev: Octo Games studio
Windows
In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of one developer.
Why similar: Memes 30.6%, Life Sim 21.7%, Management 17.3%, Funny 10.1%, Simulation 7.4%
- #47 Streamer Simulator
74% matchMostly Negative22% of 54 reviews2016
Windows
Streamer Simulator is a simulation being streamer. Change your old life for the better. You can become the world’s greatest streamer in history.
Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Management 25.5%, Casual 17.9%, Strategy 14.8%, Indie 11.7%
- #48 Pro Gamer Manager
73% matchMixed49% of 685 reviews2016
Dev: Raptor Claw GamesPub: 501 Industries
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Compete for stardom in this Esport management tycoon.
Why similar: Management 44.4%, Simulation 29.4%, Casual 11.7%, Indie 8.9%, Strategy 5.5%
- #49 Who's Your Daddy?!
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 31,935 reviews2016
Dev: Evil Tortilla Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.
Why similar: Funny 39.9%, Comedy 28.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 5.3%, Casual 4.9%
- #50 Gaming Cafe Life
68% matchVery Positive95% of 153 reviews2024
Dev: Akhir Pekan Studio
Windows
Manage your very own gaming cafe!
Why similar: Time Management 24.5%, Management 17.5%, Comedy 15.1%, Resource Management 13.1%, Funny 10.8%
- #51 Punch Club
70% matchVery Positive80% of 15,756 reviews2016
Dev: Lazy Bear GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 40.4%, Management 33.2%, Funny 15.2%, Simulation 11.2%
- #52 Bakery Simulator
69% matchMixed66% of 2,415 reviews2022
Dev: Live Motion GamesPub: Ultimate Games S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Get up before dawn and see what it's like to be a baker! Learn to bake several dozen types of bread. Use realistic bakery machines. Deliver orders to stores, earn, and invest. Use original recipes or experiment with ingredients.
Why similar: Time Management 21.6%, Life Sim 18.7%, Resource Management 13%, Management 11.6%, Family Friendly 8.7%
- #53 Life Simulator
71% matchMixed49% of 247 reviews2020
Dev: 鹊思网络Pub: 方块游戏(CubeGame)
Windows
Life Simulator is a simulation game with relaxed atmosphere. Players will play as a college graduate getting into the big city, you will fight for your life for four years, you can be a winner with cars, houses and soul mate, or maybe a salty fish with nothing, and you can also find love...
Why similar: Life Sim 31.3%, Time Management 24%, Simulation 13.6%, Funny 12%, Casual 8.1%
- #54 Rock Star Life Simulator
66% matchVery Positive86% of 538 reviews2025
Dev: HOGO Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Rock Star Life Simulator is an extensive fame simulation game. Start this adventure by playing the guitar on the street, form your own band. Protect the fame, money, and charisma you earned with the right decisions and become a world star!
Why similar: Life Sim 30%, Management 24.4%, Character Customization 22.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Adventure 5.2%
- #55 inZOI
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 32,478 reviews2025
Dev: inZOI StudioPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.
Why similar: Life Sim 38.5%, Character Customization 26.5%, Family Friendly 12.9%, Simulation 10.2%, Realistic 4.8%
- #56 The Escapists 2
67% matchVery Positive91% of 33,755 reviews2017
Dev: Team17
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
Why similar: Character Customization 28.1%, Funny 17.7%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 15.3%, Indie 6.7%
- #57 60 Seconds!
68% matchVery Positive85% of 11,689 reviews2015
Dev: Robot Gentleman
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.
Why similar: Management 53.7%, Funny 34.3%, Strategy 12%
- #58 Happy Room
67% matchVery Positive91% of 2,977 reviews2016
Dev: Mana Potion Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.
Why similar: Funny 35.7%, Simulation 34.1%, Indie 9%, Sandbox 8.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #59 Console Shop Simulator
64% matchVery Positive93% of 522 reviews2025
Dev: Lance Games
Windows
Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.
Why similar: Time Management 24.2%, Life Sim 19.7%, Management 19.5%, Resource Management 13.9%, Simulation 9.3%