Games like Cartel Tycoon
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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.
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$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Economy · Resource Management
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.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
6 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: Management · Top-Down · Building
A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.
City BuilderManagementCRPGPixel GraphicsTop-DownMultiple EndingsBuildingEconomyCraftingRPG👍 501
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
SimulationOnline Co-OpManagementCasualMultiplayerLife SimStrategyEconomyBuildingSingleplayer👍 171
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Resource Management · Building · Management
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
-40%$1.79Construction Company Tycoon
2 days ago · KokoGames
Both: Building · Management
Build your own construction company from the ground up! Take on contracts, hire workers, buy powerful equipment, manage your finances, and grow from a small contractor into a construction empire.
StrategySimulationCasualSandbox2DBuildingRelaxingManagementChoices MatterSingleplayer
$9.99Fell & Sell
Aug 26 · Art Games Studio S.A.
Both: Management · Economy
Slay. Loot. Sell. Survive! Dive into a first-person blend of hack'n'slash roguelike and shop management. Plunder deadly dungeons for loot, escape with your life, craft, and stock your shelves. Then risk it all once more for profit!
SimulationShop KeeperManagementEconomyFantasySingleplayerRPGDungeon CrawlerAction RoguelikeAction RPG👍 1,453
-50%$24.99ENDLESS Legend™ 2
3 days ago · AMPLITUDE Studios
Both: Management
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
StrategySimulationGrand Strategy4XTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerHistoricalWarTacticalManagement👍 2,699
-10%$8.99Dirt Spoon in Another World
2 days ago · Underdog Games Inc.
Both: Economy · Management
Thrown into an otherworld of wuxia and fantasy with a ten-million-gold debt — no powers, no cheats. Travel a map of 279 cities, buy low and sell high, and raise up to four mercenary squads to punch through bandit roads. A caravan-trading & squad-management sim. Clear the debt to win.
StrategyRPGTradingSimulationEconomyManagementSingleplayerFantasyIndieMartial Arts
$29.99RuneScape: Dragonwilds
5 days ago · Jagex Ltd
Both: Survival · Building
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly AccessCraftingBuildingBase Building👍 28,410
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-40%$11.99Parisian Bistro Simulator
2 days ago · Quark Studios
Both: Management · Resource Management
Run your Parisian bistro in the heart of Paris, solo or in co-op with up to 8 players! Curate your menu, manage supplies, serve customers, and expand with new floors, a terrace, and a rooftop to become a true Parisian institution.
Online Co-OpMultiplayerCo-opSimulationManagementResource ManagementCasualLife SimFirst-Person3D👍 447
-10%$4.49Gridmax
2 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Survival · Management · Building
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
-20%$11.19Night Club Simulator: Party King
4 days ago · Bohem Games
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Step into the vibrant world of nightlife! Create, manage & customize your own nightclub, solo or co-op. From hiring staff and organizing events to setting the perfect atmosphere with music & lighting, every choice you make will shape your club. Are you ready to become the ultimate nightclub tycoon?
Early AccessSimulationManagementOnline Co-OpEconomyShop KeeperBuildingFirst-PersonMultiplayerCharacter Customization
$1.99Sicarios
6 days ago · Bonuman Game Studio
Enter a ruthless criminal underworld in this gritty point-and-click adventure. Solve intricate puzzles, carry out dangerous hit jobs, and survive a brutal gang war where trust is scarce and one wrong move could be your last.
AdventurePoint & ClickPuzzle2DCrimeThrillerLinearViolentStory RichIndie
-10%$7.19Bot slash Bot
2 days ago · Traveller's Box
Both: Top-Down
You click - You dash - You slash. Bot slash Bot is a fast-paced, top-down Hack n‘ Slash in which you control a rogue robot slashing & dashing through your former co-machines holding you captive! It's all about speed. Time is running out.
Fast-PacedHack and SlashArcadeIndieDifficultTop-DownPost-apocalypticCombatTime AttackSwordplay
$24.99Anymaker
2 days ago · Geometa
Both: Building
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
Early AccessSandboxSimulationOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingFirst-PersonRealisticCo-opDriving👍 115
-40%$14.99CONVRGENCE
3 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
Both: Survival
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
VRAtmosphericPost-apocalypticShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterLootSurvival HorrorSurvivalHorror👍 1,588
-15%$12.74Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon
3 days ago · Goodpunk Studios
Both: Economy · Management
A deep Hollywood studio simulation, 1930 to the streaming age. A back lot, a million dollars and no pictures. Commission scripts, sign stars to seven-year contracts, book dates against rival studios, and survive television, home video and everything else that came for the movies.
Choose Your Own AdventureTime ManagementStrategyReal Time TacticsSandboxSimulationEconomyCapitalismManagementCrafting
