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$14.99Gladiator Guild Manager
Jun 22 · Entertainment Forge
Both: Management
A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.
Auto BattlerStrategyManagementRPGTacticalStrategy RPGMedievalBuildingRogueliteTactical RPG👍 3,808
$9.99Gods of Sand
Apr 14 · Achenar Studios
Both: Management · Rome
Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
Turn-BasedManagementRomePixel GraphicsStrategyTacticalTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatIndieSimulation👍 721
$19.99Summa Expeditionis
May 6 · Lobico Games
Both: Management · Rome
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Colony SimBase BuildingManagementSimulationBuildingSandboxRomeExplorationCraftingStrategy👍 306
-60%$9.99Blackthorn Arena: Reforged
Nov 2 · PersonaeGame Studio
Both: Management
Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in this management/simulation game. With new content, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.
SimulationStrategyFantasyManagementMedievalDungeon CrawlerCraftingImmersive SimCity BuilderCRPG👍 882
$24.99Citadelum
Oct 17 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: Rome
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
ModdableSingleplayerCity BuilderRomeResource ManagementBuildingSandboxAuto BattlerSimulationLevel Editor👍 1,006
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: Management
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093
$4.99Arena Monarchy
Mar 6 · Kevin Zhang
Both: Rome
Arena Monarchy is a gladiator management game with a heavy focus on turn-based combat. Collect loot, theorycraft builds, upgrade your ludus and become champion!
Early AccessLootTurn-Based CombatTurn-Based TacticsMedievalRomePerma DeathTurn-Based StrategyTactical RPGStrategy RPG
-40%$14.99Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
Sep 16 · Coreffect Interactive
Both: Rome
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalCraftingRomeOpen WorldStrategySingleplayerCombatBuilding👍 742
$29.99Cataclismo
Mar 20 · Digital Sun
Both: Management
Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalEconomyColony Sim👍 3,897
$29.99Norland
Jul 18 · Long Jaunt
Both: Management
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementHistoricalBuildingSandbox👍 8,912
$19.99Esports Godfather
May 23 · Asteroid Game Studio
Both: Management
E-sports Godfather is a Deck-building game simulating MOBA e-sports. You will play a role as team coach and build your team. You need to train players and make strategies in various game versions, beat other teams and finally, take the Champion of the World. Be nobody, or lead your team to dominate!
ManagementStrategyCard BattlereSportsSimulationTurn-Based TacticsCard GameIndieCharacter CustomizationDeckbuilding👍 4,320
$19.99Blacksmith Master
May 15 · Untitled Studio
Both: Management
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingMedievalColony SimBuildingManagementResource ManagementSandbox👍 2,530
$29.99Empires of the Undergrowth
Jun 7 · Slug Disco
Both: Management
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
StrategySimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementGrand StrategyColony SimSandboxBuildingHistorical👍 17,498
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: Management
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
SimulationCity BuilderBuildingRelaxingEconomyManagementResource ManagementInventory ManagementStory RichLogic👍 543
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$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: 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
$15.99Gladio Mori
5 days ago · Plebeian Studio
Both: Gore
Gladio Mori is a physics-driven gladiator fighting game with no health bars. Stab on arteries, pierce vital organs and cut off limbs. Build your own movesets, paint your fighter and battle friends online with cross-play.
PhysicsSwordplayGoreMedievalModdableRealisticHistoricalHack and SlashMartial Arts3D Fighter👍 1,177
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Management
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$19.99Sovereign Tower
Aug 6 · WILD WITS GAMES
Both: Management
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Choices MatterMedievalChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelIndieManagementDialogue HeavyHand-drawnRPGStory Rich👍 3,150
$19.99Anvil Saga
Nov 16 · Pirozhok Studio
Both: Management
Anvil Saga is a management sim with RPG elements where you take control of a blacksmith shop amidst the Hundred Years' War. Each decision you make impacts the story and gameplay.
ManagementPixel GraphicsRPGMedievalBase BuildingSingleplayerChoices MatterSimulationCraftingColony Sim👍 1,458
-30%$17.49Infection Free Zone
Apr 11 · Jutsu Games
Both: Management
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Early AccessBase BuildingPost-apocalypticZombiesCity BuilderStrategyManagementSurvivalSimulationRTS👍 16,573
-33%$20.09City Bus Manager
Jun 25 · PeDePe GbR
Both: Management
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
SimulationManagementSingleplayerEconomyAutomobile SimCapitalismCasualLogicStrategySandbox👍 2,407
-60%$4.79Mortal Glory 2
Mar 4 · Redbeak Games
Both: Management
Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!
Turn-Based TacticsRoguelikeOld SchoolTurn-Based CombatParty-Based RPGManagementRogueliteReplay ValueTactical RPGRetro👍 296
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
7 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: Management
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
$25.99Land of the Vikings
Oct 9 · Laps Games
Both: Management
Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!
Colony SimCity BuilderVikingsStrategySurvivalSandboxBuildingManagementEconomyBase Building👍 1,960
$69.99NBA 2K25
Sep 3 · Visual Concepts
Both: Management
Command every court with authenticity and realism Powered by ProPLAY™, giving you ultimate control over how you play in NBA 2K25. Define your legacy in MyCAREER, MyTEAM, MyNBA, and The W.
SportsBasketballSimulationeSports3DControllerManagementPvPCharacter CustomizationTeam-Based👍 30,975
$24.99Gunsmith Simulator
Oct 4 · GameHunters
Both: Management
Become a Gunsmith and unveil the great pleasure of working in your own workshop! Repair, restore and personalize guns to make unique pieces that every firearm lover will appreciate.
SimulationSingleplayerRealisticMilitaryEarly AccessPuzzleFirst-PersonShooterManagementFPS👍 3,167
$18.99Rune Coliseum
Sep 23 · Rafale Software
A deck-building roguelike game with unique semi-real-time combat system. Step into the shoes of an ancient gladiator and do your best to survive in the coliseum. Combine various skills and equipment, develop your own fighting style, and defeat all the enemies to become the next champion!
Early AccessTurn-Based CombatDeckbuildingStrategy RPGRPGBase BuildingCard BattlerRoguelike2D FighterCard Game👍 889
-50%$7.49Dungeon Tycoon
Sep 25 · Lunheim Studios
Both: Management
Build your own dungeon and attract heroes from all over the realm! Grow your business by exploiting every facet of your visitors' dungeon exploration experience. Will you be able to keep your evil dungeon business going?
ManagementTower DefenseDungeon CrawlerStrategyFantasyEconomySimulationReplay ValueCity BuilderSandbox👍 1,473
-10%$8.99Dirt Spoon in Another World
3 days ago · Underdog Games Inc.
Both: 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
$19.99Pro Basketball Manager 2024
Nov 21 · Umix Studios
Both: Management
Welcome to Pro Basketball Manager 2024 - the best basketball management experience, offering unparalleled depth and authenticity across 175 elite basketball competitions. Show the world you're the ultimate basketball manager!
SportsSimulationBasketballManagementStrategy2DIndie3DSingleplayer👍 155
$24.99Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master
Nov 15 · Artefacts Studio
Both: Management
A dungeon in danger ! Build, manage, and defend your tower in the satirical heroic fantasy universe of Dungeon of Naheulbeuk. From a shaky establishment to an infamous lair!
ManagementSimulationFunnySandboxReplay ValueBuildingBase BuildingMedievalFantasyStrategy👍 1,301
$11.99Football Agent
Aug 25 · ATERO GAMES
Both: Management
You're not the manager, you're the agent. Scout hidden gems across 47,500 players, win them over face to face, build their careers, and sell them for millions. A deep football agency career sim where every contract has your name on it.
Football (Soccer)SportsSimulationImmersive SimStrategyManagementShop KeeperEconomyIndieTactical👍 114
$14.99House of Legacy
May 14 · S3 Studio
Both: Management
Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.
ManagementDiplomacySandboxCity BuilderOpen WorldRPGSimulationEconomyStrategyBase Building👍 3,270
$14.99To Pixelia
May 1 · Pixeduo Studios
Both: Management
Meet the Pixelians and discover the ultimate life simulator in To Pixelia. As you climb your career ladder of choice, step into the world of politics, art, sports, music, and even crime. Live your dream life in pixels!
Life SimOpen WorldPixel GraphicsRelaxingFarming SimDating SimSandboxManagementCasualChoose Your Own Adventure👍 1,195
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: Management
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.
SimulationCity BuilderDecoratingLife SimBuildingManagementSandboxFunnyFishingIndie👍 2,476
$9.99Fell & Sell
Aug 26 · Art Games Studio S.A.
Both: Management
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
$2.99The Rumble Pit
4 days ago · Elliott Faucheux
Both: Management
Behind every great victory is someone who got the roles right. Forge five adventurers, arm them, plot out their talents, build the party — then send them into twelve dungeons and find out whether you saw it coming.
Auto BattlerDungeon CrawlerClass-BasedManagementRPGStrategyLootCharacter CustomizationFantasyStylized
$12.99Gym Simulator 24
Jul 19 · Red Axe Games
Both: Management
Gym Simulator 24: Build Your Fitness Empire! Embark on a journey to create your dream fitness haven in Gym Simulator 24, the ultimate simulation game where you'll ascend the ranks and craft your very own fitness empire.
SimulationImmersive SimCasualManagementLife SimBuildingSportsMartial Arts3D FighterBoxing👍 2,533
$19.99Potion Tycoon
Oct 4 · Snowhound Games
Both: Management
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!
ManagementSimulationBuildingSandboxShop KeeperStrategyMagicEconomyAutomationResource Management👍 629
-75%$0.49Attack Of Insects
Jun 10 · BadWolf Games
Both: Gore · Violent
Love insects? And insects that are two or even ten times more than you? If you love, then - it's fine, you will definitely be pleased with our insects. And if you do not love, then you will be happy, because you have to shoot on insects and watch them fly apart!
IndieActionAdventureGoreViolentFPS
$11.99WitchHand
Feb 7 · Jon Nielsen
Both: Management
You're a witch, leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands. Use the cards you find to build and expand your civilization. Befriend the local covens or use their bones to fuel your spells. Gather your familiars, the witching hour is nigh.
StrategyManagementCard GameSimulation4XCard BattlerDeckbuildingTabletop2DSurvival👍 616
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management
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
$19.99Recycling Center Simulator
Oct 2 · Balas Games
Both: Management
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.
SimulationFirst-PersonManagementLife SimTime ManagementAutomationImmersive SimSandboxEconomyBuilding👍 2,595
-75%$2.49Racine
Nov 6 · Dark Root Gardeners, Goblinz Studio
Both: Management
Racine is an Autobattler Strategy Roguelike. Use your cards to increase your heroes stats or cast powerful spells. Find some artifacts and new cards to develop your own play style.
Real Time TacticsStrategy RPGSingleplayerManagementPixel GraphicsAtmosphericFantasyAuto BattlerDeckbuildingPvE👍 212
$19.99Primitive Society Simulator
Feb 26 · YSH BigDove
Both: Management
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
City BuilderColony SimBase BuildingSandboxAgricultureBuildingWargameDiplomacyManagementHistorical👍 647
$24.99Storage Hunter Simulator
Nov 27 · Raccoons Studio
Both: Management
Play as one of the bidders for abandoned warehouses and uncover hidden treasures! Storage Hunter is a garage auction simulation game. Bid, win, and sell for profit! Become the king of storage auction.
Immersive SimOnline Co-OpShop KeeperJob SimulatorCapitalismEconomyDrivingManagementTrading3D👍 3,868
墲人之境-无人之境
Dec 6 · 无人之境
Both: Violent
《Ashland》 is the subject of 1 v4 non-equilibrium games. Players can play the role of adventurers into the tomb, crack the mechanism, take away treasures. You can also act as a gravekeeper to stop and destroy them. Rich tomb exploration tools and tomb guarding skills for you to experience and play
ActionPvPAdventureFree to PlayNudityViolentZombiesHorrorSurvival HorrorRPG👍 1,240
$9.99Medieval Life Simulator
Mar 17 · Single Soul Studios
Both: Management
Rise from nothing to wealth! Build your economic empire in a medieval open world. Produce goods, hire workers, manage income sources, and keep growing your wealth to earn more, produce more, and expand further.
Early AccessImmersive SimSimulationManagementEconomyTradingCasualSingleplayerLife SimCapitalism
$24.99Mirthwood
Nov 6 · Bad Ridge Games
Both: Management
Embark on an enchanting journey and brave ferocious creatures in an immersive medieval fantasy world. Will you settle a new homestead to live a life of farming and trade, or pick up the sword and take up the adventurers' path?
RPGFarming SimSandboxOpen World Survival CraftMedievalImmersive SimCraftingFishingExplorationManagement👍 2,242




