Games like Cartel Tycoon
by Moon Moose
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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$29.99City of Gangsters
Aug 9 · SomaSim
Both: Resource Management · Management · Economy
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
CrimeResource ManagementStrategyManagementProcedural GenerationEconomyTurn-BasedHistoricalTurn-Based StrategyGrand Strategy👍 1,333
$29.99Rise of Industry
May 2 · Dapper Penguin Studios
Both: Management · Economy · Resource Management
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
ManagementStrategyEconomySimulationCity BuilderResource ManagementIndieBase BuildingTradingBuilding👍 3,123
$24.99Voxel Tycoon
Apr 15 · Voxel Tycoon
Both: Building · Economy · Management
Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!
Early AccessSandboxAutomationBuildingCraftingEconomyManagementTrainsTransportationCity Builder👍 1,557
-90%$1.99Drug Dealer Simulator
Apr 16 · Byterunners
Both: Resource Management · Management
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
SimulationCrimeActionIndieSingleplayerOpen WorldResource ManagementCraftingTradingManagement👍 21,308
$24.99One Military Camp
Jul 20 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: Management · Resource Management · Economy
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
SingleplayerManagementBase BuildingCity BuilderResource ManagementSimulationSandboxEconomyBuildingStrategy👍 684
$12.99Business Magnate
Mar 1 · Ambiera
Both: Management · Economy · Resource Management
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
SimulationStrategyManagementEconomyResource ManagementSingleplayerBuildingSandboxIndieCasual👍 211
$14.99Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
Oct 14 · Squidpunch Studios, Vincent Ltd
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.
ManagementSimulationStrategyArcadeCity BuilderEconomyBuildingComedySandboxCrafting👍 452
$9.99Game Dev Tycoon
Aug 29 · Greenheart Games 💚
Both: Management · Economy
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.
ManagementSimulationIndieStrategyCasualSingleplayerEconomy2DModdableAddictive👍 40,312
$29.99Constructor
May 26 · System 3
Both: Building · RTS · Management
You can’t rise to the top without taking a few others down. If that means engaging in a workplace accidents, dodgy deals, and a shifty trick or two then so be it! You're going to need every trick in the book if you want to go from small-time slumlord to property tycoon!
StrategySimulationCity BuilderComedyBuildingViolentRemakeRTSClassicManagement👍 697
$12.99Turmoil
Jun 2 · Gamious
Both: Management · Resource Management
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
ManagementMiningStrategyTime ManagementResource ManagementTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerSingleplayerRelaxingAsynchronous Multiplayer👍 13,158
$19.99Tropico 5
May 23 · Haemimont Games
Both: Economy · Management · Resource Management
Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationSandboxMultiplayerEconomyManagementResource ManagementSingleplayerComedy👍 9,797
$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
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
Mar 12 · Frontier, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: Management · Building · Economy
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.
SimulationManagementSandboxBuildingStrategySingleplayerEconomyClassicReal-Time with PauseFamily Friendly👍 4,151
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · Resource Management · Management
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
$24.99Mad Games Tycoon 2
May 31 · Eggcode
Both: Management · Economy · Building
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.
ManagementEconomySimulationGame DevelopmentStrategyCity BuilderBuildingTradingCapitalismBase Building👍 7,356
$19.99RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
Sep 24 · Frontier Developments, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: Management · Building · Resource Management
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
ManagementStrategyBuildingSimulationCity BuilderCasualSandboxFamily FriendlyResource Management3D👍 2,637
$6.99Drink Pro Tycoon
Mar 5 · World Map Tycoon
Both: Management · Economy · Resource Management
In Drink Pro Tycoon you create your dreams company and dominate world drink industry. Create best drinks and make best advertisement campaigns. Invent newest technologies and market your drinks in the best way.
SimulationStrategyIndieManagementEconomyReal-Time with PauseResource ManagementImmersive SimBuildingTactical
