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$19.99The Tenants
Oct 20 · EndGameLoop Games
Both: Management · Life Sim · City Builder
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?
ManagementDesign & IllustrationLife SimCity BuilderBuildingEconomyGod GameImmersive SimSandboxReplay Value👍 7,072
$24.99Mad Games Tycoon 2
May 31 · Eggcode
Both: Management · Game Development · City Builder
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
$19.99City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
Aug 24 · Binogure Studio 🐺
Both: Management · Game Development · Programming
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!
ManagementSimulationEconomyGame DevelopmentCapitalismStrategyModdableProgrammingSingleplayer2D👍 1,780
$14.99Reactor Tech²
Aug 31 · 4Co
Both: Real Time Tactics · City Builder · Management
Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.
EconomyReal Time TacticsCity BuilderManagementPvEStrategyFarming SimScienceFamily FriendlyBuilding👍 353
$22.99Software Inc.
May 1 · Coredumping
Both: Management · Building · Game Development
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.
Early AccessManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismBuildingSandboxGame DevelopmentIndieModdable👍 7,577
$24.99MMORPG Tycoon 2
Jan 6 · VectorStorm Pty Ltd
Both: Game Development · City Builder · Management
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
Game DevelopmentSandboxCity BuilderManagementGod GameCharacter CustomizationSimulationEconomy3DStylized👍 2,979
$14.99Mad Games Tycoon
Sep 13 · Eggcode
Both: Management · Building
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!
ManagementSimulationStrategyEconomyCasualBuildingBase BuildingResource ManagementSandboxCrafting👍 3,700
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: City Builder · Building
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$4.99Megapolis
Jun 15 · Lonely Troops
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
SimulationCasualIndieStrategyCity BuilderBuildingSingleplayerTime ManagementManagementIsometric👍 109
$24.99Ostriv
Mar 19 · yevhen8
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Early AccessCity BuilderStrategySimulationHistoricalColony SimManagementBuildingBase BuildingResource Management👍 6,874
$22.00Ratopia
Apr 30 · Cassel Games
Both: Building · City Builder · Management
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
BuildingColony SimBase BuildingSurvivalDifficultStrategyCity Builder2DCuteManagement👍 4,639
$4.99Towns
Nov 7 · Xavi Canal, Ben Palgi
Both: City Builder · Building
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
City BuilderIndieSandboxSimulationStrategyCraftingSingleplayerRPGSurvivalBuilding👍 2,400
$12.99Startup Company
Apr 10 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Building
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!
ManagementSimulationEconomyStrategyIndieCasualSandboxBuildingSingleplayerEarly Access👍 5,855
FreeMOENTO - Modular Environment Toolkit
Apr 23 · Jonas Oppliger
Both: Game Development · Programming · City Builder
This toolkit accelerates the invention of unique structures for games using well-known purchasable assets or individual game specific DLC's and allows developers to give their audience a tool to actively participate in the development of the game world.
SimulationSoftwareGame DevelopmentUtilitiesProgrammingEarly AccessCity BuilderProcedural GenerationFree to PlayRelaxing
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management · Building
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
FreeInfinitode 2 - Infinite Tower Defense
May 6 · Prineside
Both: Building · Real Time Tactics
Infinitode 2 - a strategy in the Tower Defense genre, in which the player will have to build towers to protect his base from endless waves of enemies. The game features huge maps, lots of towers, resource miners, upgrade tree and map editor.
Level EditorTower DefenseBuildingReal Time TacticsPvEStrategyTop-DownFree to Play2DCyberpunk👍 777
FreePlasma
Sep 13 · Dry Cactus, Licorice ehf
Both: Building · Programming
Plasma is a pure engineering sandbox. Use advanced visual programming and robotics tools to create anything you can imagine.
SimulationSandbox3DExplorationBuildingChoose Your Own AdventureProgrammingFirst-PersonAutomationLogic👍 456
$10.99Real estate tycoon
Aug 5 · Double Eggs
Both: City Builder · Building
"Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)
City BuilderSimulationBuildingCapitalismEconomyModernResource ManagementIndieCasualStrategy👍 418
Kingdom Builders
Jun 24 · ebb & flow games
Both: City Builder · Building
City Builder meets Action RPG! Build your kingdom building by building, having villagers join your side. Lead them to expand your empire, defeating foes hindering your empire's growth.
City BuilderStrategyColony SimAction RPGBuildingExplorationActionRPGParty-Based RPGTop-Down👍 237
$9.99Tycoon City: New York
Mar 12 · Deep Red Games Ltd.
Both: Management · City Builder
Here's your chance to make it big in the Big Apple... New York City, the city that never sleeps! Go for broke building your own Manhattan empire, creating and customizing over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a media conglomerate, open a lucrative Broadway theater - the choices are endless.
SimulationManagementCity Builder👍 235
-80%$2.99Startup Panic
Jan 20 · Algorocks
Both: Programming · Management
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...
ProgrammingSimulationResource ManagementManagementTime ManagementEconomySingleplayerRelaxingCasualComedy👍 211
FreeLearn Game Development, Unity Code Monkey
Aug 9 · Endless Loop Studios
Both: Programming · Game Development
Learn Game Development from a Professional Indie Game Developer. Make your own games and bring your ideas to life!
SimulationProgrammingGame DevelopmentTutorialEducationSoftware TrainingUtilitiesSoftwareStrategyRPG
$6.99Smartphone Tycoon
Mar 1 · Roastery Games
Both: Management
«Smartphone Tycoon» — unique business simulator. Create your own company for the production of smartphones! Your main goal will be to achieve worldwide recognition and take the company to the temple of fame of the global market.
SimulationStrategyIndieManagementSingleplayerEconomy👍 1,591












