Games like The Sims™ 2 Legacy Collection
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The game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. In The Sims 2, you direct your Sims over a lifetime. Give them a long existence, or leave their lives in shambles. Guide their characteristics from one generation to the next.
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$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Life Sim · Sandbox
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
$7.99BOXROOM
Jun 11 · Nested Loop Studios
Both: Life Sim · Building · Sandbox
BOXROOM allows you to design, define and decorate a room - a sanctuary - for your Steam library, and then revel in the organisation of your game collection.
SimulationSoftwareLife SimBuildingDecoratingSandboxModdableFirst-PersonDesign & Illustration3D👍 284
$9.99Ice Cream Simulator
Jun 5 · AM Playhouse
Both: Life Sim · Management · Immersive Sim
Run your dream ice cream shop in Ice Cream Simulator! Create delicious ice cream using a variety of ingredients, manage your business, hire staff, decorate your store, handle changing weather and different customers, and enjoy a relaxing first-person simulation experience.
CookingSimulationSingleplayerLife SimFirst-PersonManagementImmersive SimDesign & IllustrationRealisticBase Building👍 180
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: Life Sim · Building · 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
$12.99Clothing Store Simulator
Nov 28 · Kiki Games
Both: Management · Life Sim · Immersive Sim
Are you ready to shape fashion world? Make a brand deal, order products, fill the aisles, dress the mannequins and start selling. Dresses, shirts, coats, pants, nightwear, underwear, shoes and more are waiting for you.
SimulationManagementEconomyLife SimSingleplayerTradingImmersive SimCapitalismResource ManagementInventory Management👍 1,120
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management · Sandbox · Immersive Sim
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
$15.99Mon Bazou
Dec 18 · Santa Goat
Both: Sandbox · Life Sim · Building
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Automobile SimDrivingSandboxLife SimRacingChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationBuildingOpen WorldFirst-Person👍 19,936
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Management · Sandbox · Building
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingSci-fi👍 10,267
$19.99Streamer Life Simulator 2
Feb 5 · Cheesecake Dev
Both: Life Sim · Immersive Sim
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?
SimulationLife SimImmersive SimFirst-PersonOpen WorldCasualSingleplayerEconomyActionMemes👍 6,755
-20%$9.59Mall Together
Jul 24 · Business Tycoon
Both: Life Sim · Management · Immersive Sim
Run your mall. Open new stores, sign contracts with leading brands, hire teammates, and meet customer needs. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your mall.
Life SimCasualOnline Co-OpShop KeeperSimulationManagementDesign & IllustrationMultiplayerOrganizingImmersive Sim👍 419
$14.99Junkyard Builder
Apr 8 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Management · Life Sim · Immersive Sim
In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!
SimulationManagementFirst-PersonCasualLife SimFamily FriendlyImmersive SimRelaxingSandboxEconomy👍 223
$14.99House Builder 2: Casual Construction
Oct 22 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Building · Sandbox
In House Builder 2, you build your dream structures in a vibrant, open-world low-poly environment! Purchase materials for your work, load them up, and head off to diverse tasks in the ultimate building adventure!
CasualBuildingSandboxDesign & IllustrationSingleplayerIndiePhysicsEconomyEducation3D👍 101
$49.99House Flipper Remastered Collection
Jun 4 · Frozen Way
Both: Building · Sandbox · Immersive Sim
Guess who's back – and shinier than ever! House Flipper Remastered Collection lets you become a one-person renovation crew. Clean, build, decorate, and sell for profit! Now with better graphics, voice acting, all expansions in one toolbox, and some more heartfelt addition. It’s flipping time!
SimulationDesign & IllustrationDecoratingCleaningBuildingCasualSandboxImmersive SimEconomy3D👍 856
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management · Life Sim · 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
$19.99Ostranauts
Aug 3 · Blue Bottle Games
Both: Sandbox · Life Sim
Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.
FlightSimulationSpace SimSandboxDifficultSurvivalSpaceExplorationLife SimProcedural Generation👍 3,141
$17.99Farlands
Jul 16 · JanduSoft, Eric Rodríguez
Both: Building · Life Sim
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
Farming SimBuildingCraftingAgricultureExplorationLife SimEarly AccessCuteIndieFishing👍 1,628
-50%$12.49Seafarer: The Ship Sim
Oct 7 · astragon Development
Both: Life Sim · Immersive Sim
Build your maritime career solo or with up to 4 players. Take on contracts across diverse harbors, command different ships, and tackle cargo runs, patrols, rescues, firefighting, and unexpected events in a vast Northern European open world.
SimulationCasualNavalLife SimExplorationImmersive Sim3DRealisticTransportationOpen World👍 1,926
$13.49Gamestonk Simulator
May 21 · simsum
Both: Management · Life Sim · Immersive Sim
Relive the golden age of old-school video game stores! Sell hit games, deliver orders, trade and collect retros, hire staff, decorate and grow your store to be the best in town! Disclaimer: some game title parodies might crack you up!
SimulationManagementRogueliteCollectathonLife SimEconomyImmersive SimCapitalismRoguelikeIndie👍 106
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: Sandbox · Management · Building
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
$29.99shapez 2 - Factory
Apr 23 · tobspr Games
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
AutomationManagementBuildingStrategyFuturisticSimulationPuzzleSandboxCraftingBase Building👍 13,868
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: Sandbox · Building · Management
Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
FreeVoxelMancy
May 29 · Reuniko
Both: Building · Sandbox · Character Customization
Online voxel sandbox where you can build anything imaginable. Forget simple cubes – sculpt slopes, curves, and structures of any size with many realistic materials. Your imagination is the only limit!
Early AccessVoxelBuildingSandboxProcedural GenerationLevel EditorFantasyChoose Your Own AdventureGod GameCharacter Customization
$19.99The Last Starship
Feb 3 · Introversion Software
Both: Sandbox · Building
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
StrategySandboxSpaceSimulationSingleplayerBase BuildingSci-fiSpace SimBuildingMining👍 1,625
$9.99CielChan: Anime Desktop AI Companion
Apr 10 · Elushis
Both: Immersive Sim · Life Sim · Character Customization
Leave her on your desktop to listen, watch when enabled, react, and keep you company. A local-first AI presence with optional chat, games, and more.
Immersive SimArtificial IntelligenceLife SimCharacter Customization3DCuteRelaxingDynamic NarrationDialogue HeavyCasual
-25%$14.99K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut
Jul 16 · Wisageni Studio
Both: Life Sim · Management
The ultimate crossover between K-pop and Life Simulation! Step into the role of manager and build your dream idol group by scouting talent, managing schedules, choosing outfits, planning social media, and organizing the perfect album. Can you make it to debut?
Life SimRPGChoices MatterSimulationChoose Your Own AdventureAnimeVisual NovelManagementParty-Based RPGRelaxing👍 176
-10%$10.79Medieval Juice Crafter
6 days ago · Timeless Rush
Both: Life Sim · Management · Character Customization
Craft your special recipe juices and sell them in medieval villages. Expand your business with new recipes, machines, properties, and workers. Play online with your friend or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your business.
CraftingLife SimOnline Co-OpMedievalSimulationManagementNatureBase BuildingCharacter CustomizationOpen World
-20%$11.99Hozy
Mar 30 · Come On Studio
Both: Sandbox · Building
Restore a forgotten neighbourhood through your favourite hobby, one cozy room at a time. In Hozy, clean, paint, and decorate abandoned homes with satisfying mechanics and intuitive controls. Enjoy the little details as you interact with tools, items and furniture to bring each space back to life.
RelaxingCozyCasualSandboxPuzzleCutePhysicsSimulationColorfulBuilding👍 4,146
$24.99Anymaker
3 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox · 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
$9.99Egypt Frontiers
Mar 12 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Building · Immersive Sim · Sandbox
Dive into the sands of ancient Egypt in 'Egypt Frontiers.' As a master builder, construct majestic monuments, manage resources, and shape history in this captivating simulation game. Are you ready to leave your mark on the Frontiers of Egypt?🐫☀️
SimulationDesign & IllustrationBuildingEducationImmersive SimFirst-PersonRelaxingSandboxCraftingManagement
-10%$4.49Gridmax
3 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
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
$13.99Fields of Mistria
Aug 5 · NPC Studio
Both: Life Sim
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
Farming SimDating SimRPGPixel GraphicsLife SimRomanceSimulationCuteFarmingRelaxing👍 32,018
-15%$7.64Political Life
4 days ago · Terminalabs
Both: Life Sim
A political life simulation: enter in middle age, assemble bills, run elections, take the money, bury the trail. There is no win condition — only how you are remembered when you die.
Political SimLife SimChoices MatterText-BasedStory RichMultiple EndingsSimulationStrategy2DPixel Graphics
-15%$10.19Pixie - Desktop Pet That Mirrors You
10 days ago · Abdullah Sanberk EKER
Both: Life Sim · Character Customization
Pixie is a pixel desktop pet that mirrors your face through your webcam in real time. It follows your head turns and blinks, obeys hand gestures, plays rock-paper-scissors, remembers you and chats back. Twelve characters, each with its own voice, and all vision runs locally on your own machine.
AnimalsArtificial IntelligenceLife SimCharacter Customization2DCuteDragonsCozyFunnyCasual
-35%$20.79The Crust
11 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Sandbox · 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
-15%$12.74Anime Shop Simulator ✨
10 days ago · One More Time
Both: Management · Life Sim
Manage your own anime shop 🎌. Play solo or team up with friends 🤝 in 4-player co-op mode to grow your business 📈 Stock shelves with manga, figures, and collectible cards in this immersive first-person game 🕹️.
SimulationAnimeOnline Co-OpCard GameCasualManagementFirst-PersonShop KeeperLife SimSingleplayer👍 645
$11.99Football Agent
Aug 25 · ATERO GAMES
Both: Immersive Sim · 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
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-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: Building · 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
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
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Both: Sandbox · 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
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
$24.99Bootstrap Island
Mar 12 · Maru VR
Both: Life Sim
A highly realistic VR survival roguelike adventure set on a ruthless 17th-century tropical island. Shipwrecked and alone, you must survive without guidance as you face wild beasts, nature’s fury, and a mysterious local tribe. Every decision is yours. Your survival is in your own hands!
SurvivalAdventureOpen WorldVRLife SimRoguelikeActionNatureAtmosphericSimulation👍 1,366
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Sandbox · Building
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Management · Sandbox
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
-34%$19.79The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410
4 days ago · Ashborne Games
Both: Sandbox · Immersive Sim
Choose from professions like Smith, Preacher or Alchemist to gain riches in this medieval economic simulation. Climb the social ladder, dominate politics, and lead your dynasty to power over multiple generations to ensure your legacy.
Early AccessSimulationStrategySandboxStrategy RPGImmersive SimPolitical SimTime Management3DColorful👍 349
$9.99Medieval Life Simulator
Mar 17 · Single Soul Studios
Both: Immersive Sim · Management · Life Sim
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
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementHistoricalBuildingSandboxColony Sim👍 2,011
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
7 days ago · OPNeon Games
Both: Management
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485
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Both: Sandbox · Character Customization
A Sci-Fi role-playing game featuring turn-based ground combat, space exploration, deep character customization and a massive living universe with thousands of star systems. Equip your ships with the best equipment you can find, gather a powerful crew of mercenaries and set out into the void!
CRPGExplorationTactical RPGTurn-Based TacticsDungeon CrawlerSandboxParty-Based RPGCharacter CustomizationRPGIsometric👍 1,667
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3 days ago · All Loose®
Both: Sandbox · Immersive Sim
A peaceful open world of forests, rivers and wide meadows. Set out alone or with up to 4 friends to find the place you’ll call home. Build a quiet life or grow your settlement into a thriving new civilization. The choice is yours.
AdventureSimulationFarming SimSandboxColony SimExplorationImmersive Sim3DFirst-PersonColorful
-15%$12.74Biovoid
3 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox · Building
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
-50%$3.99Unbox the Room
Oct 17 · Weird Penguin Games
Unbox the Room is a relaxing simulator where you play as an interior designer helping clients move into their new homes. Unbox and arrange their belongings to create a cozy space, placing everything just right — from the smallest cup to the largest sofa.
RelaxingDecoratingOrganizingCozyCuteCasualIsometricPixel GraphicsFamily FriendlySimulation👍 243
$29.99Pro Basketball Manager 2026
Nov 17 · Umix Studios
Both: Management · Immersive Sim
Lead your club to greatness in Pro Basketball Manager 2026! The Basketball Champions League arrives with 53 licensed teams, putting you in charge of every decision as you aim to dominate both domestic and continental basketball.
SportsSimulationStrategyBasketballManagementImmersive SimSingleplayerText-Based2D3D👍 121
$29.99Pax Dei
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Both: Sandbox
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
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