Games like Project Highrise

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

A cozy multiplayer building sandbox where every world is shared and persistent. Place and break blocks, farm crops, fish, craft gear, and decorate your space alongside other players. No combat, no death penalty, just building at your own pace.

A cozy incremental game about growing your way home. Strategically plant flowers, optimize machinery, and grow your tree tall enough to escape!

A physics sandbox built on real chemistry. Drop 674 materials into a falling-sand world and watch them react, burn, freeze and explode. Then wire circuits, test wings in a wind tunnel, or split light through lenses — alone or with friends online.

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.

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.

Build twisting mazes with tetromino blocks and deploy unique towers in this strategic roguelite tower defense adventure!

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.

Arena combat meets mercenary club management. Recruit from a dynamic market, build your squad, and compete season after season in leagues and cups.

Run your sporting goods shop. Sign contracts with leading brands, order products, hire workers, expand your store, and run little contests to entertain your customers. Play with friends or go solo, and enjoy the growth of your shop.

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.

Forage, craft and automate to grow your factory, unlock new technologies and expand your island to discover new biomes. Progress through the ages from sticks and stones to the Bronze Age, the Industrial Era and into the future to uncover the secret of the Lighthouse and escape this reality.

Dig & Deal is a game where you dig underground to find valuable items and bargain with customers to sell what you find. Upgrade your tools, grow your shop, and make the best deals to build your fortune.

Program a crew of tiny robots to turn a frozen planet into a living world. Connect visual code blocks, automate crafting, and build a workforce that fuels itself. Keep the heat flowing, refine your machines, and watch your ideas come to life.

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.

Shelve the products, unlock new skills, and use your unique methods to tidy up the mall. Enjoy the online co-op and online PvP with your friends, or go solo! Fill up the shelves and experience a sense of relief and satisfaction.

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 🕹️.

Rise from high school assistant to the top of the sport in one fully-simulated, connected football universe — from high school to college to the pros. Manage a roster, call every play, and watch it play out in a realism-based broadcast-style game engine.

SAS is an Open World Multiplayer PVP and CO-OP Survival Game. Set in a vast environment that features Building, Crafting, Taming, Riding, Flying and Exploring Wildlife, Dinos and Dragons as well as Horrific Creatures and Instances with the ability to Morph into Spirit Animals.

Welcome to Winston Springs, Officer! The local police station is in urgent need of a Chief of Police, and you’ve been chosen for the job! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!

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.

Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game with a relaxing atmosphere. Build your tower, manage resources, unlock new tools, and uncover the secrets hidden in the sky.

Every hero starts somewhere, usually with a dull axe, an even duller pickaxe. Background Hero puts you in charge of building one from scratch, one skill at a time. Idle progression, tiered upgrades, task lists, resources, dungeon rewards -- perfect for the completionist chasing the elusive 100%

A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Frog It Up is an incremental clicker game where you lure frogs to a pond and help them build their own cozy little city. As the pond grows, you’ll decide which upgrades to unlock, shaping how the city expands over time and steering progress in the direction you prefer.

A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.

Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.

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.

POWDR is a high performance interactive particle sandbox featuring realistic fluids, sands, solids, interactions, and more! Every pixel is simulated. Every material interacts. Every experiment can become a catastrophe.

A cozy minimalist settlement builder about growing a network of settlements, each with its own little economy. Manage the flow of resources between them at your own pace, pause at any time, and watch a civilization emerge as your settlements work together to raise a great temple and claim the land.

Paint, combine and discover! Garden Ink is a cozy sandbox game. Combine decorations and use painting tools to customize your world. With hand-painted graphics and a relaxing soundtrack, it’s time to discover every cute surprise.

Ascend from mortal origins to cosmic mastery in Ascend Idle: Chronicles, an immersive idle RPG. Optimize automated resource generation, unlock powerful upgrades, and master deep strategic progression through a seamless, mouse-only interface designed for pure, relaxed enjoyment.

Mine by day, defend by night. Master 25+ spells, sell rare ores for gear upgrades, and grow stronger each run in this procedurally generated roguelite tower defense. Enjoy full controller and Steam Deck support.

A character-driven Three Kingdoms strategy game. Recruit legendary officers, build your realm, and command real-time battles through preparation, tactics, and decisive intervention. Shape Guandu, Red Cliffs, and the anti-hegemon war, challenge Duel Mode, and climb global rankings.

A dark, text-and-pixel monster-breeding sim. Hatch abominations, train them with a TRPG card hand, and send them off to the surface for good. Stats and Traits inherit down two separate bloodlines, so every generation is a deliberate choice, not a reroll.

This is an incremental game where you become a cozy destroyer of worlds.

"Roguelike Card Game: Business Empire" combines roguelike with card strategy. Choose your character, build your industrial park from scratch using cards, experience multiple victory paths, and compete on the global leaderboard.

A competitive board game where players vote to shape their destiny. Transform caravans into 5-star hotels, collect wonders, and earn bounties for bankrupting opponents. Use airports to outmaneuver rivals, organize World Cups to multiply your rent. Can you turn your empire into a global monopoly?

Master of Pottery is a pottery-themed creation + simulation game. Make pottery, open exhibitions, complete orders, train apprentices, run your own showroom and start a relaxing pottery journey.

Climb a tower that never lets you leave. Move — your spells fire themselves. Combine 8 elements into automatic synergies, awaken them twice, and gamble on relics that break the rules. Die, bank your gold, climb again. 100 floors, 35 relics, 14 artifacts, and a leaderboard that remembers.

Recruit cards, assign them to shelters, and stop incoming waves in a strategic tower defense game. Combine three cards to strengthen your forces, manage limited resources, and adapt to each scenario.

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.

Start with one five-a-side pitch. Answer the phone, haggle over the price, fill the hours. Reinvest: more pitches, more land, more staff. Grow enough and the neighbourhood league plays its season on your grass.

A first-person sci-fi cargo flight sim. Pilot a physics-driven lander, plan risky routes, manage fuel and heavy cargo, and save deliveries by repairing system failures mid-flight. Earn credits and upgrade your ship.

Cards Everywhere! is a cozy organizing game where you sort through 2,000 scattered cards, collect over 1,500 unique ones, and place them in your collection album. Discover dozens of unique sets and unlock helpful abilities as your collection grows.