Games like Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon

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.

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

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.

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.

Your turn to manipulate the market! A financial market simulator where you can choose your own path. Manipulate news, events, and financial engineering to make billions. Or play honestly, growing companies the legal way.

Embark on an e-commerce startup journey in E-Shop Tycoon! Optimize warehouse logistics, hire and train staff, and design unique office spaces as your business grows. Handle industry events and marketing crises. Come grow your startup into an e-commerce giant!

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.

Dig mines, extract resources, and produce goods to restore order to the state. Become a successful businessman and an effective state governor in the late Wild West era!

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!

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!

Build hotels, accommodate guests and expand your hotel business throughout the world!

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.

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!

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

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?

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

《学生时代》是一款可自由构筑的校园人生模拟器。你将在高度还原的中国校园中，从入学一路走到高考，与多个性格鲜明的同学一起成长，互相陪伴。你的养成和选择，不但会决定你的人生，也会影响到朋友们的未来。

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!

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.

As the new CEO of a derelict company, you must deal (or side) with rogue corporate AIs, rebellious labor unions and globalist aristocrats. Holonoptic combines economic simulation and RPG into a story-rich corporate alpine cyberpunk.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!

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?

Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero. All episodes out now!

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

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.

Can you hear the bad can? Tap, listen, and reject defective cans in a sound-based inspection game. The line keeps accelerating. Three mistakes end your shift. Headphones strongly recommended.

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.

AfterWar is a simple yet feature-rich strategy game for everyone.

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

Do you like hot dogs? How about horseshoes? Hand grenades? (everyone likes hand grenades) Anyway, we've got all that, and guns. SO MANY GUNS. So if you like ordnance, meat, and far too many groan-worthy puns, this is the VR sandbox game for you.

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?

An online 1-6 player co-op "casino crawler" where you and your friends share one bank account and one massive debt. Gamble, buy sketchy items, make terrible decisions, and climb an ominous casino tower to hit your loan shark’s daily quota in 5 minutes - or face the consequences.

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!

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.

Run your pizza shop up front and handle shady business out back. Help hand-crafted NPCs with favors that never go as planned. Play solo or online co-op with up to four players and expand your operation across Hobarey Town. In this darkly comedic management sim - become that guy everyone knows.

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.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

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.

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.

Grab your backpack and climb on in, it’s time to hit the road! Head out on a gentle journey in your reliable old caravan, crafting hearty meals, running market stalls and sharing goodies with local townsfolk. Spread kindness, share, and help prepare for the annual Whizz Bang Fair!

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.

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.

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.

A 4-player online co-op survival horror game. Avoid the contaminated rain, gather scrap and get back to the tram. Monsters that copy your friends' voices and behavior, and many other threats, stand in your way. Gear up and stick together to survive.

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.

MY GARAGE is a car simulation game with main focus being simulating real car repair, maintenance and physics.

Fish, scale, sell, repeat. Scale the Depths is a casual fishing game built around this simple but satisfying loop. Feed hungry customers, upgrade your gear, and uncover the many secrets hidden beneath the surface.

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?

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!

Shelve the videotapes, unlock new skills, and use your unique methods to tidy up the TV archive. 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.

These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.

A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system and silly prizes. Featuring 50+ modern inspired arcade machines and a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The Coin Game is made by a solo developer.

Welcome to Explorers of Esmar! Build your settlement, master complex production chains. Claim the riches to explore and conquer the new island continent of Esmar!

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.

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

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

Build nuclear weapon, wage wars, strategize and become the strongest leader

Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.

No Emergency: Pestilence plunges players into the epicenter of a mysterious epidemic, where every arriving patient could be carrying a mutating pathogen, and a single mistake in a prescription turns the cure into poison.

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.

Survival is optional, rent is mandatory. Team up in Dead Margin, a brutal 1-4 player co-op horror. Whisper to survive, avoid anomalies, and scavenge scraps. Sell it to pay the greedy customer. Out here, everything has a price. Especially you.

The Horde is coming, but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your squad, choose their upgrades, and build powerful synergies against thousands of undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break every limit in this deceptively simple but addictive bullet heaven game.

A cosy cooking time-management game set in a medieval tavern. Brew pottage, pour ale and slice snacks for a queue of impatient guests. Reinvest your coin to upgrade the kitchen, and collect a dozen legendary regulars who each break the rules their own way.

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.