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2015 · Introversion Software · Adventure, Business simulation · Open the game page →
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354 games like Prison Architect · 2001 – 2025
Twice Circled · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
A theme park management game with an aquatic twist. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.
71 rating3 lists23 h main storyOften paired
Texel Raptor · Linux, Windows, macOS
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks.
82 rating4 lists52 h main storyOften paired
Android, Switch, PS4 +6
Imagine a magical factory, appearing right in your living room. A carefully planned masterpiece, where diligent workers throw together anything customers want. Rubber ducks and dressers, drones and electric guitars, scooters and other wonde
72 rating2 lists20 h main storyOften paired
Two Point Studios · Linux, Switch, PS4 +5
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the follow up management sim with a twist from the creators of Two Point Hospital. Get to know your students, explore their personalities and fulfill their wants and needs. Craft bu
74 rating8 lists27 h main storyOften paired
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Kairosoft · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
The Sushi Spinnery is a management simulation game from Kairosoft, available for iOS and Android platforms. In the game, you build and manage a sushi restaurant, hire and train staff, craft new recipes, enter sushi competitions, and try to
1 list14 h main storyOften paired
Twice Circled · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in
66 rating5 lists27 h main storyOften paired
Frontier Developments · PS4, Windows, Xbox One +2
Planet Coaster is a construction and management simulation video game. Similar to its spiritual predecessor, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (also developed by Frontier), the game allows players to build different theme park rides and roller-coaster
82 rating3 lists28 h main storyOften paired
Linux, Windows, macOS
Cities in Motion 2 (CIM2) is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. Cities in Motion 2 introduces new fea
70 rating3 lists32 h main storyOften paired
Julien Thiennot · Android, Browser, Linux +8
Cookie Clicker is a Javascript-based browser video game written by French programmer Julien Thiennot, better known as "Orteil". The point of the game is to bake cookies as fast as possible, to have a large number of cookies, and to have a l
79 rating5 lists146 h main storyOften paired
SomaSim · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Project Highrise is a Tower Building Business Management Simulator. Managing your sky-scraping empire will be no easy task – growth will require a mastery of the various interlocking systems that are required for each type of establishment
74 rating3 lists10 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games
PlayStation console exclusiveFrontier Developments · PS5, Windows, macOS
Planet Coaster is a construction and management simulation video game. Similar to its spiritual predecessor, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 (also developed by Frontier), the game allows players to build different theme park rides and roller-coaster
82 rating5 listsOften paired
Timed Xbox exclusive
Spiderling Studios · Android, Linux, Switch +7
Besiege is a physics building game about constructing mechanical machines to annihilate armies, obliterate castles and overcome challenging obstacles. Conquer the campaign or skirmish with friends in Multiplayer!
82 rating3 lists6 h main storyOften paired
Pathea Games · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
You'll take the role of a fledgling Builder to Sandrock. It’s up to you and your trusty toolset to gather resources, construct machines, and fix up your workshop into a well-oiled production machine, and save the town from the jaws of econo
84 rating6 lists93 h main storyOften paired
Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +7
Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and u
78 rating19 lists16 h main storyAlso in Simulation games
Positech Games · Linux, Windows, iOS +1
Democracy is a government simulation game. The player plays as if they are the president or prime minister of a democratic government. The player must introduce and alter policies in seven areas - tax, economy, welfare, foreign policy, tran
73 rating1 list6.5 h main storyOften paired
Robinson Technologies · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Growtopia is a free-to-play sandbox MMO game with almost endless possibilities for world creation, customization and having fun with your friends. Enjoy thousands of items, challenges and events.
68 rating6 listsOften paired
Double Eleven · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Welcome Architects! Design and develop your own personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect 2. The classic prison-builder has broken out into 3D, and it's up to you to contain it!
3 listsDescribed alike
Two Point Studios · Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +6
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County. Build and customise your hospital - it is yours after all - with specialist diagnosi
82 rating1 list38 h main story
Suncrash · Windows
The Apocalypse is here. Demons all around. Now, it’s time to fight back! Build, manage and defend your base in a post apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
65 rating2 lists39 h main story
Focus Entertainment · Windows
Design, build, and manage the world's largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL, a sandbox RTS simulator. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling
52 rating2 lists
Linux, Windows
RollerCoaster Tycoon World is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features and incredible new advancements such as stunning 3D environment
36 rating3 listsAlso in Business simulation games
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Kairosoft · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Welcome to an epic RPG world in which the town you build can grow from humble hamlet into a mecca for the land's most ambitious adventurers! The enterprising warriors that stop by your blossoming burg will defeat monsters and earn you mone
2 lists9 h main story
Realmforge Studios · Linux, Switch, PS4 +5
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor. In addition to the challenging single player Campaign and the versatil
69 rating1 list16 h main story
Dapper Penguin Studios · Linux, Windows, macOS
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and ada
65 rating6 lists19 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games
Mike Klubnika · Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
Buckshot Roulette is an indie tabletop horror game that reimagines Russian roulette using a pump-action shotgun instead of a revolver. The player faces off against a computer-controlled opponent called "The Dealer" across three rounds, with
79 rating8 lists1 h main storyOften paired
Linux, Switch, PS5 +4
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
70 rating2 lists9 h main story
DR Studios · Windows
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 customising over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a me
73 rating3 listsAlso in Business simulation games
3Division Entertainment · Windows
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!
95 rating2 lists68 h main story
Lion Shield · Linux, PS4, PS5 +4
Inspired by the SimCity series, Banished, and Stronghold, Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the vik
68 rating3 lists20 h main story
Windows
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
1 list12 h main story
Maxis · Windows, macOS
SimCity 4 is a city-building simultor. You are in the shoes of one or several mayors, and you are tasked with populating and managing your cities.When you have chosen a segment to place your city in, you will be able to chose between 3 game
83 rating5 lists15 h main story
Team17 · Android, Linux, Switch +5
The Escapists 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the sandbox prison-escape game which will include, in a first for the series, drop in/drop out play for up to four players in both local and online play.
72 rating6 lists17 h main story
Linux, Windows, macOS
This game was released in 2012 on Steam through Steam Greenlight while still in its beta. The developers decided to abandon its development in 2014, leaving the game in an unfinished state but available for purchase. "The game brings a fre
40 rating1 list16 h main story
Urban Games · Linux, Windows, macOS
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
73 rating2 lists45 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games
Enlight Software · Windows, macOS
Capitalism II is a business simulation where players build and manage a corporate empire. The game covers key aspects of commerce, including manufacturing, marketing, research, and stock trading. Players make strategic decisions, hire execu
43 rating1 list53 h main story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +4
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your li
88 rating1 list6 h main story
Ludeon Studios · Linux, Windows, macOS
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
80 rating5 lists66 h main storyAlso in Simulation games
Windows
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader,
77 rating1 list24 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games
PopTop Software · Windows, macOS
A fully realised 3D gaming world scaling from eye in the sky views of entire continents down to incredibly detailed close-ups of beautifully modelled locomotives, buildings and landscapes. As well as the 25 challenging scenarios to recreate
83 rating1 list26 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games
Jutsu Games · Android, Linux, Switch +5
911 Operator is a game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Main task is to answer incoming calls and to react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / poli
73 rating4 lists6.5 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Greenheart Games · Android, Linux, Switch +3
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
78 rating2 lists8.5 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games
Windows
Step into the chaotic 24/7 lifestyle of a hotel owner as you design and build grand hotels across the globe. Juggle the increasingly elaborate demands of disorderly guests, logistical nightmares and unexpected obstacles in Hotel Architect,
80 rating1 list23 h main storyDescribed alike
Windows
Hard Time is Money Build a profitable privately run prison from the ground up. Every wall, every fence, every decision is yours. Start small and forge your reputation as a first rate warden. Grow your facility to SuperMax capabilitie
40 rating1 listAlso in Business simulation games
Nintendo console exclusive
Roost Games · Switch, Windows
In this business management sim you build and manage your own cat cafe, adopt stray cats, and befriend the locals! Collect cafe furniture and food recipes to make your customers feel at home, then use your collection of unique cats to delig
67 rating2 lists10 h main story
Games Distillery · Windows
Good or evil? The decision is entirely yours in Citadels, a historical action strategy game! Two extensive campaigns give you insight into both sides of the war. Construct impregnable fortresses, equip them with units, ditches and palisades
20 rating2 lists
Windows
Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is opti
62 rating1 list19 h main story
Android, Linux, Switch +4
As civil crisis deepens and inequality tears the very fabric of society the discontentment of the masses manifests itself in violent public disturbances and civil disorder. Play as the police or the angry horde as Riot – Civil Unrest places
51 rating1 list5 h main story
DR Studios · Windows
Develop a state-of-the art Las Vegas resort complex, using all the money and management skill you can. Customers on the living, breathing Las Vegas boulevard are Notoriously hard to satisfy - can you win the hearts and wallets of Vegas?
60 rating1 list6 h main storyAlso in Business simulation games