

Oil Barons
1983Epyx · Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Find the best spots to drill for oil and become rich.
2 listsOften paired

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1985 · Addictive Games · Business simulation, Strategy · Open the game page → · no description to compare yet
Steer by what it is tap once for more of it, twice for none of it
135 games like Software Star · 1981 – 2022


Epyx · Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
Find the best spots to drill for oil and become rich.
2 listsOften paired


Windows
Welcome to the best auction game around. Millennium Auction pits you against a group of bidders all trying to get the best deals without buying something that has no resale value. After picking your character, you proceed to your first auc
1 listOften paired


Runecraft · GameCube, PS2, Xbox
The Monopoly Party game is the fastest way to discover what your friends are really like. It's an intense buying, trading, building, and deal-making frenzy because every player moves at the same time. Here's how it works: Everyone rolls a s
1 listOften paired


PopTop Software · Dreamcast, Linux, PlayStation +2
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation game. Railroad Tycoon was written by game designer Sid Meier and published by MicroProse Railroad Tycoon 2 is the only game of the series that was released fr the PSX console. You try t
85 rating5 lists44 h main storyOften paired


Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +1
The buck stops with you! Here's a business game that puts you in charge of your very own multi-million dollar corporation. You'll get a real taste of power and money, but it's not going to be easy. You'll also have to deal with all the res
1 list


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 story


Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX
Earth Orbit Stations is a space station simulation game, and is one of the first in the genre. Build space stations, research different fields of science, and explore space for new life, all to earn sponsors and space credits to surpass you
3 lists


reLINE Software · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +3
Oil Imperium is an Oil business strategic game. Every player has one month for dealing. He can buy or sell oilfields and storage tanks, offer oil on the world's markets, obtain statistics and studies, use sabotage, employ detectives, drill
70 rating2 lists


Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +1
You try to control important transcontinental railroads.
1 list
Nintendo exclusive
Blue Fang Games · Nintendo DS
In Zoo Tycoon 2 DS, the player edits and builds the zoo in a main mode resembling the original Zoo Tycoon. Zookeeper mode is more like Zoo Tycoon 2 graphics-wise and has five mini-games: petting, cleaning animal waste, feeding, washing, and
54 rating2 lists


Impressions Games · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
Air Bucks was one of the first business simulation games dealing with running an airline. It involves purchasing land rights for cities around the globe. In 1993, an enhanced version titled Air Bucks v1.2 was released for the Amiga.
1 list
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 story


Amiga, Android, Linux +2
Ports of Call is a classic German business simulation with some action sequences. In this sequences you must steer your ship into the port or have to rescue some shipwrecked people.
65 rating1 list3 h main story


Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, ColecoVision
In this brilliant text and graphics game, you start with a guitar, a few bucks and enough raw talent to sit in with the Stones or the Police. Now you've got some big decisions to make as you pick one of three levels and let IT'S ONLY ROCK '
2 lists


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


Frog City Software · Windows
Real-time pausable strategy game which simulates creating a trade empire.
2 lists


Realmforge Studios · Linux, Windows
MUD TV is your ticket to the weird wild world of television. Once you take control of your own station it's up to you to determine the line-up, hire actors and directors, produce your own shows, series and movies and to grab those lucrative
40 rating1 list


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 story
Timed Nintendo exclusive
Koei · FM Towns, SNES, Sega Genesis +1
You are the CEO of an airline company. Your goal is to become the most successful airline in the world by connecting all 22 cities with air routes, maintain a profit, and meet the required quota of passengers. If you cannot turn a profit fo
5 lists


Enlight Software · Windows
Our Hotels. Your Rules. In Hotel Giant, you call the shots as you direct every aspect of hotel operations. You control the construction of your hotel – from site selection to building type – to personalized room features. Build up to 19 dif
1 list


Ariolasoft · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +1
Kaiser is a 1984 game for Atari 400/800, Commodore 64, Schneider/Amstrad CPC in which your goal is to become the German Kaiser.
2 lists


Windows
Potionomics is a game about the business of brewing and selling magical potions. Sylvia, a penniless young witch, must save her shop from the clutches of a debt collector, but she can’t do it alone. With the help of fellow merchants, fledgl
78 rating1 list21 h main story
Sega console exclusive
Vivarium Inc. · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega Saturn +2
Welcome to the building simulation game SimTower, which offers the chance to build and manage all the complex, interconnected operations of a modern skycraper. You build your empire from nothing and become the engineer and general manager o
63 rating5 lists


Ascaron · Amiga, Atari ST, Atari ST/STE +1
The Patrician is a trading simulator set in the middle ages, it's the first game in the Patrician series.
4 lists


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 story


Android, MS-DOS, iOS +1
Released on PC in 1994. Developed by Chris Sawyer, and coded in X86 Assembly language, it was among the first in the relatively new 'tycoon' genre of games - simulations of business empires that the player founded, grew and took full contro
88 rating3 lists
Sunstorm Interactive · Windows
The weatherman predicts a tornado. Planeloads of baggage have mysteriously disappeared. Flight delays have left customers in an uproar. Now, your most valuable airline is ready to pull the plug on a lucrative contract. Welcome to the world
1 list


MS-DOS, Windows
Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space allows the player to make their own decisions regarding the manned and unmanned space programs of either the United States or the Soviet Union, in their race to place a man on the moon.
1 list
Paladin Studios · Windows
Enercities is an educational computer-game created by the Dutch game developer Paladin Studios. The project has a €1.4M budget, and is funded by the European Commission. The game runs on Facebook and on the game website. In Enercities, the
1 list


Windows
Players are in charge of a computer start-up in this real-time economic simulation.
1 list


Holistic Design · Windows
Merchant Prince II is a 2001 turn-based strategy game of economic, political, and military conquest. The game is developed by Holistic Design and published by Take-Two Interactive under TalonSoft label. It is the sequel to the 1994 video ga
1 list


SquarePlay Games · Windows
Overcrowd is a tactical management sim set on the London Underground. Blending base building with pausable real-time strategy, Overcrowd offers a mix of spatial puzzling, strategic thinking and split-second choices.
80 rating1 list15 h main story
PlayStation exclusive
Aquria · PS2
Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi is a visual novel where you are tasked to help the super game producer Haruhi Suzumiya to create the best video game in the world! Give orders to the SOS Brigade members, manage their timetables, and create one in
1 list


Virgin Group · ZX Spectrum
A humorous simulation game based around the mundane workings of the music industry for the ZX Spectrum.
3 lists
Nintendo console exclusive
Koei · NES, PC-8800 Series, PC-9800 Series
Famicom Top Management is a Strategy game, developed and published by Koei, which was released in Japan in 1990.
2 lists
Artdink · FM Towns, MS-DOS, NEC PC-9800 series +5
A-Train III, known internationally as A-Train, is a 1990 business simulation video game and the third game in the A-Train series. It was originally developed and published by Japanese game developer Artdink for Japan, and was later publishe
2 lists


Spellbound Entertainment · Linux, Windows, macOS
Airline Tycoon is a business simulation game by Thomas Holz and Robert Kleinert, in which the player must successfully manage an airline. The original was developed by Spellbound Entertainment, and published by Infogrames Deutschland, but t
80 rating3 lists


b-alive · Windows
A decade after the best-selling Airline Tycoon comes the long awaited sequel to the legendary tongue-in-cheek economic simulation that puts players in the role of CEO of an international airline! Airline Tycoon 2 will challenge players to r
20 rating1 list25 h main story


MS-DOS
The main object of the game was to successfully set up an airline by buying aircraft, planning routes, setting ticket prices and dealing with events such as hostage and oil crises. The game had 4 airlines, a minimum of one of which was huma
1 list
American Dream: The Business Management Simulation (also known as Managing for Success) is a 1985 video game published by Blue Chip Software.
1 list
Nintendo console exclusive
HipSoft · Android, Nintendo DS, Windows +1
Send the housing market through the roof as you build, buy, and sell houses in the new strategy game, Build-a-lot! You can flip houses for quick cash or sit back and watch the rental income pile up. Become a real estate mogul as you visit s
70 rating2 lists6 h main story
Acorn Electron
Business Games is a collection of two business simulation games for the BBC Micro published in 1983 by Acornsoft. An Acorn Electron version followed in 1984. The included games are Stokmark and Telemark.
2 lists


Windows
Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.
70 rating1 list26 h main story




Gabriel Entertainment · Windows
Caterpillar Construction Tycoon is a business simulation game in which the player manages multiple construction sites. It was developed by Gabriel Entertainment, and published by Activision Value on September 15, 2005, for the PC. The objec
1 list


Big Fish Games · Windows, macOS
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design is an economic sim focused on mouth-watering chocolate, and is the latest installment of the award-winning Chocolatier series. For the first time ever, you have complete control over the ingredients, look, n
50 rating1 list8 h main story


Windows
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
67 rating3 lists24 h main story


Linux, Windows, macOS
Rendered in rich detail, four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam - await the steady hand of a planner to manage their transportation needs in Cities in Motion, a city-based mass transportation simulatio
68 rating4 lists23 h main story