Games like Melodramatica

If the hand-drawn and cute rhythm of Melodramatica stuck with you, this helps. Start with these games when you are ready.

Showrunner
Create and run your own TV show! An isometric management game where you craft scripts, populate your world with characters and cast actors to play them. Hire and manage staff, develop your studio and gain a dedicated following.
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Relaxing, Cinematic
69% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Ultimate Theater Simulator
Run your own cinema from behind the counter in Ultimate Theater Simulator. Screen films, pop popcorn, hire staff, chase out kids sneaking into R-rated movies, and expand one screen into a full theater. A funny, hands-on management sim where the popcorn is hot and the problems are on fire.
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Relaxing
88% of 660 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$12.99
Once Upon a Jester
Travel the kingdom as Jester with his best friend Sok to improvise theatre shows and perform on stages far and wide. Sing your hearts out, crack jokes and impress audiences to become the stars of the famous Royal Theatrical Spectacle!
Hand-drawn, Cute, Funny
100% of 264 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Maggie's Movies - Camera, Action!
Help me follow my dream and become a movie director! 🎥 🎬
Cute, Relaxing, Story-driven
64% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Infinite Game Works Episode 0
A Game about making Games! Actually care about the people you work with! Play the role of Justin a high school student as he embarks on his dream journey to become a game developer. Having just won a programming contest he enlists the aid of Cleo the artist and Aki the music composer.
Cute, Funny, Relaxing
38% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Circus Electrique
Circus Electrique is part story-driven RPG, part tactics, part circus management, and completely enthralling– all with a steampunk twist. When everyday Londoners mysteriously turn into vicious killers, only the show’s talented performers possess the skills necessary to save the city.
Hand-drawn, Story-driven
74% of 260 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Blockbuster Inc.
Ever dreamed of making your own movies? Build up your own movie studio, scout for upcoming stars, and produce cutting-edge films and TV shows. Try to stay ahead of your competition throughout the history of cinematography.
Also in Tycoon · Relaxing, Cinematic
51% of 622 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Wizdom Academy
A 3D builder management sim. You are the Headmaster: build your wizarding academy floor by floor, train students into accomplished wizards, and keep your school alive through mana droughts, staff drama and rival academies. Your school, your rules.
Also in Tycoon · Cute, Funny, Relaxing
66% of 267 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$21.99
Tavern Keeper 🍻
Run your own tavern in a hand-drawn fantasy world. Stock the bar, hire the staff, decorate every corner and keep the fire (hopefully not literal) under control, all wrapped in a funny, fully narrated storybook adventure from the makers of Game Dev Tycoon.
Also in Tycoon · Hand-drawn, Cute, Funny
94% of 4,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$29.99
Movie Cinema Simulator
Build the most successful cinema business in the world!
Also in Tycoon · Funny, Relaxing
86% of 189 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hollywood Animal
Run a Hollywood studio from the dawn of sound cinema, and make movies no matter what it costs. Build soundstages, sign stars, outfox the mayor and the mob, and steer your studio through decades of glamor, blackmail and hard choices. A tycoon game with teeth, and a story in every contract.
Also in Tycoon · Cinematic, Story-driven
72% of 3,902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$19.99
Movies Tycoon
Run a film studio from a raccoon-approved garage to a Hollywood-style lot. You hire actors, writers and directors, shape their looks and quirks, balance arthouse ambition against action-movie cash, and call the shots on each production.
Also in Tycoon · Relaxing, Cinematic
70% of 562 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$29.99

Hidden gems like Melodramatica

Tailor Simulator

Build your workshop and turn it into a fashion business. Interact with your customers and design unique collections to sell in your store.

$5.99

Ultimate Theater Simulator

Work the counter, screen the films and grow a single screen into your own full movie theater, one busy shift at a time.

$12.99

I Wanna Be A Game Dev!

Live out your school days as you navigate the rocky world of game development! Can you make an amazing game, or will something get in the way?

Free

News Tower

Run a newspaper in 1930s New York: send reporters after scoops, build the floors and machines that turn paper into print, and pick whose truth makes…

$24.99

Tavern Keeper 🍻

Serve a colorful fantasy crowd, hire your staff and shape a funny storybook tale one guest at a time.

$29.99

CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator

CraftCraft is a narrative-heavy RPG sim with hands on forging and jewelry making! Create a pretty tiara for a mermaid or a sword made of dragon blood!

$15.99

Once Upon a Jester

Travel the kingdom as Jester with his best friend Sok to improvise theatre shows and perform on stages far and wide.

$14.99

Casino Resort Tower

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows…

$19.99

Blood Bar Tycoon

Run a vampire bar where humans are the supply chain. Lure mortals downstairs, process their blood into cocktails for vampire regulars, and grow from…

$19.99

Movie Cinema Simulator

Build the most successful cinema business in the world!

$4.99

Cinema Simulator 2025

Cinema Simulator 2025 is a simulation game where you will manage your own movie theater and test your strategy and management skills.

$11.99

Super Movie Tycoon

Write the scripts, build the sets, hire the talent and run a film studio where every blockbuster starts on paper.

$8.49

Newest games like Melodramatica

Rewind 99

You're the last remaining video rental store. From humble VHS clerk to rental racketeer - run your video store and explore Reshoot Springs, building…

$11.99

Little Sim World

Renovate your corner of a cute 2D Little London, pick up hobbies and friendships, and play at your own pace with friends.

$12.59

Project manager SIM

Manage the most unpredictable resource - people - in this WASD tycoon!

$6.99

Box Office Mayhem: Theatre Tycoon

Box Office Mayhem is a business management game where you simulate running your own movie theatre.

$11.99

High Times

Fry up treats that change how your customers feel, hear out over 30 regulars, and win back the exes you ghosted, one glaze at a time.

$19.99

Tailor Simulator

Build your workshop and turn it into a fashion business. Interact with your customers and design unique collections to sell in your store.

$5.99

Laugh Track

You're now the lead writer for Juno's World, a perfectly normal sitcom in which nothing strange or horrible happens, ever!

Free

News Tower

Run a newspaper in 1930s New York: send reporters after scoops, build the floors and machines that turn paper into print, and pick whose truth makes…

$24.99

Inn Tycoon

Welcome to Inn Tycoon! Build, design, and manage your dream inn. Serve delightful meals, offer various services, and hire a stellar staff.

$5.99

Tavern Keeper 🍻

Serve a colorful fantasy crowd, hire your staff and shape a funny storybook tale one guest at a time.

$29.99

Super Movie Tycoon

Write the scripts, build the sets, hire the talent and run a film studio where every blockbuster starts on paper.

$8.49

Ultimate Theater Simulator

Work the counter, screen the films and grow a single screen into your own full movie theater, one busy shift at a time.

$12.99