Games like RETURN TO 1990

Loved how story-driven and replayable RETURN TO 1990 can get? These games line up well for what comes next.

1. STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator

   

   Japan, 1980s. You are a stock market businessman with a phone, a ticker and big plans. Trade stocks, buy real estate, run your own company, play pachinko when the market closes. A text-based life sim with pixel art, shady shortcuts and multiple endings. Just watch your health: overwork sends you to the hospital.

   Also in Visual novel and Tycoon · Story-driven, Replayable

   95%95% of 3,194 Steam reviews are positive23Players online now: 23$9.99

2. Rich List: The Order

   

   Start as an ordinary worker and climb to trillions: trade stocks, build a tech empire, take it public, rig markets, win at the poker table and buy your way into old-money clubs. A turn-based business sim with branching events, family and inheritance, and a hidden conspiracy behind the money.

   Also in Tycoon · Story-driven, Replayable

   87%87% of 95 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$14.99

3. Life Inc.

   

   You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto. Pay taxes, manage loans, build a company into a holding, and leave a legacy for generations to come.

   Also in Tycoon · Replayable

   90%90% of 165 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$19.99

4. Money Makes Money: Historical Market Simulator

   

   Travel through 2010–2025 and trade historical stocks and cryptocurrencies with the benefit of hindsight. Build a fortune, survive unexpected costs, and uncover the story behind it all.

   Story-driven, Replayable, Mysterious

   100%100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

5. This Grand Life 2

   

   A life simulator where money is the score. Build a character with a caffeine addiction or a paperwork allergy, then steer them through careers, small businesses, real estate and stocks while inflation, industry booms and busts reshape the plan. Or roleplay a penniless hobo. Every run plays out differently.

   Also in Tycoon · Replayable

   87%87% of 314 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$17.99

6. Industry Giant 2

   

   Start in 1900 with a little money and big plans, then spend a century building an industrial empire. Grow or buy raw materials, turn them into over 150 real 20th century products, move them by truck, train, ship or plane, and sell them in your own shops while cities grow around you. Booms, crashes and oil crises included.

   Also in Tycoon · Replayable

   86%86% of 878 Steam reviews are positive45Players online now: 45$9.99

7. SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim

   

   Build your empire from a basement. Trade stocks, run companies, date, raise kids, dodge the SEC, and retire a legend — or go broke trying.

   Also in Tycoon · Story-driven, Replayable

   83%83% of 59 Steam reviews are positive7Players online now: 7$11.24

8. Dealer's Life 2

   

   Run your own pawn shop, haggle like a pro and grow from a rundown garage to a business empire. Read your customers, dodge scammers, bid at auctions and hunt rare items in a colorful, funny shop sim where you never know who walks in next.

   Also in Tycoon · Replayable, Hand-drawn

   85%85% of 4,006 Steam reviews are positive25Players online now: 25$14.99

9. Wall Street Raider

   

   A stock market simulation of unusual depth, in continuous development since 1986. Run banks, launch hostile takeovers, short overhyped stocks and trade everything from oil futures to Bitcoin. No pretty graphs, just real financial machinery and your nerve. If spreadsheets don't scare you, this is the deepest finance game around.

   Also in Tycoon · Replayable

   93%93% of 237 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$29.99

10. Big Ambitions

    

    Start broke in New York with an uncle, an apartment, and a job, then build your way to tycoon. Open shops, hire staff, stock shelves, buy trucks and buildings, and try to stay fed, rested, and happy while the money rolls in.

    Also in Tycoon · Replayable

    92%92% of 14,564 Steam reviews are positive$25.99

11. Capitalism Plus

    

    Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.

    Also in Tycoon · Replayable

    86%86% of 114 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$2.99

12. Capitalism 2

    

    A deep business sim from 2001 where you build a corporate empire from raw materials to retail shelf. It is demanding and shows its age, but nothing else goes this deep.

    Also in Tycoon · Replayable

    87%87% of 453 Steam reviews are positive11Players online now: 11$9.99

Cheaper than RETURN TO 1990

Capitalism Plus

Play the strategy game of money, power and wealth.

86%86% of 114 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4$2.99

Silicon Valley Investor

Silicon Valley Investor is a business simulation game. You will play as an investor who came to Silicon Valley alone.

83%83% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

E-Startup

E-Startup is a sandbox business simulation game in a low-poly universe.

44%44% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

Game Tycoon 1.5

Welcome to the Game Industry!The year is 1982. Three young entrepreneurs discover the computer and potential to strike it rich in the Games Industry!

12%12% of 324 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

Startup Panic

Quit your job and build an exciting startup! Survive the tech bubble, compete with rival CEOs and expand your office from bedroom programmer up to…

55%55% of 216 Steam reviews are positive3Players online now: 3$2.99

城市生存计划 / City Survival Project

The player will play as someone trying to make it in the big city.

69%69% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

Business-hooiznes

An amateur russian startupper creates several business plans but there is not enough cash for bringing them to life.

50%50% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$0.99

The Stonks Market

Gamble your entire life savings on ludicrous stock trades hoping to get rich or die trying in this hilarious narrative misadventure about winning at…

87%87% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

重启人生

The 14th straight day of crunch. Then your heart stops — and a voice asks: would you start over?

83%83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

Record Life

Under certain conditions try to change your life. This is a simulation business game based on real life starting from scratch, to billionaires…

61%61% of 18 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Life Simulator

Life Simulator is a simulation game with relaxed atmosphere.

50%50% of 199 Steam reviews are positive$1.34

十五

This is a plot exploration game set in the 1990s. In the game, you will go back to the age of 15, make up for those regrets and mistakes, rewrite…

92%92% of 53 Steam reviews are positive$3.99

Hidden gems like RETURN TO 1990

Wall Street Raider

Build a financial empire from the ground up: buy companies, run banks and outmaneuver rival shareholders in a brutally detailed market simulation.

93%93% of 237 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$29.99

Life Inc.

You’re 16 with €500. 💼 Choose from 23 career paths. 🏠 Buy and rent property. 📈 Trade stocks. ₿ Invest in crypto.

90%90% of 165 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$19.99

This Grand Life 2

Build a character, chase careers, businesses and property, and let a shifting economy rewrite your plans each run.

87%87% of 314 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$17.99

Big Ambitions

Climb from small shop owner to New York tycoon while keeping your own life in order.

92%92% of 14,564 Steam reviews are positive$25.99

MarginCall

MarginCall runs a stock market with no scripted prices. Every tick is a real trade on a real order book against hundreds of AI traders with their…

77%77% of 135 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$14.99

STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator

Trade stocks, buy up real estate and climb the corporate ladder in a text-based life sim with multiple endings.

95%95% of 3,194 Steam reviews are positive23Players online now: 23$9.99

Crypto Miner Tycoon Simulator Starter Edition

It is 2010 and your bedroom has two PCs and a rich dad who believes in digital money.

88%88% of 1,367 Steam reviews are positive4Players online now: 4Free

Mad Games Tycoon 2

Start a tiny studio in 1976 and grow it into a corporation, building offices, hiring talent and shipping your own consoles along the way.

93%93% of 7,403 Steam reviews are positive180Players online now: 180$24.99

Business Simulator 2026

In Business Simulator 2026, you start with a small capital and aim to build a business empire in the city by deciding which business to start in…

71%71% of 184 Steam reviews are positive2Players online now: 2$11.99

Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim

Run a shady little shop on a dystopian space station, crafting and trading your way through a rising weekly bill. ---

79%79% of 24,040 Steam reviews are positive82.1KPlayers online now: 82,112$19.99

Dealer's Life 2

Read every customer, spot the fakes and turn a tiny pawn shop into a thriving business, one deal at a time.

85%85% of 4,006 Steam reviews are positive25Players online now: 25$14.99

No Umbrellas Allowed

Buy low, sell smart and read between the lines in a secondhand shop where every item carries a story, and one of them is yours.

80%80% of 1,411 Steam reviews are positive6Players online now: 6$19.99

Newest games like RETURN TO 1990

Capitalize

"Do you want to get rich? Start playing." ✔ Manage your budget like in real life (rent, groceries, leisure).

83%83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$8.99

Big Ambitions

Climb from small shop owner to New York tycoon while keeping your own life in order.

92%92% of 14,564 Steam reviews are positive$25.99

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…

66%66% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$11.99

MarginCall

MarginCall runs a stock market with no scripted prices. Every tick is a real trade on a real order book against hundreds of AI traders with their…

77%77% of 135 Steam reviews are positive5Players online now: 5$14.99

ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

Repair consoles and phones at your own pace while the people behind them share where their lives went wrong.

95%95% of 11,587 Steam reviews are positive1.8KPlayers online now: 1,791$19.99

Rich List: The Order

A turn-based climb through stocks, tech empires and old-money secrets, where every run branches toward a different ending.

87%87% of 95 Steam reviews are positive19Players online now: 19$14.99

Game Store Chronicle

Run a video game store through decades of gaming history. Read demand, stock landmark releases, hire staff, set prices, and grow a tiny 1980s shop…

76%76% of 70 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$12.99

Landlord Simulator

Landlord Simulator is a strategic management game on a 2D map to build a real estate empire.

67%67% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$13.99

Gamestonk Simulator

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…

81%81% of 107 Steam reviews are positive1Players online now: 1$13.49

Wall Street Raider

Build a financial empire from the ground up: buy companies, run banks and outmaneuver rival shareholders in a brutally detailed market simulation.

93%93% of 237 Steam reviews are positive16Players online now: 16$29.99

重启人生

The 14th straight day of crunch. Then your heart stops — and a voice asks: would you start over?

83%83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$1.99

Sunset Game Shop Shayou

Why did the beloved game shops of our childhood fade away? Live through 25 years of gaming history (1985–2010) as a shop owner in this management sim.

88%88% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99