Games like SPE:X

Chasing that replayable and story-driven feeling you got from SPE:X? Start with these games when you are ready.

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 the heights of global corporate sabotage! As long as you don't get hacked... or kidnapped...
Also in Tycoon · Retro
55% of 216 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$2.99
Startup Company
You are the CEO of a tiny startup with one big dream: a website that outgrows the tech giants. Develop features, run marketing, keep servers alive and employees happy, then decide whether to buy your rivals or simply outlast them. A relaxed business sim you play at your own pace.
Also in Tycoon
80% of 5,859 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$12.99
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% of 14,564 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,107$25.99
E-Startup
E-Startup is a sandbox business simulation game in a low-poly universe. Build, buy resources to create products and complete contracts, invest in the stock market to become rich and popular!
Also in Tycoon · Replayable
44% of 127 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Final Profit: A Shop RPG
Play an exiled fae queen who opens a shop to beat capitalism at its own game. You stock shelves, hunt down products and customers, invest the profits, and make choices that decide if you stay honest or turn ruthless. A funny, story-heavy shop RPG with 35+ hours of upgrades, secrets and schemes.
Also in Tycoon · Replayable, Story-driven, Retro
95% of 533 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
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 which shop and deciding the prices. Business Simulator 2026 is a business simulation that will test your business acumen and strategic planning skills.
Also in Tycoon
72% of 184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
AdVenture Capitalist
Start with one lemonade stand and click your way to absurd wealth. AdVenture Capitalist is a relaxed, funny idle sim about buying businesses, hiring managers, and watching money pile up while you do something else.
Also in Tycoon
87% of 60,558 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,321Free
Company Rising
In this business simulation game, you take on the role of an entrepreneur, starting with a small team of just a few people and gradually building your very own corporate empire, step by step.
Also in Tycoon · Retro
18% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Business-hooiznes
An amateur russian startupper creates several business plans but there is not enough cash for bringing them to life. The Startupper wins 1 kekollar at the “Naiobka” casino but it still won’t do for the business start. The guy has to make some potential investors give him\her the money at any cost…
Replayable
50% of 52 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Factory Manager
Factory Manager is a game about development of your own manufacturing business from scratch. You are going to take loans, hire stuff, buy machines and materials, produce goods according to the recipes and be prepared for the various risks inherent in any business.
Replayable
63% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Laptop Tycoon
Welcome to Laptop Tycoon!Compete with the tech giants! You will have the opportunity to show your skills in business management. Start your own laptop company! Choose and hire the best people for your company, buy and upgrade your own office and start building your dream laptop.
Also in Tycoon · Replayable
74% of 402 Steam reviews are positive$7.99

Cheaper than SPE:X

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…

$2.99

E-Startup

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

$1.99

Business-hooiznes

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

$0.99

Factory Manager

Factory Manager is a game about development of your own manufacturing business from scratch.

$2.99

Incorp Inc

Create your own company, make money and avoid disasters.

$3.99

DevTycoon

DevTycoon is a software development business simulation with a charming pixel art style, which challenges you to build and manage your own company…

$4.99

Game Builder Tycoon

In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a…

$0.99

Phone Flipper Simulator

Run a used phone shop in the slums and climb to the top! Persuade customers, buy cheap, and sell high.

$5.99

Business Simulator

Business simulator is a simple economic simulator. Making their way forward, the player builds the future of their character, earning money and…

$4.99

Shop Manager : Video Game Tycoon

In Shop manager: video game tycoon your uncle entrusts you his video game shop.

$1.99

城市生存计划 / City Survival Project

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

$1.99

Game Corp DX

Start a small game studio, train your team and grow it into an award-winning powerhouse.

$2.99

Hidden gems like SPE:X

Life Inc.

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

$19.99

This Grand Life 2

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

$17.99

Office Simulator

Ready to climb the career ladder? In Office Simulator, start as an intern and rise through the corporate ranks.

$9.99

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…

$13.49

Big Ambitions

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

$25.99

Final Profit: A Shop RPG

Play an exiled fae queen who opens a shop to beat capitalism at its own game.

$14.99

E-Shop Tycoon

Build an online shop from a tiny startup into an e-commerce giant.

$9.09

Idle Guy: Life Simulator games

Study, work, date and bowl your way up a funny, relaxed life where every choice about your climb is yours.

Free

Over the Counter

A pharmaceutical business management game.

Free

PC Tycoon 2

Start with one tiny office and a big idea, and grow it into a global computer company.

$7.99

Sim Companies

Run a firm of farms, factories and stores, and outsmart thousands of real traders whose deals set the market.

Free

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…

$11.99

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