The Shadow Government Simulator
A turn-based strategy game where you lead a secret society towards world domination.
75% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Games like The Shadow Architect
Still thinking about The Shadow Architect and its dark and replayable tone? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
The Shadow Government Simulator
A turn-based strategy game where you lead a secret society towards world domination. Investigate the influential and convert them to your faction via bribery, seduction and intimidation. Reshape society's power structures to fend off rival societies and the world's nations in your quest for power.
Replayable
75% of 100 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Dark, Replayable
62% of 194 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Shadows of Forbidden Gods
You are a Dark Elder God with one goal: end the world. Slip agents into farming villages, turn kings against each other, and watch heroes hunt you while plague, famine and madness spread. A slow, patient strategy game where every run tells a different apocalypse.
Dark, Replayable, Surreal
91% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99Technotopia
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city. Build districts, meet the needs of diverse communities and maintain the delicate balance between factions vying for control over you!
Replayable
86% of 644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99Dictatorship Simulator
A roguelike deckbuilder about manipulating a political simulation and becoming a dictator. Change how the political system works so it tears itself apart. 5% of profits donated to the godot and blender foundations.
Dark, Replayable, Funny
100% of 1 Steam reviews are positive$8.99Shadows Behind the Throne 2
An apocalyptic grand strategy game, in which you take the role of the forces of darkness, trying to bring an end to a fantasy world. Complete with complex internal politics by NPC factions and wide ranges of strategies and types of doom to choose between.
Dark, Replayable
77% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Spinnortality | cyberpunk management sim
Found a company, spread fake news, start riots and become immortal. In this cyberpunk management sim, wealth is power and corporations are king. Can you monopolize the globe and build a corporate empire that will stand forever?
Dark, Replayable, Funny
75% of 282 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Urban Cards
Urban Cards is a cutthroat capitalist roguelike deckbuilder. Build your business empire, steal from your opponents, and amass a fortune to win in a satiric unfair world.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable, Funny
75% of 157 Steam reviews are positive$14.99MEGACITY
Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy simulation. Play in real time or one turn at a time. Idle/strategy/sandbox/dystopian/city builder.
Dark, Replayable
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Cardboard Town
Cardboard Town is a city builder played with cards. Draw a hand, place buildings, and keep Money, Electricity, Water, Safety and Environment in balance while disasters and quest cards test your planning. Three Red Alerts end the run, persistent unlocks make the next one better, and every town grows differently.
Also in Deckbuilding · Replayable
79% of 2,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99Sabotage City
Sabotage city takes the idea of a city builder and flips it on its head, making a city destroyer game. You are an average citizen hired to work for a gigantic demolition company, little to find out the cities are less than abandoned…
Replayable, Funny
100% of 7 Steam reviews are positiveFreeCitadels - Shadow City
Citadels: Shadow City is a dark-fantasy turn-based card game of bluffing, diplomacy, and city-building. Pick secret roles, gather gold, and outsmart your opponents to construct the ultimate city. Play solo against AI or compete with friends in online and local multiplayer!
Replayable
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Cheaper than The Shadow Architect
Cardopolis
Cardopolis makes you Mayor of a city built entirely from cards.
71% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$4.89
Citadels - Shadow City
Citadels: Shadow City is a dark-fantasy turn-based card game of bluffing, diplomacy, and city-building.
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
90% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
SimuLadron
A satirical simulator where you wield the powers of the State to print money, spread empty promises, and create the most legendary inflation in…
94% of 550 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Microlandia
Build a cozy voxel town where every citizen works, pays rent and votes, and try to keep them all happy while the numbers refuse to lie.
88% of 245 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$3.99
Slash Cash
A turn-based simulation game, where you manage a game development company.
40% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$2.59
Beholder
Snoop through an apartment building for the regime, then decide which neighbors deserve to be reported and which secrets stay buried.
91% of 23,411 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 76$1.39
Blueprint Tycoon
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
81% of 995 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Socialism Simulator
The civil war is over. To the rapturous cheers of the crowd, you and four of your companions take control of the country.
95% of 243 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Neocolonialism
Buy votes, make free trade agreements, manipulate the IMF, extract wealth, ruin everything. The map is upside-down.
70% of 20 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hearth & Shadow
Hearth & Shadow - is a card-based strategy game where you develop your settlement and defend it from monster invasions.
100% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like The Shadow Architect
Car Park Capital
Big Auto has hired you to sell the freedom of car dependency to a town that was doing fine without it.
96% of 1,796 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$16.99
SimuLadron
A satirical simulator where you wield the powers of the State to print money, spread empty promises, and create the most legendary inflation in…
94% of 550 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Prime Monster
Fight for votes in a monster parliament, break the rules, and cling to the top job by any means necessary.
83% of 319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Technotopia
Welcome to Technotopia, a city-builder card game. Take on the role of an AI designed to build a perfect city.
86% of 644 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$4.99
Shadows of Forbidden Gods
Play a patient dark god spreading plague, famine and conspiracy across a fantasy world until it falls.
91% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom
Build a shady operation in a broken little town, then watch your crooked workforce make a mess of it.
77% of 187 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$10.99
Green New Deal Simulator
Achieve zero emissions and full employment in this casual card-driven game.
86% of 116 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cardboard Town
Draw your buildings from a deck, place them where they count, and keep five resources in balance as your card-built town grows.
79% of 2,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$19.99
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Plan a whole planned economy from mines to housing, where nothing arrives unless you make it.
90% of 25,764 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,435$39.99
Vertical Kingdom
There's nowhere to go but up! Vertical Kingdom is a card-based city builder roguelite with a twist - you can only build vertically, literally…
75% of 112 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Quarantineer
For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself.
80% of 307 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Democratic Socialism Simulator
Pave the road to a post-capitalist society!
90% of 210 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Newest games like The Shadow Architect
Cardopolis
Cardopolis makes you Mayor of a city built entirely from cards.
71% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$4.89
Car Park Capital
Big Auto has hired you to sell the freedom of car dependency to a town that was doing fine without it.
96% of 1,796 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$16.99
Compound Interest
The networks are dead. The city has fallen. Manage your crew and send them into danger to earn money and respect.
87% of 30 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Saving Bumblebrook
Recruit townsfolk and complete outlandish schemes in this solo strategy card game where every success reshapes the Wanted Board.
83% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
MEGACITY
Run a post-collapse megacity where every decree has a cost. Balance industry, survival, politics, war, ecology, and human lives in idle-strategy…
88% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom
Build a shady operation in a broken little town, then watch your crooked workforce make a mess of it.
77% of 187 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$10.99
Statecraft: Corrupted Democracy
Democracy is dirty; get your hands filthy. Manipulate the masses like a flock of sheep, bribe the parliament, and sabotage your rivals.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Prime Monster
Fight for votes in a monster parliament, break the rules, and cling to the top job by any means necessary.
83% of 319 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Wild City
The deckbuilder where cards are plants, animals, and insects that can synergize and prey on each other.
88% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Politiks - Satirical Roguelite Deckbuilder
Become a corrupt politician in this satirical deck-builder where you manipulate voters, sabotage rivals, and pocket campaign funds to win at any cost.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Microlandia
Build a cozy voxel town where every citizen works, pays rent and votes, and try to keep them all happy while the numbers refuse to lie.
88% of 245 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 42$3.99
Dictator Simulator: Gradnar
Become the Dictator of Gradnar! Rule the nation, choose between democracy and tyranny, wage wars with a unique card-based mechanic, and expand your…
97% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$4.99