Tycoon games like Basement

Looking for that same retro and funny spark as Basement? Start with these tycoon games when you are ready.

Dirty Business
Run a criminal empire from an underground hangar beneath the city. You grow plants, cook chemicals, print fake bills, build guns, then push it all through elevators, vans, and a secret airstrip. Hire workers and dealers, unlock new rooms, and take over districts solo or with up to four friends.
76% of 1,077 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 241$11.24
Definitely Not Fried Chicken
Run a fried chicken empire that is definitely not a drug empire. In this 80s business sim you grow marijuana, cocaine and meth, then hide it all behind chicken shops, laundromats and nightclubs. Build both sides, keep staff fed and alive, and get rich while the city crumbles.
Funny
72% of 2,186 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26$24.99
Drug Dealer Simulator
Start with a dirty hideout and a few grams, and end up running labs, dealers and territory across the city. You mix recipes, portion product, dodge police and DEA patrols, and reinvest in staff and property. Slow, hands-on and tense, with a dark sense of humour throughout.
Funny, Tense, Dark
75% of 21,325 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 111$19.99
Drug Lord Tycoon
Start in a back-alley garage with product in your pockets and work up to a criminal operation with workers, dealers, and underworld contacts. You hustle buyers yourself, then breed strains, set up production lines, and hand street work to your crew while dodging police and rivals.
83% of 1,675 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$9.99
The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire
Start in a cheap motel room and end up running warehouses, nightclubs and production chains across 11 districts. You steal cars, dodge cops, hire gangsters and automate the dirty work until the money rolls in on its own. A crime sim with real tycoon bones.
77% of 606 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 93$18.99
City of Gangsters
Start with nothing in 1920 Prohibition and build a criminal booze business into a city-wide money machine. You set up stills and speakeasies, run production chains, smuggle goods, bribe police, and keep rivals in check. A slow, systems-heavy tycoon game for tycoon fans who like optimizing every link.
Dark
73% of 1,346 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$29.99
Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom
Burdened with debt, you run an underground scam compound for profit. You grab tourists for labor, set up phishing rigs, dating-app cons and casinos, keep the lights on and the workers fed, and trade with the mayor and police while a strange town story unfolds.
Funny, Dark
77% of 187 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$10.99
Cartel Tycoon
Run a drug empire in fictionalized 1980s Latin America, from small farms to plantations, labs, aerodromes and smuggling ports. You move product, launder dirty cash, bribe officials and keep lieutenants loyal while gangs, police, army, DEA and CIA close in. Death ends one capo and starts the next.
Tense, Dark
75% of 2,840 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$7.49
Schedule I
Start with pocket change and no connections in Hyland Point, and build a drug empire from soil and baggies to automated labs, dealers, and laundered cash. For tycoon fans, the pull is watching a scrappy street operation turn into a managed supply chain — with cops and a cartel taxing every shortcut.
Tense
97% of 294,463 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9,687$19.99
PUSHER - Drug Tycoon
Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. Get ready for a experience where you'll combine strategy, risk-taking, and decision-making to build your criminal empire.
Retro
84% of 122 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Trapper: Drug Dealing RPG
Drug Dealing RPG roguelite strategy crime saga with choose your own adventure elements. The police and the jackboys aren't your biggest enemy... Time is!
Dark
89% of 100 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Big Ambitions
Start broke in New York with an apartment, a job and advice from your uncle, then build toward a business empire. Open gift shops, supermarkets, law firms and more, hire staff, stock shelves and grow into warehouses, imports and headquarters. Worth playing for tycoon fans who like building one shop at a time into something much bigger.
92% of 14,564 Steam reviews are positive$25.99

Cheaper than Basement

Dirty Business

Run a criminal empire from an underground hangar beneath the city.

$11.24

Drug Lord Tycoon

Start in a back-alley garage with product in your pockets and work up to a criminal operation with workers, dealers, and underworld contacts.

$9.99

The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire

Start in a cheap motel room and end up running warehouses, nightclubs and production chains across 11 districts.

$18.99

Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom

Burdened with debt, you run an underground scam compound for profit.

$10.99

Cartel Tycoon

Run a drug empire in fictionalized 1980s Latin America, from small farms to plantations, labs, aerodromes and smuggling ports.

$7.49

PUSHER - Drug Tycoon

Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH.

$5.99

Cocaine Dealer

A clicker/management drug dealing simulator. Get your product cut and wrapped quickly and out on the streets.

$3.99

Startup Company

You are the CEO of a small startup with one goal: build a website big enough to take on the tech giants.

$12.99

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…

$2.99

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!

$0.99

Good Job : Night Hustle Simulator

Sam left you the keys to an underground massage parlor, and now the night shift is yours.

$12.49

Mad Games Tycoon

Start in a garage in the early 1980s and build a game studio that can rule the market.

$7.49

Hidden gems like Basement

I Know a Guy: Shady Life Simulator

You run a pizza shop in Hobarey Town that is also a front for mafia debt work.

$12.99

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

Start broke in New York with an apartment, a job and advice from your uncle, then build toward a business empire.

$25.99

Dirty Business

Run a criminal empire from an underground hangar beneath the city.

$11.24

Laundering Simulator - Clean Cash and Laundry

Eddie Wiser runs a laundromat in front and a forgery workshop in back, and both need your help.

$7.79

Final Profit: A Shop RPG

Final Profit is a story-driven shop RPG where you play an exiled fae queen building a business to take down capitalism from inside.

$14.99

Scam Center Simulator: UnderKingdom

Burdened with debt, you run an underground scam compound for profit.

$10.99

The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire

Start in a cheap motel room and end up running warehouses, nightclubs and production chains across 11 districts.

$18.99

Drug Lord Tycoon

Start in a back-alley garage with product in your pockets and work up to a criminal operation with workers, dealers, and underworld contacts.

$9.99

Blood Bar Tycoon

Run a bar for vampires, stocked by humans. Lure mortals in, harvest their blood in wacky machines, and serve bloody slushies and daiquiris to paying…

$19.99

E-Shop Tycoon

Start in a garage and grow into an online retail empire: stock warehouses, hire staff, decorate offices, run ads and ride holiday sales.

$9.09

Over the Counter

A pharmaceutical business management game.

Free

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