Most played story-driven tycoon games

Running a shop, park or graveyard puts you in the middle of other people's lives in these most played story-driven tycoon games. In DAVE THE DIVER you split time between diving work and keeping a food counter going, while in Tiny Bookshop you pair locals with used books from your van. Graveyard Keeper adds a darker trade where burials fund a growing enterprise and every customer has a past.

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1. Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim

   

   A cyberpunk shop sim where you run a storefront on a corrupt space station, juggling customers, factions, and rising rent. Buy low, craft and smuggle high, and earn enough to buy out your shop before the landlord buys you out of luck.

   78%78% of 23,419 Steam reviews are positive85.1KPlayers online now: 85,122$19.99

2. DAVE THE DIVER

   

   DAVE THE DIVER pairs deep-sea fishing by day with running an exotic sushi restaurant by night. For tycoon fans, the draw is the nightly rush: pick what is on the menu from what you caught, serve a full house, and turn the profits into better diving gear and a busier restaurant.

   96%96% of 144,662 Steam reviews are positive7.1KPlayers online now: 7,050$19.99

3. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation

   

   You run an energy company whose power source is monsters. Send clerks-turned-agents to work with Abnormalities you know nothing about, meet the daily energy quota, and expand into new departments. When something breaches, and it will, you clean up the mess. For tycoon fans who want the spreadsheets replaced with dread.

   94%94% of 53,976 Steam reviews are positive4.4KPlayers online now: 4,401$24.99

4. Graveyard Keeper

   

   Run a medieval graveyard as a business, and cut every corner you can. You bury bodies, strip them for parts to sell, craft goods, preach weekly sermons for cash and faith, and branch out into farming, brewing and alchemy. Dark, funny and deliberately shameless about profit.

   86%86% of 40,349 Steam reviews are positive2.1KPlayers online now: 2,076$4.99

5. ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

   

   Run a small electronics repair shop in mid-2000s Tokyo, taking apart Y2K consoles, phones, music players and cameras, cleaning them, swapping faulty parts and putting them back together. Customers bring stories with their broken gadgets, and your choices shape their lives and your shop's branching endings.

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

6. Jurassic World Evolution 2

   

   Build a dinosaur park where the attractions can eat the guests. Jurassic World Evolution 2 gives tycoon fans enclosures, scientists, genomes and guest comfort to balance across campaign, what-if film scenarios, Challenge and Sandbox modes, with over 75 land, flying and marine species to bioengineer.

   90%90% of 39,873 Steam reviews are positive693Players online now: 693$59.99

7. Nivalis Nights

   

   Start with a noodle stand in neon-lit Nivalis and work toward owning restaurants and nightclubs. You set menus and prices, hire staff, restock ingredients or grow your own, and decorate venues while the city ticks on around you. Best for tycoon fans who want business management wrapped in a cyberpunk slice of life.

   76%76% of 4,510 Steam reviews are positive667Players online now: 667$24.99

8. Sovereign Tower

   

   Rule a magical tower as its newly hired Sovereign. You hear petitions each morning, balance five factions and the treasury, then send your eccentric Round Table knights on quests matched to their stats. Fail badly and a tower demon lets you rewind time and try again.

   93%93% of 4,206 Steam reviews are positive462Players online now: 462$19.99

9. Saloon Simulator

   

   Run a Wild West saloon in Blueberry and turn it into a business the town knows. You mix drinks, cook meals, hire staff, decorate the rooms, add gambling tables and rooms for rent, and take on gray-area jobs when honest work falls short.

   87%87% of 934 Steam reviews are positive438Players online now: 438$11.39

10. Tiny Bookshop

    

    Leave your old life behind and run a tiny second-hand bookshop on wheels in Bookstonbury-by-the-Sea. You stock genres to match each spot, set up in scenic locations, decorate the van, and recommend books to locals. A gentle, story-led take on shopkeeping for tycoon fans who want charm over spreadsheets.

    96%96% of 7,258 Steam reviews are positive191Players online now: 191$19.99

11. Tavern Keeper 🍻

    

    Run a fantasy tavern where the budget, the staff rota, and the fire risk all need your attention. You build the rooms, hire the crew, stock the larder, and face dirt, heat, noise, and sickness as customers judge the place. A narrated story campaign and a deep decoration workshop give tycoon fans plenty to manage and make.

    94%94% of 4,855 Steam reviews are positive125Players online now: 125$29.99

12. Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

    

    Run your own Freddy Fazbear's pizzeria by day, buying tables, decor and animatronics to raise atmosphere and income, then survive the nights in the office below. A tycoon game with a horror shift attached, and a sharp ending for tycoon fans who like a dark joke with their budget sheets.

    93%93% of 33,519 Steam reviews are positive123Players online now: 123Free

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