Tycoon games with a story

These shops, inns and hospitals come with tangled backstories, so you juggle staff and money while mysteries and rivalries keep unfolding around you.

Saloon Simulator

Saloon Simulator

Run a Wild West saloon in Blueberry and turn it into a business the town knows.

89% of 882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$11.39
Tavern Keeper 🍻

Tavern Keeper 🍻

Run a fantasy tavern where the budget, the staff rota, and the fire risk all need your attention.

94% of 4,836 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 158$29.99
The Last Gas Station

The Last Gas Station

You inherit a crumbling gas station in electric-car country, where the last owner vanished.

88% of 1,520 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$13.99
Comic Book Store Simulator

Comic Book Store Simulator

Run your own comic book store: license hundreds of parodied comics, manga and manhwa, stock the shelves, hire staff and expand from a shabby little…

82% of 183 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$6.95
Dungeon Inn

Dungeon Inn

Run an inn at the mouth of a dungeon as Sara, backed by a dragon, and play two rival guilds against the middle for profit.

91% of 745 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 103$14.99
Galacticare

Galacticare

Build, manage and optimise intergalactic hospitals! Recruit staff to satisfy the whims of various alien species, and cure their bizarre illnesses…

84% of 605 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99
Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim

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.

97% of 10,881 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 182,845$17.99
KuloNiku: Bowl Up!

KuloNiku: Bowl Up!

You inherit your grandma's meatball restaurant in a small cozy town and cook it back to the top.

95% of 2,560 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 59$11.99
Above the Snow

Above the Snow

Run a cozy Alpine shelter and turn it into the region's best resort for daring alpinists.

76% of 400 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$24.99
Photomaly

Photomaly

You inherit your father's photo studio and have to keep it running: take orders from odd locals, frame the shot, develop the film, hand over the…

90% of 1,476 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$6.99
Hollywood Animal

Hollywood Animal

Run a Hollywood studio from the dawn of sound cinema, making movies from plot ideas to theater distribution while wars, censorship and crooked…

72% of 3,902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 70$19.99
Discounty

Discounty

You lay out shelves, keep stock full, work the checkout, cut trade deals, and expand your aunt's shop while the locals argue about it.

82% of 2,378 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 47$19.99
Nivalis Nights

Nivalis Nights

Start with a noodle stand in neon-lit Nivalis and work toward owning restaurants and nightclubs.

76% of 4,432 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 667$24.99
Jurassic World Evolution 2

Jurassic World Evolution 2

Build a dinosaur park where the attractions can eat the guests.

90% of 39,850 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 725$59.99
Maid Cafe Simulator

Maid Cafe Simulator

You inherit a rundown café and reopen it as a maid café with five kemonomimi maids.

86% of 259 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$23.99
HIROTONFA’s American Revolution Smuggler

HIROTONFA’s American Revolution Smuggler

Run a one-ship trading business in the American Revolution: buy low in Quebec, sell high in Louisiana, outrun blockades, pay the crew, pay the…

98% of 175 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs

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…

95% of 11,378 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,791$19.99
Ghost Master: Resurrection

Ghost Master: Resurrection

You run the scariest crew in Gravenville: a roster of specters, banshees and gremlins with their own tricks.

82% of 394 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
The Piper of Dawn

The Piper of Dawn

Run an alchemy shop in a city stuck in a time loop: grow over 100 magical crops, brew them into goods, stock your shelves, and put your home-grown…

85% of 765 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 68$11.69
The Plant Shop

The Plant Shop

Run a late-night plant shop by day-job escapee Silvia: take orders, pot soil, seed and water into flowers, plants and cacti, expand the collection…

95% of 488 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$4.49
Taste of the Wind

Taste of the Wind

A simulation and RPG game with multiple endings, set in a Chinese restaurant.

83% of 184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$10.99
Retail Hell

Retail Hell

You are the only clerk in purgatory's only convenience store, working an infinite shift to pay off a debt.

95% of 606 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$7.99
Sovereign Tower

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…

93% of 4,150 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 551$19.99
Tiny Bookshop

Tiny Bookshop

Leave your old life behind and run a tiny second-hand bookshop on wheels in Bookstonbury-by-the-Sea.

96% of 7,236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 161$19.99

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