Top rated retro tycoon games
Pixel coasters and old-school storefronts tie together these top rated retro tycoon games. You plan walkways and attractions in RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe and Parkitect, or trade thrills for storefronts and runways in Mega Mall Story and Jumbo Airport Story, adjusting fees, recruiting workers and keeping crowds content while costs stay under control.
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Papa's Freezeria Deluxe
You run Papa Louie's oceanfront sundae shop on Calypso Island, taking orders and building each sundae through pouring, mixing, blending and topping stations. You earn tips and unlock ingredients, holidays and shop upgrades across the year, plus a food truck for your own creations.
99% of 12,429 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 115$5.99Touhou Mystia's Izakaya
Play as Mystia, a night-sparrow owner rebuilding her small izakaya from debt. You gather ingredients by day, set the menu and cook to order by night, and match dishes and drinks to each customer's taste and budget to pay down what you owe and grow into Gensokyo's best-loved shop.
97% of 30,710 Steam reviews are positive$5.99DAVE 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% of 144,616 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7,050$19.99Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe
Left in charge of Papa Louie's pizza parlor, you take orders, top, bake, slice and box each pizza to match picky customers. Tips and points unlock ingredients, holidays, Special Recipes and a food truck, with a driver and dining room to run. A fast, colorful routine for tycoon fans who like a small business done well.
98% of 3,528 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$5.99Game Dev Tycoon
Research tech, build engines, hire staff and grow into bigger offices on the way to market leader.
95% of 40,424 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 155$9.99Horsey Game
Collect horses, breed them, race them, then start editing their genes for profit. Horsey Game is a pixel-art stable manager where prize money, betting and selling horses fund your next experiment, and tycoon fans get a silly, open-ended breeding business to run.
97% of 3,074 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$9.99Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
Run a video store in the early 90s, from bare shelves to the best rental spot in town.
95% of 10,854 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 261$13.93Horses of Hoofprint Bay
A hand-drawn barn sim where a run-down shack becomes the stud farm of your dreams. Groom, train and compete your horses, breed foals that inherit their parents' colors and quirks, ride forest and beach trails, and hire staff as your herd grows.
98% of 1,236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5,142$22.94Car Park Capital
Hired by Big Auto, you turn quiet neighborhoods into a parking empire: buy land, flatten homes, stack asphalt into the sky, then sell everyone the cars to fill it. A cheeky, retro tycoon game about manufacturing car dependency and charging for it.
97% of 1,751 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$16.99Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale
Recette Lemongrass owes a loan shark a fortune and has a house to turn into an item shop to pay it off. You stock the shelves, haggle over every sale, watch the market rise and fall, and send hired adventurers into randomized dungeons for loot you can sell at a markup. Cute, funny, and surprisingly cutthroat about profit.
95% of 6,702 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99Cook, Serve, Delicious!
Take a one-star joint serving corndogs and build it into a five-star restaurant serving steaks. You pick the menu, raise prices, buy equipment and upgrade dishes, then survive the rush yourself with fast keyboard cooking. A funny, stressful management game for tycoon fans who like their profit earned one order at a time.
95% of 3,718 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$12.99Freddy 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% of 33,501 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 123Free
