Portolan
Build your trading company in the 16th-century Age of Discovery. Trade goods across global ports, plan profitable routes, and manage voyages and automated fleets in this text-based trading and management simulation.
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Build your trading company in the 16th-century Age of Discovery. Trade goods across global ports, plan profitable routes, and manage voyages and automated fleets in this text-based trading and management simulation.
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Travel across a living medieval economy, buy goods where supply is strong, and sell where demand creates opportunity. Manage cargo, routes, escorts, seasonal markets, rival merchants, and risk in a focused, relaxing trading simulation.
In Qinghe County during the Northern Song, manage businesses and household affairs, build relationships, gather rumors and evidence, and set schemes in motion. As Ximen Qing, balance time, wealth, reputation and favors while your choices reshape lives, fortunes and endings.
Build a custom machine-building company from scratch. Win contracts, hire engineers, pass client acceptance tests — then sell your company. Your old firm becomes your fiercest competitor.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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An idle game with 99 generators and a deep prestige system. Unlock 1000+ upgrades, automate progress, and complete all challenges. A full release, ready to play!
A high-pressure management sim where you build a defense contractor from nothing, secure contracts, expand production, manage staff and supply chains, and fight to stay ahead of cash flow, compliance, and collapse.
Chart your own course in a single-player maritime RPG. Trade between ports, recruit companions, and build your fleet. Explore distant regions, uncover discoveries and local stories, and brave real-time naval battles as you make your way across the seas.
Build an industrial empire across vast procedurally generated maps. Create production chains, develop cities, research technologies, build your own brands, and compete in a living economy where prices are shaped by supply and demand.
The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Return to 2000 with your memories of the future. In this business-life sandbox spanning 2000–2025, act on your knowledge of the era: invest, start a company or negotiate a stake in someone else’s. Then decide what that money is for. A bigger business? A different life?
CD Market is a music industry management sim where you build a record label on your own terms, from vinyl to digital. Stay small, or grow into something bigger. Discover artists, shape careers, and survive decades of changing formats, trends, rivals, and crises.
Start with a loan and turn borrowed money into a financial empire. Trade a living fictional stock market, react to news, pay off your debt, and expand into businesses, property, private deals, and collectible assets.
Build a drug empire on a real-world map. Grow, cook and deal across actual streets, launder the cash through front businesses, smuggle product between real cities and stay ahead of the cops. From one corner to a transnational cartel.
Coach your way from high-school and AAA 18U benches to the top of world hockey. Run the lines, the systems, the training and the room; answer the board; take the job that calls. A text-first career sim across 140 leagues and 2,109 clubs — and every name is yours to edit.
Start with a single website and build a sprawling online empire. Grow traffic, manage clients, expand your team, and survive fifteen years of internet evolution in a life sim and business management RPG where every decision can lead to fortune or failure.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
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A football-manager-style career sim — but you run airlines. Get hired as a CEO, answer to a ruthless board, and build your reputation contract by contract: fly to 1,000+ cities, fight for slots, sign your team, launch campaigns, and outmaneuver rival executives. Or go sandbox in Historical Mode.
MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.
Literary publishing management sim. Discover hidden authors and navigate the literary culture of an era — scout talent, balance art vs commerce, watch your books reshape what people read.
Invest into promising startups with sometimes wacky ideas. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.
Car manufacturing company simulator. Turn-based, fast paced, covers 100 years of automotive history.
Start with an empty plot in 1930s America and build your farm from the ground up. Direct workers, organize their tasks, expand to new properties, develop vehicle logistics, and grow into an advanced wheat and flour enterprise.
Build a business empire across the United States. Create companies, open and upgrade assets. Expand across industries, dominate markets, control a growing share of the economy, and build a trillion-dollar fortune.
Zooconomy is a strategy-puzzle game where you exchange animals. Complete historic based story missions or play in sandbox. Get animals, breed them, attract visitors, sponsor expeditions for unique animals, upgrade zoo and much more.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
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Take over a derelict floating island and help its feline residents set up production lines and establish trade routes—Build a commercial kitty empire in this cozy business and trading sim!
Do you know how to profit from trading cars while maintaining a good reputation? Car Trader Simulator lets you play the role of an American car dealer. Your goal is to get rich. How you do it depends entirely on you.
The fantasy guild management sim. Price the jobs clients bring you, hire adventurers who choose their own work, and watch the valley change with every job you take or turn away.
A management sim where you run your own food shops, serving hungry locals while keeping a close eye on your resources. Grow or buy fresh ingredients locally. The competition is fierce and sabotage is always on the menu. Defend your business, and rise to become the food lord!
Build your own shipping company, plan global routes, and guide a fleet through a dynamic trading network. Take on transport contracts, trade goods, upgrade ships, and react to market opportunities and unexpected events.
Master the art of Bordeaux. Navigate volatile weather RNG and out-negotiate 25 unique buyers with your own pricing strategy. From terroir scoring to Michelin-star contracts, every vintage is a high-stakes calculation. A deep, data-driven simulation for those who take wine—and management—seriously.
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