Games like Mad Games Tycoon
If you like Mad Games Tycoon (management, tycoon and video games), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
Game Dev Tycoon
- In common: management and progression
- Difference: less building
When you want a simple tycoon game for one or two afternoons, where every game you release is a small challenge.
Two Point Hospital
- In common: management and progression
When you want to manage something without real stress and with a laugh: each hospital plays in comfortable sessions.
Planet Zoo
- In common: management and long sessions
- Difference: more creative
When you have an afternoon and want to create something beautiful while caring for your animals.
Planet Coaster
- In common: long sessions and management
- Difference: more creative
When you fancy creating at your own pace: in the free mode you have unlimited money and everything unlocked from the start.
Cities: Skylines
- In common: management and long sessions
- Difference: more creative
When you want to build something big at a relaxed pace. Watching your city grow session after session keeps you hooked for weeks.
Against the Storm
- In common: management and progression
When you want to build and manage without committing to a weeks-long game: each settlement is one session.
shapez
- In common: progression and long sessions
- Difference: more building
When you want to optimise without pressure: you can leave it and pick it up whenever you like without losing anything.
Factory Town
- In common: management and progression
- Difference: more building
When you want something like Factorio but friendlier: GameStar finds it less sober and technical.
TCG Card Shop Simulator
- In common: progression and management
- Difference: less thinking
When you want a calm, addictive routine: each shop day is short and there's always something to improve.
Mini Motorways
- In common: thinking and management
- Difference: shorter sessions
When you have 15-20 minutes and feel like thinking a little, with gorgeous visuals.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About Mad Games Tycoon
You set up a video game studio in a garage in the early 1980s: you hire and train staff, build and furnish rooms, research topics and genres, and release games until you can make engines and consoles or buy out your rivals.
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