Games like The Tenants
If The Tenants is your kind of game, the closest matches are House Flipper, The Tenants - Free Trial and Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Tenants is a 2022 apartment renovation and tenant management simulation where players build a rental property empire through strategic property auctions and spatial puzzle-style contracts. Players progress by unlocking furniture through a grind system while managing procedurally generated renovation requirements. Reviewers highlight that the tenant personality systems add unexpected charm, property auctions create strategic depth, and renovating apartments feels like solving spatial puzzles. Furniture unlocks provide tangible progression as players decide how to react to annoyed neighbors and police interventions. Players describe the atmosphere as atmospheric, challenging, stressful, and tense despite the chill difficulty setting. The game is solo-only with long content designed for short play sessions, priced at $19.99 USD and marked Playable on Steam Deck, holding a 79% positive rating from over 3,600 Steam reviews.
About The Tenants: Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Players who liked The Tenants also play
Steam players who put hours into The Tenants also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
House Flipper
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
House Flipper is a unique chance to become a one-man renovation crew. Buy, repair and remodel devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell them at a profit!
The Tenants - Free Trial
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental empire. Will you rent your apartment to a college couple or an older lady with four cats? Try it yourself for free!
Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tenants.
Third-strongest match for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The Tenants.
Crossroads Inn, a real-time management sim, unfolds in Delcrys' unique fantasy realm. Construct and oversee your inn, delight traveling heroes, and achieve renowned status for your services across the kingdom.
Smart Factory Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Cafe Owner Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Open your dream restaurant at FPP. Create a unique exterior and interior, hire the best workers and chefs, create a place where people will love to eat, spend time and spend their money. Simulation of the restaurant business.
TasteMaker
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tenants.
Ranked #6 for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
TasteMaker is a restaurant tycoon game. Design your own restaurant from the ground up, decorate, create a menu, hire and manage staff, and much more. Keep your customers happy and make a profit to keep the restaurant of your dreams from turning into a nightmare.
Love Tavern
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Tenants.
Ranked #7 for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Tenants.
After your death due to a car accident, you have been summoned by the goddess to take care of a tavern in an Isekai world. Your job is to hire different girls from various tribes and races to help out the business there, as well as build up room by room of the tavern to expand the business.
Gym Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Tenants fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Gym Manager is a simulation game where you can build, expand and manage your own gym. To attract more customers, invest in new equipment and sabotage your competition. But beware: the town's shady streets provide opportunities for illegal business ventures.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Tenants at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Tenants on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Tenants on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Tenants.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Tenants on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Tenants on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tenants.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Tenants on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Tenants.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under The Tenants on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Tenants.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tenants.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Tenants.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Tenants.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Frequently asked about The Tenants
- Does The Tenants run on Steam Deck?
- The Tenants is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does The Tenants cost?
- The Tenants is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Tenants?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Tenants are House Flipper, The Tenants - Free Trial, Crossroads Inn Anniversary Edition.
- Who developed The Tenants?
- The Tenants was developed by Ancient Forge.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Tenants.
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