Games like Definitely Not Fried Chicken
If Definitely Not Fried Chicken is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tinytown, lemonade stand and Gargantua — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, funny and lighthearted. 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 →Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a 2023 strategy and simulation game where players build criminal empires under the cover of legitimate businesses. The core experience blends facade business management with drug production chains, requiring players to juggle inventory across multiple fronts while scheduling employees and navigating a dynamic raid system that periodically tests their operations. Reviewers note the chaotic factory-like systems generate emergent situations as players balance legal and illegal sides of their empire. Players describe it as comedic and funny, with the absurdist visual style contributing to a lighthearted and whimsical tone despite the criminal subject matter. The game supports a solo-only experience and holds a 72% positive rating from approximately 1400 Steam reviews. Priced at $24.99, it runs in a playable state on Steam Deck.
About Definitely Not Fried Chicken: Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
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Tinytown
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Top pick for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Tinytown is a cozy zen-like building strategy and puzzle game where you create a small city by placing new buildings. Manage resources, upgrade buildings and use all the small space to build your dream city!
lemonade stand
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Second-strongest match for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
You'd think that you and your friends run a lemonade stand in a mall. The lemonade is real. But it's also not what you're selling at all. Real players walk up, some want lemonade. Some want... "lemonade". And they ask in code you have to read, so the cops won't hear. Full proximity voice/text chat.
Gargantua
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Third-strongest match for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. Remember, war is money.
Concord Quarter
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Ranked #4 for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Start as nobody in Corenveld — a dock-hand, a cook, a clerk. Trade, undercut, bribe, smuggle, and lend your way up: buy shops, combine them, court the city's three rival powers, and seize a civic seat before you die. A chill, deterministic city-climbing sim in the world of Orenvalt.
Tap Tap Builder
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Shares a whimsical mood with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Ranked #5 for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Build the city of your dream! Tap to build the city, hire workers, earn money and become the greatest boss. But don't forget to deal with fires, crimes and unemployment. Let's start working right now, tap-tap the DOWNLOAD button!
Joint Venture: Prison Commissary Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Run the prison commissary from behind the window: match IDs to prisoner numbers, obey the guards' daily rules, and fill orders for profit. Then build a contraband empire in drugs, shivs, and smuggled goods, dodging patrols, cameras, and pat-downs. Serve your time, or smuggle your way out.
Thou Shalt Be Rich
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Ranked #7 for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Interpret the crystal ball's prophecies to find tomorrow's soaring stocks and bet your entire fortune. Survive the madness of skyrocketing and crashing prices to become rich. You need to take revenge on the Fortune Teller Corp that fired you just for a little bit of embezzlement!
Arcade Warlord
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Ranked #8 for Definitely Not Fried Chicken fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Dominate during the 80s arcade boom in this Grand Strategy Tycoon. Engineer hit games, control the streets and weaponize the stock market. Money is a physical object on the map; hire a Bagman to collect profits or Enforcers as muscle. Destroy the competition in a neon-noir financial war.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
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Reviewers of Definitely Not Fried Chicken cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Project Zomboid
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Reviewers of Definitely Not Fried Chicken cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
The Sims™ 4
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Reviewers of Definitely Not Fried Chicken cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Definitely Not Fried Chicken at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
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.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~44% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
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Priced ~52% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~70% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~60% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~75% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~68% under Definitely Not Fried Chicken on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
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Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Definitely Not Fried Chicken.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Definitely Not Fried Chicken
- Does Definitely Not Fried Chicken run on Steam Deck?
- Definitely Not Fried Chicken 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 Definitely Not Fried Chicken cost?
- Definitely Not Fried Chicken is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Definitely Not Fried Chicken?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Definitely Not Fried Chicken are Tinytown, lemonade stand, Gargantua.
- Who developed Definitely Not Fried Chicken?
- Definitely Not Fried Chicken was developed by Dope Games and published by Silver Lining Interactive.
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