Games like Big Ambitions
If Big Ambitions is your kind of game, the closest matches are Simulator: Parking Lot, Aislebound and My Supermarket — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its employee scheduling matters deeply, price speculation feels realistic and atmospheric. 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 →Big Ambitions is a 2023 business simulation where players build an entrepreneurial empire from the ground up within an open-world interpretation of New York City. Released as an early access indie title by Hovgaard Games, the game tasks players with establishing and expanding various businesses while managing interconnected systems including automation, employee scheduling, inventory, and market pricing. Reviewers highlight how rival interaction dynamically responds to player actions, and players describe the price speculation mechanics as convincingly realistic. The warehouse logistics and depth of business management provide complex strategic challenges that players find satisfying. Priced at $22.99, it holds a 92% positive rating from over 5,200 Steam reviews. The game is solo-only with a massive scope and normal difficulty, though it is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Big Ambitions: Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Players who liked Big Ambitions also play
Steam players who put hours into Big Ambitions 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.
Simulator: Parking Lot
WHY THIS
Top pick for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Manage your own parking lot. Administer, improve, and expand your establishment. New services and features are coming soon.
Aislebound
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Big Ambitions.
Aislebound is a first-person retail management simulator. Start with a small empty store and build it into a thriving retail operation by ordering inventory, stocking shelves, managing deliveries, hiring staff, and keeping customers satisfied.
My Supermarket
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a challenging mood with Big Ambitions.
Third-strongest match for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Manage your own supermarket, serving different types of customers and making the most profit you can! 🛒 Order products, restock shelves, play with your friends in co-op mode, chase thieves, hire employees, and grow your empire!
Laundry Simulator 2026
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Laundry Simulator is a chill, ASMR laundry cleaning, and shop management game. Open your own Laundromat, and deal with dirty clothes and customers. Clean and manage your shop, upgrade your equipment, unlock new skills and hire workers. Your laundry empire awaits!
Pub Sim
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Big Ambitions.
Ranked #5 for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
You've just bought your first Pub. First steps are to clean it, stock it, set your markup and let in the Patrons. Keep the drinks flowing and try not to shortchange anyone! If you keep it going long enough you might just earn enough to spruce up the place, hire staff and expand the premises.
Console Shop Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an immersive mood with Big Ambitions.
Ranked #6 for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.
Mall Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a challenging mood with Big Ambitions.
Ranked #7 for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!
Casino Resort Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Big Ambitions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Big Ambitions.
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Big Ambitions
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Capitalism 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Create and control the business empire of your dreams. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
The Sims™ Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Big Ambitions.
The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Big Ambitions.
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.
Supermarket Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an immersive mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
BATTLETECH
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.
Offworld Trading Company
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.
Two Point Hospital
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Big Ambitions.
Reviewers of Big Ambitions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Big Ambitions at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Big Ambitions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
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 ~57% under Big Ambitions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Big Ambitions.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Big Ambitions on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~78% under Big Ambitions on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Big Ambitions.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Big Ambitions on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Big Ambitions.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Big Ambitions on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Big Ambitions.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Ambitions.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Big Ambitions.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Ambitions.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Big Ambitions.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Big Ambitions.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Big Ambitions.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about Big Ambitions
- Does Big Ambitions work on Steam Deck?
- Big Ambitions is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Big Ambitions cost?
- Big Ambitions is listed on Steam at 22.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Big Ambitions?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Big Ambitions are Simulator: Parking Lot, Aislebound, My Supermarket.
- Who developed Big Ambitions?
- Big Ambitions was developed by Hovgaard Games.
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 Big Ambitions.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.