Games like Potion Tycoon
If Potion Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sweatshop Tycoon, Bank Architect and Economicon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and whimsical. 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 →About Potion Tycoon: Potion Tycoon is a management simulator with a witchy twist! Build and develop your very own magic shop. Manage resources, set up production lines, mix potions and sell them smartly to stay ahead of the competition. Welcome to the potion business!
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Steam players who put hours into Potion Tycoon 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.
Sweatshop Tycoon
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Top pick for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
A dark management tycoon where profit has consequences. Grow from basement to factory and choose profit over workers' rights. Survive on small margins and even smaller morals. Keep the state happy or face brutal inspections.
Bank Architect
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Second-strongest match for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
In Bank Architect you play a bank director with a vision! You have convinced an investor to help you get started with capital backing and with future payouts if you reach your goals. Your task is to build your bank from scratch, expand and become the most reliable and secure bank of all time.
SimulationSteam ↗Economicon
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Third-strongest match for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Design factories, automate production and build the rail and road networks that get it to market. Every city wants something different, and every wasted tile will cost you. Grow your company in this automation-tycoon game until you have all the money in the world.
Biofactory
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Ranked #4 for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Build your living factory using organs and fleshy biomachines. Combine your pulsating machines to automate and scale up production. Mine, harvest, produce and assemble weird materials in a grimdark biopunk setting. You are an evolving hive-mind brain, driven by one instinct: The factory must grow.
Texas Oil Baron
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Ranked #5 for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
An oil tycoon where half the game happens underground. Scan deposits with sonar, steer a drill that turns, haul oil with your own fleet, hold it in a warehouse for a better price and sign contracts where every day counts.
Nightlife Tycoon
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Ranked #6 for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Property Pro
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Ranked #7 for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Your tower is falling apart and your staff came from the classified ads. Build the rooms, take in the guests, then hire the people to keep it standing. Send the plumber to the burst pipe, not the front desk. Put the wrong worker on the wrong job and you'll watch your guests walk out.
Good Company
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Ranked #8 for Potion Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Potion Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~63% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Potion Tycoon.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~50% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
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 ~69% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Potion Tycoon.
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 ~60% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Potion Tycoon.
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...
How to Fish
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Priced ~75% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~75% under Potion Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
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?
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
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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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Potion Tycoon.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
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!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Potion Tycoon.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Potion Tycoon
- Does Potion Tycoon run on Steam Deck?
- Potion Tycoon 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 Potion Tycoon cost?
- Potion Tycoon is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Potion Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Potion Tycoon are Sweatshop Tycoon, Bank Architect, Economicon.
- Who developed Potion Tycoon?
- Potion Tycoon was developed by Snowhound Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
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