Games like Desolation Tycoon
If Desolation Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Adventurer’s Guild Manager, Shop-Like - The Rogue-Like Item Shop Experience and Super Movie Tycoon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its hypnotic atmosphere drives replayability, lore snippets reward exploration 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 →About Desolation Tycoon: Travel and trade in a demon-haunted post-apocalypse. Each playthrough features a new character and a partially randomized world. Between playthroughs, the world around you will grow and develop in response to your actions. Be prepared to make hard decisions.
Players who liked Desolation Tycoon also play
Steam players who put hours into Desolation 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.
Adventurer’s Guild Manager
WHY THIS
Top pick for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desolation Tycoon.
Manage your own adventurer's guild, organize quest contracts, trade magical items, and meet new adventurers. Grow your guild in a stylized cozy low poly world and connect adventurers with clients.
Shop-Like - The Rogue-Like Item Shop Experience
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
An Item-Shop Game meets the concept of roguelikes! Endless Replayability and countless options to victory are awaiting you in Shop-Like! Shop-Like is all about running a business in order to pay your debts, so you will not land in the brutal hands of debt slavery.
Super Movie Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Desolation Tycoon.
Third-strongest match for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desolation Tycoon.
Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!
Dustland Delivery
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Ranked #4 for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Dustland Delivery is a post-apocalyptic survival business simulator. Scour the wastes for profit, complete missions to grow your trading empire, and assemble a rag-tag band of adventurers to turn your city into the capital of the Dustlands. Danger lurks around every corner—but no risk, no reward!
STARIO: Haven Tower
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Ranked #5 for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Desolation Tycoon.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Caravaneer 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Ranked #6 for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.
Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Ranked #7 for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Open your own Card shop by the seaside! Buy, trade and sell Cards, OR keep them for your own collection! Earn reputation with customers, beat your shop goals, unlock new decorations, and host exciting events to bring everyone to the best Card shop in town!
Figure Shop Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Ranked #8 for Desolation Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Run your own figure shop! Produce figures with 3D printers, stock your shelves, set prices, and offer the best shopping experience to your customers. Manage your storage, expand and design your store. Try to complete collection sets, follow market trends, and grow your business!
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Merchant of the Skies
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Desolation Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Become the captain of a flying ship! Sell items, gather resources and build your own trade company in the clouds!
Fallout 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Reviewers of Desolation Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
High Strategy: Urukon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Reviewers of Desolation Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Urukon is an experimental grand strategy game inspired by Euro-style board games. You play as one of 32 factions on a dying alien world. Each turn, you get to take just one of 10 actions. To achieve your chosen faction's goal, you'll need to carefully juggle multiple interactive systems.
Caravaneer 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Reviewers of Desolation Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
A post-apocalyptic trade simulation game with turn based isometric combats. The game features detailed economics simulation and a rich branching story where your choices actually matter.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Desolation Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Desolation Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation 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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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More from Iron Boar Labs Ltd.
Other recommendable Steam games by Iron Boar Labs Ltd., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
High Strategy: Urukon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Desolation Tycoon.
Another title from Iron Boar Labs Ltd., the studio behind Desolation Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
Urukon is an experimental grand strategy game inspired by Euro-style board games. You play as one of 32 factions on a dying alien world. Each turn, you get to take just one of 10 actions. To achieve your chosen faction's goal, you'll need to carefully juggle multiple interactive systems.
High Strategy: Oradros
WHY THIS
Another title from Iron Boar Labs Ltd., the studio behind Desolation Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
High Strategy: Oradros is a minimalist grand strategy game set in an original, low-fantasy world of hoplites and dinosaurs. There is no micromanagement, only decisions. All 40 playable realms have distinct starting conditions and goals.
Beasts of Fortune
WHY THIS
Another title from Iron Boar Labs Ltd., the studio behind Desolation Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Desolation Tycoon.
A roaming-warband roguelike with procedurally generated units and autobattler combat.
Frequently asked about Desolation Tycoon
- Does Desolation Tycoon run on Steam Deck?
- Desolation 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 Desolation Tycoon cost?
- Desolation Tycoon is listed on Steam at 4.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Desolation Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Desolation Tycoon are Adventurer’s Guild Manager, Shop-Like - The Rogue-Like Item Shop Experience, Super Movie Tycoon.
- Who developed Desolation Tycoon?
- Desolation Tycoon was developed by Iron Boar Labs Ltd..
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