Games like Game Developer Simulator
If Game Developer Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hacker life simulator, Crypto Mining Simulator and Game Dev Story — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Game Developer Simulator: In the Simulator of a game developer, you will be able to understand all the subtleties of this profession, understand how the game industry works and all the difficulties of a single developer.

Players who liked Game Developer Simulator also play
Steam players who put hours into Game Developer Simulator 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.
Hacker life simulator
WHY THIS
Top pick for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Developer Simulator.
Take a team of hackers under your strict guidance and become known to the whole world. Expand your hideout and hack various companies around the world. Become the most famous group in the world!
Crypto Mining Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Realistic Mining simulator with custom builds mechanics! A lot of GPUs, CPUs, Motherboards, RAMs, SSDs, PSUs and more! Build your dream farm with 1000+ GPUs!
Game Dev Story
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Work hard and you may reach the top of the video game industry!
The Games You Make
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Ranked #4 for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Developer Simulator.
“Quit your job, take out a loan and make a top seller game” sounded like a great idea two months ago. Now, you’re chasing bizarre bugs, combining features that should never go together, and striving to capture that mysterious thing called “fun”. Every decision is yours—and so are the consequences.
Симулятор ПВЗ
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Developer Simulator.
Станьте владельцем пункта выдачи заказов своего любого маркетплейса в этом Симуляторе ПВЗ! Разгружайте посылки, отдавайте заказы, занимайтесь менеджментом и просто зарабатывайте деньги. Сможете ли вы сделать самый успешный пункт выдачи заказов?
Mad Games Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Manage a game studio from the dawn of the gaming industry in 1976. Your journey starts with small indie titles and grows into a gaming empire. Develop, design, and conquer the industry. From humble beginnings to gaming legend – it’s your story, your studio, your legacy!
PC Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Game Developer Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Manage your computer company and develop your PC components, create your own laptop, monitor, develop an interactive operating system or build your PC. Research new technologies, improve your office and your factory, hire the best employees, buy other companies and build your computer empire!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Game Developer Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Developer Simulator.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Developer Simulator.
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!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~58% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Developer Simulator.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Game Developer Simulator.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Game Developer Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Game Developer Simulator.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
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 Game Developer Simulator.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Game Developer Simulator.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Game Developer Simulator.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Game Developer Simulator.
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.
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Frequently asked about Game Developer Simulator
- How much does Game Developer Simulator cost?
- Game Developer Simulator is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Game Developer Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Game Developer Simulator are Hacker life simulator, Crypto Mining Simulator, Game Dev Story.
- Who developed Game Developer Simulator?
- Game Developer Simulator was developed by Phantom Studio.
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 Game Developer Simulator.
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