Games like Showrunner
If Showrunner is your kind of game, the closest matches are COPA CITY, Power to the People and Parkasaurus — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, contemplative 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 →About Showrunner: Create and run your own TV show! An isometric management game where you craft scripts, populate your world with characters and cast actors to play them. Hire and manage staff, develop your studio and gain a dedicated following.
Players who liked Showrunner also play
Steam players who put hours into Showrunner 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.
COPA CITY
WHY THIS
Top pick for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
An economic strategy where top football clubs entrust you with organizing their matches. Build in the city, manage its structures and stadium, provide entertainment, food, and security for fans. Your success is measured by Match Readiness.
Power to the People
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Showrunner.
Second-strongest match for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
Parkasaurus
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Showrunner.
Third-strongest match for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?
Industry Giant 4.0
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Showrunner.
Ranked #5 for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Showrunner.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Showrunner.
Ranked #6 for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Project Hospital
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Showrunner.
Ranked #7 for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.
Two Point Campus
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Showrunner.
Ranked #8 for Showrunner fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
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Mad Games Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares staff management with Showrunner.
Reviewers of Showrunner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Showrunner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Game Dev Tycoon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Showrunner cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Showrunner at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Showrunner.
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 ~44% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Showrunner.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Showrunner.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Showrunner.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Showrunner.
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 ~44% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Showrunner.
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 ~67% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Showrunner.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Showrunner on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Showrunner.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Showrunner.
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 Showrunner.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Showrunner.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Showrunner.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Showrunner.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Showrunner.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Showrunner.
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
WHY THIS
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!
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Frequently asked about Showrunner
- Does Showrunner run on Steam Deck?
- Showrunner 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 Showrunner cost?
- Showrunner is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Showrunner?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Showrunner are COPA CITY, Power to the People, Parkasaurus.
- Who developed Showrunner?
- Showrunner was developed by Inexplicable 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 Showrunner.
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