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Games like Simple CEO

If Simple CEO is your kind of game, the closest matches are Luck City - monopoly, Car Tycoon and Urban Entrepreneur — 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.

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About Simple CEO: Become a titan of industry! Simple to learn, difficult to master! A rogue-lite with plenty of charm and simple complexity.

2024StrategyIndieCasual3.99 USDWindowsby Madowl Games
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Players who liked Simple CEO also play

Steam players who put hours into Simple CEO 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.

  1. Luck City - monopoly

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Simple CEO.

    Climb the ranks from worker to tycoon, build monopolies, hire assistants, and compete in fast-paced economic battles. Develop your strategy and become the king of Luck City!

    2025StrategySimulationMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Car Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Simple CEO.

    Welcome to "Car Tycoon", running your car company, hire employees to develop and produce cars, sell your cars, and become the best car company!

    2024StrategySimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Urban Entrepreneur

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Paystreak

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    A gold mining tycoon built on real operations. Clear overburden, Dig, haul, wash, and pan your way from hand tools to a living operation. Manage wages, fuel, repairs, landlord cuts, and loans, time your sales to a living gold market, and survive season after season.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Moose Miners

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Smooth Operators 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    Smooth Operators is a classic Tycoon/Simulator game where you are the Building Architect, Hiring Manager, and Business Developer! Expand your building, Hire employees, and manage your own customer service company and lead it to financial success! But for gods sake - Keep your employees happy!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. ACRES

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    ACRES is a small strategy simulation game about growing crops for evolving market demands. Build a farm, one acre at a time, to create a prosperous enterprise. Upgrade equipment, optimize harvests, and nurture the soil against increasing time pressure. How long can you keep the farm operating?

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Epic Manager - Create Your Own Adventuring Agency!

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Simple CEO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    Epic Manager is a unique crossover between Sports Management and classic JRPGs. Experience an addictive “one more turn” mix of tycoon strategy, roguelike elements, roster management, combat and character progression, all rooted in an epic yet light-hearted fantasy setting. Rated ‘E’ for EPIC!

    2016StrategyIndieAdventure17.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Simple CEO at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    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.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Simple CEO.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Simple CEO.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Simple CEO.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Simple CEO.

    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!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Simple CEO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    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?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Simple CEO.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. 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 Casual with Simple CEO.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Simple CEO.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Simple CEO.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 Simple CEO.

    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.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Simple CEO

How much does Simple CEO cost?
Simple CEO is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Simple CEO?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Simple CEO are Luck City - monopoly, Car Tycoon, Urban Entrepreneur.
Who developed Simple CEO?
Simple CEO was developed by Madowl 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 Simple CEO.

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