Games like Mad Valley
If Mad Valley is your kind of game, the closest matches are Malware Tycoon, VHS Store Tycoon and STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator — 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 Mad Valley: Mad Valley is an economic and life simulation game set in vivid pixelized aesthetics of 1980s California.
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Steam players who put hours into Mad Valley 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.
Malware Tycoon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
Step back to the era of dial-up and WinGoals SP. As a black-hat developer, manage the delicate balance of detection probability versus payout potential. Will you build a silent botnet for profit or a worm designed to destroy? Avoid the feds and conquer the web in this nostalgic management sim.
VHS Store Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
Run your own video rental store in the golden years of VHS: buy movie rights, handle your customers, rewind tapes, and build a home-entertainment empire. A time capsule you can play.
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
Simulator of an 80s Japanese stock market businessman. Chill, catch a retro vibe and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
News Tower
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
This Grand Life 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.
Mad Games Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
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!
Recycling Center Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
Recycling Center Simulator is a business simulator game with a first person view. Make money from garbage, collect raw materials for your recycling center from different locations, recycle them, make money by producing new products and improve your factory.
Cinema Simulator 2025
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Mad Valley fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
Cinema Simulator 2025 is a simulation game where you will manage your own movie theater and test your strategy and management skills. Starting from a small movie theater, try to become a giant in the movie industry.
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.
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 Simulation with Mad Valley.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Mad Valley.
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.
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Frequently asked about Mad Valley
- What games are most similar to Mad Valley?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mad Valley are Malware Tycoon, VHS Store Tycoon, STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator.
- Who developed Mad Valley?
- Mad Valley was developed by Wolff Interactive.
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 Mad Valley.
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