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Games like Jonesville

If Jonesville is your kind of game, the closest matches are Let's Cook, Walk of Life and Timeflow – Life Sim — 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 Jonesville: Live, learn, and compete in this classic educational life simulator! Play solo against computer, team up with friends in multiplayer (up to 4 players), or take turns in hot seat mode (up to 4 players+computer).

2024StrategyIndieSimulationCasual6.49 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Red Troll
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Players who liked Jonesville also play

Steam players who put hours into Jonesville 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. Let's Cook

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Jonesville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jonesville.

    Do you want to manage the restaurant together with your friends? You can try the restaurant simulation with your friends online or locally. You can enter with a maximum of 16 people. You can play alone if you want (it will be difficult.).

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Walk of Life

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Jonesville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jonesville.

    Walk of Life is a competitive life simulator for up to 6 players! Choose from a cast of unique roles and duke it out with your friends, bots, or by yourself, in this wacky and ever-surprising party game!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Timeflow – Life Sim

    WHY THIS

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

    This game will make you rich! Learn the basics of investment and life management. Your goal is to make your dream come true. You can make a career, buy real estate, run business, trade stocks, become a blogger, or make a fortune on an art market. Study, network, and plan your time for all of it.

    2019StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Happy Words

    WHY THIS

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

    Happy words is a word based online multiplayer board game for 1 to 4 players in which you have to create words and connect them to existing words in order to score more points than your opponents.

    2019StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Empire Origin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Jonesville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Jonesville.

    Multiplayer Incremental Idle tycoon with a stock market that actually works. 200 stocks, real options pricing, Fed rate decisions, 55 businesses across 10 tiers, real estate, banking, taxes, and a 530-node research tree. Multiplayer shares one market. There's also a casino.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  6. Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁)

    WHY THIS

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

    Rento is multiplayer business dice game. It is board game for 2 to 8 players.Trade lands, build houses, win auctions, roll wheel of fortune, risk in Russian Roulette and have fun.Play with your friends and acquire a monopoly over the game board :)

    2017StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Old School

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Jonesville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jonesville.

    Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Pumping Simulator 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Jonesville fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jonesville.

    A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich

    2023IndieSimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~85% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jonesville.

    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. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jonesville.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jonesville.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jonesville.

    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 ↗
  5. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jonesville.

    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 ↗
  6. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~85% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Jonesville.

    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 ↗
  7. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jonesville.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Super Hexagon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under Jonesville on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jonesville.

    Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

    2012ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Jonesville.

    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 ↗
  2. A Date with Death

    WHY THIS

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

    Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

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

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

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

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Jonesville.

    When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.

    2024ActionSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. DOGWALK

    WHY THIS

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

    Explore a hand-crafted winter forest as a big adorable dog and a little kid in tow. A short, free, open source project brought to you by Blender Studio.

    2025IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Walk of Life

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jonesville.

    Walk of Life is a competitive life simulator for up to 6 players! Choose from a cast of unique roles and duke it out with your friends, bots, or by yourself, in this wacky and ever-surprising party game!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation13.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Happy Words

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jonesville.

    Happy words is a word based online multiplayer board game for 1 to 4 players in which you have to create words and connect them to existing words in order to score more points than your opponents.

    2019StrategyIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁)

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Jonesville.

    Rento is multiplayer business dice game. It is board game for 2 to 8 players.Trade lands, build houses, win auctions, roll wheel of fortune, risk in Russian Roulette and have fun.Play with your friends and acquire a monopoly over the game board :)

    2017StrategyIndieMassively Multiplayer4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Old School

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Jonesville.

    Relive your school days in 3D, where old school graphics bring back timeless fun! Create your own star student and attend a schedule full of classes in time to gather the knowledge you need to thrive, while an equally important popularity contest challenges you survive...

    2023ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Jonesville

Does Jonesville run on Steam Deck?
Jonesville 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 Jonesville cost?
Jonesville is listed on Steam at 6.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Jonesville have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Jonesville supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to Jonesville?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jonesville are Let's Cook, Walk of Life, Timeflow – Life Sim.
Who developed Jonesville?
Jonesville was developed by Red Troll.

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 Jonesville.

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