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Games like Monkey Business

If Monkey Business is your kind of game, the closest matches are OurClicker, Incremental Donuts and Idle Casino Empire — 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 Monkey Business: Type your way up the corporate ladder. Build your questionable publishing empire one monkey at a time, upgrade your gear, and squeeze every cent out of your competition. Race friends for bragging rights or grind it out solo, either way, greed looks good on you.

StrategyIndieCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby KobeDev
Monkey Business — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Monkey Business 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. OurClicker

    WHY THIS

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

    From the creators of OurLife and OurCoven, OurClicker is a brand new clicker game that puts you in charge of an up-and-coming Game Development Studio where all you do is... CLICK!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation3.05 USDSteam ↗
  2. Incremental Donuts

    WHY THIS

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

    Start with one donut. End with a multidimensional bakery empire. Click, automate, expand, unlock the Research Lab, run a Storefront, and break through to the Donut Hole. A layered idle game that keeps unfolding new systems until your mouse screams for mercy.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  3. Idle Casino Empire

    WHY THIS

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

    An idle casino tycoon where you build the floor, then rig it. Turn casino psychology into upgrades. Play blackjack, roulette, and slots in Owner Mode. Use the Owner's Edge to cheat: nudge reels, peek at hidden cards, read marked cards. Eight venues, a prestige loop. The house is you.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. MatchMaker95 - A Programming Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Monkey Business fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Monkey Business.

    The programming simulator. MatchMaker95 is a cozy(ish) coding tycoon where you write real C++, grow a chaotic dating app startup, unlock game-changing upgrades, and turn lines of code into profit — all inside a lo-fi Win98 desktop.

    2026SimulationCasualSteam ↗
  5. LEXICON: Lingua Obscura

    WHY THIS

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

    A word based puzzle game where you twist strange rules, uncover hidden patterns, and solve clever linguistic challenges that always feel one step away from revealing something bigger.

    2026StrategyIndieCasualSteam ↗
  6. Empire Origin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Monkey Business fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Monkey Business.

    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 ↗
  7. Bug Bounty Hunter --Idle

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Monkey Business fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Monkey Business.

    An idle hacking sim where you scan for real vulnerabilities, automate your tools, and manage CPU, RAM, and heat before your machine crashes. Climb bounty programs, deploy to the cloud, and build a satirical hacking career from your terminal.

    2026IndieSimulationCasual7.19 USDSteam ↗
  8. Game Dev Clicker Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Monkey Business fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Monkey Business.

    Start as an indie dev in this clicker and improve your resources, skills and tools to create multiple titles at once, manage several studios and become a corporation that dominates the industry.

    IndieCasualSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck 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. The Children of Clay

    WHY THIS

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

    The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  5. Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online

    WHY THIS

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

    Silly Linguine Cat Simulator Deluxe Online is a clicker game where progression is replaced with gambling, where the goal is simply to collect the rarest silly linguine cats.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  6. Tukoni: Prologue

    WHY THIS

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

    Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.

    2020IndieAdventureCasualFreeSteam ↗
  7. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!

    2022IndieAdventureCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NERTS! Online

    WHY THIS

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

    NERTS! Online is a fast-paced competitive solitaire game for you and up to five of your friends, played the same way we play it at the Zachtronics office!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Monkey Business

Does Monkey Business have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Monkey Business supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Monkey Business?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monkey Business are OurClicker, Incremental Donuts, Idle Casino Empire.
Who developed Monkey Business?
Monkey Business was developed by KobeDev.

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 Monkey Business.

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