Games like Schedule I
If Schedule I is your kind of game, the closest matches are Drug Dealer Schedule, Satisfactory and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and funny. 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 →Schedule I is a crime-simulation and business-management game released in 2025 by TVGS, available for $19.99 USD and marked as Early Access. Set in the urban environment of Hyland Point, players build and expand their own illicit operation from the ground up, managing properties, employees, and supply chains as their empire grows. The game supports co-op multiplayer with divided roles and shared progression, alongside achievement-hunting and community-involvement mechanics that encourage long-term engagement. Reviewers describe the experience as atmospheric, funny, lighthearted, and relaxing, with players highlighting a fun and relaxing gameplay loop as a key hook. The visual style has been noted as impressive by the community. Currently holding a 98% positive rating from over 188,000 Steam reviews, the game is playable on Steam Deck, and reviewers appreciate the active developer responding to community feedback.
About Schedule I: From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Players who liked Schedule I also play
Steam players who put hours into Schedule I 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.
Drug Dealer Schedule
WHY THIS
Top pick for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Schedule I.
Start from the streets and rise to the top produce, sell, and manage a growing drug empire. Expand operations, evade the law, and crush the competition. Build labs, hire dealers, and dominate the underworld. Will you rule or get rolled?
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Schedule I.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Schedule I.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Blank Slate
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Schedule I.
From street-level scammer to an untouchable criminal — forge fake identities, run shady businesses, and build an underground empire in a city that looks the other way.
Dirty Business
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Schedule I.
Build a criminal empire from a hidden underground hangar. Produce drugs, craft weapons, print fake money, operate cartel airstrip and more. Hire workers, expand your gang, upgrade your base and take control of city distribution solo or in co-op.
Starground
WHY THIS
Shares co op multiplayer, inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Schedule I.
Ranked #6 for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Schedule I.
Build a formidable factory and go dungeoning alone or with friends. Solve logic puzzles and automate resource collection and crafting, or venture into dungeons filled with dangers and rewards. Find your own ideal gameplay balance, as any unique path will advance the story!
Palworld
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
shapez
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Schedule I.
Ranked #8 for Schedule I fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Schedule I.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Schedule I
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Schedule I.
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Farming Simulator 22
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a chill mood with Schedule I.
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Schedule I.
Create your farm and let the good times grow! Harvest crops, tend to animals, manage productions, and take on seasonal challenges.
Drug Wars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
Drug Wars is a gritty, gory romp through a futuristic New York City, circa 3100, where severe global warming conditions have resulted in a harsh divide between upper-class Brooklyn gang bosses and a booming population of engineered Neanderthal bottom-dwellers.
Drug Dealer Sim: Street Hustle
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
Drug Dealer Sim: Street Hustle is a thrilling journey from a small-time gangster to the revered Godfather of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Chicago in the Prohibition Era!
Zompiercer
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Schedule I.
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
Take control of the train which will become your haven on the rails. Collect resources, craft equipment, construct a cozy house on railway cars, and travel through the carefully handcrafted locations to explore the story of a zombie apocalypse world.
Die for Pay
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Schedule I.
Die for Pay is a CO-OP Multiplayer action crime game where you try to rise from nothing in a world where riots break out every night. Make money by day, gather your crew. By night, stand your ground with honor, or run. When the siren sounds, there's no mercy.
Definitely Not Fried Chicken
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and a funny mood with Schedule I.
Reviewers of Schedule I cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Schedule I.
Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Schedule I at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Schedule I on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Schedule I.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Schedule I on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Schedule I on Steam right now. Shares Action with Schedule I.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Schedule I on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Schedule I on Steam right now. Shares Action with Schedule I.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 Action and Indie with Schedule I.
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 Schedule I.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Schedule I.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Schedule I.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Schedule I.
『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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Schedule I.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Schedule I.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Palworld
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Schedule I.
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Frequently asked about Schedule I
- Does Schedule I run on Steam Deck?
- Schedule I 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 Schedule I cost?
- Schedule I is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Schedule I have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Schedule I supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Schedule I?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Schedule I are Drug Dealer Schedule, Satisfactory, Factorio.
- Who developed Schedule I?
- Schedule I was developed by TVGS.
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