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Games like Shop Manager Simulator

If Shop Manager Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Junkyard Builder, Arctic Motel Simulator and Figure Shop 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.

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About Shop Manager Simulator: Take charge of your own retail outlet. Stack shelves with products, hire staff, set prices, appease the customers, manage suppliers, expand your space. Grow from a little store into a massive supermarket.

2024Simulation5.99 USDWindowsby Next Dimension Lab
Shop Manager Simulator — Steam game cover

Players who liked Shop Manager Simulator also play

Steam players who put hours into Shop Manager Simulator 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. Junkyard Builder

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!

    2026IndieSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Arctic Motel Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Have you ever been to the Arctic? Do you want to open a motel in the Arctic? With the company of aurora, blizzards, polar days and nights, primeval forests, and wild animals, can you turn a run-down motel into a landmark in the Arctic?

    2025Simulation17.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Figure Shop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Run your own figure shop! Produce figures with 3D printers, stock your shelves, set prices, and offer the best shopping experience to your customers. Manage your storage, expand and design your store. Try to complete collection sets, follow market trends, and grow your business!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual12.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Food Processing Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Build and manage your own food processing factory. Automate production with machines, work together with skilled employees to keep operations running smoothly, expand your facility, and keep inventory under control as you grow from a small workshop into a large scale production facility.

    2025IndieSimulationEarly Access12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Gun Factory Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Take control of your very own firearms factory. Start with a workshop and a gun shop, and evolve it into a factory of mass destruction. Craft bullets to rockets, handguns to shotguns, hire workers & managers, and become a merchant of death. Get use to the smell of gunpowder and cash.

    2025IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Pharmacy Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Experience a realistic pharmacy management experience with Pharmacy Simulator. Set up your shop, decorate it as you wish, and purchase over a hundred types of medications. Pharmacy Simulator offers you an incredibly realistic pharmacy experience. Prove your skills in a challenging economic system.

    2024IndieSimulationEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Ultimate Theater Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Ultimate Theater Simulator is a first-person cinema management game where you screen movies, serve snacks, hire staff, handle chaos, and grow your dream theater from the ground up.

    2025Simulation12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Casino Simulator 2024

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Shop Manager Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Casino Simulator: Build, manage, and expand your own casino from scratch. Hire staff, design your casino, and delight customers by offering the most popular games. Enjoy the thrill of the casino experience!

    2025SimulationRPGCasual5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    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. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    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 ↗
  4. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    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 ↗
  6. Tower Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Digseum

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    Digseum is a short incremental journey about digging up ancient relics and building the greatest museum ever!

    2024SimulationCasual2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Shop Manager Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Shop Manager Simulator.

    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. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

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

    『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 ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    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 Shop Manager Simulator.

    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. Outpath: First Journey

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Shop Manager Simulator

How much does Shop Manager Simulator cost?
Shop Manager Simulator is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Shop Manager Simulator?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shop Manager Simulator are Junkyard Builder, Arctic Motel Simulator, Figure Shop Simulator.
Who developed Shop Manager Simulator?
Shop Manager Simulator was developed by Next Dimension Lab.

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 Shop Manager Simulator.

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