Games like Malware Tycoon
If Malware Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are CryptoRIG, Writer Tycoon and The American Dream: Past Due — 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 Malware Tycoon: 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.
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Writer Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Become a bestselling author in Writer Tycoon! Write books, grow your fanbase, and dominate the publishing industry. Track sales, manage multiple books at once, and adapt to trends. Will you create literary masterpieces or chase quick cash? Become a bestselling author and leave your mark!
The American Dream: Past Due
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Malware Tycoon.
The American Dream: Past Due is a realistic choice-driven sim. Play as a suddenly laid-off middle-aged man keeping up appearances. Balance family finances and emotions while facing mounting bills... Can you get your life back on track before your family falls apart?
Invasive
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Grow crops and expand your farm. Using invasive species to help control other pests or environmental factors you can build an agricultural empire. Or use the invasive species to slow your competition. Nature can be your friend. Or nature can be your enemy. Choose wisely.
Jeremy is Broke
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Ranked #5 for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Trade stock, dumpster dive, and repair laptops in this unemployment simulator
Rock Star Manager
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Manage your own music studio, hire bands, schedule shows and pay your bills.
Shop-Like - The Rogue-Like Item Shop Experience
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
An Item-Shop Game meets the concept of roguelikes! Endless Replayability and countless options to victory are awaiting you in Shop-Like! Shop-Like is all about running a business in order to pay your debts, so you will not land in the brutal hands of debt slavery.
Mad Games Tycoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Malware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Malware Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Malware Tycoon.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Malware Tycoon.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Malware Tycoon.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Malware Tycoon.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Malware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Malware Tycoon.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Malware Tycoon.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Malware Tycoon.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Frequently asked about Malware Tycoon
- How much does Malware Tycoon cost?
- Malware Tycoon is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Malware Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Malware Tycoon are CryptoRIG, Writer Tycoon, The American Dream: Past Due.
- Who developed Malware Tycoon?
- Malware Tycoon was developed by JIMMY DIAMOND.
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 Malware Tycoon.
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