Games like Central Bank
If Central Bank is your kind of game, the closest matches are AfterWar, Hedge Fund Tycoon and Hardware Tycoon — 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 Central Bank: Take control of the most fearsome weapon known to mankind: the key interest rate. As head of the central bank, you wield the power to make (or break) nations. Raise it, and watch markets crumble and riots erupt. Lower it, and brace yourself for an economy so hot it could melt steel.
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Hedge Fund Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Central Bank.
Are you ready to climb the ranks of the elite and become the wealthiest hedge fund in the world? In this thrilling new stock market game, you'll trade stocks, bonds, and use corruption to achieve your goals. Don't miss your chance to dominate the world of finance and amass a fortune.
Hardware Tycoon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Central Bank.
From 1986 to 2026, design and engineer the world's most advanced CPUs. Run your own fabs or manufacture for rivals. Research groundbreaking tech, manage your team, buy and build offices, and dominate the market through decades of cutthroat competition. Become the ultimate hardware tycoon.
Shane's Trains
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Central Bank.
Build and manage your own railway empire. Buy trains, create services, expand the network, and grow from a single branch line. Map your own routes, or play across the real UK rail network and beyond.
Government Contractors: Arms of Influence
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Central Bank.
Historically accurate strategy game where you act as a government contractor researching, developing, and manufacturing weapons and technology for your clients. You choose the parts for each product, but be aware that cheap or wrong political choices may affect your success rate!
Simulator of Ukraine 1991
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Central Bank.
This game is a global strategy, which is primarily focused on Ukraine after leaving the Soviet occupation. Here you will be given control of Ukraine with the opportunity to change history and intervene in the events of that time.
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Central Bank.
Nikhil Murthy's Syphilisation is a postcolonial 4X game where you play a student doing a group report on Gandhi, Churchill and the Raj. It eXplores space left uncharted by the genre and proposes alternatives to established systems.
Plutocracy
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Central Bank fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Central Bank.
The business simulator Plutocracy gives you the chance to become wealthy and powerful to take control over the world. Where policy, laws, officials and people are only the chess pieces how do you play your game?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Central Bank at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Central Bank on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Central Bank.
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 ~47% under Central Bank on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Central Bank.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Central Bank on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Central Bank.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~74% under Central Bank on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Central Bank.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Central Bank on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Central Bank.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Central Bank on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Central Bank.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Central Bank.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Central Bank.
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.
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!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Central Bank.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Central Bank.
『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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Central Bank.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Central Bank.
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!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Central Bank.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Central Bank
- How much does Central Bank cost?
- Central Bank is listed on Steam at 18.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Central Bank?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Central Bank are AfterWar, Hedge Fund Tycoon, Hardware Tycoon.
- Who developed Central Bank?
- Central Bank was developed by Nabiulina software, Jerome Powerr studio, Rusalka Unreal Labs and published by Central Bank Game, Rusalka Unreal Labs.
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 Central Bank.
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