Games like Hardware Store Simulator
If Hardware Store Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Card Shop Simulator Multiplayer, Waterpark Simulator and Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, chill and comedic. 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 Hardware Store Simulator: Compete with up to 4 players to build the most successful hardware store! Design your shop, manage inventory, hire employees, and influence market prices in this detailed business simulator. Master retail management as you expand your store empire.
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Steam players who put hours into Hardware Store 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.
Card Shop Simulator Multiplayer
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, casual and a chill mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Top pick for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Hardware Store Simulator.
Open a card shop with your friends, you can cooperate in a shop or compete with individual shops on the same street! Collect nice cards with different elements and play card dual with your friends to win their cards from their collection!
Waterpark Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, progression system, casual and a stressful mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Second-strongest match for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!
Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares business management and a lighthearted mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Third-strongest match for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
Enter the World of Diesel! Grab some of the biggest four-wheelers. Trick these trucks, flip them for a profit or race against your friends online. This can go hard or this can go diesel!
Spacebase Startopia
WHY THIS
Shares a comedic mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Ranked #4 for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
Spacebase Startopia captivates with its original mixture of economic simulation and empire building strategy paired with classic RTS skirmishes and a good dose of humor.
Bazaar Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares shop management, inventory management, casual and a chill mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Ranked #5 for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
Set up stalls with fresh vegetables, fruits, and fish. Deliver customer orders, set prices, and expand your bazaar. Catch your own fish to sell and enjoy fishing's thrill. Collaborate with friends in multiplayer mode to manage the bazaar together. Much more is coming soon!
Tropical Resort Simulator (Paradise Beach Simulator)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management, casual and a stressful mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Ranked #6 for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with Hardware Store Simulator.
Transform an abandoned island into a thriving business. Install fun activities, open your restaurant, maintain your equipment, manage your staff. It's time to open the beach, you're ready to welcome your first customers!
Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Hardware Store Simulator.
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
Eco
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Hardware Store Simulator.
Ranked #8 for Hardware Store Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hardware Store Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
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 ~62% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hardware Store Simulator.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Hardware Store Simulator.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hardware Store Simulator.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
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 ~62% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hardware Store Simulator.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hardware Store Simulator.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Hardware Store Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store Simulator.
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 Indie with Hardware Store Simulator.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.).
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Store 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.
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 Simulation and Casual with Hardware Store 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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hardware Store Simulator.
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 Hardware Store 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!
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Frequently asked about Hardware Store Simulator
- How much does Hardware Store Simulator cost?
- Hardware Store Simulator is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Hardware Store Simulator have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hardware Store Simulator supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Hardware Store Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hardware Store Simulator are Card Shop Simulator Multiplayer, Waterpark Simulator, Diesel Brothers: Truck Building Simulator.
- Who developed Hardware Store Simulator?
- Hardware Store Simulator was developed by Stellar Fusion Studios and published by PlayWay S.A..
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