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Games like Console Shop Simulator

If Console Shop Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mall Simulator, Returns Outlet Simulator and Figure Shop Simulator — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, immersive and lighthearted. 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 Console Shop Simulator: Become the owner of a game store! Organize shelves, repair CDs, negotiate profits, promote your store via live stream, and increase customer satisfaction.

2025IndieSimulationCasualEarly Access15.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Lance Games
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Players who liked Console Shop Simulator also play

Steam players who put hours into Console Shop 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. Mall Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares shop management, progression system, business management and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

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

    Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!

    2025IndieSimulationCasual13.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Returns Outlet Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares shop management, crafting, grindy and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

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

    Returns Outlet Simulator is a relaxed first-person simulation where every aspect of operating your own shop springs to life.

    2025SimulationCasualEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Figure Shop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares employee management, shop management, simulation and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

    Third-strongest match for Console Shop Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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. Gun Factory Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares employee management, economy management, business management and a lighthearted mood with Console Shop Simulator.

    Ranked #4 for Console Shop Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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 ↗
  5. Pub Sim

    WHY THIS

    Shares shop management, economy management, business management and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

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

    You've just bought your first Pub. First steps are to clean it, stock it, set your markup and let in the Patrons. Keep the drinks flowing and try not to shortchange anyone! If you keep it going long enough you might just earn enough to spruce up the place, hire staff and expand the premises.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual13.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Bank Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares economy management, resource management, business management and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

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

    Build and manage your financial empire from a small bank to a global powerhouse. Approve loans, trade bonds, hire staff, and master the market in Bank Simulator a business management sim and banking tycoon where every economic decision impacts your bottom line

    2025IndieSimulationFree To Play14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Food Processing Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares progression system, resource management, business management and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

    Ranked #7 for Console Shop Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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 ↗
  8. Factory Outlet Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares shop management, economy management, business management and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

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

    Factory Outlet Simulator is a very comprehensive product manufacturing and selling game. You can produce the products of world famous brands in your factory and sell them. Or you can expand your business and create your own brand. Use your business acumen to lead the market from zero to the top!

    2024IndieSimulation10.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Console Shop 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~56% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Console Shop 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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Console Shop Simulator.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~61% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Console Shop 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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Console Shop Simulator.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~69% under Console Shop Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Console Shop Simulator.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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 ↗
  2. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop 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 ↗
  3. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Console Shop 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 ↗
  5. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Console Shop 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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  6. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

More from Lance Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Lance Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Pumping Simulator 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares shop management, economy management, grindy and a cozy mood with Console Shop Simulator.

    Another title from Lance Games, the studio behind Console Shop Simulator. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop Simulator.

    A gas station management game, start by selling a car to raise funds and invest in an abandoned plot of land. Build, expand, and upgrade your gas station, diversify services, customize and manage time efficiently during peak hours. And maybe you will become rich

    2023IndieSimulationCasual11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Pumping Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Lance Games, the studio behind Console Shop Simulator. Shares Indie and Simulation with Console Shop Simulator.

    Pumping Simulator As an active member of a gas station in a major city around the world, you can play with up to 10 friends in a multiplayer co-op mode or single player mode to help you understand what the pumpers are going through, and maybe will make you rich.

    2020IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Spell Cast

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Lance Games, the studio behind Console Shop Simulator. Shares Indie and Casual with Console Shop Simulator.

    CO-OP Time survival game with roguelite elements, up to 10 players online

    2022ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Loud Run

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Lance Games, the studio behind Console Shop Simulator. Shares Indie and Casual with Console Shop Simulator.

    "Loud Run" is a 2-12 player fun multiplayer game. The Chaser tries to catch all the Runners within the range of their voice. When the Chaser runs out of breath, it's the Runners' turn to take down the Chaser. Prepare your breath; a looooong adventure awaits you!

    2024IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. One More Dig!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Lance Games, the studio behind Console Shop Simulator. Shares Indie and Casual with Console Shop Simulator.

    Grab your equipments and dive deep! One More Dig is a pirate-themed mining adventure. Master your stamina, unearth cursed treasures, and upgrade your gear with dubloons. The greatest haul is always just one more dig away—how deep will you go before the tide turns?

    2026IndieCasualEarly AccessSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Console Shop Simulator

Does Console Shop Simulator run on Steam Deck?
Console Shop Simulator 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 Console Shop Simulator cost?
Console Shop Simulator is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Console Shop Simulator?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Console Shop Simulator are Mall Simulator, Returns Outlet Simulator, Figure Shop Simulator.
Who developed Console Shop Simulator?
Console Shop Simulator was developed by Lance Games.

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 Console Shop Simulator.

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