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Games like App Empire Tycoon

If App Empire Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are +1x2, +1% and Capital Dilemma — 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 App Empire Tycoon: Live the dream of an ambitious developer in App Empire Tycoon! Start small, crafting simple apps and tackling tricky clients. Grow your skills, attract investors, and expand your portfolio as you chase greatness. Can you build the ultimate tech empire and make history?

2025IndieSimulationCasual9.99 USDWindowsby LuminousLagoon
App Empire Tycoon — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into App Empire Tycoon 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. +1x2

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    A super simple clicker game with finite goal and few hours of fun. Will you be able to complete it in time to make a refund?

    2024IndieSimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. +1%

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Idle clicker game with a percentage based math inside. Compound percent is used for all calculations. Slow start, exponential growth and lots of fun!

    2024IndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Capital Dilemma

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Navigate corporate chaos in this minimalist management game. Swipe to make decisions, increase your stock price, and balance metrics to stay in power.

    2024IndieSimulationRPG2.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Villa's Blinds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Hello graduates! You have a degree on computer engineering and you can’t find a job? Start now to develop a game in your rental garage. Advertise them and gather your own fan base. Earn your pocket money! Of course, you won’t live in this garbage dump till the end!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Game Corp DX

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

    2015IndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Game Builder Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    In Game Builder Tycoon, begin as an indie game developer. Personalize your character, craft hit games, manage marketing, research stuff and manage a skilled team. Overcome competition to guide your game development studio to global recognition and dominate the gaming industry.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Internet Cafe Owner

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Build and manage your own internet café, starting with second-hand computers and growing into a local hotspot for gamers and students. Balance your budget, upgrade your gear, and outsmart competitors to become the king of the neighborhood

    2023IndieSimulationCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. PC Creator - PC Building Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for App Empire Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Try yourself as a PC builder and build your dream PC from 200+ real components!Complete different PC building and PC repair orders to upgrade your business: build a PC from zero, install popular OS', upgrade computers, install different programs and games, fix PC parts, and much more.

    2021Simulation5.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below App Empire Tycoon at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire 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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with App Empire 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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire 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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with App Empire Tycoon.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with App Empire 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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with App Empire 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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under App Empire Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with App Empire Tycoon.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with App Empire Tycoon.

    A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.

    2020IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with App Empire Tycoon.

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with App Empire Tycoon.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about App Empire Tycoon

How much does App Empire Tycoon cost?
App Empire Tycoon is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to App Empire Tycoon?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside App Empire Tycoon are +1x2, +1%, Capital Dilemma.
Who developed App Empire Tycoon?
App Empire Tycoon was developed by LuminousLagoon.

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 App Empire Tycoon.

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