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Games like Mad Television Tycoon

If Mad Television Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ad Agency Tycoon, Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon and Tollway Tycoon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its competitive multiplayer with friends, challenging and competitive. 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 Mad Television Tycoon: In Mad Television Tycoon, you take control of a TV station. Accept the challenge and lead your network to success. Your task is to create a diverse schedule, maximize advertising revenue, and outshine the competition.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualEarly Access20.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Eggcode
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Steam players who put hours into Mad Television 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. Ad Agency Tycoon

    WHY THIS

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

    Ad Agency Tycoon is an Advertising Agency simulator set in the 60's. Choose the perfect combination for your propagandas, develop your company and conquer the golden age of publicity! Your advertising will come to life and face the tough market and the most feared of all: the public.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon is a Kawaii themed pixel art game where you start your journey with a humble drink stand. Learn new recipes and unlock new equipment and locations, manage sales prices and inventory in order to succeed in becoming the largest bubble tea tycoon in town!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Tollway Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Potholes. Breakdowns. Zombies. Just another shift at the Tollway. Hire Staff, upgrade your tollway, appease HQ and keep traffic flowing before the cursed highway bankrupts you.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Game Tech Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Running a game studio Forming a team, resolving conflicts, allowing the team to unleash its maximum strength Exploring the market, creating games with higher ratings Unlocking technologies such as information, modularization, AI, collaboration, etc., to enable the studio to grow and expand

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Turmoil

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Ranked #5 for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation2.59 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Software Inc.

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Ranked #6 for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation22.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Wall Street Raider

    WHY THIS

    Shares economy management, simulation, tycoon and an immersive mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Ranked #7 for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Wall Street Raider offers the deepest stock market simulations in gaming history. Control publicly traded corporations, futures, options, and even crypto. Whether you want to make billions in equities, short-sell overvalued stocks, or hedge risk using derivatives, the market is yours to conquer!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Business Simulator 2026

    WHY THIS

    Shares economy management, simulation, tycoon and a relaxing mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Ranked #8 for Mad Television Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    In Business Simulator 2026, you start with a small capital and aim to build a business empire in the city by deciding which business to start in which shop and deciding the prices. Business Simulator 2026 is a business simulation that will test your business acumen and strategic planning skills.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Mad Television Tycoon

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  1. Empire TV Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Mad Television Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Empire TV Tycoon is a game in which you manage a TV channel and fight for audiences taking decisions that will project your channel to fame and fortune.You will decide the content of your channel, select advertisers, hire workers, make your own productions, hire actors, and engage in much more activities!

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mad Games Tycoon 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Mad Television Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Airline Tycoon 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Mad Television Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Run a modern airline, design unique airplanes and grow a run-down carrier into a globally recognized company that passengers practically beg to fly.

    2011StrategySimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. News Tower

    WHY THIS

    Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Reviewers of Mad Television Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

    2025StrategySimulation17.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~76% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Television 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 ↗
  3. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Early Access with Mad Television Tycoon.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. People Playground

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

    2019ActionIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Undertale

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

    2015IndieRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~76% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Mad Television 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 ↗
  7. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Mad Television Tycoon.

    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 ↗
  8. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Mad Television Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    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 ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    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 ↗
  4. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Television 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!

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

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

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Mizi NO!

    WHY THIS

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

    In this free 2D puzzle game, you must reassemble broken objects that your cat has knocked over.

    2024IndieCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Last Sovereign

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Sims™ 4

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.

    2020AdventureSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Eggcode

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

  1. Mad Games Tycoon 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Another title from Eggcode, the studio behind Mad Television Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

    2023StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Mad Games Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Another title from Eggcode, the studio behind Mad Television Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television 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!

    2016StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Mad Tower Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Another title from Eggcode, the studio behind Mad Television Tycoon. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Television Tycoon.

    Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mad Television Tycoon

Does Mad Television Tycoon run on Steam Deck?
Mad Television Tycoon 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 Mad Television Tycoon cost?
Mad Television Tycoon is listed on Steam at 20.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Mad Television Tycoon have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Mad Television Tycoon supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
What games are most similar to Mad Television Tycoon?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mad Television Tycoon are Ad Agency Tycoon, Boba Bar: Bubble Tea Tycoon, Tollway Tycoon.
Who developed Mad Television Tycoon?
Mad Television Tycoon was developed by Eggcode.

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