Games like The American Dream: Past Due
If The American Dream: Past Due is your kind of game, the closest matches are Writer Tycoon, SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim and Epicenter City — 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 The American Dream: Past Due: The American Dream: Past Due is a realistic choice-driven sim. Play as a suddenly laid-off middle-aged man keeping up appearances. Balance family finances and emotions while facing mounting bills... Can you get your life back on track before your family falls apart?
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Writer Tycoon
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Top pick for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Become a bestselling author in Writer Tycoon! Write books, grow your fanbase, and dominate the publishing industry. Track sales, manage multiple books at once, and adapt to trends. Will you create literary masterpieces or chase quick cash? Become a bestselling author and leave your mark!
SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim
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Second-strongest match for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Build your empire from a basement. Trade stocks, run companies, date, raise kids, dodge the SEC, and retire a legend — or go broke trying.
Epicenter City
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Third-strongest match for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Build a multi-generational tech empire in this cyberpunk life simulator. Found startups, navigate stock markets, and manage your networks to climb the corporate ladder. From surviving disasters to finding love, every choice determines if your lineage becomes a permanent legend on the leaderboard.
The First Million
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Ranked #4 for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with The American Dream: Past Due.
An incremental deckbuilder where you constantly unlock new cards and upgrades and discover one game-breaking strategy after another to make THE FIRST MILLION — and then many more!
MarginCall
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Ranked #5 for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
MarginCall is the most deeply simulated economic trading game ever made. A living market with no scripted prices, where thousands of individually simulated investors trade a real order book atop a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, raid rivals, or get margin-called into ruin.
Super Movie Tycoon
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Ranked #6 for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator
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Ranked #7 for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.
BOOK OF HOURS
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Ranked #8 for The American Dream: Past Due fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with The American Dream: Past Due.
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.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about The American Dream: Past Due
- What games are most similar to The American Dream: Past Due?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The American Dream: Past Due are Writer Tycoon, SELF MADE: Investment Life Sim, Epicenter City.
- Who developed The American Dream: Past Due?
- The American Dream: Past Due was developed by Prometheus.
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 The American Dream: Past Due.
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