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Games like The Completionist: 1980-1989

If The Completionist: 1980-1989 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Own The Map, UFO98 and 10k Generators: The Ultimate Idle Game — 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 The Completionist: 1980-1989: Run a scrappy pop culture magazine through the 1980s. Hire writers, editors, and researchers. Manage a Kanban board. Prestige through Volumes. Try not to go broke. Strategic idle sim. Commodore 64 aesthetic. No micro-transactions.

2026StrategyIndieSimulationCasualWindows · macOS · Linuxby Frosty Pop
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Players who liked The Completionist: 1980-1989 also play

Steam players who put hours into The Completionist: 1980-1989 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. Own The Map

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Claim real locations on a living world map, grow a persistent property empire, and manage upgrades, contracts, transport, companies, prestige cards, and city events alongside a shared online community.

    StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  2. UFO98

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Defy the government, leak top-secret alien telemetry, and wake up the world… inside an isolated Win98 workstation.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. 10k Generators: The Ultimate Idle Game

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    10k generators, 20+ currencies. Master 5 prestige trees. Convert currencies, earn interest, unlock perks, stack bonuses, research, climb tiers, evolve, and level globally. Auto-buy included. Deep. Strategic. Endless.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Kingdom Klicker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Kingdom Klicker is an idle clicker game you found on an old 80s computer that allows you to build, upgrade and organize a kingdom, but as you play it becomes more and more clear that something lurks beneath the surface, trying to get out...

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation4.04 USDSteam ↗
  5. OurClicker

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    From the creators of OurLife and OurCoven, OurClicker is a brand new clicker game that puts you in charge of an up-and-coming Game Development Studio where all you do is... CLICK!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation3.05 USDSteam ↗
  6. Incremental Pain Profit

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Click, topple and profit! Knock over tiny wandering Humans, hire Animals to cause chaos, collect mountains of coins and grow your ridiculous empire. Unlock powerful Rebirth upgrades, defeat Bosses and turn a peaceful board into a glorious mess of falling people.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Sam, We Talked About This

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Every sentence, image and video on the internet will feed Sam's bottomless hunger! Train your models, grow your subscribers, buy new hardware and scrape even more data, all to build a super-duper artificial intelligence and leave every rival behind.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. Money Laundering Raccoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Completionist: 1980-1989 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    A gang of raccoons have decided to start a money laundering business. There's just one problem: they misunderstood what "money laundering" actually means. Now they've got a laundromat, a suspicious amount of cash, and absolutely no idea what they're doing.

    2027StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    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 ↗
  2. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    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 ↗
  3. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    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 ↗
  4. Coloring Pixels

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.

    2018IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeSteam ↗
  5. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    『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 ↗
  6. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    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 ↗
  7. SuchArt: Creative Space

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    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 ↗
  8. Moonring

    WHY THIS

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

    A dark-fantasy, turn-based, retro-fusion of classic turn-based RPGs and roguelikes, all presented with a unique neon aesthetic.

    2023RPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from Frosty Pop

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

  1. The Pinball Wizard

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Frosty Pop, the studio behind The Completionist: 1980-1989. Shares Indie and Casual with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    In this pinball dungeon crawler, your goal is to dash, hurl, and flip your way to the top of the tower castle. Level up skills, loot treasure, and fight monsters in this cozy single-player game. Explore and discover the key to each room, restore the power of The Eye, and bring peace to the lands.

    2022ActionIndieRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Deck 'Em!

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Frosty Pop, the studio behind The Completionist: 1980-1989. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Look, kid. Deck Em! is a solitaire-style boxing game. A card game you play to play. But you’re not even a contender. You’re a nobody. A total long shot. The Champ is a stone-cold killer. As big as an ox. Stronger than oak. But you got a lot of heart, kid. And, Mickey loves you.

    2023SportsStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Escape From The Red Planet

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Frosty Pop, the studio behind The Completionist: 1980-1989. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Completionist: 1980-1989.

    Escape From The Red Planet simplifies resource management, tower defence, and first-person mechanics into a singular arcade experience. On the latest mission to Mars, the Orion III crash-landed. With Martian attacks looming, Houston most definitely has a problem!

    2023StrategyIndieCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Completionist: 1980-1989

What games are most similar to The Completionist: 1980-1989?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Completionist: 1980-1989 are Own The Map, UFO98, 10k Generators: The Ultimate Idle Game.
Who developed The Completionist: 1980-1989?
The Completionist: 1980-1989 was developed by Frosty Pop and published by Frosty Pop .

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 Completionist: 1980-1989.

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