Games like Retail Rivals
If Retail Rivals is your kind of game, the closest matches are FD's Industry Tycoon, OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Game & Movie Store Simulator and Highway Station Simulator — 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 Retail Rivals: Build your retail empire inside a shopping mall. Open multiple stores, sabotage rivals, and play solo or with up to 8 players. Choose different match objectives or play endless mode and compete for retail domination.
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FD's Industry Tycoon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Build a global industrial empire from a 1990s desktop. A retro business management sim, hand-drawn in pixel art. Alone or in MP: open factories worldwide, broker supply deals across continents, and acquire rivals when they falter. Markets shift, empires grow, and the CRT flickers.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Game & Movie Store Simulator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Build your own game & movie store — from retro VHS tapes to modern consoles. Fill your shelves with games, movies, and collectibles, attract customers, and grow your business into the ultimate entertainment shop — all while reliving the nostalgia of iconic eras.
Highway Station Simulator
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Run a highway station with up to four players. Somebody has to work the pumps, somebody has to stock the shelves, and somebody has to answer for the mess. A first-person co-op management sim about a very long shift.
Theme Park Together
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Theme Park Together is a co-op theme park simulator where you build and run your own amusement park with friends. Build rides, serve guests, handle maintenance and cleaning, expand your park, and overcome the chaos together.
Head Chef
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Head Chef is a restaurant management game. Supply the kitchen, select your staff, overcome challenges, create a delicious menu and… cook! Make your guests happy and find your way to the stars. Keep control of your team and finances, because the higher you climb, the harder you fall.
Software Inc.
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
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.
Storage Hunter Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Play as one of the bidders for abandoned warehouses and uncover hidden treasures! Storage Hunter is a garage auction simulation game. Bid, win, and sell for profit! Become the king of storage auction.
My Supermarket
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Retail Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Manage your own supermarket, serving different types of customers and making the most profit you can! 🛒 Order products, restock shelves, play with your friends in co-op mode, chase thieves, hire employees, and grow your empire!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retail Rivals at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Retail Rivals.
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!
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Retail Rivals.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retail Rivals.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retail Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Retail Rivals.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
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.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Retail Rivals.
『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.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Retail Rivals.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Retail Rivals.
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!
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Frequently asked about Retail Rivals
- How much does Retail Rivals cost?
- Retail Rivals is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Retail Rivals have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Retail Rivals supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Retail Rivals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retail Rivals are FD's Industry Tycoon, OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Game & Movie Store Simulator, Highway Station Simulator.
- Who developed Retail Rivals?
- Retail Rivals was developed by DreamStudios, Ezernia Studios, Sandstorm in a Bottle and published by DreamStudios.
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 Retail Rivals.
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