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Games like Dark Money

If Dark Money is your kind of game, the closest matches are Money Laundering Raccoon, Ai Empire: Idle Clicker and Drugs and Crime Idle — 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 Dark Money: Try to survive as you build your network from petty crime to global empire in this money laundering automation game. Dark Money is based on real reporting with journalist-inspired investigation mechanics. Will you struggle for justice in the shadows, or embrace corruption and face the consequences?

2027StrategyIndieSimulationWindowsby Polyvale Studios
Dark Money — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Dark Money 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. Money Laundering Raccoon

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Money.

    Manage a laundromat for your raccoons to wash dirty money.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. Ai Empire: Idle Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dark Money.

    This feature-rich idle clicker game lets you experience the thrilling journey from a garage startup to a global AI powerhouse that reshapes the world.

    StrategySimulationCasualSteam ↗
  3. Drugs and Crime Idle

    WHY THIS

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

    Behind every great fortune, lies a great crime! Sell drugs, attack with your gang, gamble your CrimeCoins away and hope, that you get that rare item, finally. Free-to-play. Offline Progression. No Microtransactions except 2 optional DLCs.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  4. Man in the Mocha

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dark Money.

    An active incremental game where you own a coffee shop, but your hidden agenda is to hack the customers who connect to your WiFi. Buy upgrades and grow your business!

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Human: Profit

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Money.

    An accurate depiction of our world, baked into a short, classic incremental game. Take over Grandpa's farm, rebuild the town, and do whatever it takes to succeed. Also rabbits.

    2026IndieSimulationCasualSteam ↗
  6. Empire Origin

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dark Money.

    Multiplayer Incremental Idle tycoon with a stock market that actually works. 200 stocks, real options pricing, Fed rate decisions, 55 businesses across 10 tiers, real estate, banking, taxes, and a 530-node research tree. Multiplayer shares one market. There's also a casino.

    StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  7. Last $50

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Dark Money.

    Build a drug empire with your last $50. Buy production, upgrade it, and hire workers to automate.

    2026IndieSimulation4.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. Definitely Not Fried Chicken

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Dark Money fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Dark Money.

    Definitely Not Fried Chicken is a business management sim with a Twist! Grow your drugs trade through legitimate fronts by managing both sides of the business. Acquire new "businesses", meet new clientele, Develop more potent narcotics, make lots of money and leave a city in ruin!

    2023StrategySimulation24.99 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 Dark Money.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Money.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  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 Dark Money.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Money.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Money.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Money.

    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 ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Dark Money

What games are most similar to Dark Money?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Money are Money Laundering Raccoon, Ai Empire: Idle Clicker, Drugs and Crime Idle.
Who developed Dark Money?
Dark Money was developed by Polyvale Studios and published by Polyvale Studios, OCCRP.

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 Dark Money.

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