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Games like Keeping Up

If Keeping Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call Center Tycoon, Big Ambitions and The Invisible Hand — 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 Keeping Up: Three jobs. One life. Zero savings. A satirical British life sim, spiritual successor to Jones in the Fast Lane. Move your marble token around a city of 16 buildings. Take jobs, study, eat, save, and dodge the weekly Algorithm. See how far you can climb!

2026StrategyIndieSimulationEarly AccessWindowsby Nice Try Studios
Keeping Up — Steam game cover

Players who liked Keeping Up also play

Steam players who put hours into Keeping Up 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. Call Center Tycoon

    WHY THIS

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

    Call Center Tycoon is an office management game where the goal is to get the best out of your employees. Keep your employees' stress levels low and they will perform better increasing your profits and your market share. Make key decisions and watch the action unfold.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Big Ambitions

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Keeping Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Keeping Up.

    Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

    2023IndieSimulationEarly Access22.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Invisible Hand

    WHY THIS

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

    Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Club Naughty

    WHY THIS

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

    Build a Club Naughty empire! Build your club, manage staff, take care of your customers, complete mini games, unlock achievements, and level up a variety of club owners. Are you Naughty enough to succeed?

    2016ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Business Simulator 2026

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Keeping Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keeping Up.

    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 ↗
  6. Blood Bar Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Keeping Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keeping Up.

    Blood Bar Tycoon is a vampire bar management game. Build bars and blood factories, lure humans to harvest their blood, process it, and serve your customers: other vampires. Research quirky machines and deal with hunters! Expand through Crimson City to become a mighty Elder!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. My Supermarket

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Keeping Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keeping Up.

    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!

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. King of Retail 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Keeping Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Keeping Up.

    Build a retail empire across dozens of locations with hundreds of employees. Design every inch of your stores with a deep building tool, then fine-tune pricing, staffing, and product mix to stay profitable. Scale up, customize everything, and manage the details that make or break your bottom line.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

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

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  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 Keeping Up.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

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

    NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Keeping Up

What games are most similar to Keeping Up?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Keeping Up are Call Center Tycoon, Big Ambitions, The Invisible Hand.
Who developed Keeping Up?
Keeping Up was developed by Nice Try Studios.

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 Keeping Up.

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