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Games like Market Panic

If Market Panic is your kind of game, the closest matches are MarginCall, CAPITALIUM and Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon — 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 Market Panic: Market Panic is a turn-based portfolio roguelite about surviving economic chaos. Build a fund across public markets, private equity and crypto, and read the companies inside it. Answer to clients who can leave, rivals who want them, and a committee that comes looking for you.

2026IndieSimulationWindowsby Pixiliated
Market Panic — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Market Panic 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. MarginCall

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Market Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Market Panic.

    MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. CAPITALIUM

    WHY THIS

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

    CAPITALIUM is a turn-based economic sim set during the Industrial Revolution. Build factories, trade across cities, negotiate with rivals and politicians, and grow through loans, investment, and acquisitions. Later, secure a royal charter, extend the railway, and build and name your own town.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Market Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Market Panic.

    Shape the Galactic Arms Race. As CEO of a private space arms company, design modular ships, research breakthrough tech, and win faction tenders. Outmaneuver rivals in prototype races and make critical choices that make every playthrough unique, from a startup to galactic dominance.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. GG Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Market Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Market Panic.

    Start with $2,000 and one lifetime. Get rich, go broke, build businesses, buy property, raise a family and leave the consequences to your children. When you die, your heir takes over. Build a dynasty that lasts for generations, or ruin one spectacularly.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation12.74 USDSteam ↗
  5. Blueprint: EV

    WHY THIS

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

    Blueprint: EV is a single- and multiplayer strategy game about founding an electric vehicle company and running it through six fiscal years. Make three founding decisions, then guide pricing, production, R&D, and finance across 24 quarters of real P&L against three rival companies.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation7.19 USDSteam ↗
  6. Auction Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Market Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Market Panic.

    Build an auction career where every bid is a tell. Buy, research and sell valuable objects, read rivals in poker-inspired psychological auctions, build collections, run your own auction house, or become a dealer in the dark market. Every bid is information. Every object could be an opportunity.

    2027StrategySimulationSteam ↗
  7. Seed Money

    WHY THIS

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

    ₩1,000,000 — about $700 — and no safety net. A real-time stock-trading sim where judgment is your only weapon: read the news, read the charts, time every trade. Climb from a windowless room to a private island, Bronze to Legend. Fall to the bottom, and the Hangang is waiting.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  8. RUG THEM ALL

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Market Panic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Market Panic.

    A satirical political sim where you start as president with $1,000,000 and one term to become a billionaire. Move markets with a single post, front-run the crash, rug your own memecoin, and bet on disasters you cause - while the auditors build a file on you.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗

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 Market Panic.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  3. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  4. Steam Engine Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Market Panic.

    The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.

    2023SimulationFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  6. Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel

    WHY THIS

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

    The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...

    2017IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. No Results Found

    WHY THIS

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

    Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationFreeSteam ↗
  8. Saihate Station

    WHY THIS

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

    An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.

    2025IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Market Panic

What games are most similar to Market Panic?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Market Panic are MarginCall, CAPITALIUM, Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon.
Who developed Market Panic?
Market Panic was developed by Pixiliated.

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 Market Panic.

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