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Games like CEO.exe

If CEO.exe is your kind of game, the closest matches are Garbage Growth, Miseria and Pocket Boss — 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 CEO.exe: An idle game about becoming CEO, played entirely on a simulated 1990s office PC. File paperwork by hand, automate it away, hire the staff who replace you — then scheme your way through the boardroom. Every mechanic is a program on the desktop.

IndieSimulationCasualWindowsby Förstly
CEO.exe — Steam game cover

Players who liked CEO.exe also play

Steam players who put hours into CEO.exe 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. Garbage Growth

    WHY THIS

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

    Garbage Growth is a short incremental trash game about collecting people's trash, bananas and even babies, to make money and pollute the world even more. Hire rats, grow your pollution, and make everything worse!

    2026IndieSimulationCasual4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Miseria

    WHY THIS

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

    Miseria is a dark fantasy idle incremental game in which you lead a party of damned souls through the depths of the world.

    2026IndieSimulationRPG7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Pocket Boss

    WHY THIS

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

    Who says that work and play don’t mix? Not us! Play Pocket Boss, the game where you handle lots of fun data and one not-so-fun boss.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Not Monday Cafe

    WHY THIS

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

    Cozy idle cafe management that keeps you company while you work. Grow fresh ingredients, cook, and serve delicious food to adorable animal customers. Build your dream cafe that sits at the bottom of your screen.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual8.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Gamblers Table

    WHY THIS

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

    Gamblers Table is an incremental game where you toss coins to earn money. Buy bigger and better coins, unlock upgrades and hire little helpers to automate the process and take care of all the busy flipping work for you. Simple. Satisfying. Strangely compelling...

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Magic Research 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for CEO.exe fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with CEO.exe.

    Welcome to Magic Research 2, an incremental RPG from the creator of Magic Research. Learn countless spells, face powerful foes, and command a team of Wizards who can cast spells for you as you journey to find or create the Philosopher's Stone.

    2024IndieSimulationRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Idlequarium

    WHY THIS

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

    Idlequarium is a casual simulation game where you raise adorable little fish to earn coins, purchase decorations, and build a fully customized aquarium.The game sits anywhere on your desktop, letting you interact with your live aquarium during work or study breaks.

    2025IndieSimulationCasual1.79 USDSteam ↗
  8. Black Hole Fishing

    WHY THIS

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

    Black Hole Fishing is an absurd incremental game about catching, breeding, and perfecting SO MANY fish. Catch a fish, optimize its traits, then stock your pond with it as you pour fish and science into an endless singularity!

    2026IndieSimulationCasual5.99 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. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

    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 CEO.exe.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CEO.exe.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Our Life: Beginnings & Always

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with CEO.exe.

    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 CEO.exe.

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about CEO.exe

What games are most similar to CEO.exe?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside CEO.exe are Garbage Growth, Miseria, Pocket Boss.
Who developed CEO.exe?
CEO.exe was developed by Förstly.

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 CEO.exe.

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