Games like Shady Contractor
If Shady Contractor is your kind of game, the closest matches are Parkitect, Hearth and Hamlet and SimCasino — 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 Shady Contractor: You're the least trustworthy contractor in town. Eyeball the blueprints, stack blocks, maximize your profits, and hope OSHA doesn't notice. A physics-based construction puzzler where "good enough" is a business strategy.
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Parkitect
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Top pick for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shady Contractor.
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
Hearth and Hamlet
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Second-strongest match for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shady Contractor.
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
SimCasino
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Third-strongest match for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shady Contractor.
Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!
Summer Islands
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Ranked #4 for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shady Contractor.
Summer Islands is a holiday real-time strategy business simulator. Be the right businessman, build your holiday paradise and grab the money from your tourists. Play alone, with your friends and with computer enemies and survive natural disasters without going insolvent.
Dwarf Eats Mountain
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Ranked #5 for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shady Contractor.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Train Valley 2
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Ranked #6 for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shady Contractor.
Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!
STARIO: Haven Tower
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Ranked #7 for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shady Contractor.
A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.
Restaurant Empire II
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Ranked #8 for Shady Contractor fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shady Contractor.
Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shady Contractor.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shady Contractor.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shady Contractor.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shady Contractor.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shady Contractor.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shady Contractor.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shady Contractor.
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Frequently asked about Shady Contractor
- What games are most similar to Shady Contractor?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shady Contractor are Parkitect, Hearth and Hamlet, SimCasino.
- Who developed Shady Contractor?
- Shady Contractor was developed by Highfivan.
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 Shady Contractor.
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