Games like Serial Founder
If Serial Founder is your kind of game, the closest matches are The American Dream: Past Due, Mobsteria: Rise and 韭神：技能炒股 — 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 Serial Founder: You have an idea and no company. Ninety weeks later you have a company and no control. A startup life sim where investors are people, the term sheet is a document you can actually misread, and failure is the punchline. Roguelike runs, 30 minutes to 4 hours.
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The American Dream: Past Due
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Top pick for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Serial Founder.
The American Dream: Past Due is a realistic choice-driven sim. Play as a suddenly laid-off middle-aged man keeping up appearances. Balance family finances and emotions while facing mounting bills... Can you get your life back on track before your family falls apart?
Mobsteria: Rise
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Second-strongest match for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Start with empty pockets and a pickpocket's nerve. Build a criminal empire one racket at a time in this atmospheric pixel-art idle game. Train your skills, run your crew, manage the heat - and when the law closes in, burn it all down and rise again, stronger.
韭神：技能炒股
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Third-strongest match for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Buy the dip, it dives. Sell the peak, it soars. Tired of being the sucker? Welcome to Leek God: Skill-Based Stock Trading—where the system itself hands you the hacks! The system is literally cheating for you. How can you not win?
OIL.EXE
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Ranked #4 for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Drill the wells. Run the refinery. Read the market. OIL is a free text-based simulation of running a petroleum operation, played at a 1980s green-phosphor terminal. End each year richer or bankrupt. Mind the bear market. Climb the leaderboard.
Net Worthless
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Ranked #5 for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
A satirical life-and-money sim. One turn is one month: budget your hours, work the job, ride the market, outlive inflation and your own decisions. Pick a character and make their dream come true. Or at least don't die trying.
Arms Dealer
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Ranked #6 for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Serial Founder.
Build a black-market empire from debt to unimaginable wealth in this deep strategy trading simulation. Buy weapons, manage risk, evade authorities, and profit from global conflict.
A BILLION GOLD DEBT
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Ranked #7 for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
Grow your settlement, automate production, explore the surrounding lands, and trade with your neighbors to repay a debt of 1 BILLION gold!
Starship Contractor: Galactic Tycoon
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Ranked #8 for Serial Founder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Serial Founder.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serial Founder.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Serial Founder.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serial Founder.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Serial Founder.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Serial Founder.
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 with Serial Founder.
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.
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Frequently asked about Serial Founder
- What games are most similar to Serial Founder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Serial Founder are The American Dream: Past Due, Mobsteria: Rise, 韭神：技能炒股.
- Who developed Serial Founder?
- Serial Founder was developed by Ari Tuononen and published by Soaris Oy.
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