Games like Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon
If Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crime Union, Your Legacy: Generations and Crave New World — 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 Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon: A deep Hollywood studio simulation, 1930 to the streaming age. A back lot, a million dollars and no pictures. Commission scripts, sign stars to seven-year contracts, book dates against rival studios, and survive television, home video and everything else that came for the movies.
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Crime Union
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Top pick for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Build your criminal empire from the shadows. Manage global networks, launder black money, hire specialists, and crush rival gangs in tactical card battles. In Crime Union, staying alive while the law watches your every move is just as hard as reaching the top. Don't get busted.
Your Legacy: Generations
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Build a life across generations in a life and economy simulator. Study, pursue a career, manage money, buy property, build businesses and navigate family choices—then choose an heir and pass on the wealth, traits and consequences of the life you created. This is your story.
Crave New World
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Crave New World is a strategy sim about building an addictive drink. Buy compounds, rebuild the formula, collect Thirst from demand, open routes country by country, and turn consumers into addicts before Heat brings the operation down.
Beat The Machine
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Ranked #4 for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Beat the Machine is a stock trading game, corporation simulator, and job/career simulator.
News Tower
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Ranked #5 for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
Worldwide Rush
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Ranked #6 for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~61% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~45% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~51% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~61% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~61% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~77% under Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
The Children of Clay
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Tukoni: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tukoni: Prologue is a point-and-click puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula. Play as Tukoni, the forest spirits, as you meet unique characters, solve captivating puzzles, craft new items, and explore a magical world filled with kindness.
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon
- How much does Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon cost?
- Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon is listed on Steam at 12.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon are Crime Union, Your Legacy: Generations, Crave New World.
- Who developed Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon?
- Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon was developed by Goodpunk Studios.
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