Games like Another Brick in The Mall
If Another Brick in The Mall is your kind of game, the closest matches are Academia : School Simulator, Prison Architect and SimAirport — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional and immersive. 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 →Another Brick in The Mall is a strategy simulation where players design and manage their own shopping center. Released in 2020 by The Quadsphere, the game involves construction planning, analyzing customer flow, managing resources, optimizing staff, and customizing mall themes. Players build shops, supermarkets, restaurants, and entertainment venues, balancing day-to-day operations with long-term growth. Reviewers describe the experience as immersive and relaxing, while players highlight the creative freedom to build unique malls and the importance of tactical positioning for success. The game holds an 81% positive rating from 1,227 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Priced at $8.49, it appeals to fans of management and city-building simulations who enjoy a methodical, hands-on approach to running a complex retail environment.
About Another Brick in The Mall: Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
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Academia : School Simulator
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Top pick for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Another Brick in The Mall.
Second-strongest match for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
SimAirport
WHY THIS
Shares construction planning, resource management and a relaxing mood with Another Brick in The Mall.
Third-strongest match for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Shares resource management with Another Brick in The Mall.
Ranked #4 for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
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Ranked #5 for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.
MachiaVillain
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Shares resource management with Another Brick in The Mall.
Ranked #6 for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Project Highrise
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Ranked #7 for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Against the Storm
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Shares resource management with Another Brick in The Mall.
Ranked #8 for Another Brick in The Mall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Another Brick in The Mall.
Reviewers of Another Brick in The Mall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Moon Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Another Brick in The Mall.
Reviewers of Another Brick in The Mall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
This is the original Moon Tycoon city-building game back from 2001! Remember building vast lunar colonies, then destroying them with meteors and asteroids? Blast off again with the first 3D Sim game, back to the old days on the dark side of the moon. Feeling nostalgic?
Supermarket Simulator
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Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Another Brick in The Mall.
Reviewers of Another Brick in The Mall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.
Run your own supermarket! Stock shelves, set your prices, take payments, hire staff, expand your store, handle shoplifters, and design your layout. Purchase goods from online or local markets around town, and personally deliver online orders to your customers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Another Brick in The Mall at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~41% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.
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.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~41% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~41% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~41% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~88% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~41% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Another Brick in The Mall.
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 ~65% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~41% under Another Brick in The Mall on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
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 Another Brick in The Mall.
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 Another Brick in The Mall.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
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.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Another Brick in The Mall.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Another Brick in The Mall.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Another Brick in The Mall
- Does Another Brick in The Mall run on Steam Deck?
- Another Brick in The Mall is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Another Brick in The Mall cost?
- Another Brick in The Mall is listed on Steam at 8.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Another Brick in The Mall?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Another Brick in The Mall are Academia : School Simulator, Prison Architect, SimAirport.
- Who developed Another Brick in The Mall?
- Another Brick in The Mall was developed by The Quadsphere.
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