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Games like The Invisible Hand

If The Invisible Hand is your kind of game, the closest matches are Daily Bagholder: Stock Market Simulator, MarginCall and Game Dev Empire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, comedic and dark. 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 The Invisible Hand: Want to get rich, quick? Welcome to FERIOS, where you’ll be empowered to pursue wealth and success as a mid-level stockbroker! Your wildest dreams of wealth can come true… at the cost of everything else.

2021StrategyIndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 69Windowsby Power Struggle Games
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Blends satire with high stakes manipulationEthics are optional and consequences hollowLets players crash the economy for funAtmosphericComedicDark

Players who liked The Invisible Hand also play

Steam players who put hours into The Invisible Hand 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. Daily Bagholder: Stock Market Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Daily Bagholder is a satirical stock-market simulator about trading leveraged instruments, chasing gains, eating losses, and making increasingly questionable financial decisions in a fake procedurally generated market that is only slightly dumber than the real one.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  2. MarginCall

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    MarginCall is a market with no scripted prices. Hundreds of independent traders, each with its own money and mind, price a real order book inside a fully simulated economy. Build a fortune, control industries, raid rivals, or get margin called into ruin.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation11.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Game Dev Empire

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Start a game studio in 1980 and turn it into an industry empire. Build teams, create hits, follow a changing market with competitors, and expand into engines, publishing, hardware, digital stores, and acquisitions.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  4. BioBioBio: Creatures OS

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Splice genes into strange living creatures for a cheerfully evil biotech corp — inside a game that pretends to be your work computer. Raise them, breed them, put them to work, and hit quota before the Review Cycle ends. Your employer calls them Bioassets™.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. GOD CANDLE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    The market is the dungeon, and it's never the same twice. Choose a ticker each morning, then survive ten trading days: ride momentum, abuse leverage up to 10x, outtrade bosses like FOMC Day and the Flash Crash, and draft relics between bells. Print the God Candle — or get liquidated.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulation8.49 USDSteam ↗
  6. Dealer Principal: The Dealership Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Run a franchised car dealership from the inside. Buy and price inventory, desk deals, manage F&I, service, parts, staff, OEM relationships, cash flow, and customer satisfaction in a realistic first-person dealership management simulation.

    StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  7. Wild West Supermarket Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Invisible Hand.

    Ranked #7 for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Run a General Store in the Wild West. Customize and expand your shop. Make sure that your customers’ constantly changing needs are satisfied. Work every job yourself or let your employees stack the shelves and work the till. Find out what it feels like to own a Wild West Supermarket.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation12.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Toy Shop Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Invisible Hand fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Run your own toy store! Arrange shelves, set prices, process payments, and manage staff. Expand and design your shop, handle online orders, deliver with a scooter, trade rare toys, and ensure security. Create a magical shopping experience in Toy Shop Simulator!

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Invisible Hand at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Invisible Hand.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~42% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with The Invisible Hand.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. How to Fish

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with The Invisible Hand.

    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.

    2026ActionIndieSimulation4.95 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under The Invisible Hand on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Invisible Hand.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Invisible Hand.

    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 ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  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 The Invisible Hand.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Invisible Hand.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Invisible Hand.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. NGU IDLE

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Invisible Hand.

    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!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulationFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Invisible Hand

Does The Invisible Hand run on Steam Deck?
The Invisible Hand 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 The Invisible Hand cost?
The Invisible Hand is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Invisible Hand?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Invisible Hand are Daily Bagholder: Stock Market Simulator, MarginCall, Game Dev Empire.
Who developed The Invisible Hand?
The Invisible Hand was developed by Power Struggle Games and published by Fellow Traveller.

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 The Invisible Hand.

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