Games like Shopping Tycoon
If Shopping Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hotel Giant 2, Two Point Campus and Two Point Museum — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and lighthearted. 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 Shopping Tycoon: Shopping Tycoon is a game in which your main objective is to design, build and manage a big shopping mall. Become a successful entrepreneur by satisfying your customers’ needs as you have fun constructing your own business.

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Steam players who put hours into Shopping Tycoon 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.
Hotel Giant 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Following its international success, Hotel Giant is back and bigger than ever. In Hotel Giant 2 you will create the hotel of your dreams and manage prestigious locations around the world. Your goal is to attract as many guests as possible and make sure they are satisfied throughout their stay.
Two Point Campus
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Second-strongest match for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Two Point Museum
WHY THIS
Shares staff management and a cozy mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Third-strongest match for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Ranked #5 for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Planet Coaster
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Ranked #7 for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Project Highrise
WHY THIS
Shares progression system and a cozy mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Ranked #8 for Shopping Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
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Project Highrise
WHY THIS
Shares progression system and a cozy mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Shopping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Moon Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Shopping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
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?
Another Brick in The Mall
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Shopping Tycoon.
Reviewers of Shopping Tycoon cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shopping Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shopping 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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping 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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Shopping 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 ~70% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
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 ~50% under Shopping Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shopping 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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping 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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shopping Tycoon.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Shopping Tycoon.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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More from DreamsSoftGames
Other recommendable Steam games by DreamsSoftGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Breakout Invaders
WHY THIS
Another title from DreamsSoftGames, the studio behind Shopping Tycoon. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
"Breakout Invaders" is a fun fusion between two classic game genres: "Breakout" and "Space Invaders".
Tompi Jones
WHY THIS
Another title from DreamsSoftGames, the studio behind Shopping Tycoon. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
Tompi Jones is a fun platform game in 2.5d inspired in classic platform games. You can play across six worlds between jungles, forests, medieval villages, Aztec pyramids, castles and cemeteries. You must avoid the traps and defeat your enemies with projectile weapons, fighting with the sword or with special items.
Arkhelom 3D
WHY THIS
Another title from DreamsSoftGames, the studio behind Shopping Tycoon. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
"Arkhelom 3D" is a shoot-em'up inspired by classics of the genre. It combines horizontal, vertical and side-scrolling levels, + 70 enemies types and final bosses across 24 amazing levels.
Match 3 Revolution
WHY THIS
Another title from DreamsSoftGames, the studio behind Shopping Tycoon. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
"Match 3 Revolution” is an original physics match3/marble game with 100 game levels. Create sets of at least 3 touching balls of the same color. Original game modes, supercharge with combos, a lot of power-ups (electroball, fireball, megabomb, fusionball, missiles,…) and a Top 50 Online World Ranking in every level.
Piggy Princess
WHY THIS
Another title from DreamsSoftGames, the studio behind Shopping Tycoon. Shares Indie and Casual with Shopping Tycoon.
Help Piggy Princess escape from prison! Use physics, water and objects to solve puzzles. Launch Piggy Princess like in Angry Birds games.+ 50 amazing levels. Beautiful graphics.
Frequently asked about Shopping Tycoon
- How much does Shopping Tycoon cost?
- Shopping Tycoon is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shopping Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shopping Tycoon are Hotel Giant 2, Two Point Campus, Two Point Museum.
- Who developed Shopping Tycoon?
- Shopping Tycoon was developed by DreamsSoftGames.
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