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Games like Restaurant Tycoon

If Restaurant Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kerbal Space Program, This War of Mine and Kenshi — 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.

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About Restaurant Tycoon: Restaurant Tycoon is a simulation of Restaurant games, where you can hire employees, build restaurant, add furniture, through their own ability to make the restaurant profitable, become the most popular restaurant.

2017IndieSimulation0.49 USDWindowsby Zkolibre Studio
Restaurant Tycoon — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Restaurant 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.

  1. Kerbal Space Program

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

    2015IndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. This War of Mine

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.

    2014IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Kenshi

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

    2018ActionStrategyIndie29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Wreckfest

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.

    2018ActionSportsIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Banished

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

    2014StrategyIndieSimulation19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Door Kickers

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Mini Metro

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Game Dev Tycoon

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Restaurant Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Restaurant Tycoon.

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    2013StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

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 Restaurant Tycoon.

    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. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Restaurant Tycoon.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Restaurant Tycoon.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Restaurant Tycoon

How much does Restaurant Tycoon cost?
Restaurant Tycoon is listed on Steam at 0.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Restaurant Tycoon?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Restaurant Tycoon are Kerbal Space Program, This War of Mine, Kenshi.
Who developed Restaurant Tycoon?
Restaurant Tycoon was developed by Zkolibre Studio and published by My Way Games.

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 Restaurant Tycoon.

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