Games like Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa
If Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa is your kind of game, the closest matches are Venture Arctic, Game Dev Tycoon and Plebby Quest: The Crusades — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic despite aged graphics, atmospheric and challenging. 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 Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa: From the back-catalog of Pocketwatch Games, 2005's Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa was the game that started this indie's journey. Expect the unexpected out of this unique Tycoon game -- There are no people to please, there is no money to horde, there are only animals.
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Venture Arctic
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
The second entry in the Pocketwatch Games back-catalog, Venture Arctic is an “Interactive Nature Documentary”. Caribou and Wolves roam the tundra while Polar Bears and Orcas patrol the icy seas. The player must harness the forces of sun, snow, and wind to create balance in these fragile ecosystems.
Game Dev Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Second-strongest match for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
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.
Plebby Quest: The Crusades
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Third-strongest match for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”
911 Operator
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Ranked #4 for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Game about the difficult work of people that manage emergency lines and services. Answer incoming calls and react properly - give first aid instructions, advise, dispatch correct number of firemen / police / ambulances, or sometimes - just ignore the call. Play on ANY CITY in the world!
Train Valley
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Ranked #5 for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
Fate of the World
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Ranked #6 for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who...
Restaurant Empire II
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Ranked #7 for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Restaurant Empire 2 is the most realistic and comprehensive restaurant business simulation available, featuring 4 cuisines, 600 recipes, 4 huge cities, 2 campaigns with a total of 34 missions, 1400 interior objects, and a mix of business strategy and role-playing gameplay such as cooking contests.
Super Duper Party Pooper
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Ranked #8 for Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Have you ever wanted to poop on party goers but were too socially awkward to just go for it? Well, Super Duper Party Pooper is about to change all that, the player will find themselves in the middle of a raw human story of existential panic.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
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!
Clicker Heroes
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Kingdom: Classic
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Mr.Mine
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Explore the depths of the earth and uncover hidden treasures in this addictive idle mining game. Unlock the power of your drill with hundreds of upgrades, discover mysterious relics, and unearth priceless gems. Can you master the mines and reveal their deepest secrets? Dive in and dig deep!
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Realm Grinder
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Grow your realm, build alliances, and explore one of the deepest idle RPGs ever!
Soda Dungeon 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Everyone’s favorite laid-back dungeon crawler returns in Soda Dungeon 2. Featuring a new adventure, a whole town to upgrade, crafting, new classes, alternate dimensions, and more! It’s everything you loved about the original plus all the stuff you’ve been asking for.
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More from Pocketwatch Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Pocketwatch Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Another title from Pocketwatch Games, the studio behind Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Tooth and Tail
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Another title from Pocketwatch Games, the studio behind Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!
Monaco 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Another title from Pocketwatch Games, the studio behind Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
Get your crew back together for the ultimate heist experience! Return to Monaco, plan your operation, and skedaddle when things inevitably go awry in this co-op heist game. The city is yours for the taking!
Venture Arctic
WHY THIS
Another title from Pocketwatch Games, the studio behind Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa. Shares Strategy and Indie with Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa.
The second entry in the Pocketwatch Games back-catalog, Venture Arctic is an “Interactive Nature Documentary”. Caribou and Wolves roam the tundra while Polar Bears and Orcas patrol the icy seas. The player must harness the forces of sun, snow, and wind to create balance in these fragile ecosystems.
Frequently asked about Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa
- How much does Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa cost?
- Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa are Venture Arctic, Game Dev Tycoon, Plebby Quest: The Crusades.
- Who developed Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa?
- Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa was developed by Pocketwatch Games.
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