Games like Above the Fold
If Above the Fold is your kind of game, the closest matches are Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim, Silicon City and Electoral Empire: Vote to Rule, Lie to Shine — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Above the Fold: Strategy sim game where you build a newspaper! Hire reporters, assign them stories and create amazing front pages! Balance advertisers and politics as you grow the subscriber base. Win awards, complete goals and challenges, research new technology and choose your path as events unfold.
Players who liked Above the Fold also play
Steam players who put hours into Above the Fold 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.
Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim
WHY THIS
Top pick for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Fold.
You have a few dollars and a hunger for more. Navigate decades of economic booms, tech revolutions, and devastating crashes in this deep turn-based simulation. Will you build a legacy through meticulous analysis, or seize power through hostile takeovers and political shadow-play?
Silicon City
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Above the Fold.
Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.
Electoral Empire: Vote to Rule, Lie to Shine
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Fold.
President or Patriarch? In this deep simulation, national survival and family interests clash. Twist laws and deploy kin to seize control. Will you sacrifice the republic for your dynasty, or betray your blood for the state? Power isn't about saving the world; it's about deciding who owns it.
The First Chip
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Above the Fold.
Build an illegal gambling empire from scratch. Rig machines, outplay customers, and rise from a shady fair stand to a full-scale casino in this sandbox simulation.
Democracy 4
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Fold.
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Blêktre 2081
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Above the Fold.
Blêktre 2081 is a dystopian adventure set in a turbo-capitalist city where players mess with the economy, the rules, and each other.
Political Arena
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Fold.
POLITICAL ARENA is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim sandbox about American politics. Seek fame or infamy in a richly simulated political world, complete with high stakes legislative strategizing, backroom deals and the press. Customize and play as the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).
King of Retail 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Above the Fold fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Fold.
Build a retail empire across dozens of locations with hundreds of employees. Design every inch of your stores with a deep building tool, then fine-tune pricing, staffing, and product mix to stay profitable. Scale up, customize everything, and manage the details that make or break your bottom line.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Above the Fold at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Above the Fold.
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 ~64% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares RPG and Casual with Above the Fold.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Above the Fold.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Above the Fold.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Above the Fold.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Above the Fold.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Above the Fold.
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 ~64% under Above the Fold on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Above the Fold.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Above the Fold.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Above the Fold.
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?
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and Casual with Above the Fold.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Above the Fold.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Above the Fold.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Above the Fold.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and RPG with Above the Fold.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Above the Fold.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about Above the Fold
- How much does Above the Fold cost?
- Above the Fold is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Above the Fold?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Above the Fold are Exit Liquidity: Wall Street Trading Sim, Silicon City, Electoral Empire: Vote to Rule, Lie to Shine.
- Who developed Above the Fold?
- Above the Fold was developed by Rasmus Rasmussen.
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 Above the Fold.
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