Games like Business Magnate
If Business Magnate is your kind of game, the closest matches are Startup Company, Another Brick in The Mall and Smart City Plan — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and immersive. 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 Business Magnate: Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
Players who liked Business Magnate also play
Steam players who put hours into Business Magnate 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.
Startup Company
WHY THIS
Shares market competition and a challenging mood with Business Magnate.
Top pick for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Another Brick in The Mall
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Business Magnate.
Second-strongest match for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
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!
Smart City Plan
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
Hotel Magnate
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Business Magnate.
Ranked #4 for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
MachiaVillain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Business Magnate.
Ranked #6 for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Machiavillain is an evil mansion management and strategy game, inspired by Dungeon Keeper, Prison Architect and all the horror movie clichés! Build your own manor, raise your monsters, set up your traps, and exterminate your victims. But to gain reputation you'll have to slay by the horror movie rules!
Railroad Tycoon 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Business Magnate.
Ranked #7 for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Business Magnate.
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Business Magnate.
Ranked #8 for Business Magnate fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Business Magnate at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Business Magnate.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Business Magnate.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
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.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Business Magnate.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Business Magnate on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
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!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
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 with Business Magnate.
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!
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More from Ambiera
Other recommendable Steam games by Ambiera, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Government Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Business Magnate.
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Business Magnate. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Government Simulator is a is a simple economic and political simulation game based on real-world data. Take control of a whole country, like the USA, Germany, France, Russia, or Austria. Change laws, taxes and budgets based on real world statistics and data, and see what happens.
PostCollapse
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Business Magnate.
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Business Magnate. Shares Simulation with Business Magnate.
PostCollapse is a survival simulation game set after the collapse of civilization. Gather items from the ruins, construct tools, grow your own food, go fishing and hunting. Single player only. No Zombies.
Smart City Plan
WHY THIS
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Business Magnate. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
Cargo Company
WHY THIS
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Business Magnate. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Business Magnate.
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
Frequently asked about Business Magnate
- How much does Business Magnate cost?
- Business Magnate is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Business Magnate?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Business Magnate are Startup Company, Another Brick in The Mall, Smart City Plan.
- Who developed Business Magnate?
- Business Magnate was developed by Ambiera.
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