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01 Megaquarium Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Megaquarium

76%

A theme park management game with an aquatic twist. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

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Rusty's Retirement

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

02 Timberborn Cover

2026 · Mac, PC

Timberborn

75%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? Timberborn is a sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amoun...

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Rusty's Retirement

75% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

03 Captain of Industry Cover

2022 · PC

Captain of Industry

74%

Factory construction and management simulator. Alone with your loyal crew, expand a small colony of survivors into an industrial empire! From an abandoned island to vast factories, research labs, and space program. Build, mine, farm, shape terrain, explore and...

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Rusty's Retirement

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

04 Cartel Tycoon Cover

2022 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Cartel Tycoon

74%

Cartel Tycoon is a story-driven business sim inspired by the '80's narco trade. Expand and conquer, stave off rival cartels and authority attention, earn people's loyalty and try to overcome the doomed fate of a drug lord with too much power.

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Rusty's Retirement

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

05 Hotel Architect Cover

2026 · PC

Hotel Architect

73%

Step into the chaotic 24/7 lifestyle of a hotel owner as you design and build grand hotels across the globe. Juggle the increasingly elaborate demands of disorderly guests, logistical nightmares and unexpected obstacles in Hotel Architect, the ultimate hotel c...

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Rusty's Retirement

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

06 Dyson Sphere Program Cover
71%

As an engineer of Dyson Sphere Program, you will go to an alien galaxy building “Dyson Sphere”. Collecting resources, plan and designing production lines, gradually create a full automated factory. Develop your factory from a small workshop to a huge cross-gal...

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Rusty's Retirement

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

07 Starmancer Cover

2021 · Linux, Mac, PC

Starmancer

71%

Starmancer is a space station building game offering gameplay with consequences, a living sandbox environment, crafting, and managing the daily lives of colonists. Send crews out to mine on asteroids, trade with other factions, and explore old alien ruins. Obe...

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Rusty's Retirement

71% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

08 Screeps: World Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Screeps: World

67%

“Screeps” is a wordplay for “scripts” and “creeps.” It is an MMO RTS game for programmers in an open persistent shared world. Each player uses JavaScript (or compilers of other languages into JavaScript) to write AI of his or her colony of units (“creeps”) whi...

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Rusty's Retirement

67% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Sandboxels Cover

2021 · Mac, PC, browser

Sandboxels

61%

Sandboxels is an in-browser falling sand simulation game, with mechanics such as heat simulation, electricity, density, chemical reactions, fire, and over 500 unique elements to play with.

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61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
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No description available from IGDB

10 Stardew Valley Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

Stardew Valley

57%

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG! You’ve inherited your grandfather’s old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrow...

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Rusty's Retirement

57% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

11 My Time at Portia Cover

2019 · Android, Mac, Switch

My Time at Portia

55%

Start a new life in the enchanting town of Portia! Restore your Pa's neglected workshop to its former glory by fulfilling commissions, growing crops, raising animals, and befriending the quirky inhabitants of this charming post-apocalyptic land!

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Rusty's Retirement

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Cities: Skylines Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Cities: Skylines

54%

Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and utilities, and balanc...

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Rusty's Retirement

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

13 The Sims 3 Cover

2009 · Mac, PC

The Sims 3

54%

In The Sims 3, you can create Sims with unique personalities, fulfill their desires, and control their lives within a customizable living neighborhood. Unlock all-new Karma Powers and unleash them on your Sims: help your Sim get lucky with the power of "love c...

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Rusty's Retirement

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 The Sims 2 Cover

2004 · Mac, PC

The Sims 2

53%

In The Sims 2, your Sims will be more lifelike, more responsive, and more complex than ever before. You'll be able to control your Sims over their entire lifetimes, taking them from their first steps to their golden years. Guide them through "Life's Big Moment...

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Rusty's Retirement

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

15 Don't Starve Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Don't Starve

53%

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

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Rusty's Retirement

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

16 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

51%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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Rusty's Retirement

51% Mutiger Treffer
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✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 Frostpunk Cover

2018 · Mac, PC, PS4

Frostpunk

50%

Frostpunk, the newest title from the creators of This War of Mine, is a society survival game where heat means life and every decision comes at a price. In an entirely frozen world, people develop steam-powered technology to oppose the overwhelming cold. You f...

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Rusty's Retirement

50% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

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18 The Sims 4 Cover

2014 · Mac, PC, PS4

The Sims 4

48%

Unleash your imagination and create a unique world of Sims that's an expression of you! Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes, and much more with The Sims 4. Life, and Sims, are yours to control. Customize your unique Sims, design their homes &...

Your match for

Rusty's Retirement

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

19 The Sims Cover

2000 · Linux, Mac, PC

The Sims

48%

The Sims is a life-building simulation with emphasis on intimate details of individual characters rather than expansion of an entire society or civilization. You are in control of nearly every aspect of the lives of the individuals who make up your chosen popu...

Your match for

Rusty's Retirement

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Fantasy Theme ✓ Sandbox Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Open World World design
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

20 FTL: Faster Than Light Cover

2012 · Linux, Mac, PC

FTL: Faster Than Light

47%

FTL: Faster Than Light is a single-player strategy game with roguelike design. The player commands a spaceship from a top-down view, managing systems such as weapons, engines, shields, and life support while recruiting crew and upgrading the vessel. The ship t...

Your match for

Rusty's Retirement

47% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Simulator Genre ✓ Strategy Genre ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective
Trade-offs

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