207 games like Escape the Grind

Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and adapting to your playst...

Two small classics from Clarus Victoria published in 2013, Stone Age and Bronze Age, are now available on Steam! Manage an ancient tribe in the African Savannah, build the first city in the Fertile Crescent, guide your people across prehistory and lead them to...

Real-Time Strategy/Wargame. From World War II through the Cold War and into the future, re-live or re-imagine the tensions and crises of our recent history! Guide your nation through the era of your choice in Campaigns, Scenarios, and Sandboxes, as you make ev...

Life is Feudal: Forest Village is RTS city builder game with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additiona...

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!

Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

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!

Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome th...

Project Aura is a simulation/strategy videogame where you take control of a colony of climate disaster survivors. In the near future, humans will face the drastic consequences of climate change. Forced to take refuge in vital reserves using cryo-preservation,...

Bomb Farm is a free-to-play idle RPG in which a squadron of bombers gathers resources on its own. Players destroy rocks to collect materials and hunt for rare items, forge and upgrade equipment from +0 to +15, and develop their characters through a large skill...

Travel across Italy, collect artifacts, and uncover the truth about the origins of Roman mythology through ancient temples and ruins.

Waking up from a shipwreck, you find yourself trapped inside a drifting container, lost somewhere in the open ocean. By day, scavenge for supplies among the wreckage and fish to survive. When night falls, stay hidden—because something is lurking beneath the wa...

Ancient Cities is a Survival and Strategy City Builder PC game through the ages, strongly focused on history and realism. Currently being developed by Uncasual Games. Starting in the Neolithic era, you will have to guide your people through generations, disco...

Run your own tattoo shop and actually do the tattooing. Dial in voltage and needle depth, line it, shade it, wipe the blood — and keep the customer from walking out. Too shallow and the ink won't hold. Too deep and you'll hear about it.

A cozy vineyard idler with no clicking and no game-over. Hover to water your vines, then turn grapes into wine, raisins, vinegar and pekmez across your own little estate and sell them at your shop. 14 grapes, gentle automation, and a vineyard that works while...

A claustrophobic click-based survival game where every spin, card, and choice could be your last. Earn oxygen by gambling your fate through charms, curses, and rising debt before the air runs out.

In a city where death lingers in the air, you are the last one who can resist it. Put on the plague doctor's mask and fight the plague before it reaches you.

Driven by boundless creativity, this is an idle game where every visual element—from the storefront to the battlefield—is yours to design. Paired with a deep strategic core that spawns endless idle and combat builds, T-Shirt Kingdom places the art of creation...

Police Officer is a first-person police station simulator where you manage a police station: process suspects, hear citizens' pleas, and manage the daily chaos of law enforcement—one decision at a time.

Drive a storm-ridden night train, manage your speed and your passengers — one of them is a mimic. Build powerful upgrades between stations, reach dangerous quotas, expose the monster, or profit from chaos in this roguelite paranoia simulator.