Who’s ready for a trip to a museum? No one? Okay, how about your own museum published bySega? For those not in the know, Two Point Museum is part of an ongoing series of business simulator games by Two Point Studios. In their latest release, you curate and manage a museum with artifacts you collect from expeditions worldwide.
Review: Two Point Museum
Two Point Museum brings British humor in spades, but hits a few stumbling blocks along the way.
Building shops, setting up attractions, entertaining guests, and earning cash. If that’s your cup of tea, you’ll have plenty of fun with Two Point Museum. Of course, assuming you’re eager for more after you’ve finished the game, there’s nothing to fret over. These games have a bit of everything and more for fans of management sims.
10Jurassic World Evolution 2
Gaming Finds A Way
Jurassic World Evolution 2
If you love Jurassic Park and sim games, you’ve probably dreamed of building your own dinosaur theme park — just without the part where the dinosaurs break out and go on a killing spree.Jurassic World Evolution 2makes that dream a reality. Set up fences and security to keep your guests safe, build attractions for entertainment, and most importantly, fill your park with herbivores and carnivores from a selection of over 75 creatures.
As for where they go, that’s up to you. Build habitats for specific races or mesh them together and watch what happens. Every dinosaur has its own quirks and behaviors. Some will be complacent, some will be treacherous, and some will be clever girls.
9Surviving Mars
Colonize The Red Planet
Surviving Mars
Published byParadox Interactive, Surviving Mars takes players into space with one goal: colonizing Mars. This sci-fi building sim puts you in command. Starting with a selection of trained professionals and materials, you land on the red planet, using the surrounding resources to create a safe and supportable colony.
The more it grows, the more popular it gets, and the more popular it gets, the more volunteers you’ll receive. As for what becomes of it, that’s your decision. You can make the colony more livable and cozier for your citizens. Or focus on making it a landmark of science and discovery. There are hours of content and scenarios in this addictive simulator. Just don’t run out of oxygen.
8Frostpunk
Pack A Winter Coat
If you’re looking for a sim with a bit more tension, strategy, and challenge, thenFrostpunkis for you. Set in a world that’s been destroyed by the Frost, you settle in a remote canyon with a handful of survivors. With only a massive generator keeping your people alive, search for coal, trees, scrap metal, whatever your citizens can get their hands on in order to keep the heat on and construct a new settlement.
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From the start, Frostpunk will have your attention. Be prepared to lose track of time, because this is one of those games where an hour will fly by, and you won’t even notice. It won’t always be construction and scavenging, however. As your city develops, so will the demands of your growing populace. Difficult choices will have to be made, and as the leader, it falls on you to shape the new society.
7Hello Kitty Island Adventure
The New Animal Crossing?
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Love management sims but want one with a cutesier art style and a kid-friendly attitude? Well, here’s one that comes with a controversial statement. Hello Kitty Island Adventure might be just as good asAnimal Crossing. Even if you don’t know who Hello Kitty is, you’ve probably seen the iconic cat somewhere, be it on clothing or merchandise.
Playing as your customized animal avatar, you roam a massive island trying to restore it to its former glory. Along the way, you’ll be making friends, undertaking quests, crafting new items and furnishings to make the island feel more like home for you and everyone. Unlike Animal Crossing, HKIA is featured on other platforms like PC and PlayStation, not just the Switch. It’s also a rather lengthy game. A single playthrough can take around 20 hours, and that’s for a normal run. If you’re a player who goes for 100% completion, empty your schedule.
6Cities: Skylines
Create Your Own Metropolis
Cities: Skylines
It’s fun to play a sim with a sci-fi or fantasy spin, but for players looking for a city simulator that seems moredown-to-earth and livable, take a look atCities: Skylines. For those who grew up playing SimCity, this game takes it to an advanced level. You can’t just drop buildings into random spots, you actually have to think and plan the layout.
Water, pollution, and even traffic flow impact living conditions and citizens. You want to keep your people happy because it means more money and more visitors. The higher it rises, so will your city as you upgrade from small townhouses to full skyscrapers. In other words, you can’t just build a neighborhood or a school next to a landfill. You can if you want to, but that’d be cruel.
5RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Complete Edition
Classic Theme Park Sim
August 21, 2025
Frontier Developments
Atari-Interactive
Construction and Management Simulation
PC, Mac OS X, IOS, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 might be 20 years old, but who can say no to managing your very own theme park? Praisedas one of the best theme park simulators out there, the 2020 Complete Edition has everything you need for building a park: dozens of shops, hundreds of scenery pieces, and over300roller coasters and rides to make.
If that already wasn’t awesome enough, the Complete Edition also features two expansions, one that allows you to build a water park, and another for a theme park with zoos and safari rides. To summarize, RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 may look archaic compared to modern sims, but it’s loaded with enough content to keep players entertained for hours.
4Two Point Hospital
Clinic Simulator
Two Point Hospital
As the first game in the Two Point series,Two Point Hospitalputs you in charge of building and running a hospital. You are the administrator, so it’s up to you to hire staff, keep patients comfortable, cure their ailments, and expand your healthcare organization.
Morbid as running a clinic sounds, Two Point Hospital has a sense of humor. This isn’t a soap opera after all. Patients arrive with a variety of comical illnesses, like their skin turning grey, animals stuck to their bodies, or a terrible clown infection. Stop laughing. Medicine is no joke. Except for the bills they give you. Fortunately, there’s no video game about a depressing insurance simulator. Yet.
3Two Point Campus
School’s Back in Session
Two Point Campus
The Two Point series continues with Two Point Campus. Construct a school of your dreams in a management sim about education. Now players can live out their fantasy of running a campus with underpaid teachers that’ll leave students drowning in loan debt. Sorry, that got too real there.
Review: Two Point Campus
Two Point Campus is another winner from Two Point Studios and we can’t wait to see what profession they bring their unique simulator style to next.
Don’t worry, you don’t need a Harvard Degree as the game is super easy. Just build the campus that you want, hire the right number of teachers and staff, and then begin the first term. Not every session will be the same, however. Every new playthrough procedural generates a new personality for your students, and it’s your job to make sure they have everything they need to learn hard and play hard.
2Planet Zoo
One Wild Simulator
Planet Zoo
Considered the spiritual successor to the Zoo Tycoon series, Planet Zoo is one of the biggest sims for fans of theme park games. Here, players can create a zoo in their image and fill it with the animals of their choosing. Use a premade map or start from scratch and let your imagination run wild. Because in Planet Zoo, you’re not placing habitats taken from some checkbox—you’re designing the animal’s enclosure however you want.
Give your animals an environment they’re comfortable in so they can be happy and entertain your guests. Or you may just go nuts and place penguins in the desert while dropping a tiger in an arctic habitat. Planet Zoo has all the quirks of handling a zoo your way, minus the stress and smell.
1Stardew Valley
The Cozy Sim for Everyone
Stardew Valley
If you enjoy management sims but want something big with personality,Stardew Valleyhas everything in this RPG farming simulator. Consideredone of the most cozy games around, you inherit your grandfather’s farm in a place called Pelican Town. Starting a new life, your customizable character moves in.
Though managing your farm and making it profitable is an important part, the bulk of the game will be spent taking part in a community full of colorful townsfolk. You’re not selling your crops to mindless NPCs — every villager has a role, a story, and a personality as you come to know them. You can befriend them, enjoy activities with them, or even marry your favorite. In Stardew Valley, it’s not just a farming sim, it’s a whole adventure.
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