Simulation Game

Pronoun Palace is a word-spelling roguelike from Cadence Petersen and Hazel Fackler, set in a dystopian future where the government has taken your pronouns. Players spell words with letter tiles to fight, use spells to manipulate their tiles, and take on enemies that each change the rules, in a satirical, darkly funny run-based game.

Crown Siege is a short incremental tower defense game from JOrbits Games where players spawn and strengthen troops, push through a node-based map, and spend earned resources on permanent upgrades to defend their kingdom against endless waves of enemies. With over 100 upgrades, expanded troops and bosses, a roguelike mode, and 42 Steam Achievements, it blends auto-battling combat with meaningful long-term strategy.

Prickle is a wholesome, grid-based puzzle game from Sunbird Studio where players guide father hedgehog DadHog to collect scattered hoglets, which stick together to form a growing shape called a Prickle. Inspired by classic Sokoban mechanics, it spans 48 levels across 4 seasons, each with its own unique challenges, wrapped in a charming, minimalist art style.

Gargadusa's Tower is a guild-management RPG from The Math Team where players recruit and train adventurers across 41 classes, build guild facilities, and send parties into a permadeath 100-floor tower. Its living world features 30 rival guilds, dynamic events like the Goblin Siege, a Crown Cup competitive league, and generational guild progression, available on Mac via Steam and itch.io.

Piece by Piece is a literal jigsaw puzzle-platformer from Neon Polygons featuring 100 handcrafted levels across 12 distinct puzzle boxes, where players connect and disconnect puzzle pieces to reshape level geometry and progress. It includes hybrid puzzle mechanics, collectible gold pieces, and a cozy art style with an ethereal soundtrack, available on Mac via Steam.

Ark Nova is a digital adaptation of the award-winning tabletop strategy board game by Mathias Wigge, developed by Dire Wolf Digital, where players design a modern zoo using 255 unique cards and a five-action-card system. With full tabletop map support, solo, online, and pass-and-play modes, 24 achievements, and 13 strategic challenges, it faithfully brings the acclaimed board game to Mac and other platforms.

Horse Racing Manager is an Early Access management simulation from Sheep Meadow Road Games where players breed, train, and race horses while managing stable finances and staff. With a genetics-inspired Pseudo-DNA breeding system, realistically generated tracks and racecourses, and both stable-owner and jockey playstyles, it's built to be one of the most realistic horse racing management sims available.

HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator is a hacking simulation game from HotBunny featuring realistic recreations of cybersecurity tools like nslookup, nmap, and hydra, a choice-responsive storyline, and tool customization and progression. Version 1.3.1 adds Firebear incognito browsing, Workshop mod permission transparency, and improved VPN/gateway feedback, alongside major multiplayer and save-related bug fixes.

Pawker is a cat-themed deckbuilding roguelike from Oh Baby Games featuring 169 cards, three playable characters (Cat-at-arms, Sneakitty, Magicat), card enhancements like fur cards and seals, a Dungeon Mode with Shadow cat encounters, multiplayer PVP with Joker bidding, and a co-op mode with leaderboards.

Sonic Mania Plus is SEGA's expanded edition of Sonic Mania, adding Encore Mode — a new story campaign featuring playable newcomers Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel — alongside reworked zone layouts and a 4-player competition mode. It preserves the original game's 60 FPS HD retro-style 2D platforming.

Turing Complete is a computer architecture simulation game from LevelHead that teaches hardware and assembly concepts by having players build computers from NAND gates up to full custom CPU architectures. With 70+ levels, a powerful in-game simulator, custom assembly language creation, and advanced I/O component support.

Memory of Memorie: A Chill Story is a story-driven productivity adventure from BeXide Inc. where players work alongside Memorie, an apprentice witch, using a built-in Pomodoro focus timer that directly unlocks new story chapters as sessions are completed. Set in a cozy, Celtic-scored room that visually evolves over time, it blends genuine productivity with a gentle, unfolding narrative.

Cross The World is an Early Access party-based roguelike RPG from Redbeehive Games set in a massive, non-procedural persistent fantasy world of over 400 million tiles. Players explore, gather, craft, and fight as a party of up to 4 characters across 28 classes and 5 races, choosing between three difficulty modes and supporting cooperative multiplayer for up to 8 players.

Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game from solo developer MarpleGames where players actively conjure resources, cast configurable spells, and unlock synergistic magic, artifact, and alchemy systems to become an all-powerful wizard. With Mac support built in from its 1.0 launch, 48 Steam Achievements, and a deep, gradually unfolding optimization puzzle, it rewards patient experimentation over passive idling.

Ourlands is a cozy island-building game from GrahamOfLegend with no goals, management systems, or objectives — just free-form creativity across dozens of unlockable building items. It includes a Postcard mode for capturing and sharing finished islands, runs on the Godot 4.6+ engine, and supports 4K/ultrawide resolutions on Mac and Windows.

Tower Lab is an Early Access physics-sandbox tower defense game from Play Tug Studio where enemies have no health bars — instead, players push, pull, and launch robots off the map using chainable, physics-driven towers. With Endless, Arcade TD, Puzzle, and Workshop-enabled Sandbox modes, plus a roguelite deckbuilding campaign across 3 regions, it offers a distinctive twist on the tower defense genre.

Between Adventures IDLE is an Early Access idle RPG strategy game from Loop Forge where players gather resources, craft gear across a 5-Tier Item System, and battle enemies in fully visualized pixel-art combat. With offline progression, a vendor-based trading economy, and a firm no-microtransactions, no-P2W philosophy, it's built as a one-time purchase for players who want satisfying RPG progression on their own schedule.

Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle and adventure game from Bad Viking in which players run a mysterious plant shop in the town of Undermere, identifying strange plants using an in-game guidebook to help townsfolk and uncover a deepening supernatural mystery.

Allumeria is a voxel sandbox adventure game in Early Access from Infinimelon, combining creative building tools, biome-based story progression, boss dungeons, and a trinket-driven movement system. Version 0.15.5 falls within the game's post-Early-Access-launch 0.15.x patch line, though the game is currently Windows-only with no official macOS support.

Stackflow is a strategic roguelike puzzle game from Caue Ferrareto in which players fit unique blocks together to hit escalating score targets, drafting game-breaking perks and special blocks like Obsidian and Stone along the way. Version 1.2.0 adds a new Cloudy deck, three T-Spin perks, a High Roller buff, a Last Breath rework, controller fixes, and early modding groundwork.

Microlandia is a city-building simulation from Information Superhighway Games that combines a cute, classic voxel look with a deep, real-world-inspired socioeconomic simulation. Every resident is modeled individually — holding jobs, paying rent, and facing genuine consequences from the player's tax, housing, and infrastructure decisions — making it a self-described "brutally honest" alternative to more forgiving city builders.

Mini Murder Mysteries is a cozy investigative deduction game from BUNKWORKS featuring nine standalone whodunit cases solved using a clever 24-word Deduction Word system. Version 1.1 adds improved music/SFX controls, resolution options, and a helpful case-progress hint button, and the game is available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and iOS with Steam Deck support.

Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War is a global real-time political strategy game from Nostalgames where players take command of the USSR during its final decade, managing the economy, domestic policy, and foreign relations. With dozens of nonlinear endings shaped by historical and alternate-history events, players can steer the Soviet Union toward reform, revolution, collapse, or an entirely new path of their own making.

Worming from Home is a ragdoll-physics job simulator from Zach Northrop and Mason Sabharwal where players control a boneless worm working as a junior financial analyst, answering messages, gaming the stock market, and climbing the corporate ladder. Featuring satirical humor, upgrades, hats, and off-hours activities like the gym and self-help reading, the game launched September 4, 2026.

Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升 is a grand strategy sandbox from Maestro Cinetik set in China's 1920s Warlord Era, letting players lead factions ranging from communist insurgents and warlords to secret societies and Shanghai gangsters. Combining 4X, political simulation, diplomacy, and story-rich conspiracy elements, the game has earned a "Very Positive" Steam reception and continues receiving updates and DLC years after its 2023 release.

Zad Archery is an incremental archery RPG from Samharia Studios where players shoot down waves of target-like monsters, collect unique loot, and grow stronger through a massive skill tree, five unlockable Archer jobs, and deep crafting and mining systems. With offline progress, cloud saves, and frequent post-launch updates, it offers a focused, steadily rewarding progression loop.

Security 51 is an atmospheric horror security guard simulator from Alawar, inspired by Papers, Please and SCP-style paranoia, where players inspect documents, verify clearances, and decide who enters or leaves a classified Area 51 elevator shaft. With escalating verification tools, evolving daily protocols, multiple endings, and a randomized Endless Mode, every decision carries consequences that ripple beyond the checkpoint.

Sandustry is an Early Access factory automation game from Lantto Games and Canvas Legacy where every pixel — sand, ice, snow, seeds — is a physically simulated resource to mine, mix, and process. Players build automated production chains across a fully destructible, procedurally generated planet while searching for artifacts left behind by an ancient civilization, with dedicated modding support built in.

Blood Dungeon is a fast 2D action roguelite where you run, jump and climb through dungeons while your weapons fire automatically at hordes of monsters. It’s for players who like Vampire Survivors-style chaos but want real platforming skill to matter.

Void Pachinko is an incremental game from Void Shaft Games that reimagines pachinko with a circular twist, tasking players with building their own board, upgrading balls and pins, and unlocking a vast skill tree to rebuild a shattered village.

ludgineers is a cozy, active incremental game from Snickerdoodle Games and Funk Games where players clean, mine, and refine pollution into profit while cruising the countryside, building a refinery, and completing quests. Version 1.00.02 improves drone and refining performance and adds a workaround for a Level 1 freeze error.

Palm Sugar: A Village Story is a pixel-art action-RPG from Mono Tusk Studios set in the fictional South Indian village of Bellampakam, where hero Seenu fights a brutal drug cartel using rural weapons like sticks, axes, and slingshots. Featuring Telugu and English localization, dialogue-rich character encounters, and Metroidvania-style exploration

The Sorting Bureau is a cozy, zero-pressure sorting puzzle game from Apelsinka Games, set in a quiet Tokyo workshop where players sort hundreds of tactile items — buttons, coins, gears, and stamps — for a cast of charming clients. Featuring ASMR-focused sound design, no timers or penalties.

Ultrapool is a colorful roguelike pool game from Icedrop Games and offbrand games, blending approachable billiards mechanics with Balatro/Super Auto Pets-style buildcrafting via 150+ wacky balls and a cocktail bar fusion system. Available on Steam, iOS, and Android since its August 2026 launch.

Pight is a minimalist, tutorial-free puzzle game from Mindlabor inspired by Minecraft's redstone system, tasking players with getting a light block onto a power source using pistons, sticky blocks, portals, and dynamite. New mechanics are introduced roughly every ten levels.

Project P.I.T.T. is a first-person physics sandbox and incremental game from developer Froke, published by Pretty Soon, where players build increasingly absurd production lines to feed rubber ducks and stranger products to a growing corporate void called the Maw. Featuring magnets, fans, pistons, and launchers for building chaotic contraptions, brutalist PSX-style visuals, and an escalating narrative mystery, the game blends dark comedy with genuine automation depth.

The Silver Crow is a point-and-click mystery adventure from solo developer Dreamagination, casting players as Conrad, a Renaissance-era town executioner investigating a murder steeped in occult symbolism and witchcraft accusations. Featuring more than 50 handcrafted locations, 30+ animated characters, and atmospheric retro pixel art, the game blends classic adventure puzzle-solving with a dark, socially layered mystery.

Blackwell Deception is the fourth entry in Wadjet Eye Games' acclaimed Blackwell series, a noir point-and-click adventure following medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit-guide Joey Mallone as they investigate deaths linked to fraudulent street psychics.

Leafy Corner is a relaxing plant shop management sim from Fireline Games. Grow, water, and sell over 100 real houseplant species. Match customer requests using an in-game Compendium. Decorate your shop with unlockable furniture and decor. Difficulty can be changed and there are 26 Steam Achievements and Trading Cards. Version 1.0.2 is indicative of the game’s active early post launch update cycle.

The Colonists is a relaxing colony-building sim from Codebyfire (published by Mode 7) where players guide self-replicating robots building a new settlement across a distant planet. It features dual peaceful/military campaign tracks, random maps, sandbox mode, online co-op and PvP, and an extensive map editor with Steam Workshop and mod support, all maintained through years of frequent updates including monthly Frontier challenges.

Thrifty Business is a laid-back, cosy management sim from Spellgarden Games where players run a 90s-inspired vintage thrift shop, sorting through boxes of secondhand treasures and organising them into curated displays. With 500+ items, deep store customisation, and a recurring cast of regulars with personal requests, the shop becomes a genuine community hub, free of pricing, haggling, or time-pressure stress.

Ballatory is a short incremental idler from Mini Fun Games where players buy, upgrade and paint a swarm of bouncing balls that smash into cores to make money. Long term progression is added with a prestige system with Multipliers, Exponents and over 70 unique skills. Boss fights and a design meant to be fully completed instead of played forever.

In Bang Bang Barrage, a co-op survival shooter from developer Monkey Bread, players will use a unique recoil mechanic to traverse dangerous waters and fend off the minions of Cthulhu. Play solo or with up to 3 friends via online or local co-op, combine weapon upgrades and traits in endlessly replayable runs, backed by 41 Steam Achievements and Leaderboards.

Under Par Golf Architect is a golf course design and management simulation from Broken Arms Games. Players terraform land into custom courses, manage staff and amenities and grow a club’s prestige through tournaments and VIP members. Version 1.1.6 brings a new fence collidable system, some career-flow improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes.

Slot Grind is an incremental slot machine game by OneMoreSystem, where players spin, earn, upgrade, and automate an ever-growing set of slot machines. You progress through a skill tree of new machines and perks and a debt payoff goal drives the long term loop.

Powerplay is a real-time strategy game where you build an industrial base, move raw materials on conveyor belts, and turn them into an army. It suits players who like both factory-building games and classic RTS battles.

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player management game where you build and run your own online role-playing game for AI-controlled subscribers. It suits players who have spent years in MMOs and want to try being the developer instead.

Deep Corp is a Wild West-themed mining and logistics strategy game for Mac in which you extract resources, build carriage supply routes, and manage factory production chains while governing a disaster-struck state. Developed by KishMish Games, it blends tunnel-digging and route-planning gameplay with a governance reputation system, all within an actively updated Steam Early Access title.

Stardew Valley is a relaxing farming and life simulation game where you rebuild an old farm and become part of a small town. It suits players who like slow, open-ended games with no rush, whether you play alone or with friends.

Vampire Survivors 1.15.113 is a roguelite bullet-heaven survival game developed and published by poncle, where auto-attacking characters fight off ever-growing waves of enemies while leveling up and evolving weapons. This update continues the 1.15 line's focus on memory optimization, audio stability, and faster startup across PC, Mac, console, and mobile platforms.

A Solitaire Mystery is a bundle of more than 20 reinvented solitaire card games, from a deduction-based Murder Mystery to a card-tearing variant to a Wordle-style puzzle, all wrapped into one perpetually updated bundle from developer Hempuli.

An independent Mac chess variation called 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel incorporates parallel timelines and time travel into standard chess rules. Conor Petersen and Thunkspace, LLC created it. It has four AI opponents, puzzle-based lessons, and online multiplayer, all of which are encased in an easy-to-use UI that makes multiverse strategy simpler to understand and visualize.

Mahjong Titan is a classic mahjong solitaire tile-matching puzzle game developed by Kristanix Games, offering thousands of boards, multiple tile sets, and full offline play. Version 2.7.5 continues over a decade of ongoing support, giving players a relaxing, portrait-optimized puzzle experience suitable for all ages.

Brawl Squad X: Battle Arena is a fast paced top-down multiplayer shooter for Mac from Army Troop Studios. Offline bot battles, online PvP team deathmatch. Players select customisable soldiers and a range of weapons in stylised low poly arenas. It is currently in Steam Early Access, and features cross-platform play between Mac, Windows and Linux.

In the charming simulation game Sticky Business, players create and market personalized stickers via their own internet store. It provides Mac users with a stress-free creative experience with its calming pixel-art images, endearing client anecdotes, and light shop-management mechanics. Both Intel and Apple Silicon devices can play the game natively on macOS.

The Lumberjack’s Routine is a relaxing pixel-art game where you chop trees, sell wood and slowly pay off a mysterious debt. It’s for players who enjoy calm, steady-progress games and want something to unwind with rather than an action-packed adventure.

Heroes of Might and Magic 4: Complete bundles New World Computing's 2002 turn-based fantasy strategy RPG with both its official expansions. It features active heroes in combat, five schools of magic, and six full campaigns — though it's officially sold as a Windows-only title on GOG.com today, with no current supported Mac release.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is a large-scale real-time strategy game developed and published by Planetary Annihilation Inc, where players command armies across entire solar systems and unleash colossal TITAN-class super units. Build 124666 continues ongoing support for the game's multiplayer battles, Galactic War campaign, and planet-destroying warfare across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

TerraScape is a cozy, medieval city-building puzzle game for Mac in which players place buildings from a deck onto floating islands to create scoring synergies between structures, resources, and biomes. Developed by Bitfall Studios, it offers Kingdom Mode, Puzzle Terras, Creative Mode, and Co-op/Versus multiplayer, with no combat or resource management involved.

Human: Fall Flat is a physics-based puzzle platformer for Mac where you guide the floppy, featureless Bob through surreal dreamscapes using deliberately wobbly, momentum-driven controls. Developed by No Brakes Games, it supports local and online co-op for up to eight players and offers thousands of community-made levels through Steam Workshop.

In the single-player, low-poly first-person shooter Ravenfield for Mac, you guide AI teammates against AI adversaries on battlefields dominated by vehicles. It was created by the lone developer SteelRaven7 and is currently in active Early Access. It has extensive support for Steam Workshop mods and, as of version 38.1, a more comprehensive set of Custom Campaigns features for player-made game modes.

No Retreat! The Russian Front is a turn-based, card-driven wargame developed by Cyril Jarnot and Avalon Digital, and published by Avalon Digital, adapting Carl Paradis's board game about the WWII Eastern Front. Version 1.1.11 lets players command German or Soviet forces across six historical scenarios and a full 1941-45 campaign, with solitaire, AI, and multiplayer modes on Windows and Mac.

The Mermaid Mask is a point-and-click detective mystery for Mac from SFB Games, the fourth entry in the Detective Grimoire series. Players guide Grimoire and Sally through a locked-room murder aboard a strange submarine, examining fully 3D clues and interrogating a voiced cast of suspects. It combines hand-painted art, an orchestral score, and a self-paced deduction system.

SkyChart: Airline Executive is an in-depth airline management simulation for Mac, inspired by Aerobiz. Build a worldwide airline empire through five periods of history, from the 1930s with propeller planes to a future of sustainable Green Frontier. It's a rich strategic experience, blending route economics, cabin configuration and a live weather system, with 533 real-world cities, 201 aircraft and up to 35 AI rival airlines.

Pimbolas is a fast foosball party game where up to four players share one Mac and fight over matches full of strange balls and power-ups. It’s made for couch sessions with friends, but there’s also a solo Arcade Mode against the computer.

SCAD is a 3D CAD modeling application for Mac that uses a script-based approach to build solid 3D objects. Instead of manual point-and-click editing, a JavaScript-style program file is used. It supports boolean operations, parametric design and STL export so it’s aimed at the user who wants precise, code-driven control over their models.