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Potionomics (2022)

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Potionomics
Game
7.0/10on IGDB
Released
Late bills are part of the inheritance when Sylvia takes over her uncle’s potion shop. Brewing creates the stock, but getting a good price means playing negotiation cards against customers and managing the strain of haggling. Pick it if you want the pressure of keeping a shop open to change how you play each sale.
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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator (2022)

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Kardboard Kings: Card Shop Simulator
Game
5.9/10on IGDB
Released
Harry Hsu inherits his father’s seaside trading-card shop. A card on the shelf can pay a bill, make a customer happy, or fill a gap in your own collection, and its price can change when a reprint hits. There’s a nice tension in running the kind of shop where you’d also like to be a customer.
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Hometown Story (2013)

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Hometown Story
Game
4.0/10on IGDB
Released
Your grandmother’s shop brings you back to the village where you grew up. Selling more stock brings in new customers and funds an expansion. The most rewarding reason to watch what comes in, though, is that a rare item can mean something to a villager and open up their story.
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Taste of the Wind (2026)

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Taste of the Wind
Game
Released
An old friend helps you get back the restaurant where you worked as a child, and the opportunity comes with a hefty debt. You choose the monthly menu, set prices, and decide how much to spend training staff. It’s a good choice if you want family history to sit alongside the less sentimental question of how to make payroll.
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My Time at Portia (2019)

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My Time at Portia
Game
7.9/10on IGDB
Released
Your father’s old handbook and workbench are what you have to build from when you take over his neglected workshop. Daily commissions give you a reason to plan what to gather and what to craft. This is a good starting point if you want to see a business earn back its place in a town through jobs done for specific people.
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East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance (2024)

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East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance
Game
Released
A deal in one city can become the foundation for a business that lasts through several generations. You buy goods where prices are low, fulfill contracts, establish firms, and appoint a successor to keep trading after your character’s time is up. There’s a practical reason to pay attention to the family even when the markets are going your way.
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Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (2023)

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Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
Game
Released
Growing crops and raising animals keeps the farm going from one season to the next. Over the years, though, your child develops interests of their own, and the farm you’ve tended may or may not be the future they want. The possibility of an heir makes this an unusually patient choice for a game about handing over a livelihood.
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Little Dragons Café (2018)

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Little Dragons Café
Game
6.7/10on IGDB
Released
The twins are learning the family café from their mother when she suddenly fails to wake. You keep the place serving dishes, work with its staff, and gather ingredients and recipes for the menu while raising a dragon that might help her. It makes the ordinary satisfaction of getting through a shift matter to someone beyond the customers.
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Kooeh: A Timeless Delight (2026)

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Kooeh: A Timeless Delight
Game
Released
Bringing a Malaysian dessert café back to life starts with recovering pages from the family recipe book. You find desserts in another world, learn to cook them, and serve them to the customers there. The things the family has to recover are specific dishes and ways of making them, which gives going back into business a sense of purpose.
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The Guild 3 (2017)

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The Guild 3
Game
6.0/10on IGDB
Released
Growing a craft business can give a family wealth and influence well beyond the person who started it. You guide the dynasty through trade, handicrafts, and city politics. It’s the choice here if you want to think on the scale of generations and see the family enterprise operate inside the wider economy of a medieval town.
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Cuisineer (2023)

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Cuisineer
Game
Released
Pom arrives home to find her parents’ restaurant abandoned and debts left to deal with. The ingredients that get her kitchen working again come from dungeon trips, so what you bring home changes what you have to work with at the stove. Choose it if you want the work of reviving a restaurant to alternate with action outside it.
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Kynseed (2022)

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Kynseed
Game
6.9/10on IGDB
Released
A blacksmith’s, an apothecary, or a goods store can be part of the life you make in Quill. The game also lets you continue as one of your children when your first character’s time runs out. That long view makes it a good place to build a business as part of a family’s life, with time to see what later generations do with it.
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