Top 10 Steam Simulation Releases in 2025-2026

Looking at the ranking, we found that the most successful Steam Simulator releases from the past year fall into three main categories:

💰 Business Sims
🤝 Co-op Sims
🫧 Clean up Sims

Business Sims continue to build on the familiar buy, sell, and restock formula. Supermarket Simulator generated over $46M in revenue from 3.4M copies sold at a $19.99 base price.

Meanwhile, Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator added a dose of ’80s nostalgia, earning $8M+ from 480K+ copies at a $19.90 base price.

For Co-op Sims, the business concept mattered less than the fun of playing together with friends. And that’s exactly where most of the “friendslop” hits fit in 🤪

Schedule | quickly climbed the rankings with the weed empire business offering players familiar tasks and adding chaotic fun from the co-op layer. Altogether, resulting in $190M revenue and 10M copies sold all at a $19.99 base price. 

Roadside Research looks like a typical Business Sim where you run a gas station, except the employees happen to be aliens secretly studying humans. The concept landed, earning over $8M in revenue and 788M copies at a base price of $12.99 👽

What about Clean up Sims? Find out in our latest article where we breakdown new Steam Simulation releases.