The Tenants similar games & best alternatives

The Tenants

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?

What works

  • Creative and engaging decorating gameplay
  • Relaxing and chill management experience
  • Frequent developer updates and community responsiveness
  • Variety of furniture and unlockable content
  • Good value especially on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive job types and gameplay loop
  • Minor bugs and occasional glitches
  • Limited tenant interaction depth
  • Some ui and quality of life annoyances
  • Slow progression and grind for some players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game

  • Coffee Shop Tycoon

  • Pocket City

  • City Bus Manager

  • King of Retail

  • TasteMaker

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like The Tenants but with less leadership over others

  • Urban Jungle

  • Modulus: Factory Automation

  • Cardboard Town

  • Furnish Master

  • My Dream Setup

  • Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation

More idle-friendly

Games that feels like The Tenants but with a stronger idle, pick-up-and-play feel

  • Gourdlets

  • Dream House Days DX

  • Two Point Campus

  • Pet Shop Simulator

  • Cafe Master Story

  • Jumbo Airport Story

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

The Tenants: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Expression, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026