X live Top 17 best tycoon games for Android phone and tablets

Some people are satisfied with having a regular job like managing an egg farm. What’s there to manage, you might ask? You’ll have to build a farm, hatch the chickens, distribute the eggs by hiring drivers, and as most other farmers do, send an expedition into space. Yes, even that. The gameplay is rather simple as it’s an incremental clicker, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun!

If you love tycoon games for Android, don’t chicken out and make sure to give this one a try. It’s egg-cellent! (mind the puns).

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Many players who play games are often interested in the life of the developers who create them – and what better way to understand their lives than playing a title where you can become a game dev? (In a pixelated world, but it still counts, right?)

Game Dev Story is a game developer tycoon where you can manage staff, create games, and make millions without learning to code yourself. It’s a premium title, but it plays so incredibly well. It’s fun, it’s creative, and it’s more than just your typical idler. Game Dev Story is also available on Apple Arcade!

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Ever wanted to own a famous museum, with your very own T-Rex and all the fanciest art exhibits? In Idle Museum, you can put in all of the effort quickly and get guaranteed success. It’s a title where you can create and expand your own museum and slowly add new exhibits.

You can enjoy a relaxing and beautiful title that rewards constant efforts towards expanding the museum with tons of visitors and currency to expand it even more. It’s your typical tycoon game in a beautifully decorated historic nutshell. (Because it’s a museum!)

Download Idle Museum

Probably the most played tycoon on this list would be the SimCity Buildit. You’ll take on the role of a major of a metropolis, and try to build a sustainable city, like you’d do in a Cities: Skylines. Of course, building an infrastructure in a multi-million crowded city is a tough gig, as you’ll have traffic and pollution challenges. Also, you can’t just randomly place buildings, they will have to be strategically placed to have the most benefits and not losses.

What’s really interesting are the landmarks, so you can, for example, use the Eiffel Tower and build a copy of Paris, or maybe your own city that has similar landmarks. Everything is permitted and there are no consequences even if you make mistakes, or misplace funds and buildings, kind of like real-life politicians.

Download SimCity Buildit

Humanity has moved to space in Space Colony: Idle, and you need to build up the infrastructure to make society survive and thrive.

You will need to train up astronauts, set up systems so that they can work and build, discover new tech and mine the materials on this new planet so that the world can grow and thrive just as Earth had. It’s a pretty basic title down at its core, but it’s got all the right elements to make it a great tycoon game for Android.

Download Space Colony: Idle

Maybe, you’re more interested in becoming the manager of your favourite Esports team! If so, Esports Life Tycoon is there for you. You can create your Esports Team, build their workspace, learn how to deal with the typical issues which occur right before a big match, and keep your team motivated. You can climb to the top of the Esports world with your team shining through.

Esports Life Tycoon is one of the best tycoon games for Android because it’s also a pretty good sim. You’ve probably heard of Football Manager and all that – think of Esports Life Tycoon in a similar way, but for Esports. It’s fun, it’s engaging, and most importantly, it’s a real gem if you want to showcase your managing skills.

Download Esports Life Tycoon

In Hotel Empire Tycoon, you will do exactly as the title suggests: you’ll build your very own hotel, learn how to properly manage it and slowly expand into more regions. It’s a game where you can customize each hotel to your own liking, and try to give your guests the best service possible.

The fun part about Hotel Empire Tycoon is that, unlike a number of other titles on this list, it has limited-time events that allow you to get some exclusive rewards. It is constantly updated and receives various quality-of-life improvements, so it’s definitely worth checking out.

Download Hotel Empire Tycoon

Kitty Cat Tycoon is a wholesome game that lets you glimpse at truly adorable kittens that are trying to make a living by building cat trees. What could be better than that?

If you want a simple and colourful title where you can enjoy the company of cats and kittens, you might want to check this one out!

Download Kitty Cat Tycoon

RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch is a beautiful game where you create roller coasters. You have quite a lot of freedom when expanding them. From a multitude of themes and colours to various gravity-defying attractions, you can really go all out in Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch.

If your goal is to find one of the top tycoon games for Android to keep you entertained for hours through beautiful artwork and engaging features, make sure to give this one a shot.

Download Rollercoaster Tycoon Touch

In Rocket Star, you are looking to put together a group of talented people to create rockets so that you can explore outer space! Through research and rocket launches, you will find your way through the galaxy, earning cash and upgrading your space centre in the process.

There are so many places to explore and starships to create and the beautiful and colourful graphics only make it all the more entertaining.

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Everyone seems to want to own and run a zoo at one point in their lives, so Idle Zoo Tycoon 3D gives you that entire experience on your phone. You can design your own zoo, upgrade areas, add in different animals, breed them and create the ideal place for people to enjoy while taking care of the animals you choose!

It has been pretty popular on PC many years ago (before the 3D graphics even became a usual thing) and now this mobile title cleverly adds that detail to make a top tycoon game for Android phones and tablets. If you’re a fan of the genre, you should definitely take a look at the best idle games on Android.

Download Idle Zoo Tycoon 3D

Instead of an above-the-ground factory, you can become a miner in Idle Miner Tycoon! You can hire various miners as employees, and try to acquire the best ones in terms of stats. Their stats determine how efficient they are. For example, some will be a tad more productive than others, so there is a lot to optimise.

You’ll steadily earn money and expand downwards, sell the valuables you find along the way for some extra profit, and build something of an endless mine. Make a ton of upgrades and expand the collection, and really enjoy this colourful underground money-making Android tycoon game.

Download Idle Miner Tycoon

If you want one of the best tycoon games on Android with pixelated graphics, this must be the best one out there. It’s got a multitude of layers that add to the gameplay, and you’ll pretty much set yourself on the path to success from start to finish – the start being your very own startup, in your own home office.

Dev Tycoon Inc is a beautiful title that easily deserves its spot on this list. It has a lot of fun and engaging features, feels excellent and is completely free to play.

Download Dev Tycoon Inc. Idle Simulator

Maybe, you’d like a simple life. One where you run a gaming shop, keep your customers happy, hire staff, and know all you need to know about the various tech and gadgets that you stock. Your shop specifically is targeting Esports players, so you will need to entice them in and use their feedback to make the most profit.

Where Gaming Shop Tycoon shines through is the rather minimalistic approach. Gaming Shop Tycoon has some fairly simple graphics that don’t clutter the screen and that feel really beautiful on phones and tablets. It will be especially interesting to the fans of relaxing titles.

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What’s more meta than making a smartphone business on your smartphone? Smartphone Tycoon 2 has you creating your own smartphone company, where you must develop new features, create smartphones, grow your business and take the mobile market by storm with your phones.

You can even end up with die-hard fans of your phones if you are good enough. So by all means, if you want a genuine title with realistic elements, it is one of the best tycoon games for Android you could go for.

Download Smartphone Tycoon 2

AdVenture Capitalist (which has one of the most clever names of any title, in my opinion) puts you in the shoes of the one percent. Tongue-in-cheek to its core, you’ll go from managing a lowly lemonade stand to making the big bucks as the CEO of a multinational conglomerate, hiring managers to automate the process while you watch the profits rise.

You’ll even customise your capitalist with outfits to boost your business, attract investors, and participate in time-limited events for special rewards, making this a fantastic replayable game. Who said capitalism couldn’t be fun?

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Taking the hotel management tycoon game in a new direction, Idle Inn Empire has you manage a medieval inn full of colourful and quirky characters. From adding a bar to unlocking pets that roam around your inn, you’ll attract visitors and provide for them across various locations. Add rooms as your visitor numbers increase, provide food from the kitchens, and add stables so your patrons can park their… er, horses. You’ll eventually unlock landmarks to make your inn even more attractive.

Besides, who doesn’t want a wizard hat-wearing fox called Cinnamon roaming around their tavern?

Download Idle Inn Empire: Hotel Tycoon.