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* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' have Join Avenue, which the player is assigned to manage since the owner is busy. As manager, the player can invite [=NPCs=] or acquaintances from Wi-Fi to open shops there, and recommend shops for visitors to improve business, as well as shop there themself. The better a store's popularity, the better its stock.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Moonlighter}}'' manage the shelved stock and sett prices and gauge customer reactions. A fair amount of work can be put in to make your shop successful.

->''"Capitalism, ho!"''

* Some of the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games, since at least ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity''

* ''VideoGame/{{Caravanner}}, despite being an Flash game, simulates an entire economy, with working supply and demand. Towns can go bankcrupt from you selling too much goods to them.

* ''LemonadeStand''
* ''GoVentureEntrepeneur''. You have to start a business as a restaurant, clothing store, or sporting goods store and keep it running.

What's more fun than business? Spreadsheets, paperwork, receipts- what else would you do in your spare time? Still, money is fun, and any way of at least virtually getting it can be fun by extension. Which is why some [[VideoGame video games]] revolve around, or have segments of, running your own business. This could be a buy/sell table, price setting, or picking items to put up for sale. It just can't only exist in {{Cut Scene}}s or BackStory.

* ''[[VideoGame/AmericanTruckSimulator American]]'' and ''VideoGame/EuroTruckSimulator'': You start out with just a rusty old garage and no truck, and you must work as a driver for hire while you gather enough money to buy your own truck. Then you need to gather a couple hundred thousand dollars/euros to expand your garage to accomodate three more trucks, buy another truck and hire a driver. Rinse and repeat until you have hundreds of drivers and one garage on each city.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 0}}'' has business ventures that allow the player to accrue money quickly: Kiryu leads a real estate office, buying up and maintaining property while jockeying with other real estate agencies; while Majima manages a hostess club, training his female workers and tending to customers.

* ''StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'' has inventing, which allows you to patent the items you create and sell them in shops. While it's technically the Craftsman's Guild that's responsible for mass-producing and selling these items, you still receive all the revenues from them on a real-time salary basis, and can even hire other inventors to make ''more'' items for you in exchange for a nominal fee.

* In ''VideoGame/FableIII'' you either run up property values with high rent (letting the kingdom hate you for awhile, but save their lives later) or let them live in cheap housing happily for a short time before dying horribly.
** Or take a third option, as, since the time until the disaster is unaffected by the actual amount of time spent playing the game, and charge low rent but leave the game on overnight and roll in cash.

** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has this with the management of Monteriggioni; it's completely optional, but since it returns your investment several times over there's no good reason not to do it.
*** Restoring the town also has the nice effect of the turning the local weather from dark and dreary overcast to bright and hopeful sunshine.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' expands this to a city-wide scale, allowing you buy boarded-up storefronts in Rome and putting them back into business, as well as landmarks. You can also reopen stables that will always have horses available for use, but since you can whistle for a horse at any time, there's not much point. Money's still useless for the same reasons above, though reopening the tunnel network is the best [[WarpWhistle fast-travel system]] in the game.
*** It's back again in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', and this time there's even less of an excuse to have it around then in Brotherhood since the fast travel tunnels are already available from the start.
*** At least it makes sense that a banker's son would be inclined to attempt economic warfare against the Templars; even if it has no in-game effects, the idea's a sound one and it can feel satisfying.
*** And it's back yet again in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'', with your own village and crafting system, which lacks a tutorial and is hard to figure out by yourself. You can also send caravans of goods you crafted/hunted/found to shops, earning money.
** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' has you run your own pirate armada that you can send on trade routes or to sack enemy ships.
** '''Videogame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' uses the Renovation system of the Ezio games, with the gist being that you're fixing up a war-torn New York.
** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' has you run an Assassin-operated Cafe that you upgrade through a mix of renovations, sidequests and unlocking Social Clubs throughout the city.
** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' has you taking over turf for your gang by completing missions that deal with the rivaling Blighters gang.

* Certain games in the ''Franchise/{{Atelier}}'' series make you the owner of your shop of wonders. In ''Atelier Viorate'', alchemy is the means of revitalizing the economy of your backwater village.

* Certain games in ''AtelierSeries'' make you the owner of your shop of wonders. In ''Atelier Viorate'', alchemy is the means of revitalizing the economy of your backwater village.

* ''Capitalism II'', where you're the CEO of a corporation, literally ''is'' this trope. {{Wikipedia}} claims ''Capitalism II'' is so realistic that ''business schools use it for their lessons''.

** ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' simply has you expand your gang's business enterprise by upgrading your Gang Upgrades skill tree.

* In the ''Franchise/SaintsRow'' series, the more territory the player controls, the more cash they get in their "stash" back at their crib. Originally, this was only done when completing missions and activities, but in the [[SaintsRowTheThird third]] game, the player does this largely by purchasing property, which increases the amount of cash they get per in-game hour. Purchasing stores also gives the player a significant discount in said stores.

* ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon]]'' lets you run a mead hall after finishing a quest. It is also possible to run your own item-crafting business provided you have the required skills, not to mention the possibility of a treasure scavenging business.

* As befitting a [[TheIlluminati Templar]], the player character in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRogue'' can build up a sizable personal income by taking control of various forts, settlements, and neighborhoods and building or renovating businesses in the area.