10 Best Business Simulation Games on Xbox Game Pass (January 2026)

Rest assured, mixing business with pleasure in gaming won’t land you in trouble. In fact, you’ll come out having learned quite a lot to do with starting and managing a full-scale business. It isn’t all that serious, with plenty of ways that business simulation games make it fun and engaging for you. 

Still, it doesn’t mean that you won’t learn lots of valuable skills, from problem-solving to making profitable decisions and everything in between. Below, you’ll find the best business simulation games on Xbox Game Pass this month.

10. ENDLESS Legend 2

If you’re looking to test your wits on empire building, then ENDLESS Legend 2 is perfect for you. It’s a grand strategy game, featuring turn-based combat, empire building, and management. This one’s great for experimenting with different factions, whose economic strengths and weaknesses vary. 

It lets you start all over again with a new faction, choosing a different path of scientific pursuits, technological advancements, or international trade and diplomacy. From managing vast resources to constructing and expanding cities, you’ll gradually spread your influence far beyond your continent and across the planet.

9. Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

Can you imagine exerting influence across 6,000 years of human history? That’s the mega opportunity Rise of Nations: Extended Edition offers you, in the real-time strategy genre. As you can imagine, establishing successful global economies requires different approaches depending on the era, from the Ancient Age to the Information Age. And Rise of Nations creates the perfect canvas to shape your chosen nation through the turbulence of espionage, war, and diplomacy. 

8. Football Manager 26

As a football fan, you probably have lots of ideas on how to make your club perform better. Well, time to test out your theories in Football Manager 26. From making transfers between clubs to leading your clubs through to the Premier League, this year’s Football Manager has it all.

Players have diverse roles that influence your selection and recruitment priorities. Meanwhile, you can express your style and personality with the character creator tool, which includes career backstories.

7. Cities: Skylines II

It’s here, in the now, the sequel to one of the best business simulation games on Xbox Game Pass. Cities: Skylines II is bigger and better than ever, adding more tools for the roads, infrastructure, and networks you’ll set up for your growing megapolis. 

You can dabble in trade but also manage local industries. Meanwhile, all your plans are mitigated by the city’s budget, ensuring that you stay within the limits of what you can afford. Can your city rival the best ones Cities: Skylines has seen?

6. Madden NFL 25

For Madden NFL 25, you have a Franchise mode, where you can become the owner of a team. And that allows you to make managerial decisions that make all the difference in the field. The tactics you see players pull off are a product of lots of moving cog wheels.

Players have to be happy with their contracts and the teams they’re playing for. They have to work together in their team, leaning on each other’s strengths. But it’s also your business to market the NFL championships, including branding, building mega stadiums, and ensuring consistent revenue.

5. Minecraft

The sandbox mode in Minecraft is probably the biggest I have ever seen in gaming. And with it comes the most insane possibilities for building and managing enterprises and massive empires. 

It all depends on how far you’re willing to go to transform your local mining, farming, and more gigs into huge, profitable ventures. Feel free to check out the user-created maps and mods that are specifically dedicated to business simulation like farming and managing restaurants.

4. PowerWash Simulator 2

We’ve all been there, coming up with an infinite number of businesses we’d like to start. I’ll admit I’ve thought of a car wash, and PowerWash Simulator 2 just brings back those, uhm, fond memories. This one focuses on honest work, from cleaning cars, houses, public parks, shopping malls, etc. 

It gives you a cleaning business to run, completing jobs for people in your neighborhood. While watching the most stubborn dirt give in to your washers and detergents, it’s also pretty awesome when you become so good at your job, you complete all gigs under the time limit and without any penalties.

3. Spray Paint Simulator

If I have a lazy weekend with nothing to do, it’s almost a guarantee that I’ll go grab my spray cans and get busy with some random DIY project. And when I’ve run out of spray cans, Spray Paint Simulator comes to the rescue. At least then, I have the entire Spatterville town to work with.

But it’s the business simulation side of it that will catch your attention, where you manage your resources like masking paper and tape. And earn in-game currency to upgrade your tools and buy better equipment like ladders and scaffolding. 

2. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 – Standard Edition

With Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024’s Fly with Purpose, you’re looking at potentially launching a lucrative aviation career. It all starts with building your skills and completing certifications for medevac, cargo ops, firefighting, and more.

Soon, you’ll be qualified to take on high-risk jobs, sending you across the world, even flying over Stranger Things’ Hawkins itself. And with more completed jobs, you’ll unlock more missions and add more specialized aircraft to your collection. 

1. Farming Simulator 25

But perhaps the most popular entries for the best business simulation games on Xbox Game Pass is farming, Farming Simulator 25, in particular. It features farms across North America, Central Europe, and East Asia, all with distinct weather events. Weather conditions influence the type of crops you farm, alongside animals with the most profit. 

Meanwhile, you unlock over 400 machines from real-life brands that have realistic handling and functions like GPS-assisted steering. You have several shops you can trade from, production chains you can set up for more produce, and so much more quality-of-farming features added to this year’s iteration.