- #1 Cities: Skylines II
85% matchMixed54% of 86,276 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 72.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Building 12.5%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10%, Transportation 9.6% ★
- #2 Prison Architect
84% matchVery Positive89% of 73,086 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #3 Rise of Industry
84% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,153 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Economy 14.9%, Management 12.8%, Trading 9% ★, Transportation 8.3% ★
- #4 Foundation
82% matchVery Positive86% of 23,458 reviews2025
Dev: Polymorph Games
Windows
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 26.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Economy 9.8%, Colony Sim 9.3% ★, Management 8.3%, Building 8.1%
- #5 Factory Town
81% matchVery Positive91% of 4,418 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 14.4% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Transportation 10% ★, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #6 Hotel Magnate
80% matchMixed60% of 479 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #7 Founders' Fortune
80% matchVery Positive80% of 2,165 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 57%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Building 9.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #8 Blacksmith Master
78% matchVery Positive84% of 2,470 reviews2025
Dev: Untitled StudioPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Economy 11.4%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.5%
- #9 Academia : School Simulator
79% matchVery Positive86% of 3,006 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 11.7%, Management 10.8%, Capitalism 9.6%
- #10 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
77% matchVery Positive90% of 1,270 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Economy 11.8%, Management 10.9%, Capitalism 10.5%, Building 10.5%
- #11 Kingdoms and Castles
79% matchVery Positive93% of 30,808 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Shield, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Colony Sim 25.4% ★, Building 10.5%, Sandbox 7%, Strategy 5.7%
- #12 Lords and Villeins
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2022
Dev: Honestly GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 54%
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Management 10.7%, Economy 10.3%, Building 9.6%
- #13 Blueprint Tycoon
78% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1% ★, Management 17%, City Builder 13.9%, Economy 10.8%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #14 First Feudal
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 627 reviews2021
Dev: Harpoon Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Building 10.9%, Resource Management 8.7%, Management 8.6%
- #15 Seeds of Resilience
77% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Economy 12%, Building 10.9%, Management 9.5%
- #16 Settlement Survival
75% matchVery Positive86% of 7,838 reviews2022
Dev: Gleamer StudioPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Building 12.5%, Management 10.6%, Economy 8.4%
- #17 Ostriv
75% matchVery Positive95% of 7,345 reviews2020
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 36.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.5%, Management 9.3%
- #18 SimCasino
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 751 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!
Why similar: City Builder 18.1%, Economy 12.6%, Building 11.3%, Capitalism 11%, Management 10.1%
- #19 Transport Fever 2
72% matchVery Positive91% of 31,159 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 65.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Why similar: Transportation 23.3% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Management 12.7%, Economy 12.5%, Building 8%
- #20 Mall Simulator
70% matchVery Positive91% of 2,649 reviews2025
Dev: F13 Games
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 16.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Turn your building from a small shopping center into a huge city mall! To avoid going bankrupt, you’ll need to build new stores and restaurants, set smart prices, and keep up with trends. 15+ stores, dozens of machines & services, and hundreds of brands waiting for you!
Why similar: Economy 15.1%, Trading 13% ★, Management 12.2%, Capitalism 11.6%, City Builder 10.9%
- #21 Cliff Empire
73% matchVery Positive87% of 4,340 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Economy 13.4%, Management 9.4%, Building 9.1%
- #22 Cities in Motion 2
74% matchMixed58% of 2,494 reviews2013
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Why similar: Transportation 28% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Management 14.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #23 The Colonists
71% matchVery Positive86% of 1,203 reviews2018
Dev: CodebyfirePub: Mode 7
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Economy 13.3%, Building 10.8%, Management 9.7%
- #24 Hotel Architect
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,328 reviews2025
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Economy 14.5%, Building 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Capitalism 10.6%
- #25 InfraSpace
70% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,866 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.7 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 17.9% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Economy 11%, Building 9%, Management 8%
- #26 Planet Zoo
70% matchVery Positive91% of 93,848 reviews2019
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
Why similar: Management 17.7%, City Builder 17.1%, Building 15.1%, Economy 12.9%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #27 Patron
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,135 reviews2021
Dev: Overseer Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 23%, Economy 10.8%, Building 8.4%, Management 7.9%
- #28 Little Big Workshop
70% matchVery Positive84% of 3,346 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 15.3%, Building 13.8%, Economy 13.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 10.9%
- #29 SimAirport
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,012 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Economy 16.2%, Building 12.7%, Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #30 Mad Games Tycoon 2
67% matchVery Positive94% of 7,559 reviews2023
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 36.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
Why similar: Economy 15.8%, Management 14.1%, City Builder 14%, Trading 11.4% ★, Building 9%
- #31 Kingdoms Reborn
68% matchVery Positive91% of 9,521 reviews2020
Dev: Earthshine
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Economy 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 8.1%
- #32 Banished
68% matchVery Positive90% of 42,976 reviews2014
Dev: Shining Rock Software LLC
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 26.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 31%, Sandbox 6.7%, Strategy 6.4%, Simulation 5.8%
- #33 Another Brick in The Mall
67% matchVery Positive83% of 2,421 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!
Why similar: Management 15.3%, City Builder 14.8%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Building 13.1%, Economy 11.9%
- #34 Railway Empire 2
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,515 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Transportation 18.1% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Economy 11.4%, Trading 9.8% ★, Management 9.5%
- #35 SteamWorld Build
65% matchVery Positive84% of 2,082 reviews2023
Dev: The StationPub: Thunderful Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 71%
SteamWorld Build is a casual city-building and dungeon-management cross-over set in the SteamWorld Universe, where you build and manage a town on a dying planet. You'll need to balance resources, construction, and exploration to its depths to ensure your town's survival and eventual escape.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Economy 14%, Management 9.7%, Building 9%, Capitalism 8.8%
- #36 Captain of Industry
64% matchVery Positive91% of 10,318 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 79.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Economy 14.5%, Resource Management 13.6%, Colony Sim 11.6% ★, Base Building 11.4%, City Builder 10.7%
- #37 Cities XXL
68% matchMixed40% of 2,356 reviews2015
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 51.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Economy 17.4%, Building 14.9%, Management 12.1%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #38 Mad Games Tycoon
66% matchVery Positive91% of 4,411 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!
Why similar: Management 15.6%, Economy 13.5%, Trading 10.6% ★, Building 10%, Capitalism 8.6%
- #39 The Guild II Renaissance
66% matchVery Positive83% of 3,995 reviews2010
Dev: Runeforge Game StudioPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 17.9 hrs≥1hr: 67%
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, Economy 18.4%, Trading 12.1% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Simulation 7%
- #40 Highrise City
64% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,279 reviews2023
Dev: Fourexo EntertainmentPub: Deck13
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.9%
- #41 Airport CEO
65% matchVery Positive83% of 8,127 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 15.2% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Economy 10.9%, Management 10.4%, Building 9.8%
- #42 Before We Leave
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,697 reviews2021
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Team17
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Economy 14.3%, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, Building 10.4%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #43 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
62% matchVery Positive91% of 25,087 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 72.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.8% ★, Economy 12.5%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.8%
- #44 Planet Coaster
64% matchVery Positive91% of 71,317 reviews2016
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.
Why similar: Building 19.9%, Management 16%, Sandbox 13.6%, Economy 13%, City Builder 9.2%
- #45 Cities: Skylines
64% matchVery Positive93% of 286,647 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 64.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Building 14.2%, Management 11.3%, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #46 Project Highrise
65% matchVery Positive85% of 4,728 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 26.2%, Building 22.9%, Simulation 11.7%, Economy 10%, Strategy 9.5%
- #47 Stonehearth
65% matchMostly Positive75% of 12,966 reviews2018
Dev: Radiant EntertainmentPub: (none)
Windows · Mac
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 5.2%
- #48 Cities in Motion
65% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,080 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Transportation 19.9% ★, Management 18.6%, City Builder 17.7%, Simulation 14.5%, Economy 11.9%
- #49 Two Point Campus
62% matchVery Positive88% of 7,803 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Management 20.2%, Building 16.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Simulation 8.1%
- #50 Worldwide Rush
61% matchVery Positive80% of 487 reviews2025
Dev: Memel Games
Windows
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Why similar: Transportation 25.4% ★, Economy 16.8%, Capitalism 11.5%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.8%
- #51 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
63% matchVery Positive81% of 1,740 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Management 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.3%
- #52 Cartel Tycoon
62% matchMostly Positive76% of 3,714 reviews2022
Dev: Moon MoosePub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Economy 12.4%, Management 10.4%, Building 9.9%
- #53 IXION
61% matchMostly Positive79% of 16,993 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 31.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 20.2% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 10.2%, Economy 8.9%
- #54 Railway Empire
63% matchVery Positive83% of 9,618 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Economy 14.3%, Management 13.3%, Transportation 12.2% ★, Building 9.9%, Trading 9.7% ★
- #55 Startup Company
62% matchVery Positive81% of 6,156 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 28.9%, Economy 24.5%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 7.5%
- #56 Planetbase
63% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,259 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 25.6%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 6.6%, Management 6.1%
- #57 Life is Feudal: Forest Village
63% matchMixed66% of 5,983 reviews2017
Dev: MindillusionPub: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 30.8 hrs≥1hr: 63%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2% ★, City Builder 31.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Building 8.7%, Strategy 5.6%
- #58 Let's Build a Zoo
61% matchVery Positive89% of 4,030 reviews2021
Dev: SpringloadedPub: No More Robots
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...
Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Management 14.9%, Building 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 9.5%
- #59 Production Line : Car factory simulation
62% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 18.1%, Economy 16.5%, Building 12.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #60 Rail Route
60% matchVery Positive89% of 2,453 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 112.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: City Builder 15%, Transportation 15% ★, Economy 13.8%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.7%