Games Like Anno 2070™

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 53%, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 9.6%, RTS 5.3%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: The pinnacle of the series, offering the most refined version of the complex supply chain and island-colonization mechanics found in Anno 2070.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 43.5%, Strategy 11.6%, Futuristic 9%, Economy 6.9%, RTS 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct futuristic sibling that pushes the series into space and moon colonization with a heavy focus on multi-region logistics.

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 44.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Economy 11.4%, Resource Management 7.1%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep simulation of logistics, production chains, and economy that will satisfy any fan of complex management games.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 56.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, RTS 4.4%, Economy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with high-stakes survival and moral decision-making, requiring precise resource management to keep a society alive.

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 61.3%, Strategy 7.9%, Economy 6.6%, Simulation 6.3%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for modern city-builders, providing deep simulation tools for managing infrastructure and urban expansion.

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 53.1%, Strategy 13%, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 6.9%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic space station management game that forces players to balance resource scarcity with the survival of their population.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: City Builder 28.8%, Resource Management 21.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Multiplayer 7.5%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate game for players who love optimizing production lines and managing complex resource flows on a massive scale.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 53.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 6.1%, Management 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features island-based city-building with a strong emphasis on trade routes, political management, and economic growth.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Resource Management 24.9%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Building 15.7%, Strategy 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on the complex factory-building and logistics management that defines the Anno experience.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Resource Management 13.9%, Strategy 10.3%, Building 8.9%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An interstellar logistics game that focuses on building massive, automated production networks across multiple planets.

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 39.1%, Futuristic 12%, Strategy 10.3%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder where you manage isolated platforms, requiring strict resource management to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 53.1%, Strategy 16.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Building 6.1%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The beloved classic that established many of the core production and trade mechanics perfected in later entries.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 59.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 7.8%, Management 6.4%, Building 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces innovative water management and vertical city-building mechanics that require careful planning and resource allocation.

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: City Builder 65%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 6.1%, Resource Management 3.9%, Economy 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational survival city-builder that focuses on the delicate balance of food production and resource management through changing seasons.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 35.7%, RTS 12.4%, Strategy 10%, Economy 9.9%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that emphasizes efficient resource gathering and production chain management in a hostile environment.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: City Builder 39.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Economy 12.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: An economic RTS that strips away combat to focus entirely on market manipulation and resource competition on Mars.

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 57.2%, Strategy 9.6%, Economy 6.8%, Resource Management 5.8%, RTS 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An organic city-builder that relies on complex production chains and villager needs rather than rigid grid-based construction.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: City Builder 36.5%, Real-Time 14.9% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Resource Management 8.1%, Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the grand-scale terraforming of Mars, requiring players to manage global resource networks and industrial expansion.

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: City Builder 45.6%, Strategy 12%, Resource Management 10.5%, Futuristic 10%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic industrial city-builder that blends base-building with tactical combat on the moon of Saturn.

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 55.8%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7.3%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The modern evolution of urban simulation, offering deeper economic and infrastructure management tools.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

Why similar: Strategy 40.9%, Futuristic 21.3%, Sci-fi 12.5%, 4X 10.6% ★, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that shares the futuristic aesthetic and technological progression themes of Anno 2070.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: City Builder 65.6%, Strategy 16%, Simulation 6.9%, Sci-fi 5.4%, Resource Management 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that tasks players with managing a colony on an alien world with unique environmental hazards.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: City Builder 44.4%, Strategy 16.8%, Management 9%, Simulation 8.3%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony simulator that focuses on the management of individual needs and complex production systems in a sci-fi setting.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 61.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 5.1%, Real-Time 4% ★, Resource Management 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic survival city-builder that emphasizes resource scarcity and environmental management.

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: City Builder 60.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Resource Management 6.3%, Simulation 4.2%, Management 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space colony simulator where you must manage oxygen, water, and food production to keep your settlers alive on alien worlds.

Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.

Why similar: City Builder 34.9%, RTS 13.3%, Economy 10.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-builder that focuses on deep production chains and managing the needs of your population in a fantasy setting.

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 54.7%, Strategy 8%, Economy 7.3%, RTS 7%, Resource Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused city-builder that incorporates card-based mechanics and complex resource management.

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 37.9%, Economy 12.7%, Strategy 12.2%, Resource Management 8%, Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A pure economic simulation game that focuses entirely on building supply chains and managing market demand.

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: City Builder 44.2%, Strategy 14.6%, Economy 11.6%, Simulation 9%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and transport network side of management, which is a critical component of the Anno experience.

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 41.4%, Strategy 12.1%, RTS 12.1%, Economy 9.3%, Simulation 5.7%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 52.7%, Strategy 16.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Economy 6.8%, Resource Management 3.4%

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: City Builder 60.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 6.7%, Management 5.5%, Economy 4.9%

Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...

Why similar: City Builder 67.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Management 4.2%, Economy 3%

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

Why similar: City Builder 47.5%, Economy 13.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 6.8%, Building 6.6%

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Why similar: City Builder 49.1%, Strategy 26%, Multiplayer 7.3%, 4X 7% ★, Management 4.7%

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 52.6%, Strategy 13.3%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 4.5%

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 55.9%, Economy 11.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 7%, Building 5.9%

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Why similar: City Builder 44.9%, Economy 13.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 6.5%, Building 6.4%

It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.

Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Economy 16.3%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 9.3%

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: City Builder 33.9%, Resource Management 17.3%, Economy 14.7%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 7.4%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: City Builder 56.8%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 7.1%, Resource Management 6.2%, Management 6%

ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, 4X 14.6% ★, Sci-fi 9.4%, Futuristic 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam

Why similar: City Builder 42.6%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 13.3%, Management 10.6%, Economy 10.5%

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: City Builder 23.1%, Strategy 19.5%, Economy 12.9%, Real-Time 9.9% ★, Simulation 8.7%

TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.

Why similar: City Builder 62.5%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Management 5.3%, Economy 3.5%

Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!

Why similar: City Builder 42.7%, Strategy 22.3%, RTS 12%, Resource Management 5.8%, Simulation 4.9%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 62.5%, Strategy 19.4%, Simulation 9%, Building 3.6%, Management 3.1%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: City Builder 48.3%, Strategy 14.3%, Economy 11.5%, Simulation 7.4%, Resource Management 7.3%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: City Builder 77.3%, Strategy 14.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 58.5%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 8.5%, Simulation 6.6%, Building 6%

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: RTS 31.7%, Strategy 30.4%, City Builder 16.3%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Real-Time 6.1% ★

Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.

Why similar: RTS 39.1%, Strategy 29.8%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Multiplayer 6.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%

Planet S is a real-time strategy game where your goal is to colonize multiple planets in a solar system to advance your civilization, build a city and supply it to grow your faction.

Why similar: City Builder 39.9%, RTS 14.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Futuristic 9.8%, Multiplayer 5.8%

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 41.9%, RTS 13.1%, Economy 10.2%, Strategy 10.1%, Resource Management 8.2%

Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Why similar: City Builder 66.3%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 4.7%, Building 4.6%

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: City Builder 46.2%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 7.2%, Building 5.8%