Games Like Anno 2205™

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 50.5%, Economy 13.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 6%, Resource Management 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most refined version of the Anno series' signature production-chain gameplay and economic depth.

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 42.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Futuristic 8.7%, Economy 7.5%, RTS 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title shares the futuristic setting and environmental management themes that define the Anno 2205 experience.

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 28.6%, 4X 24.2% ★, Resource Management 7.8%, Futuristic 7.3%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines futuristic city-building with tactical combat and complex industrial resource management.

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 23.5%, Space 15.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sci-fi 8%, Management 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the grand scale of interstellar logistics and automated production chains on a galactic level.

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 41%, Space 13.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a high-stakes space station management experience that mirrors the challenge of maintaining life in harsh environments.

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 24.2%, Economy 17.5%, Resource Management 16.5%, Strategy 10.8%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the deep logistics and supply chain management that players of Anno 2205 will find familiar.

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 31.8%, Economy 12.4%, Futuristic 11.5%, Strategy 7.9%, Resource Management 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique multi-city management system that requires balancing resources across different futuristic platforms.

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 34%, Economy 12.8%, Space 9.5%, Resource Management 8.5%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the transportation and logistics networks necessary to keep a futuristic city functioning efficiently.

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 54.3%, Strategy 12.4%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Simulation 6.9%, Space 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi city builder focuses on the challenges of managing a colony on an alien world with unique environmental hazards.

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 34.4%, Resource Management 9.2%, Strategy 9%, Space 8.9%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with terraforming an entire planet, requiring the same long-term strategic planning as Anno 2205.

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 30.6%, 4X 18% ★, Economy 11.8%, Strategy 8%, Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an incredibly deep economic simulation where every aspect of the supply chain must be managed manually.

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 30%, Economy 14%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the cutthroat economic competition and resource trading aspects of space colonization.

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 21.3%, Base Building 16.7%, Building 12.7%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a first-person perspective on the same satisfying industrial expansion and logistics optimization found in Anno.

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 23.3%, Resource Management 20%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive experience for players who enjoy optimizing complex, sprawling production lines and automation.

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 45.8%, Space 12.2%, Strategy 9.5%, Base Building 6%, Resource Management 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a straightforward and challenging space colony builder that emphasizes resource sustainability.

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Space 11.5%, Resource Management 10.1%, Strategy 8%, Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: This lunar base-building game focuses on resource extraction and automation in a harsh space environment.

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 45.4%, Space 9%, Management 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It allows you to guide a civilization from the stone age to the space age, mirroring the progression of the Anno series.

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

Why similar: City Builder 52.1%, Strategy 14.9%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It remains a classic benchmark for the series' core mechanics of trade routes and population growth.

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 27.2%, 4X 21.5% ★, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 7.2%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features complex supply chain management and city-building mechanics within a unique fantasy setting.

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 56.2%, Management 10%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 6.7%, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces innovative water and resource management mechanics that require careful planning and engineering.

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 49.2%, Economy 12%, Simulation 8%, Management 7.3%, Strategy 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the most modern and detailed city-building experience for those who enjoy large-scale urban planning.

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 52.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Economy 5.6%, Management 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more intense, survival-focused take on city-building where resource management is a matter of life and death.

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, 4X 16.3% ★, Economy 10.2%, Resource Management 7%, Space 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It is a detailed space colony simulation that requires managing complex life support and resource systems.

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 51.2%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 8.2%, Resource Management 6.2%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more organic approach to city-building with a strong focus on production chains and villager needs.

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, 4X 19.6% ★, Resource Management 6.8%, Strategy 6.8%, RTS 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management and logistics of a secret facility, offering a different but complementary base-building experience.

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Futuristic 19.6%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Sci-fi 10%

Why You'll Like It: It strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the pure, satisfying logic of building massive automated factories.

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: 4X 36.2% ★, Strategy 18.9%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Space 12.8%, Futuristic 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a 4X perspective on the sci-fi colonization themes present in Anno 2205.

Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.

Why similar: Resource Management 16.3%, Space 14.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines space exploration with massive-scale automation and factory building across a solar system.

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 38.7%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 10.8%, RTS 9.4%, Simulation 6.8%

Terra Nil is an intricate environmental strategy game about transforming a barren wasteland into a thriving, balanced ecosystem. Bring life back to a lifeless world by purifying soil, cleaning oceans, planting trees, and reintroducing wildlife, then leave without a trace.

Why similar: City Builder 65.8%, Strategy 20.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: It flips the city-builder genre by focusing on environmental restoration and ecosystem management.

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 50.4%, Strategy 15%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 4.3%

Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore the stars, trade goods, fight battles, build stations, buy and equip ships, and command fleets in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to your decisions.

Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Economy 18%, Space 11.6%, Trading 8.9% ★, Strategy 6.9%

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 36.5%, Economy 13%, Strategy 10.2%, Space 9.4%, Simulation 7%

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

Why similar: 4X 37.9% ★, Space 16.7%, Strategy 13.2%, RTS 13%, Sci-fi 8.9%

ENDLESS™ Space 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS™ Universe. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Why similar: Strategy 79.5%, 4X 9.6% ★, Space 6.5%, Sci-fi 2.8%, Multiplayer 0.8%

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 50.4%, Economy 15.2%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.8%, Management 7.5%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 35.1%, Strategy 11%, Economy 10.3%, Resource Management 7.9%, Management 7.2%

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 32.3%, Economy 16.1%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 8.1%

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 55.9%, Strategy 16.6%, Simulation 10.2%, Base Building 4.9%, Management 4.6%

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 48.8%, Economy 15.3%, Strategy 12.3%, Management 8%, Simulation 6.9%

Take command of a civilization that has just achieved faster-than-light travel in Galactic Civilizations IV, the newest entry in the award-winning space 4X strategy game series. Explore the galaxy, colonize worlds, shape cultures, make alliances, fight wars and pioneer new technologies.

Why similar: 4X 34.2% ★, Space 12.1%, Futuristic 11.4%, Strategy 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 42.9%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 9.5%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Management 7.8%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 66.7%, Strategy 10.6%, Economy 6.2%, Simulation 5.2%, RTS 3.4%

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 38.5%, Economy 16.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Management 9%, Building 6.1%

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 63.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 8.6%, Management 6.3%, Economy 4.2%

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Why similar: 4X 27.1% ★, City Builder 20.6%, Strategy 11.2%, Economy 11%, Futuristic 8.7%

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 33.6%, RTS 9.8%, Futuristic 9.8%, Space 9.7%, Strategy 8.9%

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, 4X 22.8% ★, Space 7.9%, Resource Management 6.7%, Futuristic 6.5%

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: 4X 34.5% ★, City Builder 34.3%, Strategy 17.1%, Management 5.3%, Multiplayer 3.7%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: City Builder 40.5%, Economy 16.5%, RTS 12.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 9%

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 31.9%, Economy 14%, RTS 9.7%, Resource Management 9%, Strategy 8.5%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 37.5%, Economy 11.9%, Futuristic 10.7%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 6.3%

「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.

Why similar: 4X 22.6% ★, City Builder 12%, RTS 9.7%, Futuristic 9.2%, Strategy 8.3%

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 29.6%, 4X 22.9% ★, Economy 11.1%, RTS 7.6%, Resource Management 7%

Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Why similar: 4X 44.7% ★, Space 12.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Strategy 11.7%, Futuristic 10%

In the distant future, the X universe faces a period of profound and irrevocable change. While the universe stumbles towards an uncertain future, countless adventures await as new enemies rise in search of power.

Why similar: Space 34.5%, Simulation 20.5%, Sci-fi 18.3%, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 4.8%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Space 9.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 8.4%

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 35.8%, Economy 15.1%, Space 9.1%, Resource Management 8.8%, Sci-fi 6.9%