- #1 IsoMetro
97% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Grimesoft
Windows · Mac · Linux
Tile-based city builder w/ old-school aesthetic & new-school simulation engine. Easy to pick up and put down.
Why similar: City Builder 19.3%, Isometric 12.7%, Capitalism 11.3%, 2.5D 10.6%, Sandbox 9.8%
- #2 Office Management 101
96% matchMixed64% of 98 reviews2022
Dev: tulevik.EU
Windows · Linux
Office Management 101 is a satirical office life simulation tycoon game set in a fictional capitalistic dystopia. Step over competitors, drive your staff to the limit and milk your customers for every penny in the pursuit of spiraling success!
Why similar: Capitalism 18.3%, City Builder 16.7%, Isometric 13.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 7%
- #3 TheoTown
96% matchVery Positive95% of 4,517 reviews2019
Dev: Lobby DivinusPub: blueflower
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build and manage your dream city in this captivating simulation game. Create unique urban landscapes and enjoy compatibility with the mobile versions. Unleash your creativity and shape the metropolis of your dreams.
Why similar: City Builder 20.1%, Automobile Sim 18%, Isometric 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, 2.5D 9.2%
- #4 Uber Urban
95% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: J.F
Windows · Mac
Build your city in multiple different hand-crafted worlds and manage all the complexities that a real mayor would. From city services to demand, finances, policies, approval ratings and re-election, Uber Urban offers a complete and innovative take on the city building genre.
Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Capitalism 17.1%, Isometric 14.4%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 8%
- #5 CityArchitect
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pedro Seabra Medeiros
Windows
Design and build your dream city — one building at a time. CityArchitect lets you create both the city and its architecture, combining styles, designing buildings, managing neighborhoods, and shaping a unique urban landscape.
Why similar: City Builder 31.4%, Isometric 18.9%, Sandbox 13.8%, 2.5D 13.6%, Building 10%
- #6 Metropolis 1998
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Yesbox Studios
Windows
A fresh, modern city builder with charming aesthetics. Detailed agent-based simulation and scheduling. See inside buildings. Design and customize almost anything. Business-specific zoning, and mixed use zones too!
Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Capitalism 17.3%, Isometric 15.9%, Building 7.9%, 1990's 7.6%
- #7 Transit King Tycoon
93% matchMixed63% of 113 reviews2025
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Build a thriving trucking empire as the manager of a growing logistics company in this exciting tycoon game. Manage a diverse fleet of trucks, semi-trucks, buses, and even ships as you transport goods and expand your empire!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 25.8%, City Builder 20.9%, Isometric 13.4%, Capitalism 12.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #8 Exoplanet Outpost
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aartform Games
Windows
Establish a base on a distant planet. In this immersive sci-fi colony building sim, you'll balance economic growth, tourism, and defense against hostile alien forces. Your decisions shape the fate of your settlement and its inhabitants. Are you ready to thrive on the frontier of space?
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Capitalism 16.6%, Isometric 14.3%, 2.5D 11.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
- #9 Hotel Magnate
91% matchMixed59% of 486 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 22.6%, Capitalism 15.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 9.2%, Isometric 8.1%
- #10 Bonanza Burger
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dawg Patch Games
Windows
Bonanza Burger: Build, manage, and compete! Design your restaurant, hire a top-notch team, and battle rival managers. Conquer challenges, expand, and prove you're the ultimate fast-food mogul!
Why similar: City Builder 29.6%, Capitalism 19.1%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Building 7.6%
- #11 Fork Truck Challenge
91% matchMostly Negative33% of 12 reviews2015
Dev: Mint Arcade Ltd.
Windows
Fork Truck Challenge is a game about moving cargo from point A to point B. Players test their accuracy skills to the limit by operating heavy lifting machinery. You gain points for successfully delivering cargo as fast as you can.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 84.4%, Simulation 15.6%
- #12 Station Manager
89% matchVery Positive83% of 207 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 29.2%, City Builder 22.4%, 2.5D 11.3%, Simulation 9.1%, 1990's 7.5%
- #13 simpliCity
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: altaf-creatorPub: Vixenia Game
Windows
A sandbox game about building a city without all those hassle from complicated systems.
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Isometric 22.1%, Sandbox 18.3%, Building 11.1%, Base Building 10.2%
- #14 Mall Craze
88% matchMixed54% of 68 reviews2023
Dev: Milan Timčenko
Windows
Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!
Why similar: Capitalism 25.4%, City Builder 21%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 7.3%
- #15 Amusement Tycoon
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BronStudio
Windows
Manage your park in Amusement Tycoon! Build thrilling attractions, manage staff, and delight visitors to create the park of your dreams and achieve success!
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Capitalism 23.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 7.9%
- #16 Global City
86% matchMixed70% of 1,392 reviews2021
Dev: Red Brix WallPub: MY.GAMES
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 33.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Become the mayor and build the city of your dreams! In this game, anything is possible. Whatever you can imagine in a city-building and development simulator, you can do. Start from the very beginning and unlock new possibilities for developing your city in Global City!
Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Capitalism 17.1%, Isometric 14.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 7.7%
- #17 Super Company
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: Dawn Studio
Windows
You will act as an entrepreneur in the 1990s, producing all kinds of goods that citizens need; Providing residential and educational services for citizens; Carry out international trade and upgrade industries. You should choose the right development strategy to grow the company.
Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Capitalism 22.8%, Sandbox 14.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Economy 8.2%
- #18 Highrise Mogul
86% matchMixed51% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Olli Arkko
Windows
Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!
Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Capitalism 25.6%, Building 10.7%, Simulation 7%, Base Building 7%
- #19 My Tiny Park
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Cabin
Windows
My Tiny Park is a management sim where you design and manage parks of all kinds - from schoolyard playgrounds to sprawling nature reserves. Balance budgets, attract visitors, and craft the perfect outdoor space in this relaxing yet strategic game!
Why similar: City Builder 32.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Simulation 14.4%, Building 9.6%, Management 7.2%
- #20 SimCasino
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 751 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 10.4 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 25.4%, Capitalism 22.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 7.4%
- #21 Stakeholder Game
83% matchMixed41% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: BoneAppsPub: Bone Apps
Windows · Linux
Investment business simulation game. Become the richest billionaire ever! Build your financial empire out of merged companies and increase your capital.
Why similar: Capitalism 29.7%, City Builder 25.4%, Isometric 12.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Economy 9.5%
- #22 Power of the Ancients
82% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Cortex Code
Windows · Linux
A mostly peaceful pixely isometric city builder with a bit of magic. Four different people live in the four quadrants of the pyramid. Fishermen, farmers, fire people, magicians. Gather resources, build homes, challenge demons and create a thriving city while preparing for winter.
Why similar: City Builder 23%, Isometric 22.4%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.4%, Simulation 9.2%
- #23 Block'hood
82% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,256 reviews2017
Dev: Plethora ProjectPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 48%
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 46.5%, Sandbox 18.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Isometric 11.8%, Building 8.2%
- #24 Kapital: Sparks of Revolution
81% matchMixed60% of 240 reviews2022
Dev: Lapovich TeamPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Sandbox economic simulation game about class struggle. European country is in a deep crisis. You are the mayor of the capital. Social unrest is inevitable. What price will you pay to save your people from anarchy?
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Capitalism 25.4%, Isometric 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Economy 7.1%
- #25 AutoMaker
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EXC Interactive
Windows
AutoMaker is an automotive business simulator. Start at the dawn of the automotive history, build your factory, research technologies and design cars as you progress through the ages to the current era and beyond.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 22.4%, Capitalism 20.6%, Sandbox 14.8%, Simulation 12.9%, Economy 8.5%
- #26 Pocket City
79% matchVery Positive93% of 270 reviews2022
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
A casual city building game. Become the mayor and create your own metropolis! Create residential, commercial, and industrial zones. Build parks and recreation spots. Respond to crime and disasters. Watch your city come alive!
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, 2.5D 19%, Isometric 18.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Building 7.4%
- #27 Movie Tycoon Simulator 2020
80% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2020
Dev: Tim Rachor
Windows
Manage movie theatres and make your very own Hollywood Pictures!
Why similar: Capitalism 30%, Simulation 17.9%, 1990's 16.7%, Management 10.5%, Retro 9.2%
- #28 Festival Tycoon 🎪
79% matchMostly Positive76% of 227 reviews2022
Dev: Johannes GäblerPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
A micro-management sim about music festivals! Design the perfect festival grounds in ‘create’ mode, then manage the event itself in ‘live’ mode! Book bands, sign deals, plant flowers, fix toilets, and grow your show into a global phenomenon.
Why similar: City Builder 21.3%, Capitalism 20.2%, Isometric 15.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 8.2%
- #29 Gargantua
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Abdullah Furkan DoğanPub: AFD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build your spaceship, Gargantua. Establish industries, shape the free market, trade between planets, and defend your wealth. A single mistake can collapse supply chains and trigger interstellar economic crises. In Gargantua, war is money.
Why similar: City Builder 31.7%, Capitalism 24.4%, Isometric 9.9%, Building 9.6%, Economy 6.3%
- #30 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
78% matchVery Positive81% of 1,748 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 25.2%, Isometric 17.6%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 8.9%, 2.5D 8.6%
- #31 Parking Tycoon: Business Simulator
77% matchMixed65% of 977 reviews2023
Dev: GeekonPub: Midnight Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Are you ready to immerse yourself in the exhilarating world of car parking management? Step into the shoes of a visionary entrepreneur and become the ultimate Parking Lot Tycoon! Take Charge and embark on a thrilling journey of strategy, expansion, and success.
Why similar: Automobile Sim 39.9%, City Builder 26.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 3.1%
- #32 Pocket City 2
76% matchVery Positive94% of 130 reviews2025
Dev: Codebrew Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.
Why similar: City Builder 33.5%, Capitalism 18.9%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 9%, Economy 7.6%
- #33 Filmmaker Tycoon
77% matchMostly Negative26% of 93 reviews2023
Dev: Aternis Level 0Pub: Aternis Interactive
Windows
Filmmaker Tycoon is a next generation movie tycoon simulation game! You're the producer of your very own movie studio! Hire actors, build movie sets, make films, move up in the industry, and watch your finished films in Filmmaker Tycoon.
Why similar: Isometric 16.8%, Capitalism 16.4%, City Builder 15.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 9.4%
- #34 Real estate tycoon
76% matchMixed65% of 452 reviews2022
Dev: Double Eggs
Windows
"Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Capitalism 26.7%, Automobile Sim 18.6%, Building 9.9%, Simulation 7.8%
- #35 Ethics Empire
75% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Nullgrid Studios
Windows
Become the richest business owner in this strategy-based simulator, choose your playstyle trying to balance ethics and profits in this chaotic low poly world. Will you keep your ethical businesses thriving or will you let it all crumble down for a quick buck?
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Capitalism 19.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Management 8.2%
- #36 Academia : School Simulator
75% matchVery Positive86% of 3,028 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.3 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: City Builder 23.6%, Capitalism 21.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Base Building 8.2%, Building 8%
- #37 GearCity
74% matchVery Positive90% of 1,485 reviews2022
Dev: Visual Entertainment And Technologies
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?
Why similar: Automobile Sim 34.1%, Capitalism 21.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Management 11.1%, Economy 9.3%
- #38 Two Point Campus
74% matchVery Positive88% of 7,918 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 19.7 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 28.3%, Isometric 16.2%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.6%
- #39 Real Estate Tycoon!
73% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Hard Shark Games
Windows
Real Estate Tycoon lets you buy, sell, and upgrade properties to maximize profits. Play through Career Mode, Time Trial, or Endless Mode as you navigate a dynamic market. Build your empire, strategize investments, and dominate the property market!
Why similar: City Builder 29%, Capitalism 26.7%, Building 10.1%, Isometric 8.7%, Simulation 8.6%
- #40 BünzliFight: Swiss City Simulator
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bünzli Studios
Windows
Cooperative real time city building simulator with Swiss flair. Build a town together manage resources and budgets solve quirky everyday problems and experience a world that keeps running even when you are offline.
Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Isometric 16.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, 2.5D 13.4%, Simulation 12.5%
- #41 SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
73% matchVery Positive82% of 9,694 reviews2010
Dev: EA - MaxisPub: Electronic Arts
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 13.3 hrs≥1hr: 54%
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 25.8%, Isometric 18.9%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 9%, Base Building 9%
- #42 Victorian Pier Tycoon
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webpal Limited
Windows · Mac
Build and manage your own Victorian seaside pier in this nostalgic pixel-art tycoon game. Construct steam-powered rides, balance the delicate needs of the Aristocracy against the Working Class, and maintain structural integrity. Will your resort become a world wonder, or crumble into the sea?
Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Isometric 19.7%, Simulation 12%, Sandbox 11.5%, Building 10.7%
- #43 City Bus Manager
69% matchVery Positive91% of 2,756 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 38.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Automobile Sim 34%, Capitalism 24.6%, Simulation 10.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Economy 8.5%
- #44 Citystate Metropolis
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
The creative, pragmatic, limitless city builder. Engineer a masterpiece of urban design, a small sustainable town or a futuristic metropolis. With procedurally generated buildings, grid-less zoning and powerful editor tools, everything is customizable: the city is yours.
Why similar: City Builder 32.1%, Sandbox 15.8%, Capitalism 14.7%, Building 10.9%, Simulation 9.4%
- #45 RPG Tycoon
72% matchMixed51% of 487 reviews2016
Dev: Skatanic StudiosPub: Macrocosmic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!
Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Isometric 20.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.9%
- #46 Island of Embers
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: City Builder 36.3%, Isometric 13.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Base Building 9.6%
- #47 Cities XL Platinum
71% matchMixed58% of 1,633 reviews2013
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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 57.1%, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 5.9%, Building 2.9%
- #48 PolyTown
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Threading Squirrel
Windows
PolyTown is a modern, low poly city building game. Zone areas for residents and businesses, connect them and build services and utilities to keep your citizens satisfied. But don’t get too comfy, if you don’t do your job well, people will make you pay the price.
Why similar: City Builder 35.3%, Isometric 15.8%, Simulation 12.3%, Sandbox 9.9%, Economy 8.2%
- #49 Super Citycon
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Ben WillesPub: Ben Willes Games SL
Windows · Mac
A retro city-building game with huge maps, a sandbox mode, a map creator, and strategic tycoon puzzles. Build, create, and solve as you craft the city of your dreams!
Why similar: City Builder 41.1%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 14.8%, Building 12.2%, Retro 5.9%
- #50 Nightlife Tycoon
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: Capitalism 19.1%, City Builder 16.2%, Building 13.5%, Isometric 11.4%, Management 10.2%
- #51 Cities XXL
71% matchMixed41% of 2,360 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 44.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, Building 11.8%, Simulation 11%, Economy 8.3%
- #52 Le Château
68% matchPositive97% of 35 reviews2024
Dev: TheShelfman
Windows
Create your own Medieval Kingdom and watch your world come to life in this minimalistic city builder. Choose your world's size and shape, and turn it into a kingdom any ruler would be jealous of.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Sandbox 13.8%, Isometric 13.5%, 2.5D 11%, Building 8.8%
- #53 Movies Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 501 reviews2024
Dev: PixelCraze s.r.o.
Windows
Movies Tycoon is a simulation game where you dive into the world of film-making. Start with a humble studio, scout and manage top talent, customize unique characters, and direct blockbuster films.
Why similar: Capitalism 25.4%, City Builder 17.5%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 9%, Simulation 7.9%
- #54 Prison Architect
68% matchVery Positive89% of 73,349 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.2 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: City Builder 24.3%, Capitalism 15.6%, Sandbox 15.2%, Building 10.7%, Base Building 10%
- #55 Intergalactic Transfer Station
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OverPowered TeamPub: Games Operators
Windows
Build & manage your Intergalactic Transfer Hub. Receive travellers and dock ships. Help passengers transfer, but also control them. Expand hub, build shops, take care of everyone's needs. Increase profits, change taxes. But beware: dangerous diseases and asteroids may alter your plans!
Why similar: City Builder 22.4%, Simulation 18.1%, Isometric 17.3%, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.3%
- #56 Towns
70% matchMostly Negative27% of 2,832 reviews2012
Dev: Xavi Canal, Ben PalgiPub: SMP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 17.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
Why similar: City Builder 49.6%, Sandbox 22.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Isometric 8.9%, Building 5.4%
- #57 Office Manager
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Jan Štěpánek
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own office empire. Design buildings, find tenants, negotiate contracts, and keep them happy. Research new technologies, expand your business, and handle unexpected events in a living office world.
Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, 2.5D 13.2%, Building 11.6%, Capitalism 9.8%
- #58 Orrstead
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 78 reviews2024
Dev: IndividualKex
Windows
Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.
Why similar: City Builder 30.4%, Isometric 17%, Sandbox 15.7%, Building 10.1%, Base Building 8.6%
- #59 My Retro World
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Build the retro world of your dreams: from chill vaporwave vibes to neon retrowave skylines, from 90s suburbs to futuristic cityscapes, all in the most nostalgic sandbox...
Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Sandbox 21.6%, Simulation 13.2%, 1990's 11%, Retro 9.2%