Games Like Cities in Motion 2

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 33.2% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Trains 10.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most comprehensive experience in building and managing complex multi-modal transportation networks across different eras.

Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.

Why similar: Transportation 36.6% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Economy 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep, realistic simulation of railway planning and network management on a global scale.

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: Transportation 27.1% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 12.9%, Trains 10.8% ★, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the scheduling and automation aspects of rail traffic, mirroring the timetable management found in Cities in Motion 2.

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

Why similar: Transportation 26.1% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Management 16.3%, City Builder 12.8%, Trains 8.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: The original predecessor offers a similar focus on urban transit planning and public transportation management.

OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Why similar: Transportation 30% ★, Management 11.8%, Simulation 10.6%, City Builder 10.6%, Trains 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: As the definitive open-source transport tycoon game, it remains the gold standard for complex logistics and network optimization.

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 32% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Management 11.3%, Trains 10.7% ★, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It excels at combining historical rail network expansion with detailed economic management and competition.

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: Management 27.7%, Simulation 23.2%, Economy 16.2%, Transportation 10.7% ★, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title allows you to focus specifically on the bus transit aspect of city management, from route planning to depot maintenance.

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: Trains 18.3% ★, Transportation 17.3% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Management 14.4%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual predecessor to Transport Fever, it provides a solid foundation in logistics and transport simulation.

Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

Why similar: Transportation 37.2% ★, Management 14.1%, Trains 13.8% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It blends realistic train simulation with a unique economic system that rewards efficient network building.

Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Why similar: Transportation 32% ★, City Builder 15%, Management 11%, Trains 11% ★, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game uniquely combines city-building with a complex, train-driven logistics system.

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: Transportation 24.3% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Management 14.9%, Trains 9.7% ★, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the challenge of managing passenger flow and station infrastructure in a busy urban environment.

Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.

Why similar: Simulation 18%, Trains 16.8% ★, Transportation 15.2% ★, Management 14.8%, City Builder 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, highly detailed transport simulator that emphasizes complex economic chains and network connectivity.

Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!

Why similar: Transportation 37.7% ★, Management 13.1%, Trains 11.2% ★, Sandbox 10.4%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management side of a transportation company, requiring players to handle routes and fleet expansion.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 32.5% ★, Management 14.9%, City Builder 14.5%, Simulation 10.1%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on aviation, it shares the same core DNA of managing complex passenger logistics and infrastructure.

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: Transportation 30.9% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Management 11%, Trains 10.5% ★, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series offers a rewarding experience in managing logistics across land, sea, and air.

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 39.5%, Simulation 15.4%, Management 15.2%, Sandbox 8.4%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: While a broader city-builder, its transit management tools are essential for any player who enjoys the infrastructure side of city planning.

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: Transportation 21.1% ★, Management 15.4%, Trains 13.9% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a strong focus on building a rail empire through strategic expansion and efficient route management.

Train Station Simulator is a station builder and manager game. Create and maintain your dream station! Ride the rails and operate your ultimate grand central empire!

Why similar: Management 23.5%, Trains 22.4% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 13.2%, City Builder 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to the micro-management of individual transit hubs, which is a key component of urban transit systems.

The 20th century heralds the new age of electrification for the railroad, and a new opportunity to make your fortune. Build your corporation carefully, as you deploy modern electric and diesel locomotives, lay new tracks, transport goods and passengers, and stay ahead of the competition.

Why similar: Transportation 29.6% ★, Trains 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Simulation 10.7%, Sandbox 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the strategic expansion of rail networks and the economic challenges of the early industrial era.

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 26.8%, Management 18.1%, Simulation 14.5%, Sandbox 11.5%, Economy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep simulation of logistics and supply chains within a city-building framework.

Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: Transportation 37.7% ★, Management 13%, Trains 11.7% ★, City Builder 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a satisfying blend of transport logistics and resource management within a procedurally generated world.

Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!

Why similar: Transportation 27.1% ★, Simulation 21.5%, Trains 16.8% ★, Management 15.5%, Strategy 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that defined the genre of transport management and remains highly influential for its network-building mechanics.

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

Why similar: Transportation 40.5% ★, Trains 16.4% ★, Management 16%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While more puzzle-oriented, it requires careful planning of track layouts and resource delivery to succeed.

Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!

Why similar: Transportation 39% ★, City Builder 13%, Trains 11.1% ★, Management 10.2%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: It introduces modern multiplayer and creative features to the classic train management formula.

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 33%, Simulation 15.7%, Management 15.4%, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder offers extensive tools for infrastructure planning and road network design.

Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.

Why similar: Transportation 32% ★, City Builder 12.2%, Management 12.1%, Trains 11.4% ★, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logistics of moving goods through a growing transport network.

Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Why similar: City Builder 26.1%, Management 15.4%, Transportation 13.7% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Economy 11%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the economic and political management of a city, which complements the transit planning experience.

Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.

Why similar: Transportation 32.4% ★, Trains 13.2% ★, Simulation 10.4%, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a sandbox approach to building and managing train networks in a 3D environment.

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 27.3%, Transportation 18.4% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.4%

Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.

Why similar: Transportation 34% ★, Management 12.7%, City Builder 10.9%, Trains 10.4% ★, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward management game that tasks players with building efficient routes to connect growing cities.

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Transportation 36.9% ★, Management 17.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 14%, City Builder 10.6%

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Transportation 27.5% ★, Trains 20.6% ★, Management 16.4%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 15.8%

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 19.5%, Management 18.6%, Transportation 17.9% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 10.1%

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 26.9%, Management 20.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Economy 12%, Sandbox 11.8%

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 40.9%, Simulation 24.5%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

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 35.7%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 9.4%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 32.1%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 7.7%

In the world of A-Train, people gather around stations, gradually developing the surrounding town. What kind of railroad will you create? How will you develop the town? All these choices and more are yours to make.

Why similar: Transportation 26.6% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 9.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.

Why similar: Simulation 26.3%, Transportation 25.9% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Trains 12.2% ★, Management 9.6%

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 42.4%, Strategy 18.1%, Simulation 13.2%, Management 8.7%, Economy 7.8%

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 47.3% ★, Management 14.1%, Simulation 12%, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%

A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges

Why similar: Transportation 27.9% ★, Simulation 19.5%, City Builder 17.3%, Management 15.9%, Strategy 12.9%

My Train Arrives is a railway construction simulation game. Build railroads, open new routes for trains. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the game.

Why similar: Transportation 34.4% ★, Simulation 13%, City Builder 12.7%, Trains 11.6% ★, Management 10.3%

Polish railway simulator emphasizing multiplayer and realism. Become a train driver, operating faithfully recreated trains, or a dispatcher, managing traffic and signalling equipment at your post. Cooperate online, build stations in the editor, and join railway enthusiasts!

Why similar: Transportation 36.6% ★, Trains 21.6% ★, Simulation 20.4%, Management 11.5%, Building 5.4%

Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...

Why similar: Management 39.8%, Trains 24.2% ★, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 9.6%, Economy 6.7%

Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!

Why similar: Simulation 34.5%, Strategy 27.5%, Management 22.4%, Economy 15.7%

Relive the pioneering spirit of the Golden Age of Steam by establishing your own railroad empire across 19th century North America. Bring settlements together, produce and trade goods and develop new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. Want more? RAILROAD CORPORATION 2 Out Now!

Why similar: Transportation 32.9% ★, Management 14.8%, Trains 14.6% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 7.9%

Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!

Why similar: Trains 29.8% ★, Management 24.5%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 13.9%, Economy 12.4%

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Why similar: Transportation 17.8% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Trains 14.8% ★, Management 12%, Simulation 10.3%

Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Simulation 19.7%, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 11.2%

The All-in-One Simulation! Drive highly detailed and licensed real buses & trams, build and design your own transport company, and grow your network in a European-inspired city.

Why similar: Transportation 63.8% ★, Simulation 26.7%, Sandbox 8.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Modern transport sim game combining realistic simulation with indie game style, old-school grid environment, newest features, and modern transport options. Transport a wide variety of cargo and passengers over road, rail, and water, and create your own transport company!

Why similar: Transportation 48.2% ★, Management 15.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 9.3%, Trains 8.2% ★

Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Why similar: Transportation 44.1% ★, Trains 15.8% ★, Management 14.8%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 8.1%

City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level

Why similar: City Builder 30%, Simulation 28.6%, Strategy 22.5%, Management 12.5%, Building 5.9%

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 35.1% ★, City Builder 17%, Management 10.4%, Trains 7.8% ★, Sandbox 7.3%

Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.

Why similar: City Builder 24%, Simulation 20.9%, Strategy 15.4%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 9.8%

As president of a train company, lead city growth to make your transport business prosper. The retro style, square grid map, and complete tutorials are easy on the newcomer, but veterans will find a challenge with advanced resource management, research, and the passage of time.

Why similar: Transportation 27.8% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 9.1%, Trains 8.6% ★

As the owner of a brand new railway company, you must manage train schedules, develop new railways, construct buildings, and manipulate the stock market on your quest to earn one trillion dollars.Have you ever wondered what it's like to manage a railway company, or how trains can impact the fate of an entire city?

Why similar: Transportation 30.6% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Management 11.3%, Trains 10.6% ★, Sandbox 8.3%

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 29%, Simulation 15.7%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 12.4%, Sandbox 11.7%