Games Like Cities in Motion 2

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

Why similar: Transportation 26.9% ★, Simulation 19.7%, Management 15.7%, City Builder 13.2%, Trains 8.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct predecessor, offering a foundational mass transit simulation experience focusing heavily on bus, tram, and metro lines.

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 33.9% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Trains 10% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers an expansive transportation tycoon experience where you build intricate networks across land, air, and water to connect growing cities.

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 32.3% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Trains 11% ★, Management 10.6%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city builder where the entire economy and expansion revolve around designing complex rail-based passenger and cargo transport networks.

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 37.3% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Management 11.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Trains 7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A realistic management sandbox focused entirely on designing, scheduling, and scaling massive rail transport networks on real-world map data.

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 18.5% ★, Transportation 17.5% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Management 14%, City Builder 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic logistics and transport management challenge centered around optimizing routes between growing towns.

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 31.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Management 10.7%, Trains 10.5% ★, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original predecessor to Transport Fever 2 challenges you to establish thriving transport empires from the 1850s onward.

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 21.5% ★, Management 15%, Trains 14.1% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Set in the American industrial era, this game tasks you with building an extensive rail network and managing stations, trains, and economic competition.

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 37.7% ★, Trains 13.9% ★, Management 13.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This strategy simulation combines transport company management with economic growth and tile-based track building through different historical eras.

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 32.3% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Management 10.8%, Trains 10.8% ★, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It refines the classic railway tycoon formula with smoother track-building mechanics, expanded historical maps, and detailed train management.

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 30.9% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Trains 11.2% ★, Management 10.2%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A micro-management game where you design, dispatch, and automate complex railway dispatching systems just like a real transit operator.

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 28.3%, Transportation 18.7% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It expands significantly on urban simulation mechanics and provides detailed traffic and transit management for sprawling modern metropolises.

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 18.1%, Trains 16.9% ★, Transportation 16.1% ★, Management 14.1%, City Builder 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply complex and open-source transport simulation game focused on moving passengers, mail, and goods across intricately planned networks.

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 40.5%, Simulation 15.2%, Management 14.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: While a broader city builder, it shares the same urban planning DNA and features robust public transportation design tools.

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 24.4% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Management 14.4%, Trains 9.7% ★, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This management game focuses directly on designing and optimizing bustling underground metro stations to keep commuters moving smoothly.

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 39.3% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Trains 11.1% ★, Management 9.9%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A charming puzzle-strategy game about building and optimizing railway networks under tight logistical constraints.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 32.8% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Management 14.5%, Simulation 10%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Though focused on aviation, it shares the same detailed resource and infrastructure management gameplay loop as urban transit simulators.

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

Why similar: Transportation 28.1% ★, Simulation 21.4%, Trains 16.7% ★, Management 15.6%, Strategy 13%

Why You'll Like It: The spiritual ancestor to modern transport tycoon games, focusing heavily on building rail, road, and air networks for economic dominance.

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 41.8%, Simulation 24.2%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 8.5%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A traditional city builder that emphasizes urban zoning, road layouts, and traffic management on a massive scale.

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 20.2%, Transportation 18.1% ★, Management 18.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic tycoon game that shares the economic supply-chain focus required to keep cities supplied and growing.

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 36.7%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Sandbox 10.3%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features heavy city-building and infrastructure management elements wrapped in a political simulation setting.

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 30.5% ★, Management 11.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Trains 10.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential open-source transport tycoon game where you build complex rail, road, air, and ship networks to dominate the economy.

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 28.7%, Management 17.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore economic and city-building simulator with an intense focus on public transport, logistics, and infrastructure planning.

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 34.1%, Simulation 15.7%, Management 14.9%, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An updated iteration of the classic city builder centered on balancing urban growth, infrastructure, and citizen demands.

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 38.1% ★, Management 12.8%, Trains 11.3% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management strategy game where you build and run a nationwide logistics company competing for passenger and freight dominance.

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 43.5%, Strategy 17.8%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 8.4%, Economy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A complex strategy city builder where resource logistics and supply chain management dictate your success.

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: Sandbox 19.8%, Management 17.8%, City Builder 15.9%, Trains 12.1% ★, Strategy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: An automation and logistics masterpiece that satisfies the same urge for optimizing complex transport and supply networks.

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Management 23%, Simulation 21.5%, Sandbox 14.5%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: While an amusement park simulator, it shares the intricate pathfinding, crowd management, and transportation design elements of CIM2.

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 22.9%, Trains 22.7% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 13.2%, City Builder 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to design and manage bustling passenger train terminals, focusing on pedestrian traffic flow and station amenities.

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Simulation 15.9%, Management 13.9%, Transportation 13.3% ★, Strategy 13.1%

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 29.8% ★, Trains 13.2% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Simulation 10.6%, Sandbox 7.8%

Transport Fever 3, the ultimate transport tycoon returns, bigger, deeper, and more dynamic than ever. Build the routes that transform the world across land, sea, and sky using over a century of evolving transport options. Design and build your ideal transport network.

Why similar: Transportation 35.4% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Management 11.6%, Trains 9.7% ★, Simulation 9.7%

A sandbox strategy game. Build your nation's transport network, grow your economy, develop your cities, and raise your people's prosperity. Every map is procedurally generated and unique.

Why similar: Transportation 28.4% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 10.1%, Management 9.8%

Build a railway network across China. Connect cities, run local and express passenger services, and balance fares, capacity and upkeep. Meet weekly goals in Challenge mode or shape your own network with unlimited funds in Sandbox.

Why similar: Transportation 39.9% ★, Trains 15% ★, Management 13.9%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 8%

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 28.2% ★, Trains 20.6% ★, Management 15.9%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15.6%

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 32.8% ★, Trains 13.3% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 8.8%

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 27.2%, Simulation 23.5%, Economy 15.4%, Transportation 11.4% ★, Sandbox 10.9%

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

Why similar: Management 31.3%, Simulation 22.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8%

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 27.8%, Management 19.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 11.3%

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 34.3% ★, Management 12.3%, City Builder 11.3%, Trains 10.4% ★, Simulation 9.3%

City Transport Simulator 2026 combines a detailed bus simulator and tram simulator in one game. Drive realistic buses and trams, create routes and timetables, manage your fleet, and build your own public transport network in a dynamic European-inspired city.

Why similar: Transportation 41.7% ★, City Builder 14%, Trains 13.3% ★, Management 12%, Simulation 11.6%

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 32.3% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Management 11.7%, Trains 11.4% ★, Simulation 9.8%

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 37.3% ★, Management 17.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 13.9%, City Builder 10.8%

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 26.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%

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: Trains 27.2% ★, Management 26.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 14.6%, Building 10.7%

Advanced city simulator with minimalist "Paint" graphics. Build complex intersections, edit traffic rules, and solve traffic jams without melting your PC.

Why similar: Transportation 32.7% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Simulation 18.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 9.6%

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

Why similar: Transportation 28.2% ★, Simulation 19.5%, City Builder 17.9%, Management 15.5%, Strategy 12.9%

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 33.3% ★, Trains 14.7% ★, Management 14.4%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 7.9%

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 26.4%, Transportation 26.3% ★, Strategy 18.3%, Trains 12.3% ★, Management 9.3%

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 34.7% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Simulation 12.9%, Trains 11.6% ★, Management 10%

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 26.9%, Management 14.9%, Transportation 14.2% ★, Simulation 12.1%, Economy 10.3%

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 48.2% ★, Management 13.8%, Simulation 12%, Sandbox 9.6%, Economy 9.2%

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 36.9% ★, Trains 21.7% ★, Simulation 20.3%, Management 11.1%, Building 5.5%

Starting from a single base airport, build your own airline. Establish routes, and fine-tune your pricing and service strategies; manage flight schedules, your staff, your fleet, public reputation, and more. Ultimately, grow from a regional carrier into a global aviation network.

Why similar: Transportation 49.3% ★, Simulation 21.7%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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 48.9% ★, Management 15%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Trains 8.3% ★

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%

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 35.3% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Management 10.1%, Trains 7.8% ★, Sandbox 7.4%

TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.

Why similar: Simulation 35.3%, Management 30.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Economy 16.5%

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 30.8% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Management 10.9%, Trains 10.6% ★, Sandbox 8.4%

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 24.5%, Simulation 19.9%, Sandbox 14.4%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 11%