Games Like Cities in Motion

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 21.3% ★, Trains 20.5% ★, Management 14.3%, Simulation 13.4%, City Builder 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most comprehensive modern experience for managing multi-modal transportation networks across different eras.

Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.

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

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands on the original with improved road building and dynamic day-night cycles that affect commuter behavior.

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 25% ★, Trains 15.1% ★, Management 14.5%, City Builder 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides a highly realistic, map-based approach to planning and building transit lines that mirrors the core appeal of the seed game.

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: Trains 21.5% ★, Transportation 17.2% ★, Management 15.1%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the complex logic and dispatching side of railway management, perfect for those who enjoy the technical aspects of transit planning.

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: Trains 36.7% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Management 17.1%, Transportation 15.5% ★, Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It distills the essence of transit network design into a minimalist, puzzle-like experience focused on efficiency and capacity.

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 32% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Management 14.7%, Transportation 9.6% ★, Economy 9%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual predecessor to the Transport Fever series, it captures the classic feel of early transport management games.

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: Trains 22.2% ★, Transportation 20.5% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Management 13%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: It uniquely blends city-building with a heavy emphasis on train-based logistics and network expansion.

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 24.5%, Management 21.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Economy 14.6%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features an incredibly deep logistics and transportation simulation that requires careful planning of every aspect of city infrastructure.

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: Trains 22.1% ★, Transportation 20.8% ★, Management 13.5%, Simulation 11.3%, City Builder 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at providing a polished, visually appealing experience centered on building and managing complex rail networks.

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: Trains 25.9% ★, Management 16.8%, Simulation 14.7%, Transportation 12.4% ★, Economy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a strong focus on the economic and strategic side of building a rail empire across historical landscapes.

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: Trains 26.9% ★, Transportation 23% ★, Management 16.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines transport tycoon mechanics with a unique train-building system that rewards efficient route planning.

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 36.4%, Simulation 19.5%, Management 18.3%, Economy 9%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: While a broader city-builder, its transit management tools are industry-leading and essential for any fan of urban planning.

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: Trains 19.5% ★, Management 17.5%, City Builder 16.1%, Transportation 15.4% ★, Simulation 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to the management of individual transit stations and the flow of commuters within them.

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: Trains 29.9% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Management 15.4%, Transportation 8.5% ★, Economy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed, open-source transport simulation that offers deep mechanics for those who want maximum control over their networks.

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: Trains 21.1% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, Management 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-source classic that set the standard for all modern transport and logistics simulation games.

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 24.3% ★, Trains 23% ★, Management 15.7%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a global transportation company, requiring players to balance routes and vehicle types on a world map.

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 24.2% ★, Trains 23.7% ★, Management 15.5%, Simulation 9.8%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This logistics-heavy simulation allows for massive transport networks in a charming, blocky sandbox 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 26.9%, Simulation 18.3%, Management 16.2%, Transportation 12.8% ★, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The modern evolution of urban planning, featuring advanced traffic AI and expanded public transportation options.

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 31.8% ★, Transportation 24.9% ★, Management 18.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the challenge of route planning into a series of engaging, puzzle-like logistics scenarios.

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

Why similar: Trains 29.9% ★, Simulation 23.7%, Management 16.2%, Transportation 15.3% ★, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title from the creator of Transport Tycoon that remains a benchmark for pure transport management gameplay.

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 23.6% ★, Trains 16.6% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Management 13%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges players to manage traffic and logistics in a futuristic city-building setting where road congestion is a primary hurdle.

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: Management 21.4%, City Builder 17.3%, Simulation 14%, Economy 13.4%, Transportation 11.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: While focused on production, the core gameplay relies heavily on building efficient transportation networks to move goods.

The ultimate railway hobby for more than 15 years! From historic steam locomotives to modern high-speed and heavy freight trains, and routes around the world, Train Simulator Classic is the simulation made by railfans for railfans.

Why similar: Trains 57.2% ★, Simulation 31.8%, Transportation 4.8% ★, Sandbox 1.7%, City Builder 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on the realistic operation of trains, appealing to those who want to experience the transit systems they design.

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: Trains 24.8% ★, Management 22.2%, City Builder 14.5%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: While it focuses on factory automation, the core of the game is building complex, efficient transport networks to move resources.

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 37%, Simulation 30.4%, Management 15%, Strategy 6%, Sandbox 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a large-scale city-building experience with a focus on infrastructure and road network management.

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: Trains 37.3% ★, Management 35.8%, Simulation 9.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Economy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title remains a gold standard for its blend of economic management and rail network construction.

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

Why similar: Management 36.7%, Simulation 27.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Economy 7.5%, City Builder 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the vertical management of transit and people flow within a single massive structure.

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 30.3%, Trains 22.6% ★, Transportation 15.2% ★, Strategy 11.8%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic logistics management game that emphasizes the growth of transport networks throughout the industrial age.

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 26.9% ★, Management 23.5%, Simulation 23.4%, Strategy 11.2%, City Builder 10.9%

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: Trains 35.9% ★, Management 21.9%, Simulation 19.5%, Strategy 7.4%, City Builder 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows players to design and manage the daily operations of a busy transit hub.

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: Trains 21.7% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, City Builder 14%, Management 13.3%, Economy 9.3%

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 44.2% ★, Management 21.2%, Simulation 12.8%, Economy 12.2%, Strategy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible and fun take on train network management that prioritizes smooth gameplay and economic growth.

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 30.4%, Simulation 27%, Economy 20.2%, Sandbox 6.8%, Strategy 6.7%

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: Trains 26.1% ★, Transportation 20.3% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Management 11.5%, Economy 8.6%

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 41.2%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Economy 11.2%, Management 11%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 23.4% ★, Management 19.8%, City Builder 14.8%, Simulation 14.2%, Economy 11.1%

For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.

Why similar: Transportation 26.4% ★, Trains 26% ★, Management 17.5%, Simulation 17.3%, Economy 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 24.5%, Management 23.8%, Economy 16.3%, Simulation 15.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 30.3%, Simulation 19.9%, Management 18.4%, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 6%

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 21.7% ★, Trains 21% ★, Management 15%, Simulation 11.7%, City Builder 9.9%

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 24.8%, Management 19%, Simulation 15.9%, Economy 15.5%, Transportation 9.2% ★

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: Trains 27.6% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Transportation 10.5% ★

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 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.3%, Trains 16.1% ★, Management 14.7%, Simulation 11.7%

STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.

Why similar: Trains 27.4% ★, Management 16.3%, Transportation 14% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 8.3%

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: Trains 31.2% ★, Transportation 27.7% ★, Management 17.1%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 5.6%

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 25.3% ★, Trains 22.7% ★, Management 12.2%, City Builder 12%, Simulation 10.1%

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

Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Management 21.6%, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Economy 6.7%

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: Trains 22.6% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, Management 14.1%, Simulation 12.1%, City Builder 10.9%

Feel the power of simulation in your hands. Experience immense velocity and express unrivalled creativity with Train Sim World 4! Expand your rail hobby and discover the raw emotion of driving a diverse array of iconic routes and trains. From training center to mountain pass, this is your journey.

Why similar: Trains 48.5% ★, Transportation 28.6% ★, Simulation 19.5%, Sandbox 2.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 34.8% ★, Management 19.2%, Simulation 17.3%, Economy 15.2%, Sandbox 7.5%

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

Why similar: Simulation 39.2%, Management 24%, Economy 19.2%, Strategy 17.6%

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 24.1%, Management 22.7%, Simulation 16.4%, Economy 15.9%, Sandbox 8.6%

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: Trains 26.3% ★, Transportation 18.7% ★, Simulation 13.2%, City Builder 10.9%, Economy 9.7%

Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Why similar: Trains 39.8% ★, Simulation 21.1%, Management 17.3%, Economy 10%, Strategy 8.3%

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: Trains 23% ★, Transportation 21.6% ★, Simulation 16%, Management 12%, City Builder 11.3%

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: Trains 21.8% ★, Transportation 19.9% ★, City Builder 16%, Management 13.5%, Economy 10.1%

Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.

Why similar: Trains 26.6% ★, Transportation 23.9% ★, Management 13.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Economy 9.7%

Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.

Why similar: Trains 38.1% ★, Transportation 29.2% ★, Simulation 16.9%, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 5%

Freight Tycoon is an economic simulation game which challenges players’ management skills. It puts one into the shoes of an owner of a cargo transportation company. One has to evaluate the profitability of contracts, contact customers, and appoint drivers to deliver goods.

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 23.6%, Economy 17.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%

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 49.6% ★, Simulation 40.6%, Sandbox 7%, Singleplayer 2.8%