Games Like Cities XL Platinum

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 62.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Management 7.7%, Sandbox 6.5%, Strategy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive modern city-builder that captures the same scale and road-based construction freedom as the seed game.

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 56.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This sequel expands on the original with more advanced simulation, deeper economic systems, and improved urban planning tools.

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 48.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the gold standard for classic city-building, it shares the same focus on regional planning and infrastructure management.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 65.4%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 7.6%, Economy 4.9%, Sandbox 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers unparalleled depth in production chains and economic management within a beautiful, sprawling city-building framework.

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 48.6%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 10.5%, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex logistics and economic simulation in the genre, perfect for players who love the management side of city building.

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 52.1%, Simulation 15.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Strategy 7.5%, Management 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines traditional city-building with complex supply chain management and a focus on large-scale urban growth.

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 56.6%, Simulation 12.9%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Blends city-building with political simulation and island management, offering a unique twist on the genre.

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: City Builder 40.9%, Simulation 24.5%, Management 12.8%, Strategy 8.5%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Specializes in public transit management, which is a core component of the urban planning experience in the seed game.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 50%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 11%, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on neighborhood-based growth and resource management without the need for traditional grid-based zoning.

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: City Builder 44.9%, Simulation 18.5%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the transportation networks that drive city growth, mirroring the logistical challenges found in the seed game.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 63.1%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 6.9%, Management 6.8%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique gridless building system that allows for organic, realistic city growth.

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 66.7%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 4.4%, Economy 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a futuristic take on the city-building genre with deep economic simulation and environmental management.

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 53.2%, Simulation 13%, Management 10%, Sandbox 8.9%, Economy 6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the intersection of economic policy, taxation, and city management.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 67.8%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 6.9%, Sandbox 6.2%, Management 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A pure city-builder focused on population management and survival through harsh seasons.

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: City Builder 40%, Simulation 17.9%, Management 16.1%, Sandbox 11.7%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers incredibly detailed building tools and management systems that appeal to players who enjoy the creative side of construction.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 72.7%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6.8%, Management 5.8%, Building 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes city-builder that emphasizes survival, moral choices, and efficient resource allocation.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 59.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces innovative water-management mechanics that force players to plan their city layout around environmental constraints.

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 56.3%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A direct iteration of the Cities XL formula, offering a familiar experience for fans of the series.

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 43.9%, Simulation 18.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features advanced building mechanics and park management that allow for immense creative control.

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 47.7%, Simulation 14.8%, Management 14.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Economy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a deep focus on industrial production chains and economic logistics.

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

Why similar: Simulation 27.5%, Management 23.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical city management, requiring careful planning of logistics and tenant needs.

SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!

Why similar: City Builder 63.8%, Simulation 25%, Strategy 9.9%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that captures the charm and core mechanics of traditional city-building.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: City Builder 70.8%, Simulation 14.5%, Strategy 8.8%, Management 2.9%, Sandbox 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that emphasizes colony management and infrastructure maintenance.

Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.

Why similar: City Builder 63.4%, Simulation 17.5%, Management 8.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Sandbox 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes population needs and societal 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: Management 46.9%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 18.2%, Economy 6.6%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that shares the economic and logistical focus of the seed game.

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 61.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 5.9%, Building 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: An ecological city-builder that focuses on vertical construction and resource sustainability.

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 43.9%, Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 8.8%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on urban planning and infrastructure management with a modern, clean aesthetic.

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 55.8%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Management 7.1%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A political-focused city builder that emphasizes economic simulation and policy-making.

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 49.2%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 5.9%

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 51.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Management 7.2%

Here's your chance to make it big in the Big Apple... New York City, the city that never sleeps! Go for broke building your own Manhattan empire, creating and customizing over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a media conglomerate, open a lucrative Broadway theater - the choices are endless.

Why similar: City Builder 52.6%, Simulation 33.4%, Management 14%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a business empire within a city, emphasizing economic growth and development.

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 61.6%, Simulation 13.6%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 6.5%, Sandbox 5.5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 37%, Simulation 30.4%, Management 15%, Strategy 6%, Sandbox 5.7%

Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.

Why similar: City Builder 62.7%, Simulation 25.2%, Strategy 12.1%

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: City Builder 29.1%, Simulation 22.2%, Management 16.2%, Strategy 12.6%, Sandbox 7.8%

Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

Why similar: City Builder 55%, Simulation 26.8%, Strategy 13.8%, Building 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 63.2%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 8.6%, Management 6.3%, Economy 4.2%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: City Builder 41.2%, Simulation 15.2%, Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, Strategy 6.8%

Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.

Why similar: City Builder 52%, Simulation 17.3%, Management 8.9%, Strategy 8.2%, Sandbox 5%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Simulation 20.9%, Management 19.1%, Sandbox 8%, Strategy 5.8%

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: City Builder 47.5%, Simulation 17.3%, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 5.9%

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Why similar: City Builder 48.1%, Simulation 12.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 11.2%, Strategy 6.3%

From barren land to towering metropolis, every decision you make shapes the destiny of your city. Industrial flow, global trade, surging land values, and growing wealth, offers deep management gameplay, perfect for players who love strategic city-building and economic simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 57.7%, Simulation 17.8%, Sandbox 12%, Economy 6.6%, Building 4.7%

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 59.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 7.5%, Economy 6.1%

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 57.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Economy 5.6%

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

Why similar: Simulation 30.1%, Management 22.9%, Sandbox 17.7%, City Builder 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 55.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 8.5%, Economy 5.5%

TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.

Why similar: City Builder 60%, Simulation 17.1%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 5.3%

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: City Builder 51.4%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 12.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 5.5%

Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Simulation 23%, Management 14.8%, Sandbox 10.2%, Strategy 9.6%

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: City Builder 41.1%, Simulation 20.5%, Management 14.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Economy 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 58.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 4.9%

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 43.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 6.8%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 67.4%, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 6.8%, Management 4.1%

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 48.2%, Simulation 14%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.4%, Strategy 6.3%

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: Simulation 24.5%, City Builder 24.4%, Management 16.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 7.1%

Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.

Why similar: City Builder 55.7%, Simulation 14.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Strategy 5.7%, Economy 5.6%

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: City Builder 44.3%, Simulation 37%, Management 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%, Building 3.4%