- #1 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
97% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Trains 24.9% ★, Steampunk 17.5% ★, Survival 9.7%, Resource Management 8.7%, Base Building 7.9%
- #2 Havenrail
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Punchers
Windows
“The Last Train of Humanity” is a survival strategy game. Manage your train, oversee resources, and make tough decisions that determine the fate of your passengers. Will they survive the perilous journey?
Why similar: Trains 29.2% ★, Steampunk 18.8% ★, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 10.8%, Base Building 7.4%
- #3 Frozen Ship
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nionetix
Windows
Frozen Ship is a narrative adventure set in the harsh conditions of a post-apocalyptic world, combining open-world survival with managing an entire mobile city.
Why similar: Snow 31% ★, Dystopian 13.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 9.1%
- #4 DOOMTRAIN
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pizza Club Games
Windows
Hell has gone CORPORATE! DemonCorp's evil executives force demons into eternal overtime. Armed with the powerful DOOMTRAIN, unionize Hell and free the demon workers. Build a medieval steampunk town, upgrade your train and turrets, unionize demon workers, and defeat DemonCorp's corporate overlords!
Why similar: Trains 30.2% ★, Steampunk 18.8% ★, Resource Management 15.9%, City Builder 9.6%, Simulation 7.4%
- #5 Automatrain
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Esben Jon Jensen
Windows
Automatrain is a game about building automated railroads and industry, in a world governed by an omnipotent AI. Manage production and traffic to unlock more trains, factories and advanced gameplay features.
Why similar: Trains 36.9% ★, Steampunk 23.4% ★, Resource Management 14.6%, Base Building 6.1%, Management 6%
- #6 EverestBaseCamp
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: darkrio Studio
Windows · Mac
Manage Everest Base Camp, prepare climbers for dangerous expeditions, and guide your team from early route pushes toward an eventual summit attempt.
Why similar: Snow 26.7% ★, Resource Management 18.6%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 11.9%
- #7 Frostpunk: 1886
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Steampunk 24.8% ★, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 13.7%, City Builder 9.2%, Base Building 8.9%
- #8 Frostliner
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nathan Gane
Windows · Linux
The moon shattered. The world froze. Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost.
Why similar: Trains 33.1% ★, Snow 15.8% ★, Resource Management 13%, Survival 10.2%, City Builder 8.1%
- #9 Railblazer
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Buff Studio
Windows
As a veteran train operator, you must manage the train. What decisions will you make to confront the enemies? Command the train in real-time as it desperately crosses through the chaos of the storm. Manage resources and the train to survive the treacherous tracks and make it to the end.
Why similar: Trains 29.2% ★, Resource Management 17.4%, Survival 15.6%, Management 10.1%, Base Building 9.1%
- #10 Frostpunk 2
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,488 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.
Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Resource Management 19.6%, Steampunk 15.6% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Snow 8.8% ★
- #11 Frost Loop
90% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Digx7 Studios
Windows
Frost Loop is a survival city builder set on a train in the snow. Build, Manage, and Pilot the train carrying the last of humanity in a world of snow and storms. Can the warmth of humanity survive on the run? Or is it destined to go cold.
Why similar: Trains 38.5% ★, Snow 21.6% ★, Resource Management 15.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 5.4%
- #12 Frostpunk
89% matchVery Positive93% of 135,886 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Steampunk 25.7% ★, Resource Management 18.1%, Survival 17.4%, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 5.8%
- #13 Subzero Tides
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Dystopian 22.9%, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 10.4%, Building 6.8%
- #14 Train Station Simulator
88% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 52.7% ★, Management 14.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Resource Management 6.3%, Strategy 5.8%
- #15 Art of the Rail
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.
Why similar: Trains 46.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Management 11.6%, City Builder 9.1%, Simulation 6.2%
- #16 Simutrans
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 664 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 51.7% ★, Management 11.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Resource Management 6.9%, Building 6.2%
- #17 Dark Rail
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Steam Veil Games
Windows
Turn-based management roguelike. Command the Inquisition and rule an industrial city on the empire’s edge. Use your train to meet prisoner shipment quotas by hunting heretics and slaying magical beasts. Produce supplies, contain revolt, and sacrifice prisoners to stop the madness.
Why similar: Trains 31.8% ★, Steampunk 22.3% ★, Resource Management 17.8%, Base Building 10.3%, Management 10%
- #18 Blockville
85% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: SCT
Windows
Blockville is a relaxing, funny, stylized city building simulation game where you can build a city inspired by the toys you all used to play with as a child. A mix of modern day city building sim with a comedy twist. Now you have an excuse to play again as an adult in this stylized city sim.
Why similar: Trains 28.9% ★, Resource Management 15.8%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Management 10%
- #19 Train Maze Master
84% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Toast Paradox Studio
Windows
Navigate steam trains through mazes of train track! Challenge your brain to solve intricate maze puzzles. Train Maze Master is your ticket to vintage steam locomotives galore and train track maze heaven!
Why similar: Trains 45.8% ★, Steampunk 30.8% ★, Management 11.7%, Simulation 5.9%, Strategy 5.2%
- #20 Belts of Iron
82% matchPositive93% of 41 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Trains 25.7% ★, Resource Management 17.1%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 8.7%, Survival 8.6%
- #21 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
84% matchVery Positive81% of 1,753 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: Trains 29.3% ★, Resource Management 14.7%, Management 11.9%, City Builder 10%, Base Building 9.7%
- #22 Cold Engine
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Castaways Games
Windows
Operate a corporate train through a world of endless cold. Choose your routes, deliver mysterious cargo, upgrade your train, and make hard decisions to survive the storms, meet the quota, and chase the next promise that the system will let you go.
Why similar: Trains 59.1% ★, Management 13.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 8.8%, Atmospheric 7.4%
- #23 Frostrain 2
81% matchVery Positive92% of 195 reviews2026
Dev: nemonan
Windows
Become the last conductor and rule over the final train society in a frozen world. Gather, expand, and forge your train while building powerful synergies with mighty artifacts. Your position—and the safety of your passengers—now rests in your hands.
Why similar: Trains 40.7% ★, Snow 26.9% ★, Resource Management 11.6%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 4.8%
- #24 Factory on a Train
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Mine, craft and extend your Factory on a Train! As you find more resources and unlock increasingly complex recipes, your train grows and your production increases. Choose the right cars to face the challenges of a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Why similar: Trains 40.9% ★, Resource Management 15.2%, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 9.8%, Management 8%
- #25 Travelling Home
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PuluCat
Windows
Drive, upgrade, and remodel a house on a train as you explore a stunning and mysterious post-apocalyptic world.
Why similar: Trains 38% ★, Steampunk 23.9% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 7%, Management 6.7%
- #26 Forgotten Vale
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rospeath Studios
Windows
Cast into an idyllic wilderness, will you endure? A sandbox city-building game featuring a deceptively cheerful world: build freely —no grids— plus a fully simulated economy, intricate production chains, deep research tree, and growth you can feel. Can your people survive the winter?
Why similar: Snow 25.2% ★, Survival 12.3%, City Builder 11.2%, Difficult 10.8%, Base Building 10%
- #27 Iron Roads
79% matchPositive84% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Linux
Optimise and grow your railways in this challenging train management game. Instead of waiting for money to arrive, earn resource tokens by refining your network until your towns are thriving. Avoid queues, jams, or angry passengers to be recognised as the unsung train hero you know you are.
Why similar: Trains 41.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 10.1%, Building 7.6%
- #28 Island of Embers
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: EvilStar Studios
Windows
Build a human settlement on a volcanic island plagued by fireballs, earthquakes, and ash. Control golems, unlock buildings through research, and face a living landscape that wants you gone. Can your home survive, or will the volcano erase it?
Why similar: Survival 17.8%, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 13.2%, Difficult 13.1%
- #29 Arcane Rings
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GameTide
Windows
Defend your imperial cities against the invasion of underworld mages! Rally survivors, mages and soldiers, strengthen your defenses and fight for survival in this epic tower defense fantasy.
Why similar: Steampunk 26.8% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Resource Management 10.6%, City Builder 9.5%
- #30 Distributrains
76% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Oddwarg
Windows · Linux
A railroad simulation game with roguelike elements. Use resources wisely to expand your infrastructure and satisfy industries, contracts, citizens, and engines. Respond quickly to ever-changing circumstances and don't get kicked out of your office.
Why similar: Trains 51.4% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Survival 9.3%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 8.1%
- #31 Wasteland Train: Conductor
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jinye
Windows
Wasteland Train is a 2D train management strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic rail network. Command an expanding mobile base, trade between isolated cities, recover crystal cores, develop technology, and survive raids, broken tracks, acid rain, and toxic fog.
Why similar: Trains 42.3% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Survival 9.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Management 8.8%
- #32 The Pale Beyond
77% matchVery Positive89% of 2,210 reviews2023
Dev: Saltstone StudiosPub: Fellow Traveller
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
You didn’t ask to lead this expedition, but here you are. Stuck in the ice, Captain missing, miles from civilisation. Someone has to take charge. Manage your meagre resources, balance safety and morale, make the hard calls, and head in the only direction you can - through The Pale Beyond.
Why similar: Snow 28.3% ★, Resource Management 21.9%, Survival 18%, Difficult 12.1%, Atmospheric 6.5%
- #33 Bleak Frontier
78% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: Paladite Games, LLC
Windows
Bleak Frontier is a strategy / city builder game set in a frozen wasteland in the far future, 4087 AD. As the chosen leader of the first permanent settlement in almost a century, you must guide the last survivors of the human race towards an uncertain future. Welcome to the Bleak Frontier.
Why similar: Survival 16.7%, Dystopian 15.5%, Base Building 12.1%, City Builder 11.1%, Management 11%
- #34 Lost Heaven Station
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Trains 21.5% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 12.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #35 Ratopia
74% matchVery Positive88% of 4,734 reviews2025
Dev: Cassel Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Survival 16.4%, Difficult 14.6%, Resource Management 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Management 10.5%
- #36 Galaxy Scavengers
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Resource Management 20.9%, Survival 20.8%, Base Building 19.7%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 6.5%
- #37 Homeseek
73% matchMixed67% of 235 reviews2023
Dev: TrapticsPub: iterco
Windows
Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a resource-strapped Earth at the turn of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice you make becomes life or death.
Why similar: Dystopian 20.1%, Difficult 16.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Survival 12.8%, Base Building 10.5%
- #38 Lethis - Path of Progress
75% matchMixed68% of 1,214 reviews2015
Dev: Triskell Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
Why similar: Steampunk 40.6% ★, Resource Management 18.2%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 8.7%, Simulation 6.4%
- #39 Sweep Protocol
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dawson Games
Windows
Operate a remote military radar station while struggling to keep your family alive as an escalating invasion pushes your nation to the brink. Track incoming threats and manage scarce resources while balancing the needs of your loved ones. Every sweep matters. Every decision counts.
Why similar: Resource Management 24.4%, Dystopian 21.5%, Management 16.1%, Survival 12.2%, Strategy 10.4%
- #40 Airborne Kingdom
73% matchVery Positive87% of 2,385 reviews2022
Dev: The Wandering Band LLC
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
Why similar: Steampunk 26.8% ★, Resource Management 17.7%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 8.2%
- #41 OxyRail
71% matchVery Positive81% of 644 reviews2026
Dev: OxygenTech Limited
Windows
Oxygen Train is an open-world survival train game. Wake up in a world lacking oxygen. Chop trees, mine, gather resources, upgrade your unique train. Survive by planting, fishing, farming, exploring, fighting. Build your train kingdom. Supports 1-8 online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 34.5% ★, Snow 28.6% ★, Survival 15.4%, Base Building 10.5%, Building 7.2%
- #42 Railroad Tycoon 3
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,249 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 56.4% ★, Management 25%, Strategy 6.2%, Resource Management 5%, Simulation 4%
- #43 Times of Progress
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pressing Thumbs Games
Windows · Linux
Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Why similar: Trains 32.6% ★, Resource Management 21.6%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Management 8.3%
- #44 Steam To Electric
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Build and optimize your railway network in this elegant voxel rail tycoon. Transport passengers and goods, unlock crazy-but-real historical train inventions, and evolve from steam to electric. Easy to start, deep to master. From the creators of Station to Station and Town to City.
Why similar: Trains 48.2% ★, Resource Management 17.6%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.5%, Strategy 5.7%
- #45 Beneath the Snow Veil
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FODK Studio
Windows
"Beneath the Snow Veil" is an exploration survival game set in a frigid, post-apocalyptic world. Amid extreme weather and deadly cold, explore ruins, craft tools, repair and upgrade your shelter to withstand freezing temperatures, hunger, and lurking threats.
Why similar: Snow 38% ★, Survival 16.7%, Resource Management 14.3%, Management 9.2%, Atmospheric 7%
- #46 Stoplights
69% matchPositive89% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: Wicked Blobfish
Windows
Stoplights is a strategy simulation game about creating an efficient train network to support the growing needs of your cities. Make connections by building rails, control train routes with traffic signals to get essential resources where they need to be - in time.
Why similar: Trains 44.3% ★, Resource Management 18.1%, Management 12.5%, City Builder 8.1%, Simulation 6.6%
- #47 Substructure
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dubious DesignPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Harness the power of automation in this factory game set on a rogue planet in the far reaches of the solar system. Dig down and explore the depths of an alien world, exploit its resources across complex production chains, and travel towards the core to uncover its deepest secrets.
Why similar: Resource Management 19.6%, Trains 17.9% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Survival 14.5%, Management 9.9%
- #48 Choo Choo Defenders
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Tiny Find
Windows
Build your track, assemble your train and deliver cargo and carnage in equal amounts in this on-the-rails take on tower defense!
Why similar: Trains 40.9% ★, Steampunk 28.7% ★, Resource Management 14.1%, Base Building 10.9%, Strategy 4.9%
- #49 Kingdom: Classic
70% matchVery Positive91% of 22,639 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Resource Management 18.7%, Survival 16%, Base Building 14.9%, Management 11.4%, Simulation 8.4%
- #50 DarkSwitch
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 627 reviews2026
Dev: Cyber TemplePub: Cyber Temple Games LLC
Windows
DarkSwitch is a vertical survival city builder. Build a city on a great tree and defend it against the Fog. Face the challenges of limited real estate, scarce resources, and tough moral choices as you seek to uncover the mystery of the Shroud. The Tree Provides! The Tree Protects! The Tree Prevails!
Why similar: Resource Management 18.6%, Survival 16.5%, Base Building 11.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Difficult 9.8%
- #51 Sphere - Flying Cities
70% matchMixed50% of 242 reviews2022
Dev: mañana studiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.
Why similar: Dystopian 20%, Survival 15.8%, Resource Management 14.9%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 8.5%
- #52 Doomsday Train
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PAOGE
Windows
Doom falls and civilization collapses entirely. The roaming train becomes the last hope of mankind. You will take charge of the vehicle, manage and equip survivors, allocate food and daily tasks, collect resources to resist zombie swarms. The fate of everyone hinges on your decisions.
Why similar: Survival 18.5%, Dystopian 17.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 15.6%, Simulation 10.4%
- #53 Snow Vale
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fusion Iconic
Windows
| Can you survive on cold dangerous wastelands?
Why similar: Snow 40.7% ★, Survival 20.1%, Base Building 16.3%, Atmospheric 6.7%, Building 5.8%
- #54 Stonedeep
69% matchMixed46% of 105 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Resource Management 18.6%, Survival 16.6%, Base Building 15.3%, Difficult 10.3%, Management 9.5%
- #55 EverRail
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Aesir Interactive
Windows
A survival crafting adventure set in an infinite frozen world, where your train is your only refuge. Build and expand it into a moving fortress as you journey alone or with up to 8 players. Rescue survivors to stay alive, every loss costs a passenger. Stop for too long, and you risk losing it all.
Why similar: Trains 37.3% ★, Resource Management 16.4%, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 12.1%, Futuristic 6.3%
- #56 Cold Engines
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lich Studios
Windows
Cold Engines is an RTS where you need to survive in a harsh cold environment and defeat your enemy. Build a warm base and refuel your tanks. Steal your opponent's frozen or damaged wrecks and pull them to your base. Ambush and attack everyone while using the freezing world as your advantage.
Why similar: Snow 28.2% ★, Steampunk 19.7% ★, Dystopian 17.8%, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 12.1%
- #57 New Cycle
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,839 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Why similar: Survival 16.2%, Resource Management 15.4%, Base Building 11.9%, Difficult 11.3%, City Builder 10.9%
- #58 Oxygen: First Breath
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,658 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Resource Management 19.7%, Survival 18%, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 12.6%, Management 9.5%
- #59 Bounty Train
68% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,721 reviews2017
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 63.4% ★, Management 12.5%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 7.6%, Strategy 7%
- #60 Train Fever
68% matchMixed64% of 3,525 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 62.3% ★, Management 12.9%, Simulation 9%, City Builder 6.6%, Strategy 4.2%