- #1 Frost Loop
97% 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 35.9% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Snow 10.5% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Roguelite 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 29.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.6%
- #3 Lost Heaven Station
96% 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: City Builder 19.2%, Trains 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
- #4 Times of Progress
95% 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 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Resource Management 11.7%, Transportation 10.9% ★, Colony Sim 7.4%
- #5 Steam & Heather
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flag Hippo Games
Windows
A cosy railway management builder set in 19th-century Scotland. Shape the land, lay track, connect industries, and watch towns grow as steam reshapes the Scottish landscape.
Why similar: Trains 32.5% ★, City Builder 18%, Transportation 16.5% ★, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.5%
- #6 Iron Roads
94% 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 35.4% ★, Transportation 16.4% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Management 8.3%, Base Building 7.5%
- #7 Transport Fever 2
93% matchVery Positive90% of 31,979 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 66.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Trains 33.8% ★, Transportation 20.7% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Management 9.4%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #8 Stoplights
92% 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 37.5% ★, Transportation 19.6% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.3%
- #9 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
91% 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 27.2% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Transportation 12.5% ★, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 9.2%
- #10 Mini Settlers: Prologue
91% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist city builder, settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Trains 18.8% ★, Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Resource Management 10.3%
- #11 Transport Fever 3
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Trains 30.7% ★, Transportation 20.6% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 5.5%
- #12 Train World
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Turn Point Games
Windows
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 38.8% ★, Transportation 17.5% ★, City Builder 8.7%, Resource Management 8.1%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #13 Oxygen
89% matchMostly Positive72% of 892 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Oxygen is a survival city builder. 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 more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.1%, Survival 8.3%
- #14 Railroad Engineer
88% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build railroads, drive trains, collect resources, deliver goods, and grow cities.
Why similar: Trains 36.7% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 7.9%
- #15 Mars Rapid Transit
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Engineer a fast and efficient train network on Mars. Build a thriving business and grow a dynamic economy in this Transport and Economy Management game.
Why similar: Trains 33.2% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Colony Sim 11.6%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #16 Fio and the Doomed City
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Tower Defense 19.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 11.7%
- #17 Frostpunk 2
84% 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: City Builder 32.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Survival 12%, Strategy 6.8%
- #18 Endzone - A World Apart
85% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,918 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: City Builder 32.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Survival 11.4%, Colony Sim 10.6%, Base Building 9.1%
- #19 Toxic Trains
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Graphixela
Windows
Toxic Trains is a strategy simulation game about optimizing rail routes. Build tracks to transport passenger and freight trains to their destinations. Choose upgrades to modify the land and your network. Switch tracks to avoid collisions and spills. Can you keep the trains from exploding?
Why similar: Trains 34.3% ★, City Builder 22%, Transportation 15.2% ★, Resource Management 9.7%, Strategy 9.6%
- #20 Cargo Company
84% matchMixed58% of 72 reviews2022
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
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 37.9% ★, Transportation 19.6% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 5.7%
- #21 Oxygen: First Breath
82% 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: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #22 Zombie Cure Lab
81% matchMixed68% of 462 reviews2025
Dev: Thera Bytes GmbHPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 58%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.6%, City Builder 14.8%, Tower Defense 13.3%, Resource Management 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.8%
- #23 Beacon of Havoc
82% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Majao Games
Windows
Post-apocalyptic city builder, where you Build, Defend, and Thrive in a desolate landscape overrun by enemy attacks. Manage resources, production and manufacturing to expand your settlement.
Why similar: City Builder 29.9%, Tower Defense 23.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.3%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 7%
- #24 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Divinus Games
Windows · Mac
Sands of Supremacy is a singleplayer, side-scrolling strategy/resource management hybrid 2D game set in a desert landscape on an unknown, futuristic planet. The game combines survival, strategy, and resource management elements to create a challenging and engaging gameplay experience.
Why similar: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 17.2%, Tower Defense 16.3%, Survival 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8.6%
- #25 Sweet Transit
80% matchMixed68% of 1,256 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 30% ★, Transportation 16.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 6.9%
- #26 Wasteland Train: Conductor
79% 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 38.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 7%
- #27 Factory Town 2: Paradise
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A combination Town Builder + Factory Sim where you build a tropical island village, produce tons of goods, automate everything, and feed a giant sentient volcano in exchange for super powers!
Why similar: Trains 28.1% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Base Building 8.7%, Management 7.2%
- #28 Factory Town
78% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Trains 17.5% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 14.5%, Resource Management 11.2%, Transportation 10.7% ★
- #29 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
77% 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 29.1% ★, City Builder 17.6%, Colony Sim 15.2%, Base Building 7.3%, Management 7%
- #30 DOOMTRAIN
78% 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 34.7% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Tower Defense 17.7%, Resource Management 12.2%, Management 4.9%
- #31 MiniTrans
77% matchMixed53% of 19 reviews2024
Dev: DD Metaverse
Windows
MiniTrans is a city building and traffic simulation game. Players independently build main cities and satellite cities, develop metropolitan areas and city clusters, and build various transportation facilities between urban areas to transport commuters to earn taxes.
Why similar: Trains 35.1% ★, Transportation 21.7% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Management 7.8%, Resource Management 5.6%
- #32 Factory on a Train
76% 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 38.3% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.3%
- #33 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 204 reviews2021
Dev: ARTDINKPub: KOMODO
Windows
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: Trains 24.4% ★, City Builder 21.3%, Transportation 15.2% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8.8%
- #34 Quriocity
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 37 reviews2023
Dev: Oxeliz Pvt ltd
Windows · Mac
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: City Builder 23.3%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #35 Hellcrown
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Astral Hearts
Windows · Linux
You are dead. But your ghostly hand still commands. Hellcrown is a roguelite strategy game where every run unfolds into a chain of random stories, sieges, and consequences.
Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Tower Defense 18.8%, Colony Sim 12.6%, Roguelite 11.5%, Base Building 8.6%
- #36 STATIONflow
74% matchVery Positive86% of 502 reviews2020
Dev: DMM GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Why similar: Trains 34.8% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Transportation 10.3% ★, Base Building 9.2%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #37 The Blighted Frontier
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 8.9%, Resource Management 8.1%
- #38 Rise to Ruins
73% matchVery Positive88% of 7,752 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Tower Defense 23.2%, Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 8.2%, Survival 8%
- #39 Blockville
73% 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% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10%
- #40 Union Of Rivals
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2Play
Windows
Build the railroad from East to West across an untamed frontier. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements blocking your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. The rails are coming. Build, trade, or break them.
Why similar: Trains 25.1% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Colony Sim 16.8%, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 7.6%
- #41 Metroland
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anglia Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a transport tycoon in 1900s London. Expand transport lines, housing, and businesses to fund your transport empire. Make use of urban planning to create communities that will use your services.
Why similar: Trains 30.4% ★, Transportation 22% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Management 9.3%, Strategy 5.4%
- #42 A-Train PC Classic
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 151 reviews2016
Dev: ARTDINKPub: STUDIOARTDINK
Windows
As president of a train company, lead city growth to make your transport business prosper. The retro style, square grid map, and complete tutorials are easy on the newcomer, but veterans will find a challenge with advanced resource management, research, and the passage of time.
Why similar: Trains 26.9% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Transportation 16% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.5%
- #43 Drill Core
70% matchVery Positive85% of 2,404 reviews2025
Dev: Hungry Couch GamesPub: tinyBuild
Windows
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Corporate greed meets strategic planet-mining in Drill Core! Drill to the heart of planets while managing workers, researching cutting-edge tech, and fortifying against alien attacks. Will you prioritize efficiency and risk your workers' safety, or focus on defense for survival?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Tower Defense 19.7%, City Builder 18.9%, Roguelite 11.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #44 Art of the Rail
71% 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 47.9% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 9.9%, Strategy 6%
- #45 Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Flat Lab
Windows
Build a logistics empire in a grim cyberpunk world: lay tracks, optimize production and delivery chains, research technologies, and expand your influence. Corporations are the new gods, and the Market decides who survives.
Why similar: Trains 41.5% ★, Transportation 19.5% ★, City Builder 10%, Management 7.5%, Resource Management 6.1%
- #46 Iron Village
69% matchVery Positive89% of 65 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Chippy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.
Why similar: Trains 38.8% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Transportation 19.1% ★, Management 7.7%, Sandbox 4.4%
- #47 Endzone 2
69% matchMixed68% of 1,037 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: City Builder 21%, Colony Sim 19.1%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Survival 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #48 Sylox
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 26.1%, Tower Defense 21.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Base Building 7.6%
- #49 New Cycle
68% 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: City Builder 20.8%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%
- #50 Train Fever
71% 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 57% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Management 10.3%, Transportation 9.9% ★, Sandbox 4.9%
- #51 Simutrans
70% 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 53.4% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Management 10.6%, Transportation 8.7% ★, Sandbox 5.6%
- #52 DarkSwitch
66% 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: City Builder 20.9%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Tower Defense 14.1%, Resource Management 11.6%, Base Building 8.7%
- #53 Train Valley World
67% matchMixed70% of 292 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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: Trains 32.4% ★, Transportation 21% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 6.9%
- #54 Settlements Rising
67% matchVery Positive81% of 430 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Colony Sim 21%, Resource Management 11.6%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Base Building 7.9%
- #55 After the Collapse
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 211 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Management 9.2%
- #56 Logistik
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Why similar: Trains 35.3% ★, Transportation 16.9% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Management 8.1%
- #57 Railroad Corporation 2
66% matchMostly Positive71% of 385 reviews2026
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
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 39.8% ★, Transportation 16.5% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Realistic 7.1%, Sandbox 6.3%
- #58 Frostpunk
68% 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: City Builder 27.8%, Colony Sim 17.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Survival 11%
- #59 Train Station Simulator
70% 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 56.2% ★, Management 13.6%, City Builder 7.9%, Strategy 7.2%, Base Building 4.6%