- #1 Lost Heaven Station
97% 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%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Trains 15.9% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.7%
- #2 Frost Loop
96% 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 34.1% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Snow 11.7% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Roguelite 6.8%
- #3 Times of Progress
96% 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 26.8% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Transportation 13.1% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Colony Sim 8.1% ★
- #4 Steam & Heather
95% 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 30.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Transportation 16.8% ★, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 9%
- #5 Iron Roads
94% matchPositive85% of 48 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 33.1% ★, Transportation 16.8% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Management 8.8%, Base Building 7.7%
- #6 Endzone - A World Apart
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,807 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 31.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.7%, Survival 11.7%, Colony Sim 10.1% ★, Base Building 8.8%
- #7 Oxygen
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 865 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 20.1%, Colony Sim 16% ★, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Survival 8.6%
- #8 Frostpunk 2
91% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,240 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 19.4 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 30.8%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Resource Management 13.8%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 6.4%
- #9 Mini Settlers: Prologue
91% matchVery Positive89% of 801 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 42 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 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 15.7% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Transportation 14.1% ★, Resource Management 10.6%
- #10 Oxygen: First Breath
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,643 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 6.1 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 22.3%, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Resource Management 11.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Survival 9.2%
- #11 Stoplights
89% matchNo user 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 35.2% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 9.9%
- #12 Transport Fever 3
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Urban Games
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 28.5% ★, Transportation 20.9% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Management 9.3%, Resource Management 5.7%
- #13 Transport Fever 2
88% matchVery Positive91% of 31,208 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 65.7 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 32% ★, Transportation 21.1% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Management 10%, Resource Management 4.9%
- #14 Zombie Cure Lab
86% matchMixed69% of 448 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 15.4% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Tower Defense 9.9%, Resource Management 9.8%
- #15 Railroad Engineer
87% 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 34.5% ★, Transportation 19.8% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 8.4%
- #16 Quriocity
86% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 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 22.9%, Colony Sim 19.3% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #17 Wasteland Train: Conductor
85% 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 35.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.8%, Management 7.3%, Strategy 7.2%
- #18 Endzone 2
84% matchMixed69% of 1,004 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 70%
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 20.2%, Colony Sim 18.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.5%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #19 Mars Rapid Transit
84% 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 31.3% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Colony Sim 11.7% ★, Resource Management 10.1%
- #20 Train World
83% matchMostly Positive75% of 95 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 36.6% ★, Transportation 18% ★, City Builder 8.8%, Resource Management 8.5%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #21 Sands of Supremacy: Future Kingdom
82% 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 21.1%, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, Tower Defense 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 9.8%
- #22 New Cycle
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,783 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8.7%
- #23 After the Collapse
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 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 19.5% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Base Building 10.6%, Survival 9.3%
- #24 Frostpunk
81% matchVery Positive93% of 132,545 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 26.8%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 11.3%
- #25 Factory Town
80% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: City Builder 17.5%, Trains 16.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.4% ★, Resource Management 11.5%, Transportation 10.9% ★
- #26 Sweet Transit
79% matchMixed68% of 1,227 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 28% ★, Transportation 16.4% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Resource Management 8.6%, Management 7.3%
- #27 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
79% matchVery Positive81% of 1,740 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 25.3% ★, City Builder 19.5%, Transportation 12.7% ★, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.5%
- #28 Toxic Trains
78% 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 32.3% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Transportation 15.6% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Strategy 9.6%
- #29 Surviving the Aftermath
78% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,513 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Post-apocalyptic 20.1%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 8.5%
- #30 Beacon of Havoc
77% 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 30.6%, Tower Defense 17.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Resource Management 12.2%, Survival 7.6%
- #31 Cargo Company
77% matchMixed59% of 71 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 35.7% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Management 10%, Sandbox 6.1%
- #32 Factory Town 2: Paradise
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Trains 26.3% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Colony Sim 12.6% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Management 7.6%
- #33 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 201 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 22.6% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Transportation 15.4% ★, Resource Management 9.8%, Management 9.2%
- #34 Frostpunk: 1886
75% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
The original Frostpunk experience is being reimagined and expanded with new events, mechanics, and laws within a new Purpose Path. Return to your role as the ruler of Earth's last city, manage its citizens, weigh up your choices and ensure your society's survival.
Why similar: City Builder 21.8%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.2%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 9.5%
- #35 Union Of Rivals
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2Play
Windows
The rails are coming. Build, Trade, or break them. Connect East to West in a harsh frontier where every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. Harvest resources, refine goods, and persuade stubborn towns to let the tracks through. The West is untamed, and so are the people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18% ★, Trains 17.5% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Transportation 11.6% ★, Survival 7.9%
- #36 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Trains 26.7% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Colony Sim 15.2% ★, Base Building 7.5%, Management 7.5%
- #37 Sandustry
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Trains 24.2% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.1%
- #38 MiniTrans
73% matchMixed50% of 18 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 33.1% ★, Transportation 22.3% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Management 8.3%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #39 Fio and the Doomed City
72% matchNo user reviews
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 26.9%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Tower Defense 15.4%, Resource Management 14.3%, Base Building 12.4%
- #40 Drownlight
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FathomlightPub: Crytivo
Windows
Drownlight is a city-building survival simulator set in a flooded world. Build and expand your city around a lighthouse, manage resources, and make moral decisions that shape the fate of the survivors. Secrets lurk in the raging waters, and if the lighthouse goes out, the city may be lost forever.
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Colony Sim 16.4% ★, Resource Management 11.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Base Building 9.4%
- #41 STATIONflow
73% matchVery Positive86% of 495 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 32.6% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Transportation 10.6% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #42 A-Train PC Classic
73% matchVery Positive81% of 147 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 25.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Transportation 16.2% ★, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 8.9%
- #43 After Long Night
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 434 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.9% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Resource Management 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Base Building 9.7%
- #44 Blockville
71% 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 27% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Colony Sim 13.4% ★, Resource Management 11%, Base Building 10.3%
- #45 Railblazer
71% 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 30.6% ★, Post-apocalyptic 15.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 10.7%, Management 10.5%
- #46 Metroland
70% 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 28.5% ★, Transportation 22.5% ★, City Builder 22.1%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 5.5%
- #47 Rise Against the Invaders
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Colony Sim 23% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Survival 8.9%
- #48 Ragnorium
71% matchMixed59% of 624 reviews2022
Dev: Vitali KirpuPub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.
Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Colony Sim 15.8% ★, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Survival 11.7%, Resource Management 11%
- #49 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 36.5% ★, City Builder 22%, Transportation 19.6% ★, Management 8.2%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #50 Train Valley World
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 30.3% ★, Transportation 21.4% ★, City Builder 15%, Resource Management 10.2%, Management 7.3%
- #51 Settlements Rising
68% matchVery Positive82% of 412 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 25.8%, Colony Sim 21.1% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 8.3%, Base Building 8.1%
- #52 Offshore Prophets
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Dofu Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Carve out a home on a perilous island in this roguelite city builder. Build production chains, discover powerful synergies, and endure catastrophic disasters as each attempt reveals new strategies to survive against the odds.
Why similar: City Builder 24.7%, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 10.5%, Roguelite 9.9%
- #53 Country Architect
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Colony Sim 18.3% ★, Transportation 13.6% ★, Sandbox 7.9%, Resource Management 6.8%
- #54 Art of the Rail
67% 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 45.6% ★, City Builder 20%, Management 11.3%, Base Building 10.3%, Strategy 6.1%
- #55 DOOMTRAIN
67% 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 34.4% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Tower Defense 14%, Resource Management 13.5%, Management 5.5%
- #56 IXION
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,015 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 31.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: City Builder 28%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Resource Management 13.3%, Survival 11%, Base Building 9.1%
- #57 Forgotten Vale
66% 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: City Builder 23.1%, Colony Sim 19.1% ★, Snow 14.1% ★, Management 8.3%, Base Building 7.9%
- #58 Crowded Blue Dot
67% matchMixed58% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: cys20 studio
Windows · Linux
Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Resource Management 15.1%, Colony Sim 14% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.3%
- #59 Rise to Ruins
66% matchVery Positive88% of 7,737 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.4 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 25.8%, Colony Sim 24% ★, Tower Defense 18%, Survival 9%, Base Building 8.7%