- #1 Havenrail
97% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Colony Sim 12.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #2 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 19.5%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Trains 15.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #3 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 33.6% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Snow 11% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Roguelite 6.6%
- #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 24% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Resource Management 12.2%, Transportation 11% ★, Colony Sim 7.5%
- #5 Frostpunk 2
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 26,922 reviews2024
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 20.0 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 31.2%, Post-apocalyptic 14.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Survival 12.5%, Strategy 6.3%
- #6 Endzone - A World Apart
94% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,980 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 31.4%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 11.9%, Colony Sim 9.9%, Base Building 8.5%
- #7 Steam & Heather
92% 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 29.9% ★, City Builder 19%, Transportation 16.9% ★, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.8%
- #8 Oxygen
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 902 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 20.5%, Colony Sim 16%, Resource Management 10.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 9%
- #9 Metro Architect
91% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Northern21 Studio
Windows · Mac
In Metro Architect, you will design, expand, and optimize metro and subway networks in a metro simulator inspired by real-world transit systems. Build stations, manage trains, reduce congestion, and keep your city moving.
Why similar: Trains 32% ★, Transportation 20.3% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Management 8.4%, Resource Management 8%
- #10 Iron Roads
90% 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 32.7% ★, Transportation 16.9% ★, City Builder 14%, Management 8.6%, Base Building 7.7%
- #11 Oxygen: First Breath
89% matchVery Positive89% of 1,662 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 22.7%, Colony Sim 16.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 11%, Survival 9.6%
- #12 Mini Settlers: Prologue
89% 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 17% ★, Colony Sim 15.9%, City Builder 15.7%, Transportation 14% ★, Resource Management 10.8%
- #13 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
88% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 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 24.7% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Transportation 12.6% ★, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #14 Transport Fever 2
87% matchVery Positive90% of 32,451 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 31.2% ★, Transportation 21.4% ★, City Builder 19%, Management 9.7%, Resource Management 5.2%
- #15 Beacon of Havoc
86% 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 30.4%, Tower Defense 18.4%, Post-apocalyptic 16.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Survival 7.7%
- #16 Stoplights
85% matchPositive90% of 39 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 34.7% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 9.7%
- #17 Transport Fever 3
86% 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 27.9% ★, Transportation 20.9% ★, City Builder 20.1%, Management 9%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #18 The Blighted Frontier
84% 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: City Builder 24.4%, Colony Sim 23.8%, Base Building 10.8%, Management 8.7%, Resource Management 8%
- #19 Frostpunk
84% matchVery Positive93% of 137,048 reviews2018
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
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 27.1%, Colony Sim 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 11.6%
- #20 Surviving the Aftermath
83% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,570 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 28.4%, Post-apocalyptic 21%, Colony Sim 17.8%, Survival 11.1%, Base Building 8.2%
- #21 Endzone 2
82% matchMixed67% of 1,067 reviews2025
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.4 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 20.6%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Survival 9.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #22 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 21.3%, Colony Sim 17%, Tower Defense 13%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Survival 10.1%
- #23 New Cycle
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,860 reviews2024
Dev: Core EngagePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.8 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 20.4%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Resource Management 9.3%, Survival 9%
- #24 Quriocity
81% matchMostly Positive74% of 38 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 23.5%, Colony Sim 19.4%, Resource Management 10.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Survival 9.2%
- #25 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 34.5% ★, Colony Sim 17%, Post-apocalyptic 13.7%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 7%
- #26 After the Collapse
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 212 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 18.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Base Building 10.4%, Survival 9.7%
- #27 Mars Rapid Transit
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Train tycoon game set on Mars. Engineer a fast and efficient train network, build a thriving business and grow a dynamic economy.
Why similar: Trains 30.6% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #28 Frostpunk: 1886
78% 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: City Builder 22.1%, Colony Sim 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Resource Management 12.1%, Survival 9.8%
- #29 Train World
78% 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 36.1% ★, Transportation 18.1% ★, City Builder 9.3%, Resource Management 8.6%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #30 Factory Town 2: Paradise
75% matchVery Positive91% of 151 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Trains 25.7% ★, City Builder 20.7%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Management 7.4%
- #31 Railroad Engineer
77% 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% ★, Transportation 19.9% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Resource Management 9.3%, Management 8.2%
- #32 Factory Town
77% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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: City Builder 18.1%, Trains 15.9% ★, Colony Sim 14.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Transportation 10.8% ★
- #33 Fio and the Doomed City
76% 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 27.1%, Colony Sim 22.3%, Tower Defense 16.5%, Resource Management 14%, Base Building 12%
- #34 Toxic Trains
76% 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 31.6% ★, City Builder 23.2%, Transportation 15.5% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Strategy 9.8%
- #35 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 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 26.6% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 7.4%, Survival 7.3%
- #36 Factory on a Train
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: bahrdev
Windows · Mac
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 34.1% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Base Building 9.6%
- #37 Rail Guard
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixelifact
Windows
Expand your railway, automate production, build powerful defenses, and protect your tracks from relentless enemies in this incremental idle tower defense game.
Why similar: Trains 35.6% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Tower Defense 16.2%, Strategy 7.4%, Resource Management 6.6%
- #38 Sweet Transit
74% matchMixed68% of 1,268 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 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 27.6% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Transportation 16.4% ★, Resource Management 8.7%, Management 7.1%
- #39 Union Of Rivals
71% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: 2Play
Windows
A deep colony sim and city builder. Manage resources and production chains to build the railroad from East to West. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements in your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point.
Why similar: Trains 22.7% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Colony Sim 17%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 7.8%
- #40 Cargo Company
73% matchMixed58% of 73 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 35.2% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, City Builder 16.9%, Management 9.7%, Sandbox 5.9%
- #41 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
73% matchMostly Positive75% of 205 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 22.4% ★, City Builder 22.2%, Transportation 15.3% ★, Resource Management 9.9%, Management 9%
- #42 Rise Against the Invaders
71% 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 29.9%, Colony Sim 22.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Survival 9.1%
- #43 MiniTrans
72% matchMixed50% of 20 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 32.4% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Transportation 22.2% ★, Management 8.1%, Resource Management 5.9%
- #44 Ragnorium
72% 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 18.5%, Colony Sim 15.8%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, Survival 12.1%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #45 After Long Night
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 459 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 16.7%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Base Building 9.4%
- #46 Railblazer
70% 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 29.7% ★, Post-apocalyptic 16.4%, Resource Management 13.6%, Survival 11.3%, Management 10.1%
- #47 Blockville
70% 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 26.4% ★, City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 13.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 10.2%
- #48 Settlements Rising
69% matchVery Positive81% of 435 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 26.4%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Resource Management 12%, Tower Defense 7.9%, Base Building 7.8%
- #49 Drownlight
69% 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 20.7%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 11.9%, Resource Management 11.4%, Survival 9.2%
- #50 DarkSwitch
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 739 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 21.7%, Colony Sim 17.7%, Resource Management 12%, Tower Defense 11.5%, Survival 9.8%
- #51 STATIONflow
70% matchVery Positive86% of 505 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 32.1% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Transportation 10.6% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Resource Management 9%
- #52 A-Train PC Classic
71% 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 24.6% ★, City Builder 22.3%, Transportation 16.2% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Management 8.7%
- #53 Offshore Prophets
68% matchNo user reviews
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 25.4%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Resource Management 13.3%, Management 10%, Roguelite 9.5%
- #54 Metroland
67% 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 27.9% ★, City Builder 23%, Transportation 22.5% ★, Management 9.6%, Strategy 5.5%
- #55 Rise to Ruins
68% matchVery Positive88% of 7,757 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.2 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 25.7%, Colony Sim 23.5%, Tower Defense 19.3%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.4%
- #56 BAIA
68% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: 萌新所长
Windows
Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!
Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Post-apocalyptic 20.2%, Survival 11.4%, Resource Management 9.6%, Management 8.9%
- #57 IXION
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,592 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 30.7 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 28.5%, Colony Sim 18%, Resource Management 13.1%, Survival 11.3%, Base Building 8.9%
- #58 Hellcrown
66% 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 23.9%, Tower Defense 15.9%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Roguelite 9.7%, Base Building 9%
- #59 DOOMTRAIN
66% matchNo user reviews
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 33.1% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Tower Defense 15.2%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 5.2%