Games Like Highrise City

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: City Builder 19%, Colony Sim 18% ★, Diplomacy 13.7% ★, Economy 8.6%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep economic simulation where every resource must be managed through a complex logistics network.

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 36%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Economy 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive modern city-builder that provides the scale and visual fidelity expected by fans of the genre.

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

Why similar: City Builder 48.2%, Economy 15.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 8.6%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for complex production chains and economic management, mirroring the depth found in Highrise City.

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

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1% ★, City Builder 19%, Economy 16%, Building 10.5%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on logistics, supply chains, and industrial production, making it a perfect match for those who enjoy the economic side of Highrise City.

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: City Builder 40.7%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational city-builder that remains a staple for anyone interested in urban planning and management.

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: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, City Builder 26.4%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.7%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A resource-focused colony builder that emphasizes the economic balance required to keep a growing population thriving.

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

Why similar: City Builder 38.6%, Colony Sim 12% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Economy 8.1%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on organic city growth and resource management without the rigid grid-based constraints of other builders.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.5% ★, Diplomacy 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 8.3%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends organic city-building with complex supply chain management and strategic development in a historical setting.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Diplomacy 17.6% ★, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a stylized take on city-building with a strong emphasis on resource management and environmental adaptation.

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

Why similar: City Builder 30.6%, Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 10.1%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique resource management and vertical building mechanics that require careful planning and economic foresight.

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

Why similar: City Builder 36.8%, Economy 13.5%, Strategy 9.8%, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with deep economic management and political strategy in a vibrant, tycoon-style setting.

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

Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Sandbox 11.9%, Building 11.8%, Economy 11.7%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Prioritizes urban planning and resource efficiency, challenging players to optimize their city's layout for maximum productivity.

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 37.6%, Colony Sim 28.8% ★, Strategy 8.6%, Building 8.3%, Economy 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides high-stakes city management where resource allocation and survival are the primary drivers of gameplay.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Economy 7.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Building 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that requires careful management of resources and citizen needs to succeed.

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: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Sandbox 12.1%, Economy 8.6%, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on automation, its core loop of logistics and resource management will appeal to fans of complex economic systems.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Immersive Sim 9.5%, Building 9.2%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Introduces unique vertical logistics and resource management challenges that require creative planning.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Colony Sim 25% ★, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep resource-driven mechanics that force players to balance growth with the harsh realities of survival.

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a vertical management experience that emphasizes tycoon-style building and operational efficiency.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Immersive Sim 9.3%, Economy 8%, Moddable 8% ★

Why You'll Like It: A historical simulation that places a heavy emphasis on resource management and the evolution of a society over time.

Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Economy 15.7%, Building 12.2%, Sandbox 11.6%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic and political simulation aspects of running a nation-state, offering a different perspective on city management.

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Immersive Sim 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines historical city-building with complex political and economic development systems.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 23.1%, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.8%, Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and production chains, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing resource flow.

Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.

Why similar: City Builder 25.3%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%, Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated urban planning simulator that focuses on the logistical and management aspects of city development.

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Building 14.2%, Economy 13.5%, Strategy 8.4%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A tycoon-focused building game that shares the skyscraper-centric aesthetic and management goals of the seed game.

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 20.4%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 8%, Economy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: An ecosystem-focused city builder that requires players to manage resources while maintaining a balance with nature.

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: City Builder 26.6%, Economy 13.1%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.7%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A building and management simulation that requires careful planning and resource allocation to run a successful operation.

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: City Builder 28.3%, Colony Sim 28% ★, Economy 10.5%, Building 9.5%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater city-builder that introduces unique resource management challenges based on its aquatic environment.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Diplomacy 15.7% ★, Economy 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 37.3% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 8.2%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony management game that balances building with the economic needs of its inhabitants.

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.4% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Diplomacy 15.4% ★, Economy 8.5%, Sandbox 8.2%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Economy 9.8%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony builder that emphasizes resource management and base-building in a challenging environment.

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 11.9%, Building 11.4%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep management and tycoon simulation mechanics, focusing on the operational side of a large-scale business.

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

Why similar: City Builder 29%, Economy 13.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12%, Immersive Sim 11.4%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 12%, Building 12%, Management 9%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Immersive Sim 9.9%, Economy 9%, Building 7.4%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 25.7%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Building 8.6%, Economy 8.6%

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: City Builder 18.7%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8%

Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 22.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 8.7%, Economy 8.6%

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

Why similar: City Builder 27.7%, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Building 9.8%, Economy 9.3%, Simulation 8.6%

A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Sandbox 15.3%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Building 7.4%

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

Why similar: City Builder 33.4%, Colony Sim 30.7% ★, Building 8.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Strategy 6.6%

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

Why similar: Building 22.2%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 11%

Build, Customize & Manage your own shopping center! Choose from modern gaming hardware store to cozy flower shop. Hire skilled cashiers, secure financing through bank loans, and launch strategic advertising campaigns to make your mall thrive!

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Building 12.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Economy 11.9%, Immersive Sim 10.8%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Colony Sim 22.6% ★, Sandbox 9.3%, Building 8.6%, Management 7.8%

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Economy 16%, Sandbox 14.8%, Building 13.6%, Management 9.9%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: City Builder 19.1%, Moddable 11.9% ★, Immersive Sim 11.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Economy 10.8%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Sandbox 9.5%, Economy 9.4%, Building 8.7%

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Economy 10.6%, Building 10.1%, Strategy 9.6%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2% ★, City Builder 26.7%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.5%, Management 6.1%

Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Economy 16%, Sandbox 12.3%, Management 11.2%, Building 10.9%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.7%

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 29.5%, Colony Sim 29.2% ★, Building 12.2%, Strategy 7.9%, Management 7.1%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Diplomacy 16.7% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Economy 8.2%, Sandbox 8%

The Settlers®: New Allies is a strategy game with an in-depth build-up experience and real-time strategic battles.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Colony Sim 25.7% ★, Economy 9%, Strategy 8.5%, Building 8.4%

Orrstead is a relaxing city builder that combines resource management and incremental game mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests, and adapt to the changing seasons.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.8% ★, City Builder 25.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Building 10.3%, Management 7.2%

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, Diplomacy 18.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Immersive Sim 9%, Sandbox 9%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Sandbox 11.5%, Moddable 8% ★, Building 7.1%

A vertical kingdom in the sky! Plan your ascent from the harsh Sand Zone, rising layer by layer as you and your Towertizens stand together against looming disasters. Build trade ports and vertical supply networks. Perform Rituals to shape miracles, and witness the prosperity of this rising nation.

Why similar: City Builder 22.8%, Colony Sim 22% ★, Economy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 9.2%

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Economy 11.4%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 8.3%

Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...

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