- #1 Dyson Sphere Program
97% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,697 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 23.6%, Space 13.1%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.2%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: Combines large-scale automation and resource management with a grand space-faring scope.
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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: Automation 25.3%, Resource Management 13.8%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 11.1%, City Builder 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on complex supply chains and logistics management within a challenging industrial simulation.
- #3 Factorio
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 229,554 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 190.4 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%, Trains 7.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players who love complex automation, logistics, and scaling production chains.
- #4 Satisfactory
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 270,461 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.6 hrsMean: 110.0 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 30.8%, Base Building 17.9%, Resource Management 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a stunning 3D perspective on the automation and logistics gameplay found in InfraSpace.
- #5 RAILGRADE
95% matchVery Positive85% of 1,211 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 76%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 15.3% ★, Automation 12.2%, City Builder 11.7%, Moddable 9.7% ★, Transportation 8.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building efficient train networks to solve complex logistics problems on alien worlds.
- #6 Factory Town
94% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 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: Automation 15%, City Builder 12.1%, Transportation 11.1% ★, Resource Management 7.8%, Base Building 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: A charming take on automation that emphasizes moving goods across a map using various transport methods.
- #7 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
93% matchVery Positive91% of 25,891 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 73.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 21.8%, Economy 13.2%, Moddable 11.3% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features the most detailed transportation and logistics simulation available, requiring precise planning for every resource.
- #8 Plan B: Terraform
92% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Transportation 22.2% ★, Automation 16.5%, Trains 14.6% ★, Resource Management 8.8%, Sandbox 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A logistics-focused game where you must manage massive supply chains to terraform an entire planet.
- #9 Transport Fever 2
91% matchVery Positive90% of 31,697 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 65.9 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: Transportation 24.8% ★, Trains 16.5% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 8.8%, Management 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep simulation of transportation networks and economic growth through logistics.
- #10 shapez 2 - Factory
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,303 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 29.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Transportation 21.4% ★, Automation 19.4%, Moddable 10.4% ★, Management 8.9%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Distills the automation genre down to its core, focusing entirely on building efficient, scalable production lines.
- #11 Anno 1800
91% matchVery Positive81% of 31,402 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 44.1%, Economy 18.6%, Resource Management 10%, Sandbox 6.7%, Simulation 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: Masterfully balances city-building with intricate supply chain management and trade route optimization.
- #12 IXION
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 17,230 reviews2022
Dev: Bulwark StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 30.9 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 28.4%, Space 18.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: Blends space survival with city-building and resource management as you manage a massive space station.
- #13 Automation Empire
89% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 8.8%, City Builder 8.7%, Trains 8.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build massive, sprawling industrial networks to automate resource extraction and processing.
- #14 The Crust
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,542 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 23.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 19.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Space 11.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony sim that places a heavy emphasis on automation and resource extraction on the moon.
- #15 Voxel Tycoon
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,756 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Transportation 22% ★, Trains 14.9% ★, Automation 9.4%, Economy 8.7%, City Builder 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based transportation and management game that emphasizes building complex rail and road networks.
- #16 Timberborn
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 39,576 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.7%, Automation 16.9%, Science 14.4%, Building 8.9%, Base Building 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that requires complex water management and logistics to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
- #17 Astro Colony
86% matchVery Positive82% of 2,526 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 24.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Space 14.3%, Resource Management 13%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: Features an infinite, procedurally generated universe where you build automated factories on floating space platforms.
- #18 Rise of Industry
86% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 16.4%, Economy 12.8%, Transportation 10.7% ★, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the economic side of production chains and managing logistics across a growing industrial empire.
- #19 Sweet Transit
85% matchMixed68% of 1,248 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 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: Transportation 19.4% ★, Trains 14.6% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Moddable 9.9% ★, Economy 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder where the entire economy is driven by an intricate, player-designed train network.
- #20 Cities: Skylines
84% matchVery Positive93% of 288,732 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 65.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 35.4%, Building 11.9%, Moddable 11% ★, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for traffic management and urban infrastructure planning.
- #21 Industry Idle
82% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,467 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Transportation 18.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 8.4%, Economy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, numbers-focused game about optimizing production chains and managing an industrial economy.
- #22 Rail Route
81% matchVery Positive89% of 2,495 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 114.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Transportation 20.5% ★, Trains 16.4% ★, Automation 14.8%, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, logic-heavy game about designing and managing complex railway dispatching systems.
- #23 Planetbase
83% matchMostly Positive80% of 10,320 reviews2015
Dev: Madruga Works
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 26.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Space 16.2%, Base Building 15.5%, Resource Management 7.9%, Building 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic space colony sim that focuses on resource management and building efficient base layouts.
- #24 Railway Empire
82% matchVery Positive83% of 9,652 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Trains 22.4% ★, Transportation 15.7% ★, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.9%, City Builder 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines historical train network building with economic management and strategic expansion.
- #25 FOUNDRY
80% matchVery Positive81% of 3,779 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 24.1%, Resource Management 13%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes large-scale automation in an infinite voxel world.
- #26 Production Line : Car factory simulation
81% matchVery Positive82% of 3,473 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Economy 12.5%, Management 12.1%, City Builder 9.6%, Building 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the micro-management of assembly lines and the efficiency of a single, complex production facility.
- #27 Good Company
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,775 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Automation 17.7%, Economy 12.3%, City Builder 12.2%, Resource Management 10%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a tech manufacturing company, emphasizing production line optimization.
- #28 Autonauts
78% matchVery Positive90% of 4,933 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 35.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
Why You'll Like It: Uses a unique programming-based automation system to build a thriving colony from scratch.
- #29 Modulus: Factory Automation
76% matchVery Positive92% of 699 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #30 Cliff Empire
78% matchVery Positive87% of 4,350 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 23.7%, Economy 14.3%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.5%, Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that requires managing trade and resources between multiple small, isolated cliff-top cities.
- #31 Airport CEO
77% matchVery Positive83% of 8,179 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 15.5% ★, Moddable 11.9% ★, Automation 11.4%, City Builder 9.7%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #32 Per Aspera
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,702 reviews2020
Dev: Tlön IndustriesPub: Raw Fury
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.
Why similar: Automation 13.9%, City Builder 13.5%, Moddable 11.5% ★, Science 11.1%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #33 Mini Settlers
75% matchVery Positive84% of 652 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic 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: Transportation 19.1% ★, Automation 16.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Trains 11.3% ★, Base Building 8.5%
- #34 Microtopia
74% matchVery Positive87% of 928 reviews2025
Dev: Cordyceps CollectivePub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Automation 17.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Moddable 11.2% ★, Resource Management 9.5%, Base Building 8.5%
- #35 Kubifaktorium
76% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
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: Automation 15.9%, City Builder 14.9%, Trains 14.4% ★, Economy 9.1%, Building 7.7%
- #36 Solargene
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 836 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 34.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
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: City Builder 18.1%, Economy 10.8%, Base Building 10.4%, Moddable 10.3% ★, Resource Management 9.9%
- #37 Transport Fever
75% matchVery Positive83% of 10,810 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Why similar: Transportation 21.8% ★, Trains 16.2% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Economy 10.1%, Building 8.1%
- #38 Outworld Station
71% matchVery Positive86% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: Trickjump Games Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Space 14.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 8.9%
- #39 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
73% matchVery Positive81% of 1,748 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: City Builder 16.8%, Transportation 16.2% ★, Trains 14.2% ★, Building 8.9%, Management 8.7%
- #40 Incremental Factory
72% matchMixed68% of 244 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 23%, Trains 12.5% ★, Resource Management 12.2%, Economy 10%, Crafting 8.9%
- #41 Transport INC
73% matchMixed70% of 1,075 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!
Why similar: Transportation 23% ★, Trains 15.1% ★, Economy 10.1%, Automation 9.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #42 Stationeers
72% matchVery Positive88% of 9,014 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 83.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Automation 15.6%, Science 14%, Moddable 12.1% ★, Space 8.6%, Base Building 8.4%
- #43 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 233 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: City Builder 14.5%, Trains 14.5% ★, Automation 12.2%, Economy 9.4%, Moddable 8.9% ★
- #44 Train Fever
74% 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 29.7% ★, Transportation 12.7% ★, Economy 12.1%, City Builder 10.9%, Management 9.2%
- #45 Final Upgrade
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 454 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Space 12.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.8%
- #46 Space Architect
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 288 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Automation 17.3%, Science 11.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 9.2%, Building 8.7%
- #47 Industry Giant 4.0
70% matchMostly Negative37% of 553 reviews2025
Dev: Don VS DodoPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!
Why similar: City Builder 16.3%, Automation 15.9%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 9.4%, Management 9.2%
- #48 orbit.industries
70% matchMixed61% of 88 reviews2022
Dev: LAB132Pub: Klabater
Windows · Linux
🚀 Become a Space Pioneer by building and managing a station of your own on the orbit of distant planets! Focus on design and management or fulfill objectives to progress. 🛰️ Explore, Build and Prosper!
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Space 15.6%, Science 14.3%, Economy 10.5%, Resource Management 10.2%
- #49 Simutrans
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 660 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.6 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 26.6% ★, Transportation 10.7% ★, Economy 9.4%, City Builder 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #50 Train Valley World
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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: Transportation 23.7% ★, Trains 14.7% ★, Automation 12.1%, City Builder 11.2%, Resource Management 7.5%
- #51 Railway Empire 2
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,561 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Transportation 22.7% ★, Trains 16.6% ★, City Builder 12%, Economy 9.5%, Resource Management 7.4%
- #52 Industries of Titan
68% matchMixed63% of 1,609 reviews2023
Dev: Brace Yourself Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!
Why similar: City Builder 28.1%, Resource Management 16%, Space 13%, Building 12.7%, Base Building 12.7%
- #53 Anno 2205™
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 6,296 reviews2015
Dev: Blue BytePub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 54.6 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Why similar: City Builder 34.3%, Economy 12.7%, Space 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%, Management 6.6%
- #54 shapez
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,453 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 26.7%, Resource Management 12.6%, Base Building 12.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Moddable 8.9% ★
- #55 Mini Settlers: Prologue
66% 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: Transportation 18.7% ★, Automation 17%, City Builder 13.5%, Trains 10.2% ★, Resource Management 9.4%
- #56 Final Factory
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 303 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 21.3%, Moddable 11.9% ★, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 9.1%
- #57 Cities in Motion
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,082 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Transportation 23.6% ★, Trains 16.5% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 9.4%
- #58 Space Haven
62% matchVery Positive86% of 10,442 reviews2026
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 19.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Space 12.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.6%
- #59 Builderment
67% matchMixed67% of 121 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 8.5%