Games Like Jurassic World Evolution 2

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 42.4% ★, Building 15.4%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, City Builder 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It’s the direct predecessor, offering nearly the same dinosaur-park loop of enclosure design, scientist-free operations, guest amenities, and breakout-disaster management.

Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 43.4% ★, Building 12.5%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9.8%, Economy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest non-Jurassic alternative, centered on building detailed prehistoric parks with habitat design, animal welfare, and heavy creative sandbox tools.

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Management 20.5%, Building 20.5%, Sandbox 14.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It matches the exhibit-management appeal closely by combining animal care, habitat construction, guest satisfaction, staff logistics, and deep park customization.

Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Why similar: Dinosaurs 37.8% ★, Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: It turns dinosaur park management into a lighter but very on-point sim about breeding, enclosure needs, visitor flow, and expanding a successful prehistoric attraction.

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Building 27.9%, Management 19.1%, Sandbox 17%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Even without animals, it shares Frontier’s polished park-building feel, with strong focus on guest happiness, scenery, staffing, and attraction layout.

Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?

Why similar: Building 23%, Sandbox 18.6%, City Builder 17.5%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same modern park-sim structure of building attractions, shaping guest experiences, and fine-tuning operations, just with a water-park emphasis.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Building 17.8%, Management 17.4%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This scratches the same “grow and optimize an animal attraction” itch with breeding systems, enclosure planning, staff management, and playful moral choices.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: Building 23.5%, City Builder 19.5%, Sandbox 15.5%, Management 14.1%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its loop of designing exhibits, attracting visitors, managing staff, and balancing entertainment with operational efficiency feels very close to the non-dinosaur side of JWE2.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Building 27.1%, Management 21%, Sandbox 20.3%, Simulation 10%, Economy 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its exhibit-centric management, animal care requirements, staff assignments, and guest optimization make it one of the best mechanical matches outside zoos and dinosaurs.

Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!

Why similar: Building 21.6%, Management 18%, City Builder 15%, Economy 13.4%, Sandbox 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the management side of theme-park design, especially pathing, guest flow, hidden logistics, and efficient attraction placement.

RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!

Why similar: Building 29.9%, Management 23.4%, Sandbox 19.7%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It targets the same amusement-management fantasy of building attractions, shaping layouts, and keeping guests spending and smiling in a sandbox setting.

Park Beyond is a theme park simulation game that gives you the freedom to create and manage the Parks of your Dreams! Whether you love to manage finances and visitor experience, or just create fun and cozy parks, the game has something in store just for you!

Why similar: Building 24.5%, Management 21.1%, Sandbox 17.8%, Resource Management 10.8%, Simulation 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: If you enjoy the spectacle side of JWE2, this leans into imaginative park creation while still asking you to manage guests, shops, and attraction performance.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Management 23.5%, Building 22.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: While the theme is different, it delivers a similarly approachable management loop of building facilities, hiring staff, optimizing visitor needs, and expanding across scenarios.

Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!

Why similar: Management 19.3%, Building 17%, Sandbox 12.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Simulation 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: This older zoo sim is still a strong fit if you want animal-focused park building with habitat management, guests, and business oversight.

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 24.2%, Building 19.6%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Economy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It expands the city-management angle with more systemic simulation, making it a strong pick for players who enjoy the operational side of building spaces for crowds.

Now’s the chance to build the Zoo of your dreams! Just like in a real Zoo, your animals must receive complete care. Feed them, train them, cure them and even relocate them. Observe their realistic interactions with one another, the landscape, the play equipment and even Zoo visitors.

Why similar: Building 18.3%, Management 18.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Economy 12.6%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers classic zoo management with a bigger focus on animal needs, exhibit setup, and park economics than most broader city builders.

Become a real paleontologist, explore various environments and search for dinosaur fossils. Dig for and study the remnants of these majestic creatures to learn about their evolution. Build your own museum and experience an immersive background story.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 45.9% ★, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 10.9%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It’s less of a tycoon game, but its paleontology theme, museum-building elements, and educational dinosaur focus make it a good thematic side-step.

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 29.6%, Building 20%, Management 13.6%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of JWE2 is the planning and infrastructure side, this offers deeper large-scale building, traffic, services, and sandbox optimization.

The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

Why similar: Building 23.8%, Management 20.7%, City Builder 14.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a mall-like indoor theme park sim where the appeal comes from laying out attractions, services, and guest circulation for maximum efficiency and fun.

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: Management 19.2%, City Builder 18.2%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Economy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from carefully designing efficient infrastructure and watching a living simulation respond, much like optimizing park flow and services in JWE2.

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 34%, Economy 14.4%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.8%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a stronger economy-and-logistics spin on the same management satisfaction, with layered production chains, population needs, and attractive city building.

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 28.7%, Building 13.1%, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Though it’s a medieval city builder rather than a park sim, its organic building, resource balancing, and relaxed sandbox management make it a reasonable distant match.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 30.3%, Building 29.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, City Builder 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same readable management style of designing specialized spaces, balancing staff workloads, and reacting to chaotic system failures.

Build and manage your own wildlife compound, determine which animals to feature, how to manage the business while ensuring that all the animals are thriving. • Build a giant animal park from scratch and manage it well • Choose a variety of terrains with different climates and environmental sounds • 45 detailed, seamlessly animated and...

Why similar: Building 25.2%, Management 23.1%, Economy 15.5%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It’s an older but still relevant zoo builder that taps into the same pleasure of creating habitats and running a profitable animal-focused park.

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Building 26.4%, Management 20.5%, Strategy 12.3%, Sandbox 11.6%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like JWE2, it’s about building a themed facility, placing specialized rooms, managing staff, and handling crises when your systems break down.

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 27.5%, Management 16.7%, Economy 13.4%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes city-building, resource management, tourism, and sandbox planning in a way that can scratch the same strategic-builder itch.

Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 41.5% ★, City Builder 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%, Management 7.9%, Simulation 5.4%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Building 18.5%, Management 16.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, City Builder 13.6%, Economy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses heavily on layout efficiency, passenger flow, staffing, and service chains, which makes it a good fit for players who like the operations side of park sims.

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: Building 19.3%, Management 16.6%, City Builder 15.5%, Sandbox 14.7%, Economy 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its guest-centric building and management loop mirrors the satisfaction of creating attractive, efficient spaces that keep visitors happy and revenue climbing.

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

Why similar: Building 28.6%, Management 27.8%, Simulation 12%, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more abstract management-builder, but it still delivers the same joy of planning layouts, supporting services, and balancing expansion with profitability.

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: Building 18.9%, City Builder 18.1%, Management 16.1%, Sandbox 14%, Economy 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers similarly satisfying optimization around paths, queues, staff, facilities, and scaling up a complex public-facing venue.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 52.6% ★, Building 15.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Open World 7.8%, Survival 3.5%

Experience fierce open world survival gameplay as you attempt to stay alive on an unforgiving island inhabited by dinosaurs! Hunt. Grow. Survive.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 75% ★, Open World 6.8%, Simulation 5.1%, Sandbox 4.9%, Multiplayer 3.2%

Following the epic storylines of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III, as well as the highly anticipated Jurassic World, LEGO Jurassic World™ is the first videogame where players will be able to relive and experience all four Jurassic films.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 79.5% ★, Open World 8.5%, Multiplayer 4.3%, Building 3.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Play as a dinosaur and become part of a player-created ecosystem! Beasts of Bermuda is a multiplayer game where players endure catastrophic storms and fearsome foes while growing to monstrous sizes. Do you have what it takes to survive in the Bermuda Triangle?

Why similar: Dinosaurs 73.5% ★, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 7%, Open World 5.4%, Survival 3.2%

Saurian is a survival-simulation experience about living the life of a dinosaur. Starting from the egg, you must survive to adulthood amidst the perilous Hell Creek ecosystem of 66 million years ago, meticulously reconstructed with the help of professional paleontologists.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 77.3% ★, Simulation 9.2%, Open World 7.1%, Survival 3.5%, Multiplayer 1.3%

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 55.7% ★, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 7.5%, Open World 7.5%, Survival 3.9%

Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?

Why similar: Dinosaurs 63.1% ★, Management 17.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Survival 3.2%

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 51.7% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 12.3%, Open World 8%, Survival 3.9%

The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.

Why similar: Management 42.4%, Simulation 22.7%, Sandbox 17.9%, Building 11%, Multiplayer 4.3%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Building 16.5%, City Builder 15.4%, Management 13.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Economy 10.1%

Exciting and thrilling dinosaur-extension for the Wildlife Park univers with 11 different dinosaurs in 9 new missions.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 71% ★, Building 10.7%, Simulation 7.4%, Strategy 4.8%, Resource Management 2.7%

The award-winning Far Cry franchise returns with its innovative open world gameplay, bringing together massive beasts, breathtaking environments, and unpredictable savage encounters. Welcome to the Stone Age, a time of danger and adventure.

Why similar: Open World 54.4%, Survival 18.6%, Singleplayer 7.4%, Dinosaurs 6.7% ★, Action 5%

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 41%, Resource Management 15.6%, Strategy 12.2%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Hunt humans, slay dinosaurs. It's chaotic prehistoric PvP, pick a side. Think fast, or you're extinct!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 88% ★, Multiplayer 5.6%, Violent 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.4%, Action 1.3%

Mesozoica - A full featured dinosaur theme park tycoon simulator in which you focus on the construction and management of your dinosaur wonderland. From choosing your starting company to your prime attraction, everything lies in your hands.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 81.3% ★, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Action 1.2%, Casual 0.5%

A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 89.5% ★, Multiplayer 3.2%, Open World 2.7%, Strategy 1.7%, Action 0.9%

Repterra is a base-building survival RTS set in a world overrun by dinosaurs. Manage your colony while battling massive dino hordes. Breed and ride your own dinos, unlock permanent upgrades, and fight to reclaim the world for humanity.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 49.7% ★, Building 15.8%, City Builder 14.9%, Resource Management 7.3%, Strategy 4.6%

The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 63.4% ★, Simulation 18.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Sci-fi 3.4%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Building 20.6%, City Builder 15.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 15.4%, Simulation 7.7%

Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!

Why similar: Open World 37.1%, Violent 22.9%, Simulation 22.8%, Singleplayer 7.5%, Atmospheric 5.9%

A 2D ecosystem and survival simulation where you can manage the ecology of an evolving island or survive on it as a human, facing realistic survival mechanics and a deep character progression system.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 81.1% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Survival 4%, Action 1.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Rule the prehistoric world as 67+ playable species. From hatchling to apex predator, survive a brutal ecosystem on land, sea, and air. Evolve with deep RPG talents, build your nest, and grow your legacy in the ultimate solo dinosaur sandbox. No lag, no griefers—just survival.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 68.6% ★, Sandbox 13%, Open World 8%, Simulation 3.5%, Survival 3.5%

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.9%, Open World 23.7%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Survival 12.2%, Sci-fi 10.4%

Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.

Why similar: Building 23%, Management 21.9%, City Builder 17.8%, Sandbox 14.3%, Simulation 7.6%

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: City Builder 26%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.1%

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: City Builder 21.9%, Building 21.1%, Sandbox 16.9%, Management 14%, Simulation 5.5%