Games Like Jurassic World Evolution

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 41.8% ★, Building 15.4%, Management 10.7%, Sandbox 7.6%, City Builder 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is the direct sequel, expanding the same dinosaur park-building formula with deeper management, more species, and bigger chaos events.

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 44.6% ★, Building 14%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 8.2%, Simulation 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the closest alternative in spirit, letting you design detailed prehistoric habitats and run a park full of extinct animals.

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: Building 23.5%, Management 22.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, City Builder 11%, Simulation 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its intricate habitat design, animal behavior, staff logistics, and guest management make it the strongest non-dinosaur match.

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 39.6% ★, Building 14.7%, Management 12.7%, City Builder 9.7%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It turns the same core idea into a lighter park sim focused on building dinosaur exhibits, pleasing guests, and preventing escapes.

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 30.5%, Management 19.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 11.7%, Economy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: From the same developer, it delivers a very similar blend of creative park construction, guest flow, and management systems.

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 26.9%, Sandbox 16.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: It modernizes the Planet Coaster formula with even stronger sandbox tools and park-management depth for players who love building attractions.

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: Building 21.2%, Management 19%, City Builder 15.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a strong zoo-management loop of enclosure planning, breeding, staffing, and expansion, just with a more playful presentation.

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 30.5%, Management 22.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Economy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its exhibit-by-exhibit design, welfare systems, staffing, and guest satisfaction closely mirror the operational side of running a dinosaur park.

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 27%, City Builder 15.8%, Management 15%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its focus on exhibit placement, visitor flow, staff management, and themed attractions makes it surprisingly close in feel despite the different 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 27.7%, Management 22.5%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 11.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the spectacle-driven side of building a crowd-pleasing attraction park while still giving you management and layout decisions to juggle.

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 25.3%, Management 19.8%, City Builder 12.3%, Sandbox 11.1%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a deeper theme park management sim where layout efficiency, backstage logistics, and guest happiness matter as much as creativity.

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 26.5%, Management 23.4%, City Builder 14.3%, Sandbox 12.2%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This classic park sim scratches the same itch for building a profitable attraction-filled destination and managing how guests experience it.

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: Building 23%, City Builder 20%, Management 14.8%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you mainly enjoy large-scale simulation, optimization, and building something functional and impressive, this carries that appeal forward.

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 21%, Building 19.6%, Simulation 12.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, City Builder 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Running an animal park with enclosure design, breeding, finances, and visitor needs makes it a solid zoo-focused alternative.

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 24.5%, Building 23.7%, Management 15.2%, Simulation 10%, Sandbox 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: It broadens the scale to a city, but the same satisfaction of planning infrastructure, balancing budgets, and watching systems interact is still there.

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 25.2%, Management 17.8%, Sandbox 14%, City Builder 13.2%, Simulation 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Although the theme is different, its facility design, staff management, and constant containment problems echo the 'keep dangerous things enclosed' side of Jurassic World Evolution.

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 26.8%, Management 22%, City Builder 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is another park builder centered on rides, layout, amenities, and balancing an entertainment venue's economics.

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 78.6% ★, Simulation 5.9%, Open World 4.3%, Sandbox 4.2%, Survival 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is far less management-focused, but it captures the fantasy of believable dinosaurs in a dangerous systemic environment.

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 20.8%, Management 16.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Sandbox 12.1%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a living colony of creatures with expansion, defense, and simulation-driven behavior taps into a similar systems-heavy appeal.

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 30.2%, Strategy 12.2%, Economy 12.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its rich economy chains, island management, and expansion planning match the strategic side of building a complex entertainment operation.

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 43%, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Economy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its prehistoric setting and focus on settlement growth, resource planning, and environmental pressure make it a thematic management follow-up.

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 47% ★, Building 16.8%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps live park management for fossil excavation and museum-building, but still delivers a strong dinosaur-themed simulation loop.

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 60.5% ★, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 6.6%, Open World 4.9%, Survival 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of dinosaur taming, base building, and sandbox progression offers a more survival-heavy way to play with prehistoric creatures.

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 79.9% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Open World 4.4%, Survival 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: If the main draw is authentic dinosaur behavior and immersion rather than park management, this is one of the closest creature sims.

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 44.9% ★, Management 8.7%, City Builder 8.2%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 6.4%

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 23.1%, Management 19.1%, Building 13%, Strategy 10.9%, Economy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing an island economy, tourism, infrastructure, and disasters makes it a good match for players who like Jurassic World Evolution's operational side.

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 56% ★, Building 14.5%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 5.2%, Strategy 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This lighter voxel take on survival adds building and creature management systems that still appeal to dinosaur sandbox fans.

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Management 22.4%, Building 20.9%, City Builder 17.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great pick if your favorite part is designing efficient facilities and optimizing staff, rooms, and daily operations.

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: Building 25.7%, Management 25.1%, City Builder 13.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible management style, attractive-building focus, and constant balancing of layout, staff, and visitor needs make it an easy fit.

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

Why similar: Building 31.4%, Management 30.7%, Simulation 16.7%, Sandbox 9%, City Builder 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same kind of approachable but busy management loop where design choices directly affect traffic, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

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 57.6% ★, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Open World 5.2%, Survival 3.3%

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 76.5% ★, Simulation 9.5%, Sandbox 5.7%, Open World 3.4%, Survival 2.9%

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 84.3% ★, Open World 5.6%, Building 4.4%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.1%

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 25.1%, Building 16.5%, Management 13.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 9.2%

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 44.2%, Simulation 25.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 12.1%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Why similar: Strategy 41%, Simulation 38.4%, Sandbox 8.4%, Multiplayer 4.5%, Singleplayer 4%

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: Management 22.9%, Building 21%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Economy 10.3%

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

Why similar: Management 27.4%, Building 26%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 5.6%

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 21.3%, Management 20.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Economy 9.8%

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%, Building 17.5%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Management 11.6%

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 30.5%, Management 22.3%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 13.1%, Sandbox 10%

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 79.1% ★, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 8.2%, Action 1%, Casual 0.7%

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 32.3%, Management 23.8%, Simulation 16.2%, Sandbox 15.8%, Strategy 8.4%

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 70.2% ★, Building 11.5%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 5.6%, Resource Management 2%

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 27.3%, Building 21.1%, Resource Management 11.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 10.9%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Building 22.3%, Management 20%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 14.6%, Simulation 14%, Management 11.6%

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 91.8% ★, Strategy 2.1%, Multiplayer 1.9%, Open World 1.7%, Survival 0.8%

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: Building 25%, City Builder 18.1%, Management 15.7%, Sandbox 14.9%, Simulation 6.6%

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: Management 24.4%, City Builder 16%, Building 13.4%, Economy 11.9%, Simulation 9.8%

The Cenozoic Era is a realistic animal survival game taking place during the rise of mammals, take control of a variety of animals and fight to survive among other players to reach the top of the food chain. Death, Destruction, Survival, Scavenge, Nature, Thrive, Conquer, Hunt. The Cenozoic Era

Why similar: Dinosaurs 81.6% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Atmospheric 2.5%, Action 1.4%, Adventure 1%

One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!

Why similar: Management 30.7%, Building 20%, Simulation 16.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Strategy 7.8%

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 29.3%, Building 17.1%, Strategy 11.6%, Management 10%, Simulation 9.8%

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 80.9% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Survival 3.4%, Action 1%, Singleplayer 1%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 29.7%, Strategy 15.5%, Building 10.7%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 9.7%

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 61.8% ★, Management 17.9%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 7.5%, Survival 2.7%