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 43% ★, Building 15.3%, Management 10.1%, Sandbox 7.5%, City Builder 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel expands the original's dinosaur park building, animal behavior, guest management, campaigns, and chaos-theory scenarios.

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 45.6% ★, Management 8.4%, City Builder 8.2%, Sandbox 8.1%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the series' core fantasy of designing, operating, and protecting a dinosaur park while handling increasingly complex management challenges.

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 41.1% ★, Building 12.8%, Management 9.9%, Sandbox 7.3%, City Builder 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed prehistoric zoo builder centered on designing habitats, breeding extinct animals, and balancing visitor and animal needs.

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 41% ★, Building 14.6%, Management 12.3%, City Builder 9.8%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This approachable dinosaur-zoo management game combines enclosure construction, research, staff administration, and delightfully expressive prehistoric 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 24.1%, Management 21.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, City Builder 11.3%, Simulation 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: From the same developer as Jurassic World Evolution, it offers exceptionally deep habitat construction, animal welfare systems, breeding, and guest-focused zoo management.

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 43.2%, Simulation 25.2%, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 12.4%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: A more accessible zoo-management alternative with habitat building, animal care, visitor happiness, and a broad collection of creatures.

Will you survive? Be the dinosaur and thrive in a prehistoric world designed to give a true dinosaur survival experience. Dinosaurs Prehistoric Survivors lets players live the life of a dinosaur in a prehistoric environment where players must learn to hunt and adapt in order to survive.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 69% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Open World 5%, Survival 3%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes settlement building and resource management with taming, raising, and using dinosaurs in a prehistoric world.

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 21.4%, Management 18.7%, City Builder 16.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management sim about expanding a zoo, satisfying visitors, breeding animals, and making ethically questionable or creative operational decisions.

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 21.9%, Management 19.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Economy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its hands-on animal care, enclosure planning, breeding, and zoo finances make it a classic management-focused counterpart to Jurassic World Evolution.

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 27.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Management 15.2%, Sandbox 13.3%, Simulation 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its exhibit construction, visitor-flow management, staff training, and playful operational problems make it a strong museum-themed park-management alternative.

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 31.1%, Management 19.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This polished theme-park builder is ideal for players who most enjoy Jurassic World Evolution's creative construction and guest-satisfaction side.

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 26.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, City Builder 14.8%, Simulation 12.5%, Management 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers sophisticated attraction design, guest management, finances, and sandbox creativity, trading dinosaur exhibits for amusement-park rides and water parks.

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 20.5%, Building 20.2%, Simulation 12.9%, Sandbox 11.2%, City Builder 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This animal-park simulation emphasizes constructing exhibits, caring for wildlife, managing staff, and meeting the needs of a growing visitor attraction.

In Zoo Simulator, your main task is to run and manage your own zoo. Renew it and take care of all the animals' needs, ensuring them a peaceful life! Will you attract crowds of visitors? Create your own zoo!

Why similar: Management 31.8%, Simulation 23.9%, Economy 15.2%, Open World 11.1%, Strategy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person zoo builder focuses on constructing a facility, maintaining animal habitats, and personally handling the daily operational work.

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 31.2%, Management 21.9%, Sandbox 17.6%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the same exhibit-planning, animal-care, research, staffing, and guest-satisfaction loop into an aquarium setting.

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 79% ★, Simulation 5.6%, Open World 4.4%, Sandbox 4.1%, Survival 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: This multiplayer dinosaur survival sim focuses on growing from a vulnerable juvenile into an adult while navigating a dangerous living ecosystem.

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 28.4%, Management 21.9%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11.7%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This colorful theme-park management game combines coaster construction, park economics, and extravagant attractions with a more arcade-like tone.

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 25.8%, Management 19.2%, City Builder 12.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Economy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A deeper, more logistics-driven coaster-park builder where behind-the-scenes supply chains and staff operations matter as much as ride design.

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 80.3% ★, Simulation 9.9%, Open World 4.5%, Survival 3.2%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more naturalistic take on prehistoric life, letting players inhabit and survive as scientifically grounded dinosaur species.

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 58.6% ★, Building 17.8%, Sandbox 8.9%, Open World 5.3%, Survival 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines taming and breeding dinosaurs with base construction, resource gathering, and survival systems in a much more action-heavy sandbox.

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 76.9% ★, Simulation 9%, Sandbox 5.8%, Open World 3.5%, Survival 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: Players raise and customize dinosaurs in a persistent multiplayer survival world shaped by weather, migration, and ecosystem competition.

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 48.4% ★, Building 16.7%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9.4%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It appeals to the paleontology side of Jurassic World Evolution through fossil excavation, dinosaur reconstruction, and museum exhibit creation.

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 83.5% ★, Open World 5.5%, Building 4.3%, Multiplayer 2.4%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: While it is an action-adventure rather than a management sim, it is the strongest choice for a lighter, family-friendly way to revisit Jurassic film locations and dinosaurs.

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 26.8%, Management 23%, City Builder 14.9%, Sandbox 12.3%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational 3D park-management sandbox with ride construction, guest needs, budgets, and the ability to experience the park from a visitor perspective.

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 61.1% ★, Building 18.5%, Sandbox 6.4%, Open World 5%, Survival 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: The original ARK provides a vast dinosaur-taming and base-building survival loop for players who want to interact with prehistoric animals directly.

Welcome to Amber Isle - a quaint, friendly village of prehistoric residents who are in need of a new shopkeep... That’s you! Craft and sell items, upgrade your shop, befriend your Paleofolk neighbours and customise the island to bring the village back to life and welcome even more prehistoric pals!

Why similar: Dinosaurs 72.9% ★, Management 18.1%, Simulation 6.6%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Adventure 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: This lighthearted prehistoric management game has you run and customize a shop for a community of dinosaur-era residents.

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 27.4%, Management 21.3%, City Builder 11.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a smaller-scale but detailed tycoon loop built around designing indoor attractions, managing shops, and keeping guests entertained.

Welcome to Paleo Pines, a charming island known for its friendly dinosaurs, quirky townsfolk, and mysterious past. Befriend dinos and enlist their help to fix up your ranch and farm crops to create your cozy dino sanctuary! Then set out with your companion, Lucky, to uncover the island’s secrets.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 83.2% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Open World 4.8%, Singleplayer 1.8%, Casual 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy dinosaur-filled life sim focused on befriending, caring for, and working alongside prehistoric creatures while developing a ranch.

A living prehistoric ecosystem that does not revolve around you. Shape the island as a god, or enter it as a human and survive while animals, weather, water, terrain and your own body change over time.

Why similar: Dinosaurs 62.4% ★, Building 14.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 8.5%, Survival 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This sandbox ecosystem simulation lets you observe and influence prehistoric food chains, species behavior, evolution, and environmental conditions.

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 23.5%, City Builder 20.8%, Management 14.5%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 10.3%

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 21.2%, Management 15.8%, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Economy 7.9%

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 56.5% ★, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 5.4%, Strategy 4.2%

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 26.1%, Building 16.7%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 9.1%

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 26.6%, Building 26.5%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 5.7%

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 25.3%, Building 24%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%

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 28.4%, Building 21.3%, Strategy 11%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.5%

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 22.5%, Building 21.5%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.3%, Economy 9.7%

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 79.8% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Strategy 7.9%, 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 32.9%, Management 23%, Simulation 16.1%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 8.4%

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 43.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 11.9%, Simulation 10.4%, Economy 5.4%

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

Why similar: Dinosaurs 71.1% ★, Building 11.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 5.4%, Resource Management 1.8%

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 31.3%, Strategy 12%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Building 9.1%

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 29.1%, Building 17.9%, Simulation 15.9%, Strategy 15.2%, Management 10.8%

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 24.1%, Management 18.4%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 10.4%

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!

Why similar: Management 37.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Building 14%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 8.5%

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 63.2% ★, Management 16.9%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Survival 2.7%

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 29.8%, Building 20.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Sandbox 15.9%, Strategy 7.8%

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 40.8%, Simulation 37.9%, Sandbox 8.9%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Singleplayer 4%

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

Why similar: Building 22.8%, Management 19.9%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

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 30.8%, Management 21.8%, Strategy 15.4%, Simulation 13%, Sandbox 10.3%

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 23.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 13.8%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 9.9%

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 25.3%, City Builder 18.9%, Management 15.1%, Sandbox 15.1%, Simulation 6.5%

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 91.9% ★, Strategy 2%, Multiplayer 1.8%, Open World 1.7%, Survival 0.8%

Equilinox is a relaxing nature simulation game in which you can create and nurture your own ecosystems. Shape the world to your liking, cultivate and raise hundreds of different species, and evolve your wildlife to unlock more exotic plants and animals.

Why similar: Sandbox 40.6%, Simulation 32.4%, Management 11.8%, Great Soundtrack 7.2%, Singleplayer 4%

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 30.4%, Building 17.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 9.6%, Management 9.5%

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 82.3% ★, Simulation 12.9%, Atmospheric 2.4%, Action 1.4%, Adventure 1%