Games Like Locoland

Soko Loco Deluxe is a cute train tycoon! 🚂🧱🎁💎 Transport resources, develop towns and build a giant monument! Choo-choo!

Why similar: Trains 51.3% ★, Strategy 25.3%, RTS 13.5%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It perfectly matches the train-focused strategy and indie charm found in Locoland.

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

Why similar: Trains 71.9% ★, Strategy 20.8%, Indie 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a deep, satisfying take on train management and logistics within a stylized, strategic framework.

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: Trains 75.4% ★, Strategy 18.1%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on large-scale transportation and resource management, mirroring the industrial expansion themes of Locoland.

Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!

Why similar: Trains 68.9% ★, Strategy 31.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic in the genre, it provides the core transportation and management gameplay that defines the Locoland experience.

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

Why similar: RTS 45.7%, Strategy 44.2%, Indie 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Like Locoland, this game provides a unique, highly atmospheric RTS experience with a distinct visual identity.

Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.

Why similar: Trains 78.8% ★, Strategy 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: It leans into the relaxing, train-based automation aspects of the seed game with a modern, cozy aesthetic.

Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

Why similar: Trains 75.8% ★, Strategy 20.5%, Atmospheric 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused take on train routing that shares the quirky, colorful atmosphere of the seed game.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, RTS 32%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game masterfully combines RTS combat with complex automation and train-like logistics on a planetary scale.

Ironclad Tactics is a fast-paced, card-based tactics game set in an alternate history Civil War - with steam-powered military robots!

Why similar: Strategy 76.3%, Indie 23.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the steampunk-robot aesthetic and tactical strategy elements present in Locoland.

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: Trains 61.5% ★, Strategy 32.7%, Indie 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for industrial automation and train logistics, offering a much deeper strategic challenge.

War of the Human Tanks is a story driven strategy game with a gameplay reminiscent of Battleship and Chess, featuring a story of war, loyalty, sacrifice and human shaped tanks.

Why similar: Strategy 80.2%, Indie 19.8%

Why You'll Like It: It features a similar focus on robot-based warfare and tactical strategy with a unique, stylized presentation.

8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.

Why similar: Strategy 52.4%, RTS 35.3%, Indie 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the colorful, accessible RTS feel of Locoland while focusing on fast-paced unit management.

What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.

Why similar: RTS 52.5%, Strategy 45.5%, Atmospheric 2%

Why You'll Like It: As a classic RTS, it provides the foundational robot-warfare experience that inspired many modern indie strategy titles.

Real-time strategy battles in amazing sci-fi worlds! Command brave soldiers, mighty mechas and powerful aliens to face the greatest challenges in hostile alien worlds. The galaxy needs you!

Why similar: RTS 49.3%, Strategy 40.9%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A polished sci-fi RTS that provides the unit-based combat and tactical depth found in Locoland.

Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!

Why similar: Trains 92.1% ★, Indie 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the chaotic, cooperative nature of building and maintaining train tracks in a vibrant, indie-style world.

Our civilization has fallen. From the ashes, four new powers emerge. Immerse yourself in a combat-heavy twist on a classic turn-based 4X strategy where steam, steel, atom and diesel-punk corporations clash to spread their technology and the way of life.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic strategy game that explores steampunk themes through a tactical, turn-based lens.

Steam Squad - a classical tactical wargame with honest physics simulation of battles set in an alternative universe during the First World War. Players acting for the 3 of the superpowers - the Holy Roman, British and Tianxian Empires complete 30 missions with squads of up to 8 units.

Why similar: Strategy 72.7%, Indie 21.8%, Atmospheric 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the steampunk aesthetic and turn-based tactical elements that complement the Locoland vibe.

A visually stunning RTS where players battle to build the ultimate automated floating Ultraweapon. Outsmart players or AIs by building a strategically superior Battlecruiser. Step aboard for unique, hand-drawn misadventure on Flooded Earth, explosive gameplay, and an addictive soundtrack. And nukes.

Why similar: RTS 48.8%, Strategy 41.5%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D real-time tactics game focuses on unit construction and combat, echoing the robot-warfare aspect of the seed game.

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 70% ★, Strategy 30%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more grounded, historical approach to the train management mechanics featured in Locoland.

Not everyone on the planet Driftland is happy with the new order brought by the mages-rulers. Is this nothing more than an attempt to restore the apparent balance that has almost destroyed the entire planet once? Join the brave Nomads and fight for freedom on your own terms.

Why similar: RTS 47.7%, Strategy 40.1%, Indie 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique RTS that features unconventional movement and resource management on a shifting, fantasy-inspired map.

Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Trains 65.5% ★, Strategy 27.8%, Indie 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, strategic take on transit networks that captures the essence of efficient route planning.

Earth has been destroyed. Mankind is fractured. The galaxy is at war. But one hope remains: a new home for mankind. Probes detected a habitable planet in the Orion sector. You must fight your way to it, but nothing is as it seems. A more devious plan is underway that threatens the entire galaxy.

Why similar: Strategy 74.1%, Indie 25.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed RTS that provides the classic unit-production and combat loops found in Locoland.

Discover the 19th and 20th centuries with countryballs!

Why similar: Strategy 87.2%, Atmospheric 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: The colorful, stylized aesthetic and tactical gameplay make it a lighthearted alternative to traditional strategy games.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Strategy 76.9%, Atmospheric 23.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the economic and strategic side of planetary resource management, similar to the industrial goals of Locoland.

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Strategy 74.5%, Indie 25.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features a dark, humorous take on robot-led civilization management that mirrors the bizarre world of Locoland.

Creeper World 3 is what happens when cellular automata takes over a strategy simulation. Instead of discrete units that attack your base, a fluid-like substance spreads over the terraformable terrain. Your base, your weapons, your strategy... you must adapt them all.

Why similar: Strategy 56%, RTS 32.6%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: An indie RTS that prioritizes unique terrain and unconventional combat mechanics over traditional base building.

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Strategy 69%, Indie 31%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the engineering and physics-based construction challenges that are central to building transport networks.

Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.

Why similar: RTS 47.6%, Strategy 45%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Strategy 84.6%, Atmospheric 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric strategy game about controlling drones in a derelict, robot-filled environment.

Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.

Why similar: Strategy 86.3%, Indie 13.7%

Why You'll Like It: This sci-fi city builder captures the feeling of establishing a civilization on a strange, alien planet.

Transport services is a lightweight fast-paced simulation game about designing and managing transportation for a dynamic world.

Why similar: Trains 51.1% ★, Strategy 36.9%, Indie 12%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward, puzzle-like approach to managing transportation logistics in an indie setting.

Shrot is a bite-sized old-school action RTS set on a sandy planet with horses, tractors and techno music.

Why similar: RTS 50.6%, Strategy 49.4%

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Strategy 74.3%, Indie 25.7%

Build powerful battle robots from components like Chassis, Weapon and Booster. The battle’s starting and you’re right in it – with freely definable camera perspectives, spectacular effects, unlimited zoom and scroll, colored light sources, terrain morphing and 3D sound. Pure action – pure excitement!

Why similar: Strategy 92.9%, Indie 7.1%

Bot Wars is an action RTS about managing a squad of kill-bots and their bases as you work to take over all the capture points across the map. Featuring corporate kill bot armies, ranging from a firearms and beverage manufacturer to a lovecraftian burger cult.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

There is a world which needs your defense. You are the young mage that has just graduated the mages school and you must pass through several hard tests to become a decent defender.

Why similar: Strategy 46.1%, Cult Classic 38.3% ★, RTS 15.6%

Incredibly dynamic turn-based strategy, reviving the traditions of the old school tactics. Lead a team of the most desperate fighters, destroy alien monsters and uncover the secrets of the lost planet.

Why similar: Strategy 82.1%, Atmospheric 17.9%

Play as humans or robots in a brand new sci-fi strategy adventure! Travel into the far reaches of space, through cleverly designed star constellations and variable game modes, conquering enemy planets using 15 combinable technologies.

Why similar: Strategy 96.2%, Indie 3.8%

6 different types of towers! 4 planets with different characteristics! 25 different enemies. Drones, Tanks, Biorobotic enemies and many different ground and air vehicles! Snowy and Glacial maps, Desert and Arid lands! Prepare to defend the solar system against invaders!

Why similar: RTS 49.6%, Strategy 43.8%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Battle Train is a run-based roguelite deck-n-track builder set in the world’s most explosive game show. Choose your cards, upgrade your train, lay down tracks, and use destructive locomotives to blast your rival Champions off the rails in a chaotic mashup of deck-building and tactical rail combat.

Why similar: Trains 72.5% ★, Strategy 22.8%, Indie 4.7%

R.O.O.T.S is a real-time strategy game that pits the player against colorful yet invasive enemies that must be overtaken before the player themselves is uprooted! Warfare has never been so beautifully unorthodox.

Why similar: Strategy 73.2%, Indie 26.8%

A turn-based RPG set in a fantastic society of plants and animals. Fight against monsters and visit exotic places that have their unique culture and history. Beware of what lurks in the darkness...

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Epic sci-fi tower defense action with 16-bit era look and feel, pitching your colonists against an almost endless horde of hostile alien robots who strongly oppose your attempts of colonizing their planet! Deluxe version includes the soundtrack!

Why similar: Strategy 74.1%, Indie 25.9%

Crash-landed in the universe of Cantata, will you expand your empire or bring peace to the war torn planet? Grow your army, manage resources and discover the colourful planet of Shoal, its people, and the armed forces overrunning this land in this genre-defining Grand Tactics game.

Why similar: Strategy 87.4%, Atmospheric 12.6%

In Echelon: Wind Warriors you will discover the universe of the third millennium. This is a combat simulator involving hovering machines of the future. War is raging between the government forces of the Galactic Federation and squadrons from one of the colonies.

Post Human W.A.R is a turn-based tactical strategy game, set in an absurd post-apocalyptic world. At the dawn of our third millennium, mankind went extinct. Mutated animals, household robots converted for warfare, and monkeys in tracksuits battle it out to decide the fate of the human heritage!

Why similar: Strategy 74%, Indie 26%

You play as a tiny sentient planet. Maintain your ecosystem, create new plant species and discover the hidden powers inside you. You’ll need them soon, because there is a human spaceship approaching with the intention to mine all your resources and they don’t care if it kills you in the process.

Why similar: Strategy 78.6%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Indie 9.7%

Tempest Citadel is a base building simulation set on a storm-ruled planet with a vivid sci-fi story. Build a mighty Citadel in the clouds for your crew of explorers and conquer the deadly planet below in automated squad battles!

Why similar: Strategy 74.1%, Indie 25.9%

Be the last train conductor roaming the postapocalyptic frozen world! Expand, strengthen, and build synergies on your train. The promised land beyond the toxic zone awaits you and your passengers.

Why similar: Trains 63.7% ★, Strategy 21.2%, RTS 11.4%, Indie 3.8%

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Trains 74.8% ★, RTS 25.2%

Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.

Why similar: Strategy 80.8%, Indie 19.2%

EPOCH - Post-apocalyptic Robot Combat

Why similar: Indie 100%

A classic single-player RTS set in a Solar System ruled by megacorporations. Journey from Mars all the way to Planet 9 and uncover the secrets of the BlackChain.

Why similar: RTS 52.7%, Strategy 41.5%, Indie 5.8%

An epic struggle for control!

Why similar: Strategy 68%, RTS 32%

Colonize A Planet. Dominate A World.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Welcome to the unique, turn-based strategy game set in the strange, flat world of the Square. Lead one of 16 distinct civilizations to victory by expanding your empire, researching technologies, and ultimately become ruler of the world! Play in single-player or multiplayer mode for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Battle with robots on dynamic, randomly generated battlegrounds, as you attempt to take on the world in this unique turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Strategy 80.1%, Indie 19.9%

Duke it out with massive alien robots during the peak of the Mayan civilization. Nuke, zap, implode, incinerate and destroy your friends in singleplayer or local multiplayer. Win the adoration of your tiny Mayan tribesmen, and keep an eye out for Mayan Gods who will try to crash your party.

Why similar: Strategy 81.7%, Indie 18.3%

Microcosmum: survival of cells. Join the wonderful and amazing world of microorganisms.

Why similar: RTS 51.2%, Strategy 38.3%, Atmospheric 10.5%