Games Like Mashinky

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: Trains 26.8% ★, Transportation 24% ★, Economy 9.9%, Management 9.8%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive modern transport simulation that offers deep logistics management and a massive variety of vehicles across different eras.

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: Trains 27.9% ★, Transportation 22.7% ★, Economy 10.9%, Management 9%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title refines the classic train tycoon experience with improved track-laying mechanics and a strong focus on historical economic growth.

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: Trains 21.3% ★, Transportation 17% ★, Economy 8.4%, Moddable 8.3% ★, Level Editor 7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where the entire economy is driven by train networks, perfectly capturing the core transportation focus of the seed game.

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: Trains 29.8% ★, Transportation 20.5% ★, Economy 14.6%, Management 11%, Sandbox 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the intricate logic of train dispatching and network optimization, mirroring the puzzle-like satisfaction of Mashinky's track building.

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: Economy 17.8%, Moddable 13.9% ★, Management 13.6%, Historical 13.3%, Sandbox 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep and complex simulation of logistics, production chains, and infrastructure development that will appeal to fans of Mashinky's difficulty.

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: Trains 27.2% ★, Transportation 23.9% ★, Economy 10.9%, Management 9.3%, Moddable 6.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its procedural world and voxel-based construction offer a similar sandbox feel to Mashinky while focusing heavily on automated logistics.

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 34% ★, Transportation 14.1% ★, Economy 12.6%, Management 11.5%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic, polished approach to building a railroad empire with a strong emphasis on economic competition and historical expansion.

OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Why similar: Trains 25.6% ★, Transportation 20.3% ★, Economy 12.9%, Management 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the spiritual successor to Transport Tycoon Deluxe, it remains the gold standard for complex, open-ended transport management simulations.

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 31.1% ★, Moddable 11.3% ★, Transportation 10.2% ★, Economy 10.2%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends resource management with train logistics, requiring players to build efficient networks to support industrial growth.

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 41.2% ★, Economy 11.6%, Transportation 10.6% ★, Management 9.9%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the Transport Fever series, it established the foundation for modern 3D transport simulation games.

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: Economy 17.2%, Management 14.4%, Trains 13.8% ★, Transportation 12.4% ★, Resource Management 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the economic side of production and transportation, requiring players to manage complex supply chains across a growing map.

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: Economy 25.2%, Resource Management 20.6%, Management 17.3%, Transportation 14.4% ★, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It features deep supply chain management and logistics, challenging players to build efficient transport systems to keep their industrial base running.

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 37.2% ★, Transportation 25.1% ★, Level Editor 13.3%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused train management game that emphasizes efficient routing and resource delivery in a charming, stylized environment.

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 24.2% ★, Sandbox 17.6%, Resource Management 16.3%, Management 11.3%, Moddable 11.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: While broader in scope, its core focus on complex logistics, automation, and rail-based supply chains is a natural progression for fans of management games.

Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.

Why similar: Transportation 29.6% ★, Trains 20.8% ★, Economy 14%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly realistic approach to rail planning on real-world maps, appealing to players who enjoy the technical side of infrastructure.

‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!

Why similar: Trains 37.6% ★, Transportation 24.9% ★, Management 10.4%, Procedural Generation 9.7%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, minimalist approach to train logistics that focuses on connecting industries and towns through beautiful, voxel-art landscapes.

Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.

Why similar: Trains 35.7% ★, Transportation 23.6% ★, Economy 9%, Sandbox 6.2%, Open World 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an immersive, first-person experience of operating trains, focusing on the realistic physics and mechanics of rail transport.

Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...

Why similar: Trains 49.6% ★, Management 24.9%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that remains highly relevant for its deep economic simulation and focus on the golden age of rail travel.

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: Trains 25.1% ★, Transportation 22.9% ★, Economy 11.6%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a global transportation company, requiring players to balance different modes of transit across a world map.

You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!

Why similar: Trains 35.7% ★, Transportation 27.7% ★, Economy 10.8%, Open World 7.1%, Sandbox 6%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed simulation of steam-era rail operations that focuses on the technical and operational aspects of running a railroad.

Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Why similar: Trains 36.8% ★, Transportation 28.1% ★, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: The original puzzle-train game that challenges players to manage traffic and signals to prevent collisions in a fast-paced environment.

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 37.9% ★, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.4%, Transportation 9.3% ★, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: An open-source transport simulator that offers deep, grid-based management and a wide variety of transport options.

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: Sandbox 30.6%, Open World 29.4%, Resource Management 25.3%, Simulation 7.6%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: It brings logistics and automation into a first-person 3D perspective, rewarding players who design efficient rail and conveyor networks.

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: Trains 18.1% ★, Transportation 16.4% ★, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 11%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines town-building with complex automation and logistics, making it a great choice for those who enjoy managing supply chains.

Train Station Simulator is a station builder and manager game. Create and maintain your dream station! Ride the rails and operate your ultimate grand central empire!

Why similar: Trains 46.9% ★, Management 15%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%, Economy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to the management of the station itself, requiring players to handle passenger flow and infrastructure upgrades.

For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.

Why similar: Trains 30% ★, Transportation 26.2% ★, Management 10.6%, Economy 9.2%, Open World 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a blend of train driving and company management, allowing players to experience both the operational and business sides of rail.

Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Why similar: Trains 52.8% ★, Economy 13.3%, Management 12%, Strategy 8.8%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a narrative and survival layer to the train management genre, forcing players to protect their cargo and upgrade their locomotive.

Take control of a Soviet locomotive and embark on a dangerous journey along the world's longest railway line. Face mafia rivals, bandits, wild animals, constant breakdowns, severe frosts, hunger, and... a hangover. How far will you get before your supplies run out?

Why similar: Trains 38% ★, Transportation 24.7% ★, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 7.3%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused train simulation that emphasizes the maintenance and operation of a train in harsh, realistic conditions.

Drive vintage diesel trains, shifting gears manually and trying to reach a perfect score. Create new routes, trains and timetables. Share your creations and download new content from the Workshop.

Why similar: Trains 29.8% ★, Transportation 21.5% ★, Moddable 11.8% ★, Level Editor 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: This simulator focuses on the realistic operation of diesel trains, appealing to those who appreciate the technical details of rail machinery.

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: Trains 24.2% ★, Transportation 16.5% ★, Management 11.4%, Isometric 9.3%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A logistics-heavy management game that focuses on optimizing passenger flow and infrastructure within a busy transit hub.

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: Trains 24.8% ★, Transportation 19.9% ★, Economy 10.7%, Management 7.9%, Sandbox 7.8%

Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.

Why similar: Trains 29.6% ★, Transportation 19.8% ★, Economy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%, Management 6.8%

Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.

Why similar: Transportation 28.7% ★, Economy 14.5%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, RTS 9.4%

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: Trains 26.6% ★, Transportation 25.5% ★, Economy 9.2%, Level Editor 8.6%, Management 7.5%

The 20th century heralds the new age of electrification for the railroad, and a new opportunity to make your fortune. Build your corporation carefully, as you deploy modern electric and diesel locomotives, lay new tracks, transport goods and passengers, and stay ahead of the competition.

Why similar: Trains 31.3% ★, Transportation 19.2% ★, Economy 11.5%, Sandbox 8.2%, Historical 7.6%

Modern transport sim game combining realistic simulation with indie game style, old-school grid environment, newest features, and modern transport options. Transport a wide variety of cargo and passengers over road, rail, and water, and create your own transport company!

Why similar: Transportation 31% ★, Trains 19.3% ★, Management 11.1%, Procedural Generation 9.5%, Economy 6.6%

The ultimate railway hobby for more than 15 years! From historic steam locomotives to modern high-speed and heavy freight trains, and routes around the world, Train Simulator Classic is the simulation made by railfans for railfans.

Why similar: Trains 65.6% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Transportation 4.8% ★, Moddable 4.5% ★, Realistic 4.4%

Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!

Why similar: Trains 48.1% ★, Economy 15.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Management 11.7%, Open World 9.5%

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

Why similar: Trains 41.4% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 9.4%

Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.

Why similar: Trains 25.1% ★, Transportation 22.4% ★, Economy 11.4%, Management 9.4%, Moddable 8.3% ★

Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now you can collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! TRS22 showcases a range of high quality routes, sessions and trains to drive, plus all the scenery you need to make your own masterpiece.

Why similar: Trains 32.2% ★, Transportation 19.8% ★, Level Editor 11.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Historical 6.1%

My Train Arrives is a railway construction simulation game. Build railroads, open new routes for trains. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the game.

Why similar: Trains 31.3% ★, Transportation 25.3% ★, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 6.7%

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 30.2% ★, Transportation 27.4% ★, Sandbox 9.8%, Management 8.8%, Resource Management 8.2%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 23% ★, Moddable 16.8% ★, Economy 12.6%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 9.6%

STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.

Why similar: Trains 31.4% ★, Transportation 13.8% ★, Management 9.7%, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 8.7%

It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.

Why similar: Trains 32.4% ★, Transportation 18.8% ★, Economy 13.9%, Strategy 13.5%, Simulation 13.4%

Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam

Why similar: Trains 26.9% ★, Transportation 23% ★, Management 16.1%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 10.6%

Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.

Why similar: Transportation 25.8% ★, Trains 21.1% ★, Economy 12.1%, Moddable 9.9% ★, Sandbox 8.9%

SimRail is new, advanced railway simulator. Master high-speed long-distance EMU, heavy freight hauls and suburban trains. Travel 500 km of geodetic-data based real routes. Become train dispatcher and control the traffic according to the schedule or cooperate with other players on multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Trains 44% ★, Transportation 33.3% ★, Open World 7.4%, Realistic 6.5%, Simulation 6.1%

Relive the pioneering spirit of the Golden Age of Steam by establishing your own railroad empire across 19th century North America. Bring settlements together, produce and trade goods and develop new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. Want more? RAILROAD CORPORATION 2 Out Now!

Why similar: Trains 29% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, Management 9%, Economy 8.9%, Historical 8.3%

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 28.7% ★, Transportation 22.3% ★, Economy 10.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 7.5%

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: Management 20.3%, Economy 18.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Isometric 10.4%, Moddable 9% ★

Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!

Why similar: Trains 33.8% ★, Transportation 22.3% ★, Moddable 12.7% ★, Level Editor 11.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Take your opportunity as real Train Mechanic. Find locomotives around game world that needs your help and repair them in one of 3 workshops localized in huge 25 km2 open world. You will be face all types of damages in all genres of trains: Diesel, Electric and even Old-School Steam units.

Why similar: Trains 47.1% ★, Sandbox 9%, Management 8.3%, Moddable 8.1% ★, Simulation 7.7%

A railway-building adventure in an endless, procedurally generated world. Lay tracks, transport passengers and goods, complete tasks, and unlock unique locomotives. Play solo or with friends and create your ultimate railway network!

Why similar: Trains 53% ★, Sandbox 14.2%, Procedural Generation 11.6%, Open World 8.4%, Simulation 7%

The cutest management game about trains. 🚂 Choo-choo! Manage increasingly complex railroad. The rich history of railway transport awaits! From steam engines to futuristic marvels. Explore different eras and countries and witness the evolution of train technology. 🛤️🚂🚄❤️

Why similar: Trains 35% ★, Transportation 24.8% ★, Level Editor 11.6%, Management 10.6%, Isometric 10.3%

Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.

Why similar: Trains 29.4% ★, Transportation 22.5% ★, Economy 12.3%, Management 9.6%, Sandbox 7.3%

SimRail - The Railway Simulator Prologue presents the full range of possibilities of the newest and best simulator of the work of train driver. Take on the challenge and take the controls of a freight or passenger train!

Why similar: Trains 35.5% ★, Transportation 27.7% ★, Economy 9.1%, Historical 7.5%, Management 7.4%

Drive a track laying train up and down steep hills and canyons to connect industries. Navigate your network carefully as AI-trains begin to use it. Help industries level up by optimizing tracks, signals and speed limits for efficient flow of traffic.

Why similar: Trains 40.5% ★, Transportation 28.3% ★, Management 11.4%, Open World 6.5%, Difficult 6.1%

Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.

Why similar: Transportation 37.2% ★, Management 14.1%, Trains 13.8% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Sandbox 8.7%