Games Like Offworld Trading Company

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 38.6%, Economy 19.1%, Strategy 9.7%, Resource Management 9.6%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features deep supply chain management and complex trade networks that mirror the economic depth of Offworld Trading Company.

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: City Builder 23.2%, Economy 21.3%, Management 15.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses entirely on building production lines and managing market demand, making it a perfect match for fans of economic strategy.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Economy 34.4%, Management 17.1%, Resource Management 16.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grand strategy experience centered on a sophisticated global market simulation and industrial economic growth.

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: Colony Sim 20.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 13.9%, Base Building 10.9%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly detailed economic simulation where managing logistics and resource flow is the primary challenge.

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, City Builder 20.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 10.6%, Space 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features industrial city-building with a focus on corporate competition and resource extraction.

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 36.6%, Economy 21%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with complex economic management and political maneuvering in a competitive environment.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 19.7%, Colony Sim 18.1%, Space 11.4%, Resource Management 10%, Base Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines space survival with intense resource management and station maintenance under pressure.

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Economy 13.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder that emphasizes resource management and trade between different planetary locations.

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 25.8%, Colony Sim 22.2%, Resource Management 13.7%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Presents high-stakes resource management where every decision is critical to the survival of your colony.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Base Building 19.1%, Space 16.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, City Builder 14.3%, Management 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale industrial automation and resource logistics across a galactic scale.

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: Base Building 27%, Resource Management 23.4%, City Builder 11.7%, Management 9.9%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Mastering logistics and automated production chains is the core gameplay loop, appealing to those who enjoy the efficiency aspects of the seed game.

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: City Builder 21.6%, Economy 20%, Resource Management 14.5%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on building economic networks and managing supply chains to dominate the market.

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Space 9.9%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game where managing limited resources is the primary obstacle to success.

Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.

Why similar: Space 26.6%, Sci-fi 15.5%, PvP 14%, Strategy 13.8%, Base Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based RTS that incorporates economic management and trade into its large-scale galactic conflict.

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: Colony Sim 32.2%, City Builder 24.8%, Sci-fi 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that requires careful management of resources to keep a colony thriving on an alien world.

The taming of the Red Planet has begun! Corporations are competing to transform Mars into a habitable planet by spending vast resources and using innovative technology to raise temperature, create a breathable atmosphere, and make oceans of water.

Why similar: Space 19%, Sci-fi 14.3%, Base Building 14.2%, Management 13.8%, PvP 13.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic board game adaptation that captures the theme of corporate competition to transform the Red Planet.

Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Why similar: PvP 25.1%, Sci-fi 22.3%, Space 20.4%, Strategy 12.7%, 3D 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features robust economic systems and trade routes that allow for non-military paths to victory.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Economy 29.2%, Management 20.5%, Online Co-Op 15.1%, Multiplayer 11%, Simulation 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed business management simulation that requires careful market analysis and competitive strategy.

Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.

Why similar: Economy 26.9%, City Builder 22.3%, Management 14.4%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A trading-focused strategy game where economic dominance and market control are the keys to success.

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 33.5%, Economy 33.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 10.6%, Resource Management 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A business simulation game that emphasizes market competition and product development.

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 13.9%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 8.4%, Space 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on resource management and survival within the confined, strategic environment of a spaceship.

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Why similar: Strategy 81.6%, Space 10.1%, Sci-fi 5%, Multiplayer 2.4%, Atmospheric 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game with significant economic depth and trade mechanics within a sci-fi setting.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Economy 37.7%, Management 31.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Simulation 11.2%, 3D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build a business empire from scratch with a heavy focus on market dynamics and management.

Age of Wonders: Planetfall is the new strategy game from Triumph Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Age of Wonders series, bringing all the exciting tactical turn-based combat and in-depth empire building of its predecessors to space in an all-new, sci-fi setting.

Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Economy 18.1%, Sci-fi 12.5%, Strategy 11.9%, Management 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi strategy game that balances tactical combat with empire-wide economic development.

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: City Builder 22.2%, Economy 22.2%, Strategy 16.7%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on trade routes and economic expansion in a strategic, map-based environment.

A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.

Why similar: Base Building 22%, PvP 21.3%, Online Co-Op 15.4%, Sci-fi 14%, Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A large-scale RTS that emphasizes resource control and strategic positioning on a massive map.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Economy 13.2%, Resource Management 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A futuristic city-builder that forces players to manage scarce resources across multiple cliff-top settlements.

Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 21.5%, Economy 16.1%, Base Building 13%, Management 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines planetary management with economic and environmental challenges in a unique strategy format.

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Online Co-Op 12.1%, Base Building 8.9%, Resource Management 8.6%

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.1%, Economy 11.8%, Space 8.5%, Resource Management 7.4%

A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

Why similar: Economy 18%, Management 17.8%, Sci-fi 15%, Base Building 12.7%, PvP 12.4%

Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 17%, Economy 12%, Base Building 11.2%, Resource Management 10.2%

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: Economy 33%, Management 20.6%, Space 18.6%, Strategy 13%, Simulation 11.9%

ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Why similar: Strategy 30.9%, Space 30.1%, Sci-fi 20.5%, Multiplayer 8.1%, Exploration 3.9%

You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.

Why similar: Economy 31.3%, Resource Management 27.6%, Strategy 21.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic trading simulation that challenges players to build an economic empire through smart market manipulation.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.

Why similar: Sci-fi 26.6%, Space 23%, Strategy 22.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Exploration 4.8%

Command a space-faring empire in Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the new stand-alone expansion that combines 4X depth with real-time strategy gameplay.

Why similar: Base Building 14%, Management 13%, Online Co-Op 12.7%, Space 12.5%, Sci-fi 11.2%

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 39.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 9.7%, Simulation 6.5%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Space 9.8%

In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Economy 11.5%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.3%

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Resource Management 16%, Space 14.4%, Management 13.5%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Survival 12.8%

A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.4%, City Builder 18.2%, Economy 12.4%, Resource Management 10.6%, Base Building 10.2%

Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Sci-fi 11.1%, Management 9.8%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 8.8%

Sol 0 is a real time strategy game where you establish the first Martian colony. From the first human footprints on Martian soil to a thriving and self-sustaining colony, Sol 0 imagines a near future using technology that could be available within the next few decades.

Why similar: Base Building 29.7%, Space 27.2%, Strategy 23.8%, Simulation 19.3%

In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.

Why similar: PvP 22.7%, Base Building 21.5%, Space 18.8%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Strategy 11.1%

Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.

Why similar: Sci-fi 28.5%, Strategy 25.2%, Base Building 21.8%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Space 5.5%

Stake your claim in the first realistic lunar colony management game! Use proven, real-world technologies to plan and grow your colony, mine resources, ship them to Earth, and keep the board of directors happy in this science-based colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, City Builder 18.7%, Economy 11.9%, Base Building 7.8%, Management 7.3%

Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 11.8%, Economy 11.2%, Management 9.9%, Resource Management 9.4%

Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.

Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Space 15.5%, Management 12.2%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.3%

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: Colony Sim 27.6%, City Builder 22.3%, Management 8.5%, Space 7.9%, Survival 7.6%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Space 9.3%

Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 11.4%, Base Building 6.4%

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: Resource Management 18%, Base Building 16.5%, Economy 15.5%, Colony Sim 14.4%, City Builder 13.2%

In this turn-based strategic artillery game, players wage interplanetary wars by developing their home planets and firing massive barrages through the unpredictable gravity fields of the solar system.

Why similar: Space 28.7%, Strategy 26.8%, Simulation 20.7%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Sci-fi 9.7%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Base Building 16.6%, Resource Management 12.5%, Survival 10.2%, Management 6.7%

Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.

Why similar: Space 37.3%, Sci-fi 21.8%, Strategy 17.3%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Build a galactic transportation empire and supply humanity with everything it needs to colonize the stars. In this sci-fi logistics simulator, grow your company from a local transport agency into an interstellar logistics behemoth! Singleplayer, vs AI, and online multiplayer.

Why similar: Space 25.2%, Economy 18.5%, Management 16.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.8%

PlanetX is a real-time strategy MMO set on a spherical planet. Players expand territories, construct buildings, and manage resources to develop their empire. The ultimate goal is to conquer the entire planet by claiming all land plots and outpacing rivals in strategic growth and domination.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7%, City Builder 20.2%, Economy 12.8%, Strategy 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4%, City Builder 39.8%, Simulation 8.5%, Strategy 8.3%