Games Like OpenTTD

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 22% ★, Transportation 21.2% ★, Economy 10.4%, City Builder 8.9%, Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the modern gold standard for transport management, offering deep logistics and beautiful visuals that evolve over time.

Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.

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

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique blend of realistic train simulation and board-game style progression, capturing the core appeal of network building.

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 22.5% ★, Transportation 19.7% ★, Economy 11.3%, Building 8.9%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished rail management game that focuses on the expansion of networks and economic dominance during the industrial era.

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 20% ★, Transportation 17.2% ★, Economy 10.1%, Building 8.6%, City Builder 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where the entire economy is driven by train networks, perfectly mirroring the logistical focus of OpenTTD.

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 22.8% ★, Transportation 21.6% ★, Economy 11.7%, Management 8.6%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines logistics and resource management in a charming voxel world with deep supply chain mechanics.

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 24.3% ★, Trains 15.9% ★, Economy 13.6%, Building 10.9%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an unparalleled level of detail for real-world scale rail network planning and management.

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 17.6%, Building 15.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Sandbox 11.9%, Management 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers the most complex logistics and economic simulation available, requiring players to manage every aspect of a supply chain.

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

Why similar: Trains 39.8% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, Simulation 13.4%, Management 12.5%, Economy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the creator of the original Transport Tycoon, this game serves as a direct spiritual successor.

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 21.2% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.2%, City Builder 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the modern standard, offering a solid foundation in multi-modal transport management.

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 30.9% ★, Economy 9.8%, Building 9.2%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: The closest open-source alternative to OpenTTD, offering similar depth in transport network simulation.

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 45.1% ★, Management 25.2%, Economy 10.6%, Building 5.3%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A timeless classic that defined the genre, focusing on stock market manipulation and rail network expansion.

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 18.3% ★, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 11%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on automation, the core gameplay loop of building complex transport and supply networks is the ultimate evolution of the genre.

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 18.3%, Management 13.3%, City Builder 12.3%, Trains 11.5% ★, Transportation 11.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex supply chains and logistical management in a competitive industrial environment.

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 30% ★, Management 11.8%, Simulation 10.6%, City Builder 10.6%, Trains 10.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the challenges of urban public transport network design and management.

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 35.3% ★, Economy 12.6%, Transportation 9.8% ★, Management 9.4%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game that launched the modern era of transport simulation.

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 24.6% ★, Transportation 20.3% ★, Economy 13.1%, Management 8.9%, City Builder 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A game directly inspired by the classic transport tycoon style, focusing on building a fleet of vehicles.

As president of a train company, lead city growth to make your transport business prosper. The retro style, square grid map, and complete tutorials are easy on the newcomer, but veterans will find a challenge with advanced resource management, research, and the passage of time.

Why similar: Trains 17.4% ★, Transportation 16.5% ★, Economy 11.5%, Building 11.3%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep focus on the intersection of rail management and urban development.

Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!

Why similar: Economy 39.6%, Simulation 26.9%, Management 22.5%, Strategy 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic management game that emphasizes the transport of goods to meet market demands.

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 19.9% ★, Transportation 19.1% ★, Economy 11.5%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward and accessible take on the classic transport management formula.

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 21.8% ★, Transportation 21.4% ★, Economy 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features global logistics management with a focus on fleet operations and competitive transport markets.

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 28.6% ★, Economy 13.6%, Transportation 12.8% ★, Management 10.8%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: The first entry in the modern rail management series, offering a great balance of accessibility and depth.

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 45% ★, Transportation 17.7% ★, Management 12.2%, Simulation 9.2%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist approach to transport network optimization that tests your ability to handle growing passenger demand.

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Transportation 32.5% ★, Management 17.8%, Building 14.1%, Simulation 13%, City Builder 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on road network optimization and traffic management with a similar addictive logistical loop.

In the world of A-Train, people gather around stations, gradually developing the surrounding town. What kind of railroad will you create? How will you develop the town? All these choices and more are yours to make.

Why similar: Trains 16.5% ★, Transportation 16.4% ★, Economy 12.7%, Building 11.9%, City Builder 11%

Why You'll Like It: Combines rail management with tourism-based city growth, adding a layer of economic strategy.

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: Transportation 24.9% ★, Trains 24% ★, Economy 10.6%, City Builder 8.4%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: A modern entry that blends transport management with resource-based logistics and network expansion.

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 40.9% ★, Management 14.5%, Simulation 9.5%, Economy 7.7%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the hub aspect of transport networks, requiring efficient management of passenger flow.

Openworld Railbuilder Simulator with Realistic Physics based Locomotives,Trucks,Cranes,Boats,Economy

Why similar: Trains 26.9% ★, Building 14.7%, Economy 13.4%, Sandbox 12.3%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on realistic, small-scale rail operations and building logistics in a sandbox environment.

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 35.6% ★, Transportation 25.8% ★, Building 15.2%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on puzzle-oriented train logistics and network management in a stylized environment.

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

Why similar: Trains 21.1% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, Management 14.1%, Simulation 13.4%, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: The original urban transit management experience that challenges players to build efficient city bus and rail lines.

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 27.1% ★, Transportation 18% ★, Economy 10.6%, Management 9.3%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the industrial era of rail expansion with a strong emphasis on historical scenarios.

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 26.8% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 8.4%

Polish railway simulator emphasizing multiplayer and realism. Become a train driver, operating faithfully recreated trains, or a dispatcher, managing traffic and signalling equipment at your post. Cooperate online, build stations in the editor, and join railway enthusiasts!

Why similar: Trains 40.9% ★, Transportation 20.4% ★, Building 11.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Management 7.4%

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.

Why similar: Trains 25.5% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, Building 12.2%, Economy 12%, City Builder 10.9%

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 26.5% ★, Transportation 17.5% ★, Economy 12.5%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 21.4% ★, Transportation 15.9% ★, Economy 13.3%, Building 12%, Sandbox 9%

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 34.8% ★, Economy 20.9%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 12%, Simulation 7.9%

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 36.1% ★, Trains 20.9% ★, Management 13.3%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8.6%

As the owner of a brand new railway company, you must manage train schedules, develop new railways, construct buildings, and manipulate the stock market on your quest to earn one trillion dollars.Have you ever wondered what it's like to manage a railway company, or how trains can impact the fate of an entire city?

Why similar: Trains 21.9% ★, Transportation 18.5% ★, Economy 12.9%, Building 11.5%, City Builder 10.7%

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 19.2% ★, Transportation 14.1% ★, Building 11.6%, City Builder 10.5%, Management 10%

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 25.5% ★, Economy 10.6%, Building 9.4%, Transportation 9% ★, City Builder 9%

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 36.5% ★, Economy 15.4%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Management 9.9%

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 31.1% ★, Transportation 19.5% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Economy 17%, Management 8.3%

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 25.9% ★, Transportation 22.5% ★, Building 9.8%, Economy 9.4%, City Builder 8.4%

Airport building and light business tycoon game. Build up an airport providing cargo, maintenance, and passenger service. Choose which upgrades to invest in, manage policies, organize finances, optimize layouts, and balance carbon emissions.

Why similar: Transportation 18.4% ★, Building 16.7%, Economy 15%, City Builder 13.9%, Sandbox 11%

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 27.3% ★, Transportation 22.8% ★, Economy 12.6%, Building 11.6%, Sandbox 9.4%

Train Frontier Classic is a stylized landscape building and multiplayer train riding sandbox, inspired by the fun of model railroad building. Fill a scene with miles of scale track, hundreds of props, and a personal train car setup -- then go online to share and ride your creation with friends!

Why similar: Trains 61.8% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Transportation 7.4% ★, Building 5.2%, Sandbox 4.3%

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 34.8% ★, Transportation 23.1% ★, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 7.1%

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 31% ★, Transportation 25.5% ★, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 10.8%, Management 9.9%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 18.9% ★, Moddable 12.4% ★, Economy 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Management 10%

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 14.2% ★, Transportation 13.9% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Economy 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%

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

Why similar: Trains 26% ★, Transportation 12.4% ★, Building 11.2%, Economy 10.1%, Management 9%

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 20.4% ★, Trains 15.5% ★, Economy 11.3%, City Builder 10.1%, Building 9.9%

Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!

Why similar: Economy 20.9%, Building 17.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Management 14%, Sandbox 13.1%

In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!

Why similar: Trains 24.8% ★, Economy 17.8%, City Builder 11.6%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.9%

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

Why similar: Trains 38.3% ★, Transportation 27.3% ★, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 8%, Simulation 7.2%

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: City Builder 18%, Building 14.8%, Economy 13%, Transportation 11.9% ★, Sandbox 10%

Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! And with Trainz Plus memberships, you get more content, more features and the latest Trainz has to offer!

Why similar: Trains 31.1% ★, Transportation 21.7% ★, Building 12.3%, Sandbox 11.2%, Moddable 8% ★

Manage your transport company! Be a transportation entrepreneur, with control over everything in your business. Work, earn, invest and expand!

Why similar: Management 33.9%, Transportation 30.7% ★, Simulation 20.1%, Strategy 7.2%, 2D 3.3%

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 46.7% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14.6%, Simulation 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%