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 21.9% ★, Economy 9.8%, City Builder 9.2%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is the modern gold standard for transport simulation, offering deep logistics and beautiful visuals for managing complex networks.

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 26% ★, Transportation 20.8% ★, Economy 12.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game was directly inspired by the classic transport tycoon genre and features a unique blend of realistic rail building and board-game style progression.

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 22.9% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, Economy 10.7%, Building 9.1%, City Builder 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished experience focused on building expansive rail networks and managing the economic growth of cities.

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 20.3% ★, Transportation 17.5% ★, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.8%, City Builder 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game uniquely combines city-building with a complex, rail-only transportation system that requires careful planning.

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in 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 23.2% ★, Transportation 20.5% ★, Economy 12.3%, Building 11.6%, City Builder 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the classic transport tycoon feel with a modern voxel aesthetic and deep, satisfying supply chain management.

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 24.1% ★, Trains 15.5% ★, Economy 12.3%, Building 10.6%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides an incredibly deep and realistic approach to planning and managing massive, real-world scale rail networks.

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

Why similar: Trains 39.8% ★, Transportation 19.6% ★, Simulation 13.3%, Management 12.5%, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the creator of the original Transport Tycoon, it serves as the spiritual successor to the classic experience.

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 17.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 15.9%, Management 11.4%, Moddable 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is the ultimate deep-dive into logistics, where you must manage every aspect of a planned economy and its transportation infrastructure.

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 31.3% ★, Building 9.2%, Economy 9.1%, Management 8.8%, Transportation 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: As an open-source alternative to OpenTTD, it offers a similar classic simulation experience with a focus on complex logistics.

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 18.4% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 13.6%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: While focused on factory automation, its core loop of logistics, belt management, and rail networks will feel very familiar to OpenTTD fans.

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 30.5% ★, Management 11.4%, City Builder 10.9%, Simulation 10.5%, Trains 10.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: It excels at the specific challenge of designing and managing public transportation networks within a growing urban environment.

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 17.5% ★, Transportation 16.7% ★, Building 11.5%, Economy 10.9%, City Builder 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This series is famous for its extreme depth, focusing on the intersection of rail management and urban real estate development.

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 17.5%, Management 13.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Trains 11.7% ★, Transportation 11.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the production and transportation chains required to supply growing cities in a competitive economic environment.

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 19.1%, Building 14.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Management 11.7%, City Builder 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers complex resource management and logistics, requiring you to build efficient transport chains to sustain an industrial colony.

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 24.9% ★, Transportation 20.7% ★, Economy 12.4%, Management 8.6%, City Builder 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the classic transport tycoon loop of upgrading vehicles and managing cargo flow across various eras.

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 29.2% ★, Transportation 13.1% ★, Economy 12.8%, Management 10.5%, Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the sequel, it remains a strong choice for those who enjoy historical rail management and economic strategy.

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 35.7% ★, Economy 12%, Transportation 9.9% ★, Management 9.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational game for the Transport Fever series, it offers a solid, focused experience on early rail and road transportation.

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 22.1% ★, Transportation 21.9% ★, Economy 12.2%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a global perspective on transport management, requiring you to handle fleets and routes across different countries.

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 47.2% ★, Building 21.5%, Management 15.5%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a puzzle-focused take on rail management that emphasizes efficiency and signal control in a compact format.

‘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 33.2% ★, Transportation 23.7% ★, Management 9.6%, City Builder 9.1%, Sandbox 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing, minimalist logistics game that focuses on connecting industries and towns through a beautiful voxel-based rail network.

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: Building 31.9%, Sandbox 22%, Resource Management 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Co-op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It brings the logistics and automation genre into a first-person perspective, emphasizing large-scale infrastructure and transport networks.

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 16.8% ★, Transportation 16.6% ★, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.9%, City Builder 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends complex rail network management with city-building and tourism-focused economic strategies.

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 24% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, Economy 11.3%, Building 10.7%, City Builder 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the technical side of rail management, including signal control and schedule optimization.

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 19.3% ★, Transportation 14.3% ★, Building 11.8%, City Builder 10.7%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to station management, requiring you to design efficient layouts to handle passenger flow.

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 41.5% ★, Management 14.1%, Simulation 9.4%, Economy 7.3%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game challenges you to build and manage the logistics of a busy train station, balancing passenger needs and train schedules.

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 27.2% ★, Transportation 19.8% ★, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D sandbox experience that allows for creative rail network building and train management.

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.

Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, Building 14.7%, Trains 11.1% ★, Management 10.5%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the specific challenge of constructing and managing underground transit networks in a city-building context.

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 26.9% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, Building 11.9%, Economy 11.8%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a modern take on building rail empires with a focus on realistic economic growth and historical scenarios.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.

Why similar: Trains 39.7% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Building 13.3%, Economy 11.7%, Management 7.3%

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 31.6% ★, Transportation 19.9% ★, Simulation 17.7%, Economy 16.2%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that tasks players with building transport empires during the industrial revolution.

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

Why similar: Economy 38.8%, Simulation 27.3%, Management 22.6%, Strategy 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that emphasizes the production and distribution of goods through various transport modes.

Transport Fever 3, the ultimate transport tycoon returns, bigger, deeper, and more dynamic than ever. Build the routes that transform the world across land, sea, and sky using over a century of evolving transport options. Design and build your ideal transport network.

Why similar: Transportation 23.5% ★, Trains 21.9% ★, Economy 11.5%, City Builder 10.5%, Management 8.8%

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 21.4% ★, Transportation 18.6% ★, Economy 11%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.3%

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 25.4% ★, Trains 24.4% ★, Economy 10.1%, City Builder 8.7%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 20.2% ★, Building 12.3%, Economy 11.2%, City Builder 11.1%

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 20.1% ★, Transportation 19.5% ★, Economy 10.9%, Building 9.3%, Management 8%

Build a railway network across China. Connect cities, run local and express passenger services, and balance fares, capacity and upkeep. Meet weekly goals in Challenge mode or shape your own network with unlimited funds in Sandbox.

Why similar: Trains 31% ★, Transportation 24.3% ★, Management 9.7%, Economy 8.2%, Building 7.1%

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 36.5% ★, Trains 21% ★, Management 12.8%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.6%

A sandbox strategy game. Build your nation's transport network, grow your economy, develop your cities, and raise your people's prosperity. Every map is procedurally generated and unique.

Why similar: Transportation 21.4% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 11.7%

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 41.1% ★, Transportation 20.6% ★, Building 11.9%, Simulation 10%, Management 7.1%

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

Why similar: Trains 27.4% ★, Building 15.1%, Economy 12.8%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 7.6%

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 26.1% ★, Transportation 10% ★, Economy 9.9%, Building 9.4%, City Builder 9.1%

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 36.2% ★, Economy 19.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 8%

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 37.2% ★, Building 15.3%, Economy 14.6%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.6%

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 45.2% ★, Management 24.7%, Economy 10.3%, Building 5.3%, Simulation 4.8%

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 22.1% ★, Transportation 18.8% ★, Economy 12.2%, Building 11.8%, City Builder 11%

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 18.8% ★, Building 17.1%, City Builder 14.3%, Economy 14.2%, Sandbox 11%

Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.

Why similar: Trains 24.7% ★, Economy 13%, Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 9.7%

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 61.9% ★, Simulation 12.6%, Transportation 7.4% ★, Building 5.2%, Sandbox 4.3%

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

Why similar: Trains 21.3% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, Management 13.5%, Simulation 13.1%, Economy 10%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 19.3% ★, Moddable 12.6%, Building 12.2%, Economy 11.7%, Management 9.8%

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 26.1% ★, Transportation 22.9% ★, Building 10%, Economy 8.9%, City Builder 8.7%

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 23.2% ★, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 6.9%

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

Why similar: Trains 26.3% ★, Transportation 12.6% ★, Building 11.4%, Economy 9.5%, City Builder 9%

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 14.4% ★, Transportation 14.2% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Economy 10.2%

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 31.4% ★, Transportation 25.9% ★, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.1%, Management 9.5%

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

Why similar: Trains 37.5% ★, Transportation 30.7% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 4.5%

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

Why similar: Trains 47.1% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 8.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%

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 20.8% ★, Trains 15.6% ★, Economy 10.7%, City Builder 10.4%, Building 10.1%