- #1 Transport Fever 2
97% matchVery Positive90% of 32,451 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 66.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 21.9% ★, Transportation 21.9% ★, Economy 9.9%, City Builder 9.1%, 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.
- #2 Mashinky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,814 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 25.8% ★, Transportation 20.7% ★, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, 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.
- #3 Voxel Tycoon
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,786 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 22.8% ★, Transportation 21.9% ★, Economy 11.2%, Management 8.4%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the classic transport tycoon feel with a modern voxel aesthetic and deep, satisfying supply chain management.
- #4 Railway Empire 2
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,651 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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 22.7% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, Economy 10.9%, Building 9%, Management 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.
- #5 Sweet Transit
94% matchMixed68% of 1,268 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 20.1% ★, Transportation 17.5% ★, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.7%, City Builder 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game uniquely combines city-building with a complex, rail-only transportation system that requires careful planning.
- #6 NIMBY Rails
94% matchVery Positive90% of 2,300 reviews2021
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 23.9% ★, Trains 15.4% ★, Economy 12.6%, 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.
- #7 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
93% matchVery Positive87% of 677 reviews2015
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
Why similar: Trains 39.4% ★, Transportation 19.6% ★, Simulation 13.4%, Management 12.6%, Economy 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Developed by the creator of the original Transport Tycoon, it serves as the spiritual successor to the classic experience.
- #8 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
91% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 17.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Building 16.3%, Management 12.2%, Moddable 10.1% ★
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.
- #9 Simutrans
92% matchMostly Positive76% of 675 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 31.2% ★, Economy 9.3%, Building 9.3%, Management 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%
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.
- #10 Factorio
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 18.2% ★, Sandbox 16%, Resource Management 14%, Building 11.2%, 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.
- #11 Cities in Motion 2
91% matchMixed58% of 2,500 reviews2013
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 30.4% ★, Management 11.5%, City Builder 10.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Trains 10.3% ★
Why You'll Like It: It excels at the specific challenge of designing and managing public transportation networks within a growing urban environment.
- #12 A-Train PC Classic
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 151 reviews2016
Dev: ARTDINKPub: STUDIOARTDINK
Windows
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 16.7% ★, Building 11.4%, Economy 11.1%, City Builder 10.7%
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.
- #13 Rise of Industry
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 17.7%, Management 13.1%, City Builder 12.6%, Trains 11.6% ★, Transportation 11.4% ★
Why You'll Like It: It focuses heavily on the production and transportation chains required to supply growing cities in a competitive economic environment.
- #14 Railway Empire
88% matchVery Positive83% of 9,710 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 28.8% ★, Transportation 13.1% ★, Economy 13.1%, 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.
- #15 Captain of Industry
86% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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 19.4%, Resource Management 14.5%, Building 13.9%, Management 11.6%, 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.
- #16 Cargo Company
87% matchMixed58% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
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 24.7% ★, Transportation 20.6% ★, Economy 12.6%, Management 8.7%, City Builder 8%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the classic transport tycoon loop of upgrading vehicles and managing cargo flow across various eras.
- #17 Train Fever
86% matchMixed64% of 3,527 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 35.5% ★, Economy 12.2%, Transportation 9.9% ★, Management 9.2%, Simulation 7.9%
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.
- #18 Train Valley 2
84% matchVery Positive90% of 3,155 reviews2019
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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% ★, Building 21.5%, Management 15.6%, Simulation 9.1%, 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.
- #19 Transport INC
85% matchMixed70% of 1,084 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 21.9% ★, Transportation 21.8% ★, Economy 12.4%, 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.
- #20 Station to Station
83% matchVery Positive89% of 1,951 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
‘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% ★, Transportation 23.7% ★, Management 9.8%, City Builder 9%, 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.
- #21 Satisfactory
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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 31.7%, Sandbox 21.9%, Resource Management 16.9%, Multiplayer 12.6%, Co-op 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the logistics and automation genre into a first-person perspective, emphasizing large-scale infrastructure and transport networks.
- #22 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 205 reviews2021
Dev: ARTDINKPub: KOMODO
Windows
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 16.6% ★, Transportation 16.6% ★, Economy 12.1%, Building 12%, City Builder 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It blends complex rail network management with city-building and tourism-focused economic strategies.
- #23 Rail Route
81% matchVery Positive88% of 2,604 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 23.9% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, Economy 11.6%, Building 10.6%, City Builder 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the technical side of rail management, including signal control and schedule optimization.
- #24 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
82% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 19.1% ★, Transportation 14.2% ★, Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.6%, Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to station management, requiring you to design efficient layouts to handle passenger flow.
- #25 Train Station Simulator
82% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 41.2% ★, Management 14.2%, Simulation 9.5%, Economy 7.4%, 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.
- #26 Train World
80% matchMostly Positive74% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Turn Point Games
Windows
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% ★, Transportation 19.7% ★, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Building 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: A 3D sandbox experience that allows for creative rail network building and train management.
- #27 Subway Builder
79% matchMixed57% of 360 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 15.7%, Building 14.8%, Management 10.7%, Trains 10.6% ★, Simulation 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the specific challenge of constructing and managing underground transit networks in a city-building context.
- #28 Railroad Corporation 2
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 417 reviews2026
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
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 26.6% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, Economy 12%, Building 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.
- #29 Transport Tycoon Deluxe
77% matchMixed54% of 56 reviews2026
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 39.4% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Building 13.3%, Economy 11.9%, Management 7.4%
- #30 Transport Giant
79% matchMixed62% of 490 reviews2014
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
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 31.3% ★, Transportation 19.8% ★, Simulation 17.8%, Economy 16.5%, Management 8.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that tasks players with building transport empires during the industrial revolution.
- #31 Industry Giant 2
78% matchVery Positive86% of 1,022 reviews2015
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!
Why similar: Economy 39%, Simulation 27.2%, Management 22.5%, Strategy 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that emphasizes the production and distribution of goods through various transport modes.
- #32 Transport Fever
76% matchVery Positive83% of 10,841 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 18.6% ★, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.3%, City Builder 9.2%
- #33 Train Valley World
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 297 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 25.3% ★, Trains 24.1% ★, Economy 10.3%, City Builder 8.6%, Sandbox 8%
- #34 Iron Village
74% matchVery Positive91% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Chippy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 25.3% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, Building 12.3%, Economy 11.4%, City Builder 11%
- #35 Transports
77% matchMixed66% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
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% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, Economy 11.1%, Building 9.3%, Management 8%
- #36 Transporter
75% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Mirror Studio
Windows
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 36.4% ★, Trains 20.8% ★, Management 12.9%, Building 8.7%, Economy 8.7%
- #37 Train Driver 2
73% matchMixed56% of 780 reviews2025
Dev: TTSK
Windows
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 40.8% ★, Transportation 20.6% ★, Building 11.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Management 7.2%
- #38 Loco Shortline Operations
74% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2021
Dev: TSRS
Windows
Openworld Railbuilder Simulator with Realistic Physics based Locomotives,Trucks,Cranes,Boats,Economy
Why similar: Trains 27.1% ★, Building 15%, Economy 13%, Sandbox 12.4%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #39 RAILGRADE
71% matchVery Positive85% of 1,255 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 25.7% ★, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.5%, City Builder 9.2%, Transportation 9.1% ★
- #40 Worldwide Rush
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 568 reviews2025
Dev: Memel Games
Windows
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 35.8% ★, Economy 20.1%, Sandbox 13%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 8%
- #41 Railroads Online
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 6,018 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 64.8 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 36.9% ★, Building 15.3%, Economy 14.8%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 9.7%
- #42 A-Train 8
75% matchMixed48% of 63 reviews2013
Dev: ARTDINKPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 23%
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 18.8% ★, Economy 12.4%, Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.9%
- #43 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
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 24.4% ★, Economy 13.3%, Building 12.2%, City Builder 11.5%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #44 Railroad Tycoon 3
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,263 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 44.8% ★, Management 24.9%, Economy 10.5%, Building 5.3%, Simulation 4.8%
- #45 Terminal One
71% matchMixed67% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Terminal Reality
Windows
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 18.7% ★, Building 17%, Economy 14.4%, City Builder 14.1%, Sandbox 11%
- #46 Train Frontier Classic
72% matchVery Positive88% of 248 reviews2017
Dev: Team Train Frontier
Windows
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 61.7% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Transportation 7.4% ★, Building 5.2%, Sandbox 4.3%
- #47 Cities in Motion
72% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,089 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Trains 21.2% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, Management 13.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Economy 10.2%
- #48 My Train Arrives
71% matchVery Positive87% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Kochkin Dmitry
Windows
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 22.9% ★, Building 9.9%, Economy 9%, City Builder 8.6%
- #49 Airport CEO
69% matchVery Positive83% of 8,330 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 19.2% ★, Moddable 12.6% ★, Building 12.1%, Economy 11.8%, Management 9.8%
- #50 Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,238 reviews2022
Dev: N3V Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 159.9 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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 34.7% ★, Transportation 23.2% ★, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 7%
- #51 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 383 reviews2025
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Curve Games
Windows
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 27.4% ★, Transportation 23.2% ★, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.8%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #52 STATIONflow
68% matchVery Positive86% of 505 reviews2020
Dev: DMM GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Why similar: Trains 26.1% ★, Transportation 12.5% ★, Building 11.4%, Economy 9.7%, City Builder 8.9%
- #53 Train Valley
67% matchVery Positive90% of 3,454 reviews2015
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 31.2% ★, Transportation 25.8% ★, Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.6%
- #54 Soko Loco Deluxe
68% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Soko Loco Deluxe is a cute train tycoon! 🚂🧱🎁💎 Transport resources, develop towns and build a giant monument! Choo-choo!
Why similar: Trains 37.3% ★, Transportation 30.7% ★, City Builder 13%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 4.6%
- #55 Infinite Rails
65% matchVery Positive89% of 109 reviews2025
Dev: Benjamin Voráč
Windows · Mac
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 46.9% ★, Sandbox 15.1%, Building 14.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.9%
- #56 Freight Simulator
69% matchMixed60% of 85 reviews2020
Dev: New Games WavesPub: Softwaves Dist.
Windows
Manage your transport company! Be a transportation entrepreneur, with control over everything in your business. Work, earn, invest and expand!
Why similar: Management 32.6%, Transportation 30.7% ★, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 7.2%, 2D 3.2%
- #57 InfraSpace
66% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,954 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 20.7% ★, Trains 15.4% ★, Economy 10.9%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 10%
- #58 Station Manager
67% matchVery Positive82% of 221 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Build your own spectacular, multi-story station for your favorite trains!
Why similar: Trains 42.5% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Building 10.3%, Simulation 9.9%, Economy 9.9%
- #59 Railroad Corporation
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,496 reviews2019
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 27.2% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.1%, Building 8.2%