Games Like Planet Coaster

Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?

Why similar: Building 19%, Sandbox 14.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Economy 8.8%, God Game 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel expands the same detailed coaster-building, scenery-design, and guest-management formula with new park features.

Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!

Why similar: Building 19.9%, Management 14.9%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 10.8%, Family Friendly 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A polished theme-park builder that combines deep coaster construction with hands-on guest flow, staff, and backstage logistics.

Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.

Why similar: Building 24.2%, Management 21%, Sandbox 13.7%, City Builder 10.1%, Simulation 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This classic 3D park simulator offers extensive coaster creation, ride placement, finances, and the ability to ride your attractions.

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: Building 19.4%, Management 17.7%, Sandbox 12.4%, Simulation 9.5%, Economy 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: From the same developer as Planet Coaster, it provides similarly elaborate building tools and guest management in a zoo setting.

Park Beyond is a theme park simulation game that gives you the freedom to create and manage the Parks of your Dreams! Whether you love to manage finances and visitor experience, or just create fun and cozy parks, the game has something in store just for you!

Why similar: Building 24.6%, Management 19.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Simulation 12.3%, Funny 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful park-management sandbox centers on designing extravagant rides and impossible coasters while keeping visitors happy.

Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.

Why similar: Management 44.1%, Simulation 21.3%, Sandbox 12.7%, Building 12.1%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the highly regarded original RollerCoaster Tycoon park-design and business-management gameplay in a modern Steam package.

This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.

Why similar: Management 26.9%, Building 18.6%, Simulation 16.2%, Sandbox 15.9%, Economy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A landmark park-management game built around scenario challenges, detailed ride layouts, guest needs, and careful budgeting.

One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!

Why similar: Management 26.7%, Building 18.2%, Simulation 17.8%, Sandbox 17.4%, Strategy 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original retains its satisfying mix of compact park layouts, custom coaster design, and accessible business simulation.

NoLimits 2 is the ultimate roller coaster simulation that lets you experience authentic roller coaster thrills. Climb into the world's most famous roller coasters and experience the excitement in real time. Or design a new roller coaster that is engineered to your specifications.

Why similar: Simulation 43.1%, Sandbox 32.4%, Realistic 22.2%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A superb choice for players who especially enjoy Planet Coaster's technical coaster design, realistic physics, and cinematic ride creation.

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Building 31.1%, Management 19.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Build a profitable dinosaur theme park by balancing guest amenities, attraction appeal, animal welfare, and infrastructure.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Building 28.3%, Management 18.8%, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It translates the visitor-attraction management loop into a dinosaur park with substantial enclosure building, guest facilities, and spectacle.

Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Why similar: Building 21.4%, Management 18.1%, Sandbox 13%, City Builder 10.7%, Economy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This charming dinosaur-zoo management game emphasizes exhibit construction, visitor satisfaction, staff work, and playful park customization.

Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.

Why similar: Building 22.9%, Management 17.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Economy 13.5%, Simulation 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed prehistoric-animal park builder with strong habitat design, guest facilities, and creative architectural freedom.

RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!

Why similar: Building 29.3%, Management 20.7%, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Despite its rougher execution, it is directly centered on 3D coaster construction, scenery placement, and amusement-park operation.

The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

Why similar: Building 24.6%, Management 19.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Simulation 11.6%, Family Friendly 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: It lets you construct and operate an indoor leisure complex full of shops, attractions, decorations, and visiting customers.

Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.

Why similar: Building 22.7%, City Builder 17.9%, Management 13.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more macro-scale but similarly satisfying sandbox for planning attractive infrastructure, budgets, traffic, and growing public spaces.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: Building 23.1%, Sandbox 13.9%, Management 13%, Simulation 11.5%, City Builder 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its playful facility-building and visitor-management systems make it a strong lighter-hearted alternative to running a themed attraction.

Theme Park Studio is a powerful suite of tools that allows players to design, build, and experience stunning amusement parks of their own design. Players can build whatever they can imagine, and then share it online for others to experience. Theme Park Studio includes Steam Workshop integration.

Why similar: Simulation 35.2%, Building 23.4%, Sandbox 22.9%, Management 17.4%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A creation-focused theme-park sandbox for building elaborate coasters, rides, scenery, and walkable park environments.

Thrillville™: Off the Rails lives up to its name with 20 death-defying rides! Players can build incredible coasters to leap from one track to another, launch through the air like cannonballs, blast through a burning rings of fire and more!

Why similar: Management 32.3%, Simulation 28.9%, Building 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 10.4%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines amusement-park management and ride construction with the unusual ability to directly experience many of your attractions.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: Building 22.6%, Management 21.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Simulation 10.7%, City Builder 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Build a visually lively campus, decorate it extensively, and manage the needs and movement of a large stream of visitors.

The public aquarium simulator. Design your displays, look after your fish, manage your staff and keep your guests happy! It's all in a day's work as the curator of your very own Megaquarium.

Why similar: Building 25.9%, Management 18.4%, Sandbox 18.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This focused aquarium management sim scratches the same itch for designing visitor routes, attractive exhibits, and profitable facilities.

It's time to Build a Zoo! Construct and decorate enclosures, buy and breed animals, hire zookeepers and vets... then try your hand at DNA splicing, and stitch together over 300,000 different types of animal. This can only go smoothly...

Why similar: Building 20.8%, Management 18.4%, Sandbox 16.6%, Simulation 13.6%, City Builder 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous zoo-management game where you design enclosures, facilities, and guest services while expanding a major attraction.

Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!

Why similar: Simulation 32.4%, Building 21.7%, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy 14%, Economy 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A compact, charming management sim about laying out rides, shops, and facilities to grow a successful amusement park.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Building 28.6%, Management 26.9%, Simulation 17.9%, Sandbox 10.1%, Funny 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: While its setting is different, it shares the accessible, comedic challenge of designing efficient guest-facing facilities and managing demand.

Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!

Why similar: Building 18.3%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 12.6%, Economy 8.9%, Family Friendly 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces coasters with ski slopes but preserves the relaxing creative loop of building a scenic guest destination and managing its needs.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Building 24.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Management 16.6%, Simulation 10.9%, City Builder 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed construction-and-management sandbox centered on laying out functional facilities, controlling movement, and balancing operational costs.

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: Building 19%, Management 14.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Economy 11.1%, City Builder 9.1%

The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Simulation 25.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Building 10.4%, Family Friendly 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A family-friendly zoo builder with a similar emphasis on creating visitor-friendly paths, exhibits, amenities, and attractions.

DESIGN, BUILD and MANAGE your own futuristic golf course. Keep 200 persistent visitors fed, hydrated, and happy. Defend your creation from a growing infestation of weeds with robotic workers and defensive turrets. Evolve your course into a mega resort where nobody wants to go home, EVER!

Why similar: Building 19.1%, Sandbox 17.6%, Management 15.6%, Economy 13.1%, City Builder 10%

Why You'll Like It: A whimsical resort builder that blends creative course construction, guest satisfaction, and inventive attraction-style automation.

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: Building 21.3%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 13.2%, Sandbox 13.2%, Simulation 11.3%

Build and run your own waterpark solo or with friends. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a diamond five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Building 24%, Management 18.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Economy 15.4%, Simulation 10.8%

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

Why similar: Management 23.2%, Building 22.9%, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 14.9%, Economy 6.4%

Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.

Why similar: Building 20.5%, City Builder 13.6%, Management 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Economy 10.3%

Can you turn your cosy, one-hole course into a bustling, world-famous resort? Craft unique courses and build top-class facilities to keep golf’s wealthiest players coming back. Oversee the running of your enterprise, host tournaments and head out onto the course to ensure it’s up-to-par.

Why similar: Building 20.8%, Management 16.5%, Sandbox 15.7%, City Builder 11.2%, Economy 11%

Why You'll Like It: Design a visitor-focused holiday resort around golf courses, amenities, landscaping, and the demands of paying guests.

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Management 18.9%, Simulation 13.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Great Soundtrack 9%

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Building 39.5%, Sandbox 13.6%, Simulation 13%, Great Soundtrack 11.9%, Family Friendly 9%

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Management 44.7%, Simulation 23.7%, Economy 12.3%, Strategy 5.9%, Sandbox 5.8%

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: Management 17.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 15.4%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.8%

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 33.4%, Economy 18.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 9.2%

Theme Park Architect is the future of theme park simulation in the making. Build your dream park one detail at a time with total creative freedom at scales you never dared to try before, and join a growing community of Creatives to share the passion!

Why similar: Building 26.7%, Sandbox 21.4%, Management 18.1%, Realistic 13.2%, Simulation 13.1%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Building 21.8%, Simulation 19.5%, Management 19.3%, Economy 11.4%, Sandbox 11.1%

Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.

Why similar: Building 22.5%, City Builder 15%, Management 14.1%, Economy 13.3%, Sandbox 11.8%

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: Building 23.2%, Management 17.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Economy 14.9%, City Builder 11.8%

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: Management 20.9%, Building 19.8%, Economy 14.6%, Simulation 13.9%, Sandbox 9.7%

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 20.7%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 16.5%, Economy 11.7%, Management 11%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: Building 20.2%, Management 15.8%, Sandbox 14.2%, Economy 11.1%, Simulation 8.7%

MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.

Why similar: Management 15.4%, Sandbox 15.1%, God Game 12.5% ★, Economy 12.2%, City Builder 10%

Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.9%, Management 16.9%, Simulation 15.3%, City Builder 12.2%, Economy 11.9%

Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.

Why similar: Building 25.8%, Simulation 18%, Management 16%, Sandbox 14.4%, Realistic 7.7%

Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.

Why similar: Building 21.5%, Management 15.6%, Sandbox 13.3%, Economy 12.7%, Simulation 8.8%

Dive into the exhilarating role of a headmaster entrusted to revive your alma mater! Beyond just bricks and mortar, train teachers, recruit students. Sculpt your school into a unique educational haven! Let's School!

Why similar: Building 17.5%, Management 16.1%, Sandbox 13.7%, City Builder 9.9%, Economy 9.2%

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: Management 20.3%, Building 16.1%, Simulation 14.3%, Economy 13.1%, Sandbox 12%

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: Management 20.8%, Simulation 18.2%, Economy 15.6%, Building 13.1%, Sandbox 12.8%

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 19.8%, Building 17%, Management 13.5%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 11.3%

A city-building game with a unique twist—step inside and experience your city firsthand! Plan roads, zones, and infrastructure while growing your economy, managing resources, and unlocking special buildings. Host events, build mega projects, and watch your city thrive in a dynamic world.

Why similar: Sandbox 19.1%, Economy 15.1%, Building 14.3%, City Builder 14%, Relaxing 7.1%

Build the ultimate waterpark paradise in this classic tycoon simulation game! Design & customize water slides, pools, and saunas to fulfill your guests' needs. Combine creativity, strategy, and management to make a splash in the world of water parks and become the ultimate Aquapark Tycoon!

Why similar: Building 18.2%, Sandbox 14.3%, Management 12.8%, Economy 10.1%, Family Friendly 9.6%

The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

Why similar: Building 31%, Simulation 24.4%, Sandbox 21.8%, Family Friendly 6.4%, Great Soundtrack 5.2%

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: Building 21.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Management 15.3%, Economy 13.2%, City Builder 10.4%

Block’hood is a neighborhood-building simulator that celebrates the diversity and experimentation of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. Budding city planners will have access to 200+ building blocks to combine and to create unique neighborhoods and discover the implications of their designs.

Why similar: Sandbox 23.1%, Building 21.1%, City Builder 21%, Simulation 17.7%, Strategy 6.4%

Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!

Why similar: Management 16.7%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Sandbox 11.1%, Economy 9.1%