Games Like Power to the People

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: City Builder 22.6%, Economy 17.9%, Management 13.8%, Building 13.5%, Base Building 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep level of infrastructure and logistics management that mirrors the complexity of real-world power grids.

Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.

Why similar: Resource Management 19.8%, Economy 18%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 12.4%, City Builder 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on complex logistics and power grid management as you build and sustain an industrial colony.

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: Resource Management 26.8%, Base Building 24.3%, Management 14%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for logistics and power grid optimization, requiring constant balancing of production and energy consumption.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 31.9%, Resource Management 17.9%, Building 10.6%, Real-Time with Pause 9.7% ★, Management 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the same high-stakes pressure as Power to the People, forcing you to manage heat and power to ensure survival against disasters.

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 20%, City Builder 19.6%, Management 16.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: A logistics-heavy economic management game that emphasizes the flow of resources across a complex map.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 36.2%, Management 18.2%, Building 18%, Base Building 13.1%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features intricate water and resource management mechanics that demand careful planning and infrastructure placement.

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Economy 15.4%, Building 13.4%, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes management and resource-based growth without the need for traditional micromanagement.

Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?

Why similar: Management 18.4%, Economy 17%, Building 11.9%, Resource Management 10.7%, Isometric 10%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and production management aspects of building a functional, efficient system.

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: City Builder 33.7%, Building 14%, Management 11.8%, Economy 11.1%, Real-Time with Pause 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: The definitive city-builder that includes detailed power grid management and infrastructure layout as a core gameplay element.

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

Why similar: Base Building 26.1%, Resource Management 25.2%, Building 20.6%, Management 16.4%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex power and resource management systems where every wire and pipe must be carefully calculated.

Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!

Why similar: Economy 17.4%, Management 13.2%, City Builder 13%, Building 12.7%, Resource Management 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on production lines and resource management to build a successful business.

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: City Builder 16.5%, Economy 14.1%, Management 11%, Building 10.4%, Isometric 10%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on train-based logistics and infrastructure management, requiring precise planning to keep your economy moving.

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: Management 37.3%, Strategy 22.7%, Simulation 17.8%, Building 16.3%, Singleplayer 4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist approach to network and grid management where efficiency is the only way to prevent system collapse.

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: Management 27.8%, City Builder 18.5%, Building 16.4%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on traffic flow and network optimization, challenging your ability to manage infrastructure under increasing demand.

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: City Builder 18.4%, Management 14%, Building 12.1%, Isometric 12.1%, Resource Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Requires careful infrastructure management to handle the flow of people through a complex, real-time environment.

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 24.6% ★, City Builder 18.7%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 10%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city builder that forces you to manage limited resources and infrastructure in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Economy 17.3%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 11.5%, Building 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to manage power and resources on limited, isolated platforms, making every building decision critical.

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: Base Building 33.1%, Building 29%, Resource Management 27.8%, Simulation 4.8%, Strategy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines automation with large-scale power grid scaling, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing energy production.

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 25.5% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 11.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique resource management challenges as you build cities on mountainsides, requiring careful infrastructure planning.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: City Builder 21.5%, Economy 13.7%, Resource Management 13%, Building 11.8%, Base Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-based city builder that centers on managing essential resources to keep your civilization alive.

Welcome to the resource management game where your creativity and logistics skills are put to the test! In this minimalistic simulation you will build interconnected chains of products and open new missions by completing various tasks to create the biggest system you can.

Why similar: Economy 22.8%, Management 20.8%, Resource Management 20.3%, Building 20.3%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist resource management game that strips away the fluff to focus purely on supply chains and infrastructure.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Building 26.9%, Management 26.2%, Resource Management 25.6%, Base Building 21.3%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore simulation that requires deep knowledge of atmospheric, electrical, and mechanical systems to survive.

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: City Builder 21.5%, Economy 16.7%, Resource Management 12.8%, Building 12.6%, Management 12%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with a logistics-focused approach to ensure your infrastructure can handle the growth of your population.

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 18.2%, Economy 16.7%, Isometric 12.3%, Building 11%, Resource Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes resource management and environmental adaptation to keep your population thriving.

An exciting new city-management/puzzle game about buildings and the city they inhabit. You must grow your city to a bustling metropolitan centre with an array of shops, offices, entertainment facilities and amenities, to help your buildings thrive; or risk them being demolished forever.

Why similar: City Builder 25.6%, Economy 22.4%, Management 18.4%, Building 14.5%, Base Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique perspective on management where you must balance the needs and growth of your city's infrastructure.

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: Economy 20.7%, City Builder 20.1%, Management 17%, Resource Management 14.2%, Building 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Centers on infrastructure and network management, requiring you to build efficient routes to sustain your growing cities.

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 26.5%, Economy 14.9%, Real-Time with Pause 12% ★, Building 10.6%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: An economic and city management game that allows for deep control over the policies and infrastructure of your city.

Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!

Why similar: Economy 14.8%, Real-Time with Pause 14.2% ★, Building 12.3%, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistics and automation of resource transport, perfect for those who love building complex systems.

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Economy 17.7%, Isometric 13.9%, Management 13.2%, Building 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that remains one of the best examples of grid-based infrastructure and utility management.

Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!

Why similar: City Builder 18.8%, Economy 15.7%, Building 12.6%, Management 12.4%, Resource Management 11.7%

Become the main power engineer of the world - the builder of the most powerful power plant that feeds the whole world! You have to build your own power plant, research new technologies and make the most successful power company in 100 gaming years.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Economy 19.5%, Management 14.3%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 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: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 19.8%, Management 15.3%, Building 14.4%, Base Building 11.1%

Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.

Why similar: City Builder 18.3%, Management 11.7%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Isometric 11.3%

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 28%, Building 16.3%, Management 14.7%, Economy 11.8%, Resource Management 9%

Can't Live Without Electricity is a 3D relaxing puzzle game in which you supply electricity by connecting houses to power plants.

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Management 20.6%, Building 18.2%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 8.5%

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

Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Resource Management 16.4%, Building 12.9%, Economy 12.1%, Base Building 10.2%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Economy 14.5%, Management 14%, Resource Management 13%, Building 10.9%

Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.

Why similar: City Builder 21.2%, Economy 16.3%, Building 13.7%, Management 12.6%, Base Building 9.5%

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

Why similar: Real-Time with Pause 31.7% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Resource Management 14.3%, Building 12.3%, Base Building 9.3%

Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Management 20.1%, Building 17.1%, Isometric 16.3%, Base Building 9.9%

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: Management 17.9%, Building 16.6%, City Builder 16.4%, Isometric 14.3%, Resource Management 14.2%

Citizens is a blend between turn based city builder and a puzzler for strategy masterminds. Build a thriving settlement, extract and process resources and manage your population by catering to their needs, thus allowing you to build bigger and better!

Why similar: City Builder 22.3%, Resource Management 15.5%, Economy 14.1%, Building 13%, Management 11.5%

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Real-Time with Pause 19.6% ★, Building 12.7%, Economy 11.5%, Resource Management 11.2%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: City Builder 15.9%, Economy 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Management 14.9%, Building 13.2%

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: Economy 18.2%, City Builder 17.6%, Building 14.1%, Management 13.8%, Resource Management 9.9%

Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Management 12.9%, Base Building 11%, Time Management 10%, Isometric 8.6%

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Real-Time with Pause 13.3% ★, Resource Management 10.1%, Economy 8.5%, Management 7.9%

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 30.5%, Economy 26.1%, Real-Time with Pause 11.9% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Building 8.3%

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: City Builder 16.6%, Economy 14.6%, Management 11.8%, Resource Management 10.9%, Building 10.7%

"Entertainment Simulator" is a new era TV station simulation game with a powerful data simulation system and many innovative gameplay. You have to compete with TV stations and new media, and finally, through unremitting efforts, build your own media empire.

Why similar: City Builder 16.2%, Management 13.7%, Building 13%, Modern 12.2%, Economy 9.1%

Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!

Why similar: Management 21.1%, Economy 18.8%, City Builder 17.5%, Building 13.2%, Resource Management 12.8%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Base Building 12.5%, Building 10.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.9%

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

Why similar: Management 18.1%, Economy 16.4%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 14.4%, Simulation 11.5%

Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!

Why similar: City Builder 21.7%, Isometric 15.4%, Economy 13.1%, Building 11.2%, Management 8.9%

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 31.7%, Economy 15.9%, Building 15.7%, Management 13.3%, Simulation 7%

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 20.3%, Building 19%, Base Building 15.1%, Management 12.8%, Time Management 12.8%

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Management 18%, Economy 13.6%, Building 12.8%, Isometric 9.4%

Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!

Why similar: Management 28.6%, City Builder 21.2%, Economy 18.4%, Resource Management 16.2%, Simulation 9.3%

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Base Building 11.5%, Building 9.8%, Management 7.5%, Strategy 7.2%