Games Like Project Highrise

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 24.7%, Management 24.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The grid-based building system and focus on managing the needs of a population within a confined space mirror the core loop of Project Highrise.

Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.

Why similar: Management 25.7%, Building 23.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 10%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct parallel to Project Highrise, focusing specifically on the construction and management of a massive skyscraper.

Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Why similar: Management 31%, Building 25.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 12.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep building customization combined with complex business management and employee logistics.

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: Management 31%, Building 20.6%, Simulation 12.1%, City Builder 9.2%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It requires meticulous room planning and utility management to ensure the smooth operation of a complex facility.

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: Management 29.1%, Building 23.6%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges you to build and manage a complex underground station, focusing on pedestrian flow and infrastructure.

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

Why similar: Management 37.6%, Building 27.4%, Simulation 19.2%, Sandbox 5.6%, Strategy 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the room-based design and management style, focusing on efficiency and patient flow.

Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.

Why similar: Management 55.4%, Economy 18.4%, Simulation 16%, Sandbox 8.8%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a comprehensive business management experience where you must design and operate various retail and office spaces within a city.

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: Management 25.3%, Building 22.4%, Economy 10.5%, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with designing an airport terminal and managing the complex flow of passengers and baggage.

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: Management 25.6%, Building 23.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Economy 10.1%, Sandbox 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the architectural design and operational management of a large-scale hospitality business.

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: Management 29.9%, Building 29%, Simulation 14.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Economy 7%

Why You'll Like It: This management sim emphasizes the careful placement of tanks and equipment to keep both visitors and aquatic life satisfied.

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

Why similar: Management 26.2%, Simulation 20.7%, Building 20.6%, Strategy 15.1%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It features a unique tabletop management style where you must optimize production lines and factory layouts.

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: Management 33.5%, Building 13.1%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the macro-management of supply chains and economy, perfect for those who enjoy the logistical side of Project Highrise.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Management 27.2%, Building 22.7%, Simulation 11.3%, Economy 9.2%, Sandbox 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This provides a highly detailed simulation of airport operations, requiring careful planning of both the physical structure and the flight schedule.

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: Management 26.8%, Building 24.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Economy 10.9%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines creative building tools with the logistical challenges of managing a complex park economy.

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 25.4%, Management 22.9%, Simulation 14.1%, City Builder 14%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for city-building, it offers a larger scale version of the management and infrastructure challenges found in skyscraper sims.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Building 20.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 11.2%, Strategy 11%

Why You'll Like It: While more survival-focused, the base-building and colonist management aspects provide a similar sense of satisfaction in creating a functional, self-sustaining structure.

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 44%, Simulation 16.5%, Economy 12.1%, Building 11.2%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It simplifies the building aspect but offers a deep, engaging look at managing a software development office.

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 33.2%, Building 20.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 9.7%, Strategy 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game is entirely focused on the efficiency of assembly lines and the optimization of a factory floor.

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: Management 32.7%, Building 24.5%, Simulation 13.4%, Sandbox 9.1%, Economy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: The game offers incredibly deep building tools and complex management systems for maintaining a large-scale facility.

Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!

Why similar: Management 34.6%, Building 19.3%, Simulation 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Strategy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines building management with a unique theme, requiring you to expand your newspaper office and manage staff.

Design, build and manage a giant shopping center. Open shops, supermarkets, restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys and more. Hire and manage the best staff for the job and milk your customers for all they're worth!

Why similar: Management 32.8%, Building 24.9%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 8.2%, City Builder 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game allows you to design and manage a shopping mall, focusing on tenant placement and customer satisfaction.

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

Why similar: Management 30.1%, Building 17.6%, Simulation 16.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It challenges you to build a venue and manage the logistics of hosting a battle royale event for spectators.

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: Management 28.5%, Building 26.3%, City Builder 12.4%, Sandbox 11%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: The vertical building mechanics and water management systems provide a fresh, strategic twist on traditional city-building.

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: Management 25.2%, Building 22.8%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 10.7%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is an extremely deep management sim that requires you to build every aspect of a functioning economy from the ground up.

Highrise Mogul: design, build and manage your own skyscraper. Make floor plans, place rentable rooms, hire staff, design a beautiful garden, manage your own power grid and much more!

Why similar: Building 28.9%, Management 25%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 11.3%, Economy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the economic and capitalist side of building skyscrapers in a growing city.

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

Why similar: Management 44.1%, Simulation 17.9%, Economy 9.1%, Strategy 8.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the planning and logistics of resource management in a stylized, grid-based environment.

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: Management 26.4%, Building 23.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Economy 11.1%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation and logistics of a manufacturing business, rewarding players who optimize their floor plans.

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: Building 26.6%, Management 19.4%, City Builder 18.5%, Strategy 18.2%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a high-stakes survival layer to the city-building genre, where every building choice impacts the survival of your citizens.

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 26.7%, Management 21.2%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Sandbox 9.3%

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: Management 30.5%, Building 22.5%, Economy 11.8%, Strategy 11.7%, City Builder 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a quirky take on building management where the buildings themselves have personalities and needs.

Manage your Game Studio, earn big bucks, impress the critics, beat rival studios and clean up at the awards!

Why similar: Management 46.4%, Simulation 15.1%, Economy 12.5%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 5.9%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 36.4%, Building 20.4%, Simulation 12.4%, Economy 10.1%, Strategy 8.8%

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 25%, Management 22.5%, Simulation 14.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Sandbox 8.8%

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: Management 36.8%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 14.6%, Building 12.5%, Economy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the specific logistical challenges of building and managing a busy train station.

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: Management 25.9%, Building 24.5%, Simulation 11%, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 9.1%

Build cities, shape a world.Cities XL Platinum lets you design, build and link up cities of all shapes and sizes around the Cities XL planet!Build more impressive cities than ever before! Cities XL Platinum offers a huge variety of over 1,000 buildings and constructions (including 50 brand new structures), that you can freely place on...

Why similar: Simulation 27.1%, Management 23.2%, City Builder 17.6%, Strategy 10.9%, Sandbox 9%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: Building 22.3%, Management 18.6%, Simulation 15.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 11.2%

Build your own airport in Skyhaven! Live out your airplane tycoon and simulation game fantasies and make the best surroundings and strategy for both airline manager and passenger alike. Schedule flight plans, build terminals, landing strips and more and create an airport tycoon empire in Skyhaven.

Why similar: Management 35.9%, Building 23.2%, Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Sandbox 4.1%

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 53.7%, Simulation 21.8%, Strategy 9%, Economy 7.3%, Sandbox 2.7%

Smooth Operators is an advanced simulation where you take control of a call center company and lead it to financial success! Watch your company become alive and grow while your building reach the highest skyline. What type of CEO will you be?

Why similar: Management 48%, Simulation 25.8%, Strategy 20.1%, Indie 2.7%, Casual 2.3%

Build an intricate prison, hire the best staff, and pamper your prisoners to create the perfect rehabilitation facility in Prison Tycoon: Under New Management

Why similar: Management 31.9%, Building 26.6%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%

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: Management 27.8%, Building 21.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 9.1%

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: Management 29.3%, Building 23.4%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

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: Building 25%, Management 19.8%, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 13.1%, Economy 8.8%

Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Why similar: Management 24.9%, Building 24%, Economy 12.3%, Simulation 12%, City Builder 10%

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 24.6%, Management 22.6%, Simulation 14.1%, City Builder 11.4%, Economy 10.5%

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

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Simulation 27.3%, Strategy 9.2%, Economy 7.5%, City Builder 6.8%

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: Management 32.8%, Building 24%, Simulation 12.7%, Strategy 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%

Build stunning Arcade Centre’s, purchase a range of arcades machines, manage troublesome staff in this colourful and humorous simulation management game. Inspired by Two Point Hospital, Let's Build A Zoo and Megaquarium.

Why similar: Management 25.7%, Building 21.9%, Simulation 10.9%, Economy 10.3%, Strategy 9.2%

A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges

Why similar: Management 33.4%, Simulation 25.1%, Strategy 19.2%, Economy 9%, City Builder 8.6%

From barren land to towering metropolis, every decision you make shapes the destiny of your city. Industrial flow, global trade, surging land values, and growing wealth, offers deep management gameplay, perfect for players who love strategic city-building and economic simulation.

Why similar: Building 34%, Simulation 18.8%, Economy 15.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, City Builder 12.5%

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: Management 25.1%, Building 18.3%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.2%, City Builder 9.3%

Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.

Why similar: Management 26.7%, Building 22.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Economy 11.6%, Strategy 8.7%

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: Simulation 34.1%, Building 21.4%, Management 17.9%, Strategy 11.2%, City Builder 8.3%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: Building 31.6%, Simulation 16.5%, City Builder 14.9%, Strategy 14.4%, Management 10.8%

Crowded Blue Dot is a game about producing various items to make people happy and growing a city from a small village to a metropolis.

Why similar: Management 28.7%, Building 19.9%, Simulation 13.7%, City Builder 10.5%, Strategy 8.9%

Design a towering mega mall in this mall management simulation game.

Why similar: Management 26.2%, Building 24.1%, Economy 10.7%, Sandbox 10.6%, City Builder 8.4%

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: Management 27.5%, Simulation 20.8%, Building 19.3%, Strategy 10.4%, Economy 8.1%

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: Building 29.9%, Management 27.2%, Simulation 15.1%, Sandbox 9.7%, Economy 7.1%

School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.

Why similar: Building 22%, Simulation 20.2%, Management 20.1%, Strategy 14.8%, Economy 6.9%