Games Like RAILGRADE

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 22.4% ★, Automation 11.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Economy 9.1%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist yet deep train dispatching and network management game that captures the satisfaction of optimizing rail traffic.

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: Automation 25%, Trains 12.5% ★, Resource Management 12.1%, Base Building 8.3%, Moddable 7.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: The definitive automation experience that shares the core loop of building complex, interconnected supply chains.

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 24.3% ★, Moddable 12.6% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Transportation 8.6% ★, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with train-based logistics, focusing heavily on expanding your network to support growing populations.

Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.

Why similar: Automation 28.8%, Resource Management 12.5%, City Builder 11.3%, Building 10.8%, Base Building 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale interstellar logistics and automation, perfect for fans of complex supply chains.

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: Automation 32.3%, Resource Management 14.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a high-fidelity 3D perspective on factory building and logistics that mirrors the verticality of RAILGRADE.

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: Trains 15.3% ★, Automation 12.3%, City Builder 11.5%, Moddable 9.6% ★, Transportation 8.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that forces you to manage complex supply chains and traffic flow, much like the industrial focus of RAILGRADE.

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: Automation 26.2%, Resource Management 15.7%, Economy 11.1%, City Builder 9.1%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging colony-sim that requires intense focus on resource extraction and automated factory chains.

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 31.1% ★, Moddable 11.3% ★, Transportation 10.2% ★, Economy 10.2%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of train simulation and tycoon mechanics that allows for deep customization of your rail network.

‘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 35.4% ★, City Builder 11.1%, Automation 10.7%, Transportation 10.4% ★, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cozy, voxel-based train game that emphasizes connecting industries and managing logistics in a visually charming way.

Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.

Why similar: Automation 22.1%, Transportation 11% ★, Management 10.6%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A pure automation game that strips away the fluff to focus entirely on the logic of building efficient production lines.

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Automation 14.9%, Trains 12.4% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 8.6%, Moddable 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automating the production of goods in a charming, grid-based world that feels very similar to RAILGRADE's layout.

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 18.7%, Moddable 15.2% ★, Economy 12.1%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most complex and realistic logistics simulation available, perfect for players who love deep management.

Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on 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 24.7% ★, Transportation 9.6% ★, Automation 9.1%, Moddable 8.3% ★, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a voxel-based world to provide a unique take on transport and factory management.

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 27.5% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Transportation 11% ★, Economy 8.4%, Management 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for transport logistics, offering deep simulation of cargo and passenger networks.

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 27.8% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Transportation 10.1% ★, Economy 9%, Resource Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: A polished train management sim that focuses on building historical rail networks and optimizing routes.

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 43.8% ★, Transportation 13.1% ★, Building 11.1%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused train game that challenges your ability to manage traffic and logistics under pressure.

Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.

Why similar: Real-Time 19.3% ★, Trains 16.1% ★, Automation 13.4%, City Builder 10.3%, Transportation 7.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist automation and colony-building game that captures the essence of supply chain management in a small package.

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: Automation 19.7%, Trains 13.7% ★, Resource Management 8.5%, Economy 8.3%, City Builder 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build massive, multi-layered factory systems that require complex logistics to function.

Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.

Why similar: Trains 26.1% ★, Automation 17.2%, Transportation 10.5% ★, Resource Management 10.2%, Sandbox 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary-scale automation and resource management to transform a barren world.

An open-ended factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.

Why similar: Automation 30.7%, Resource Management 19.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Blends factory automation with tower defense, requiring you to build efficient supply chains to survive.

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 26.6%, Automation 22%, Building 11.3%, Management 10.3%, Sandbox 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features vertical city-building and water management, appealing to those who enjoyed the terrain manipulation in RAILGRADE.

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 42.6% ★, Economy 9.9%, City Builder 8.4%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the Transport Fever series, offering a classic approach to building rail networks.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Trains 22.1% ★, Automation 14.2%, City Builder 12.1%, Moddable 8.1% ★, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with automation, requiring you to build efficient production chains to support your settlers.

Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.

Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Resource Management 15.2%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.6%, Sandbox 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person factory-building game that emphasizes large-scale automation in an infinite voxel world.

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: City Builder 15.2%, Economy 12.7%, Trains 12.3% ★, Management 10.2%, Resource Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game that focuses on building complex production chains in a competitive market.

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 29.8% ★, Real-Time 14.7% ★, Moddable 8.5% ★, Transportation 8.2% ★, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A historical tycoon game that emphasizes the expansion and management of rail networks.

In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.

Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Resource Management 10.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Base Building 8.6%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automating tasks using a simple programming language, perfect for players who enjoy the logic side of automation.

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: Automation 17.1%, Management 12.2%, Economy 11.9%, Resource Management 9.7%, Moddable 9.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: A deep simulation of car manufacturing that tests your ability to optimize assembly lines.

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

Why similar: Trains 30.9% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Resource Management 8.2%, Building 7.9%, Economy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the complex logistics of managing passenger flow in a busy train station.

In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.

Why similar: Trains 29.3% ★, Real-Time 14.4% ★, Economy 9%, Management 7.8%, City Builder 6.4%

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: Trains 27% ★, Automation 13%, Transportation 11.5% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Resource Management 8.8%

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Why similar: Trains 27.2% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Economy 9.7%, Transportation 9.7% ★, Building 7.7%

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 51.2% ★, Management 20.3%, Economy 7.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that defined the train management genre and remains a staple for fans of the theme.

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 30.9% ★, Automation 16.1%, Transportation 10.7% ★, Economy 9.3%, Building 7.8%

Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!

Why similar: Trains 22.2% ★, Real-Time 16.9% ★, Transportation 9% ★, Economy 8.5%, Automation 8.4%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Moddable 14.7% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Crafting 8%

Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!

Why similar: Trains 25.5% ★, Automation 15.8%, Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.4%, Resource Management 8.7%

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 30.7% ★, Transportation 9.1% ★, Automation 9%, Economy 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%

Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!

Why similar: Trains 36.3% ★, Resource Management 15.5%, Transportation 12.3% ★, Building 8.8%, Management 8.2%

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 38.1% ★, Management 8.1%, Economy 7.9%, Simulation 7.2%, City Builder 7.2%

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 46.6% ★, Management 11.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 7.1%, City Builder 5.8%

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 24.1% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Management 9%, Resource Management 8.8%, Building 8.6%

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 34.4% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Economy 10.5%, Transportation 9.4% ★, Building 8.9%

Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!

Why similar: Automation 20.5%, Trains 19% ★, Resource Management 12%, Crafting 9.3%, Economy 8.7%

Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

Why similar: Real-Time 24.4% ★, Moddable 14% ★, Automation 13%, City Builder 11.5%, Resource Management 7.8%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Moddable 17.6% ★, Automation 13.1%, Resource Management 10.4%, City Builder 10.1%, Economy 8.2%

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 26.1%, Moddable 11.1% ★, Building 11%, Economy 10.6%, Management 8.5%

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 21% ★, City Builder 16.2%, Economy 10.5%, Building 9%, Resource Management 8.9%

Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!

Why similar: Trains 58.8% ★, Economy 13.5%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 8.1%, Simulation 4.9%

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: Trains 23% ★, Transportation 14.6% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 12.8%, Building 9.4%

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Moddable 17.9% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 11.6%, Resource Management 10.5%, Building 9.2%

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

Why similar: Trains 27.6% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Transportation 10.5% ★

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 31.2% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Transportation 11.2% ★, Economy 7.3%, Building 7%

Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!

Why similar: Trains 37.2% ★, Moddable 18.5% ★, Transportation 10.9% ★, City Builder 9.7%, Sandbox 8.2%

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

Why similar: Automation 15.6%, Resource Management 12%, Management 11.1%, Economy 10.6%, Simulation 10.6%

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

Why similar: Trains 49.1% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Management 11%, Strategy 10.4%, Transportation 9.6% ★

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 33.4% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Transportation 10.9% ★, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.4%

Enter the world of Train Yard Builder and customize your railway to your heart's content. Work with different models of trains and wagons, control them the way you want, and use modeler tools to unleash your creativity.

Why similar: Trains 31.9% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.7%, Resource Management 8.6%

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: Automation 17.6%, Economy 12.1%, City Builder 11.1%, Resource Management 11%, Building 9.3%