Games Like Railway Empire

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Why similar: Trains 22.4% ★, Transportation 10.4% ★, Western 8.6% ★, Economy 8.2%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel refines the core mechanics of the original with improved graphics and more intuitive track-building tools.

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 29.6% ★, Transportation 15.2% ★, Management 11.6%, Economy 10.2%, City Builder 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the most comprehensive transportation simulation experience, allowing you to manage rail, road, air, and water networks across different eras.

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 45.8% ★, Management 25%, Strategy 10.5%, Economy 8.2%, Simulation 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic title that defined the genre, offering deep economic simulation and historical rail management that heavily inspired Railway Empire.

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 29.8% ★, Transportation 13.6% ★, Economy 12%, Management 10.2%, Building 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the modern standard, providing a solid foundation for managing complex logistics and passenger transport networks.

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 53% ★, Management 14.3%, Economy 13.7%, Strategy 10.9%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the charm of building a rail empire with a focus on accessible yet strategic economic competition.

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 34% ★, Transportation 14.2% ★, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of realistic train simulation and procedural logistics that allows you to upgrade your trains as you progress through different technological eras.

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 31.2% ★, Transportation 13.3% ★, Economy 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist yet deep strategy game that focuses specifically on the logic and dispatching aspects of managing a complex rail network.

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 42.8% ★, Economy 11.2%, Management 11%, Simulation 8.6%, Transportation 6.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series that established the core mechanics of connecting cities and industries through evolving transportation technology.

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 30.2% ★, Transportation 13.7% ★, Economy 11.1%, Management 9.9%, City Builder 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder where trains are the primary means of expansion, requiring careful planning of logistics and resource distribution.

RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!

Why similar: Trains 29.2% ★, Real-Time 14.6% ★, Economy 8.9%, Management 7.8%, City Builder 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the industrial side of rail management, challenging you to optimize supply chains and automate resource delivery.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Economy 17.5%, Management 15.4%, City Builder 13%, Historical 12%, Building 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly deep management simulation that requires you to build entire economies and logistics chains from the ground up.

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 30.9% ★, Transportation 15.4% ★, Economy 11.6%, Management 11.3%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox logistics game that combines train network management with resource extraction and factory production in a voxel-based world.

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 28.3% ★, Transportation 9.9% ★, Management 9.4%, Western 8.4% ★, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the historical expansion of rail networks in North America, emphasizing company management and competitive bidding.

Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!

Why similar: Trains 47.7% ★, Management 15.8%, Building 12.2%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-oriented train management game that tasks you with building tracks and managing traffic flow under tight time constraints.

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

Why similar: Trains 41.8% ★, Management 13.2%, Strategy 13.2%, Simulation 13%, Transportation 10.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic transport tycoon game that remains a benchmark for its focus on competitive economic management and network building.

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 38% ★, Transportation 16.5% ★, Management 11.7%, Building 8.8%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original puzzle-management game that challenges your ability to organize rail traffic and avoid collisions in a compact space.

OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.

Why similar: Trains 28.6% ★, Economy 13.5%, Transportation 13% ★, Management 10.7%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive open-source transport tycoon game that offers unparalleled depth for those who love managing complex logistics and rail infrastructure.

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 16.1%, Management 15.5%, Trains 13.8% ★, Trading 9.6%, City Builder 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game that emphasizes the economic side of production and the logistics of moving goods to market.

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

Why similar: Economy 21.6%, Management 16.5%, Resource Management 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building and logistics game that requires careful planning of resource movement and infrastructure to keep your colony running.

Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.

Why similar: Trains 42.2% ★, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a narrative and combat layer to the train management genre, focusing on the challenges of operating a locomotive in the Wild West.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 23.7%, Economy 22.2%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: While broader in scope, its complex logistics and supply chain management in a historical setting will appeal to fans of economic strategy.

Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!

Why similar: Strategy 29.3%, Economy 27.5%, Simulation 22.6%, Management 20.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic simulation that emphasizes the production and transportation of goods across a growing industrial landscape.

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: Trains 19.6% ★, Management 12.8%, Economy 10.9%, Transportation 10.1% ★, City Builder 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automating the movement of goods using various transportation methods, including trains, to build a thriving economy.

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Trains 26.5% ★, Management 13.3%, Resource Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate logistics and automation game, where building efficient rail lines is essential for scaling your industrial production.

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 26.2% ★, Transportation 13.6% ★, Economy 11.3%, Real-Time 11.2% ★, Management 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that tasks you with building a global transportation company, focusing on fleet management and route profitability.

Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.

Why similar: Transportation 21.3% ★, Management 15.3%, Trains 13.9% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the management of public transportation networks within a growing city, requiring careful route planning.

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: Trains 20.2% ★, Economy 13.7%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A game centered on building massive industrial complexes and using rail networks to transport raw materials and finished products.

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

Why similar: Management 18.6%, Strategy 17.9%, Simulation 17.3%, Economy 14.9%, Building 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on the production and logistics of running a factory, sharing the same satisfaction of optimizing workflows.

The ultimate railway hobby for more than 15 years! From historic steam locomotives to modern high-speed and heavy freight trains, and routes around the world, Train Simulator Classic is the simulation made by railfans for railfans.

Why similar: Trains 74.2% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Transportation 3.1% ★, Building 3%, Sandbox 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed, realistic driving experience for those who want to get closer to the trains themselves after managing their networks.

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 28.3% ★, Transportation 9.9% ★, Economy 9.7%, Western 9.7% ★, Building 7.1%

Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!

Why similar: Trains 46.3% ★, Economy 14.2%, Management 12.1%, Building 10.7%, Sandbox 6.5%

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 32.9% ★, Transportation 12.5% ★, Economy 10.1%, Management 8.1%, Strategy 7%

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 45.5% ★, Management 15.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 9.4%, Economy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Shifts the focus from network building to the management and optimization of individual train stations and passenger flow.

For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.

Why similar: Trains 35.7% ★, Transportation 17.7% ★, Management 13.5%, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 9.1%

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

Why similar: Trains 25.9% ★, Management 16.6%, Simulation 14.7%, Transportation 12.6% ★, Economy 9.5%

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 26.7% ★, Management 13.5%, Transportation 10.4% ★, City Builder 9.2%, Building 9.2%

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 22.4% ★, Transportation 15.7% ★, Economy 12.1%, Management 9.9%, City Builder 9.2%

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 22% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Economy 14.1%, Management 12.1%, Building 8.6%

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: Economy 17%, City Builder 14.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 11.3%, Management 11.3%

Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.

Why similar: Trains 48.9% ★, Management 19.6%, Strategy 13.4%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 5.4%

Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.

Why similar: Trains 49.4% ★, Transportation 18.4% ★, Economy 11.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 4.6%

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 32.5% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.8%, City Builder 7.2%

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 40.2% ★, Management 11.4%, Simulation 10.1%, Economy 9.2%, Strategy 7.1%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Transportation 16.1% ★, Management 15.6%, Economy 14.5%, Building 10.9%, City Builder 8.6%

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 30.8% ★, Transportation 12.8% ★, Economy 10.6%, Trading 9.7%, Management 8.6%

Train Sim World is an immersive first-person simulator perfect for everyone, with complete in-cab interactivity, accurate detail on locos, real-world routes and hours of gameplay. Take to the rails with the brand-new Train Sim World 2020 Edition and find everything you need to master new skills.

Why similar: Trains 73.5% ★, Simulation 15.4%, Building 7.6%, Transportation 1.5% ★, Singleplayer 1.3%

It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.

Why similar: Trains 32.5% ★, Strategy 18.8%, Simulation 16.6%, Economy 13%, Transportation 10.7% ★

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 22.8%, Strategy 21.4%, Economy 15.1%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 10.5%

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 24.3%, Economy 19.6%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 10.3%, Simulation 10%

Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.

Why similar: Transportation 24% ★, Economy 19.8%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Strategy 9%

Feel the power of simulation in your hands. Experience immense velocity and express unrivalled creativity with Train Sim World 4! Expand your rail hobby and discover the raw emotion of driving a diverse array of iconic routes and trains. From training center to mountain pass, this is your journey.

Why similar: Trains 62.6% ★, Transportation 18.1% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Immersive Sim 3.7%, Family Friendly 3.2%

Build rail networks that link industries in 1844 Europe. Complete levels to expand across nations, and compare the efficiency of your solutions against a leaderboard.

Why similar: Trains 52.8% ★, Building 14.3%, Historical 11.8%, Simulation 10.1%, City Builder 10.1%

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: Economy 21.7%, City Builder 20%, Management 17.9%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 10.9%

You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!

Why similar: Trains 48.1% ★, Transportation 21.2% ★, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Sandbox 4.5%

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 35.5% ★, Economy 12%, Management 10.6%, Building 9.2%, City Builder 8.7%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 30%, Building 19.4%, Simulation 15.2%, Strategy 14.7%, Economy 10.4%

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!

Why similar: Economy 29.5%, Management 26.6%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 31.4% ★, Transportation 14.4% ★, Strategy 9.2%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 8.3%

Be a pioneer and build the most famous transcontinental railroad tracks in the United States of America throughout the 19th century.

Why similar: Trains 49.7% ★, Strategy 22%, Simulation 19.3%, Management 9%

TransOcean – The Shipping Company is your ticket to the world of gigantic ships and transnational transport empires. Build a mighty fleet of modern merchant ships and conquer the seven seas.

Why similar: Economy 30%, Management 28.1%, Simulation 23%, Strategy 19%