Games Like Rise of Industry

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 15%, Resource Management 14.3%, Automation 13.4%, Base Building 12.6%, City Builder 12%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep simulation of industrial production, resource extraction, and complex supply chain management on a remote island.

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 18.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 16.4%, Management 10.3%, City Builder 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive experience for players who love optimizing complex production chains and large-scale automation.

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 27.4%, Automation 23.7%, Resource Management 18.5%, Building 11.4%, Sandbox 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a first-person perspective on building massive, multi-level factories with a heavy focus on logistics and resource management.

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: City Builder 15.9%, Management 11.5%, Economy 10.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Base Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the logistical challenge of moving goods across a map using various transport methods to fuel town growth.

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 23.5%, Economy 17.6%, Management 14.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features an incredibly detailed economic and logistics simulation that requires managing every step of a production chain.

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 19%, Economy 16.3%, City Builder 10%, Resource Management 9%, Automation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A highly focused management game centered on the intricacies of assembly line design and efficiency.

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 38.7%, Economy 20.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Resource Management 8.4%, Simulation 7%

Why You'll Like It: Masterfully blends city-building with complex, multi-tiered supply chains that evolve throughout the industrial revolution.

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 16.5%, Base Building 16.3%, City Builder 14.5%, Management 13.7%, Resource Management 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines planetary logistics with interstellar production chains, perfect for those who enjoy scaling up their industrial 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: City Builder 13.6%, Economy 13.4%, Management 11.8%, Transportation 11.3% ★, Trains 11.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Combines historical train management with the economic necessity of connecting industries to markets.

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: City Builder 18.1%, Management 14.8%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Economy 13.8%, Trains 12.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: The premier logistics game for managing complex transportation networks to support growing industrial and urban centers.

Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!

Why similar: City Builder 14.5%, Economy 13.7%, Trading 13.3%, Management 12.3%, Farming 11.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: The direct sequel that refines the industrial management and logistical challenges of the original title.

What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?

Why similar: Management 23.2%, Economy 16.7%, Automation 10.4%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges players to design efficient factory layouts to produce medicines while navigating a competitive market.

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

Why similar: Management 17.9%, Economy 15.2%, Simulation 12.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a charming yet complex look at managing a small-scale factory with intricate production scheduling.

Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!

Why similar: City Builder 15.2%, Economy 12.9%, Management 12.8%, Trading 10.1%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the classic industrial tycoon genre with a focus on production and supply chain optimization.

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: Economy 24.5%, Management 21.4%, Capitalism 13.2%, Automation 9.2%, Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Allows for deep business management, including office building design and the development of complex software products.

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 16.8%, Economy 12.4%, Transportation 10.8% ★, Management 9.6%, Resource Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that forces players to solve complex traffic and logistics problems to keep their city running.

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 13.4%, Automation 12%, Base Building 11.4%, Management 10.8%, City Builder 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the massive scale of industrial automation and the logistical infrastructure needed to support it.

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 34.6%, Economy 27.8%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 8.3%, Building 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the business management side of the industry, requiring players to build and scale a tech company.

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 27.9%, Management 14%, Base Building 10.2%, Automation 10%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features unique resource management and vertical building mechanics centered around water and drought survival.

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 16.6%, Management 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Resource Management 10.3%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the design of production lines and the management of a growing workforce in a manufacturing setting.

shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

Why similar: Automation 19%, Resource Management 17.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 15.9%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist but highly addictive automation game that strips away the fluff to focus purely on logistics and processing.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Economy 21.3%, Management 15.7%, Resource Management 13.2%, Base Building 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced economic strategy game where market manipulation and supply chain control are the keys to victory.

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: Economy 15.6%, Management 15.4%, Trains 13.9% ★, City Builder 9.6%, Trading 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: The original classic that established the standard for combining train logistics with economic growth.

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 39.8%, Management 14.3%, Economy 12.5%, Building 8.1%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a macro-level view of city management where logistics and traffic flow are critical to industrial success.

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

Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.1%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless city-builder that emphasizes resource management and the organic growth of a medieval economy.

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: City Builder 18%, Economy 15.3%, Trains 12.8% ★, Management 12%, Transportation 11.8% ★

Why You'll Like It: A logic-heavy game focused on designing and optimizing complex railway networks and scheduling.

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 22.6%, Economy 19%, Management 15.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Requires careful management of airport logistics and passenger flow to ensure a profitable operation.

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

Why similar: Management 33.4%, Building 13.2%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 12.5%, Strategy 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the vertical management of resources and logistics within a complex skyscraper environment.

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: City Builder 34.2%, Economy 20.8%, Management 16.2%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Adds a political layer to economic management, requiring players to balance trade routes and industrial output.

Do you find tycoon games too simplistic? GearCity is a complex and in-depth business simulator. It focuses on a realistic economic simulation of the global automobile industry. The game takes several hours to grasp and hundreds of hours to master. Can you succeed where many other CEOs have failed?

Why similar: Management 30.6%, Economy 29.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Capitalism 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: An incredibly deep economic simulation that allows players to manage every aspect of an automotive manufacturing empire.

Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.

Why similar: City Builder 15.2%, Economy 12.6%, Transportation 10.3% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Management 9.5%

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 20%, Economy 16.3%, Trading 11.5%, Base Building 8.4%, Resource Management 8.4%

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 15.1%, Economy 12.3%, Management 10.3%, Trains 10.3% ★, Transportation 10.1% ★

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: City Builder 13.2%, Management 12.8%, Economy 12.6%, Resource Management 10.8%, Transportation 9.3% ★

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in 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: Economy 15.5%, Management 14.3%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Trains 12.8% ★, City Builder 9.5%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Economy 15.7%, Trading 12.2%, Management 11.9%, Building 6.1%

Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.

Why similar: Economy 13.5%, Management 12%, City Builder 11.1%, Transportation 10.8% ★, Trains 9.8% ★

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: City Builder 19.2%, Economy 16.3%, Management 13.1%, Trains 12.4% ★, Transportation 12.3% ★

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 17.8%, Management 13.9%, Economy 9%, Trains 9% ★, Resource Management 8.1%

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 20.9% ★, Economy 17.8%, Management 16.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Simulation 9.7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 20.8%, Management 17.8%, Economy 14%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 11.8%

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: City Builder 19.7%, Economy 15.1%, Management 12.3%, Trains 11.4% ★, Automation 10.2%

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: City Builder 13.5%, Transportation 12.6% ★, Economy 11.2%, Trains 10.6% ★, Management 9.8%

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

Why similar: Management 27.4%, City Builder 19.9%, Economy 16.5%, Resource Management 12.6%, Simulation 9.9%

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.

Why similar: City Builder 24.5%, Management 14.2%, Strategy 10.9%, Resource Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.8%

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: City Builder 20%, Economy 14.4%, Trains 12.9% ★, Trading 12%, Transportation 11.7% ★

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: Economy 16.5%, Management 14.3%, Trains 13.8% ★, Transportation 12.6% ★, Resource Management 7.2%

In Industrial Giant you have to find a route to profit to prove your management skills in this resource management business simulation. Experience the soaring heights and the shattering depths of being an industrial giant!

Why similar: Economy 20.7%, City Builder 20.6%, Management 16%, Trains 12.1% ★, Strategy 7.3%

Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Economy 19.3%, Management 16.7%, Resource Management 11.3%, Building 7.2%

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 14.6% ★, Economy 14.6%, Transportation 12.1% ★, Management 11.1%, City Builder 9.1%

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: Economy 17.4%, City Builder 15.5%, Transportation 15.1% ★, Management 14.1%, Trains 8.6% ★

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 21.3%, Trains 20.3% ★, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Economy 9%

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: City Builder 21.8%, Economy 13.4%, Management 12.9%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 9.6%

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 18.4% ★, Management 15.9%, Economy 13.6%, Simulation 10.8%, City Builder 10.7%

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: Economy 17.2%, Management 14.4%, Transportation 13.8% ★, Trains 12.3% ★, Resource Management 10.3%

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Economy 14.3%, Management 13.9%, Resource Management 10.2%, Base Building 10%

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

Why similar: Economy 33.4%, Management 23.7%, Strategy 23.4%, Simulation 19.5%

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: City Builder 15.8%, Trains 12.4% ★, Economy 12.2%, Management 10.1%, Resource Management 9.3%

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 21.4%, Management 21%, Resource Management 16.8%, Automation 13.4%, Building 9.8%

Blockchain Tycoon is the cryptocurrency simulation game where you build and manage your own mining operation. Create your own coin, mine it, invest in other coins, upgrade and overclock GPUs or you can just HODL.

Why similar: Economy 18.5%, Trading 14.6%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 10.8%, Base Building 7.9%