Games Like RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum

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: Management 24%, Building 22.4%, Sandbox 17.2%, Simulation 15%, Economy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same creative team, this is the spiritual successor to the RCT series with unparalleled coaster-building tools.

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 23.7%, Building 18.3%, Sandbox 13.7%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the charm and management depth of the classic RCT titles with a modern aesthetic.

Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?

Why similar: Sandbox 22%, Building 21.6%, Simulation 17.3%, Management 14.3%, Economy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: The latest entry in the franchise, offering advanced water park features and refined management mechanics.

This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.

Why similar: Management 29.8%, Classic 16.1% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Sandbox 14.2%, Building 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential classic that set the standard for the entire theme park management genre.

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 29.3%, Building 18.8%, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 13.6%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Utilizes the same powerful engine as Planet Coaster to provide a deep, detailed management experience focused on animal welfare.

Park Beyond is a theme park simulation game that gives you the freedom to create and manage the Parks of your Dreams! Whether you love to manage finances and visitor experience, or just create fun and cozy parks, the game has something in store just for you!

Why similar: Management 29.5%, Building 22%, Sandbox 20.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modern theme park simulator that emphasizes gravity-defying coaster designs and creative modular building.

Thrillville™: Off the Rails lives up to its name with 20 death-defying rides! Players can build incredible coasters to leap from one track to another, launch through the air like cannonballs, blast through a burning rings of fire and more!

Why similar: Management 41.8%, Simulation 31.9%, Building 12.3%, Strategy 9.5%, Great Soundtrack 1.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines park management with a variety of mini-games that allow you to experience your own creations firsthand.

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 25.9%, Building 21.5%, Sandbox 20.4%, Simulation 14%, Economy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a public attraction with a similar satisfying progression loop to theme park sims.

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

Why similar: Management 35.2%, Building 21.9%, Simulation 20.2%, Sandbox 10.6%, Strategy 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same humorous, high-stakes management style found in classic tycoon games, applied to a medical setting.

Create incredible parks in the original rollercoaster sim from Chris Sawyer.

Why similar: Management 43.7%, Simulation 18.4%, Classic 12.8% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A faithful recreation of the original RCT experience, perfect for those seeking the nostalgic feel of the first two games.

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 26.6%, Sandbox 19.8%, Building 18.1%, Simulation 16.9%, Economy 6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a charming, sandbox-style management experience with deep customization and unique animal breeding mechanics.

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: Management 20.6%, Building 19.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Sandbox 13.5%, City Builder 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for modern city-building, offering deep infrastructure and economy management tools.

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 31%, Building 19.3%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Brings the quirky management style of Two Point Hospital to an academic setting with extensive building customization.

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: Management 27.4%, Building 26%, Sandbox 16%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a high-fidelity park management experience where you must balance guest safety with the care of prehistoric creatures.

Modern Casino Tycoon Simulation in full 3D glory. Build the casino. Set the odds. Expand into a luxury hotel/casino or go cheap & extract max profits. Keep the vault secure at all times, and beware of criminals & cheaters!!

Why similar: Management 22.7%, Sandbox 19%, Building 18.9%, Simulation 12.6%, Economy 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features a similar isometric management perspective and focuses on the intricate design of a complex public facility.

Theme Park Studio is a powerful suite of tools that allows players to design, build, and experience stunning amusement parks of their own design. Players can build whatever they can imagine, and then share it online for others to experience. Theme Park Studio includes Steam Workshop integration.

Why similar: Simulation 37.5%, Sandbox 22.8%, Management 21.7%, Building 17%, Singleplayer 1%

Why You'll Like It: A niche simulator that prioritizes the technical design and physics of roller coasters for dedicated enthusiasts.

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 51.7%, Simulation 23.7%, Economy 7.7%, Strategy 5.5%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible business management simulation that captures the satisfying progression of growing a small company.

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: Management 49.6%, Real-Time with Pause 10.1% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7.8%, Classic 6.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic economic strategy game that focuses on building transport networks and managing supply chains.

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: Management 27.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Sandbox 12.8%, City Builder 9%, Real-Time with Pause 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic political and economic management sim that balances city-building with humorous narrative elements.

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Management 25.1%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Economy 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A detailed management sim that challenges you to build and run a complex airport with realistic logistics.

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

Why similar: Management 35.4%, Building 23.3%, Simulation 17.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on vertical building management, requiring you to balance tenant needs and structural logistics.

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: Management 23.2%, Building 19.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Simulation 13%, Economy 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-based building and management game that offers deep simulation mechanics and a distinct visual style.

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: Management 28.2%, Simulation 17.2%, Sandbox 13.5%, Building 13.4%, Economy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A logistics-heavy management game that focuses on connecting cities through complex transport networks.

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

Why similar: Management 22.3%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Economy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational city-building classic that remains a benchmark for urban planning and economic simulation.

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 48.5%, Economy 17.7%, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 15.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A comprehensive business management simulator that allows you to build a commercial empire from the ground up.

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

Why similar: Management 22.2%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 15.7%, City Builder 10%

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

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 26.6%, Building 19.1%, Sandbox 17.3%, Simulation 12.2%, Economy 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep business management sim that allows for extensive office building design and complex production chains.

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 34.7%, Simulation 14.8%, Economy 14.4%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the strategic side of management, tasking players with building efficient supply chains and economies.

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%, Building 19.2%, Sandbox 17.8%, Simulation 12.7%, Economy 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A building and management simulator that tasks you with constructing and maintaining a massive skyscraper.

Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

Why similar: Management 26.2%, Building 17.4%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 11%, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that focuses on the design and daily operations of a school, mirroring the layout-based gameplay of RCT.

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 21.3%, Management 19.5%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 15.6%, Economy 7.9%

One of the best games from acclaimed Tycoon series, with well designed gameplay mechanics, appealing graphics, and really high re-playability value. There’s no limit to what you can create so design and build the most thrilling roller coaster the world has ever seen!

Why similar: Management 29.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Classic 15.7% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.5%

Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.

Why similar: Management 31.8%, Building 21.9%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 6.6%

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: Management 21%, Building 19.7%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 15.5%, Economy 8.7%

The Sims 3: Create the perfect world with full customization at your fingertips. Refine personalities and help fulfill destinies.

Why similar: Simulation 30.7%, Building 26.5%, Sandbox 25.6%, Moddable 5.8% ★, Funny 2.2%

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: Sandbox 22.1%, Simulation 21.9%, Management 17.1%, Strategy 13.3%, City Builder 9.9%

RollerCoaster Tycoon World™ is the newest installment in the legendary RCT franchise. This next-generation theme park simulation and building game includes fan-favorite features along with incredible new advancements!

Why similar: Management 28.2%, Building 23.2%, Simulation 20.2%, Sandbox 19.2%, Strategy 5.9%

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 26.3%, Building 19.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Economy 11.9%, Simulation 10.9%

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 30.1%, Management 22.9%, Sandbox 17.7%, City Builder 11.2%, Strategy 6.9%

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 30.5%, Building 19.6%, Simulation 13.2%, Sandbox 10.3%, Economy 8.4%

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: Management 49.2%, Classic 14.4% ★, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Economy 9.6%

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 39.6%, Simulation 16.7%, Economy 11.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Building 8.6%

The indoor park management simulator where you can create your rides and coasters from scratch and freely design your halls. Manage, expand and develop your own park to inspire your guests. Satisfy your visitors' needs by unlocking and researching new buildings, rides, transportation and more!

Why similar: Management 30.1%, Building 22.3%, Sandbox 15.5%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 6.9%

TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.

Why similar: Management 25.6%, Simulation 22.3%, Sandbox 12.8%, Classic 12.7% ★, Strategy 9.4%

Parkasaurus is a dinosaur tycoon management simulation where you take care of your dinosaurs by constructing well-designed exhibits, researching specialized technologies, and maximizing profits to expand into the ultimate dinosaur theme park. Do you favor development for guests or your dinosaurs?

Why similar: Management 27.9%, Building 19.6%, Sandbox 16.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Economy 8.5%

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: Simulation 63.2%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Moddable 5.6% ★, Singleplayer 2.8%

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: Management 38.8%, Simulation 15.2%, Economy 14.9%, Strategy 11.3%, Real-Time with Pause 7.9% ★

SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!

Why similar: Simulation 46.7%, Strategy 18%, Classic 17% ★, City Builder 14%, Singleplayer 3%

The wildly popular Zoo Tycoon series gets set to crank up the excitement, challenge, and fun of building the ultimate zoo. Let your imagination run wild with Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection. Build, manage, and maintain your dream zoo alone or with up to four players.

Why similar: Management 45.3%, Simulation 27.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Building 7.5%, Family Friendly 1.8%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Simulation 22.7%, Sandbox 20.6%, City Builder 14.1%, Management 12%, Strategy 11.9%

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 24.4%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 16.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Economy 10.7%

NoLimits 2 is the ultimate roller coaster simulation that lets you experience authentic roller coaster thrills. Climb into the world's most famous roller coasters and experience the excitement in real time. Or design a new roller coaster that is engineered to your specifications.

Why similar: Simulation 57.3%, Sandbox 40.2%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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

Why similar: Management 35.3%, Simulation 29.8%, Sandbox 10.3%, Economy 8.1%, Strategy 5.7%

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

Why similar: Management 34.2%, Simulation 32.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Classic 10.7% ★, Economy 9%

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 23.8%, Building 18.4%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 12%, Economy 10.5%

Do you have what it takes to be a zoo tycoon? You are responsible for your very own and unique zoo. Choose from numerous types of enclosures, park buildings and plants to design an environment appropriate to each species. Take home a part of wilderness with Wildlife Park 3!

Why similar: Management 27.8%, Simulation 18%, Building 15.7%, Sandbox 14.8%, Economy 8.3%

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: Management 23.4%, Building 18.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Economy 10.9%, Simulation 10.6%

Build and run your own waterpark. Design slides, send guests flying with ragdoll physics, manage staff, and fully customize your park. Turn total madness into a five-star empire in this first-person management simulator!

Why similar: Management 27.1%, Sandbox 19.3%, Building 19.2%, Simulation 13.5%, Economy 12%

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 35.9%, Building 17.2%, Sandbox 15%, Simulation 13.7%, Economy 11%

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: Management 29.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Building 16.5%, Economy 11.3%, Sandbox 11%