Games Like RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic

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 35.5%, Classic 25.9% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 6.6%, Sandbox 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive classic experience that expanded upon the original with more rides, scenarios, and building freedom.

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 38.7%, Simulation 14.2%, Strategy 11.7%, Retro 8.9%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is widely considered the spiritual successor to the original RollerCoaster Tycoon, perfectly capturing its isometric charm and deep management mechanics.

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 45.1%, Simulation 21.1%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.3%, Strategy 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game serves as the modern standard for theme park simulation, offering unparalleled creative control over coaster design and park aesthetics.

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 51.1%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 13.7%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It successfully transitioned the series into 3D while maintaining the core management and scenario-based gameplay of the originals.

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: Management 28%, Simulation 25.6%, Strategy 16.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: The latest evolution in the genre, providing advanced building tools and water park management features for dedicated fans.

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 47%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 11.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same humorous, high-stakes management style and building mechanics that made classic tycoon games so addictive.

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 46.8%, Simulation 18.8%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 10.4%, Strategy 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the exact 'tycoon' management loop of building, staffing, and optimizing a public attraction in a charming, accessible way.

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 41.4%, Simulation 19.5%, Sandbox 11.4%, Strategy 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a delightful pixel-art style with deep park management and creative building mechanics.

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

Why similar: Management 50.3%, Simulation 21.6%, Building 8.4%, Strategy 6.2%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a polished, humorous management experience that rewards careful planning and efficient facility design.

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: Management 43%, Simulation 20%, Sandbox 13%, Building 11.1%, Strategy 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: This open-source classic shares the iconic isometric aesthetic and deep logistical management systems found in early tycoon games.

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 64.3%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 9%, Sandbox 2.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A concise and addictive management sim that perfectly captures the 'tycoon' spirit of starting small and growing a business empire.

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 52.9%, Simulation 18.4%, Sandbox 11.3%, Building 9.1%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: It provides incredibly detailed management and building tools, perfect for players who enjoy the granular control of park operations.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.

Why similar: Management 46.6%, Simulation 16.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the complex task of building and managing a park while balancing guest safety and animal needs.

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 35.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Classic 12.5% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Sandbox 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that shares the same era and management depth as the original RollerCoaster Tycoon.

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 42.6%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 12%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is the gold standard for large-scale city building and management, appealing to those who love optimizing infrastructure.

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 43.5%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 13.5%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a similar isometric building and management experience with deep simulation and complex systems to master.

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 47.5%, Simulation 21.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Sandbox 8.6%, Building 6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the logistical and economic management aspects that were a core component of early tycoon games.

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

Why similar: Management 44.9%, Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 16%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A highly detailed management sim for players who enjoy complex logistics and long-term infrastructure planning.

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

Why similar: Management 40.3%, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 17%, Sandbox 12%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A gridless building game that emphasizes organic growth and management in a medieval setting.

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 51.8%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 14.8%, Sandbox 5.9%, Isometric 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on supply chain management and strategic growth in a stylized, industrial environment.

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 50.6%, Simulation 17.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Strategy 10.4%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers deep, complex management and building mechanics for players who want a more challenging simulation experience.

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: Management 45.2%, Strategy 20.1%, Simulation 19.7%, Sandbox 9%, Building 5%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends city-building with political management and economic strategy in a vibrant, engaging setting.

Become an ace doctor, an aspiring architect and a successful manager at the same time. Design your very own hospital, tweak every detail or choose one of the prebuilt scenarios and just jump to the doctor’s duty.

Why similar: Management 48.7%, Simulation 16%, Strategy 11%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a detailed, isometric management experience for those who enjoy the micromanagement of facility operations.

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: Management 41.1%, Sandbox 19.8%, Strategy 15.3%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building and optimization, appealing to the management-minded player who loves efficiency.

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 30%, Strategy 27.7%, Management 21.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Building 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging management and survival city-builder that rewards careful resource allocation and planning.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: Strategy 54.8%, Classic 39.4% ★, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management game that shares the same era and 'evil' charm as the original tycoon titles.

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 51.2%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Sandbox 11.4%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features similar management and building mechanics, focusing on the construction and operation of a school.

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

Why similar: Management 46.1%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 14.4%, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep colony management sim that emphasizes building, resource allocation, and emergent storytelling.

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 70%, Simulation 17.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Isometric 2.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%

Why You'll Like It: A modern business management sim that offers deep control over your operations and expansion in a city environment.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: Management 39.7%, Strategy 31.2%, Simulation 14.4%, Building 12.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes management game that tests your ability to build and sustain a society under extreme pressure.

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 36.4%, Classic 26.5% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Sandbox 7.2%, Strategy 7.1%

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 43.2%, Simulation 16.5%, Strategy 13%, Isometric 8.7%, Building 8.6%

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

Why similar: Management 44%, Simulation 18.1%, Classic 13.1% ★, Sandbox 10%, Strategy 7%

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

Why similar: Management 38.3%, Simulation 26.8%, Strategy 19.2%, Classic 15.7% ★

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 42.9%, Simulation 23.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.5%

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 41.6%, Strategy 28.1%, Classic 27.5% ★, Singleplayer 2.8%

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

Why similar: Management 51.9%, Simulation 18.9%, Strategy 12.8%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 5.6%

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 48.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 9.7%, Strategy 8%

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 50.5%, Simulation 28.8%, Strategy 15.1%, Building 4%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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 62.7%, Strategy 13.2%, Classic 11.1% ★, Simulation 8%, Building 2.1%

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

Why similar: Management 38.9%, Simulation 25.9%, Strategy 18.8%, Building 7%, Sandbox 6.9%

Create your own amusement park with a variety of rides, mascots, and activities!

Why similar: Simulation 44%, Strategy 31.6%, Retro 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%, Building 7.2%

The original game you know and love. For Windows 10/11. Create a neighborhood of Sims and guide their lives through careers and romance. Or create chaos with open-ended gameplay that lets you shape their destinies.

Why similar: Management 44%, Simulation 14.5%, Sandbox 14.1%, Classic 13.5% ★, Building 9.4%

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 44.1%, Management 34%, Sandbox 13.6%, Building 7.2%, Singleplayer 1.2%

Hire heroes, send them on quests, get loot and make a profit as you expand from nothing into a bustling fantasy kingdom and attempt to win the coveted title of the greatest kingdom in all of the land!

Why similar: Management 45.3%, Simulation 15.4%, Strategy 11.8%, Isometric 8.2%, Sandbox 6.2%

Create the parks of your dreams in Park Studio! Build amazing structures, design thrilling rides and decorate your park with an unprecedented level of detail and unmatched realism! What are you waiting for? Make something creative now!

Why similar: Management 48.1%, Simulation 22.3%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Build and manage your own wildlife compound, determine which animals to feature, how to manage the business while ensuring that all the animals are thriving. • Build a giant animal park from scratch and manage it well • Choose a variety of terrains with different climates and environmental sounds • 45 detailed, seamlessly animated and...

Why similar: Management 36.8%, Simulation 18.8%, Classic 15.4% ★, Strategy 13.1%, Isometric 7.8%

It's your empire... Take control! The game has it all! the depth of gameplay will have you on the edge of your seat for hours on-end. Build, manage, strategize and conquer the competition with the richest gameplay tycoon product ever offered!

Why similar: Management 38.7%, Simulation 21.4%, Classic 18.3% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Retro 3.9%

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 59.9%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 10.3%, Sandbox 5%, Building 3.5%

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 49.3%, Simulation 21.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Isometric 4.7%, Sandbox 4.6%

CoffeeBiz tycoon is a mix of entrepreneurship fun and complicated business simulation. Start your first coffee kiosk, brew, expand, hire, deal with competitors, build a well-known brand, risk, and do everything else needed to build prosperous and profitable business.

Why similar: Management 47.3%, Simulation 22%, Strategy 16.1%, Sandbox 5.7%, Retro 4%

Classic strategy game from 2003. Run your own casino in the 1970s. It's classy. It's glitzy. It's all yours. Take a gamble. Start small with a slot machine or two. Employ some staff. People will be talking about your place from coast to coast. Includes The Management Expansion Pack.

Why similar: Management 32.6%, Simulation 23.8%, Classic 20.2% ★, Strategy 18%, Retro 5.5%

Pizza Connection is a humorous business strategy game that challenges you to build a pizza empire from scratch.

Why similar: Management 30.9%, Classic 23.9% ★, Simulation 21.4%, Strategy 18%, Retro 4.8%

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 48.2%, Simulation 15.4%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 9.1%, Isometric 8.3%

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

Why similar: Management 46.6%, Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 15.7%, Sandbox 10.3%, Building 6.2%

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

Why similar: Management 26.3%, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 16.2%, Classic 16.1% ★, Building 6.6%

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 80.7%, Sandbox 7%, Building 5.8%, Singleplayer 3.8%, Strategy 2.6%

Manage your own coffee shop and control every detail to make it the most popular one in town! Roast your own beans and create your recipes. Hire and train your staff, manage your economy and marketing, and destroy your competition to become the ultimate legal coffee monopoly in Coffee Shop Tycoon.

Why similar: Management 48.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Classic 14.1% ★, Strategy 12.7%, Building 4.8%

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 51.8%, Simulation 14.9%, Strategy 10.5%, Sandbox 8.2%, Isometric 6.7%

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: Management 52.4%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 11.4%, Building 11.1%, Isometric 5.1%