Games Like RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe

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: Classic 32% ★, Management 24.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Sandbox 10%, Building 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct sequel to the original, offering expanded content while maintaining the exact same beloved isometric engine and gameplay loop.

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

Why similar: Management 36.2%, Classic 26% ★, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 7.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This version combines the best of the first two games into one definitive, modern-compatible package.

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 23.1%, Nostalgia 15.8% ★, Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.7%, Sandbox 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the best modern spiritual successor to the classic RCT games, focusing on deep management and satisfying coaster construction.

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 27.7%, Simulation 17.8%, Building 17.7%, Sandbox 17.3%, Strategy 5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for modern 3D theme park building, offering unparalleled creative freedom for coaster design.

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 22.3%, Simulation 20.8%, Building 17.2%, Management 16.6%, Strategy 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: The latest evolution in the series, adding water park mechanics and advanced management features to the 3D building experience.

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

Why similar: Management 36.3%, Simulation 21.5%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Classic 5.3% ★

Why You'll Like It: Captures the humorous, management-heavy gameplay loop of classic tycoon games while introducing modern quality-of-life improvements.

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

Why similar: Management 30.9%, Simulation 30.4%, Classic 23.7% ★, Strategy 15%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the creator of the original RollerCoaster Tycoon, this game shares the same isometric DNA and classic management style.

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 28.4%, Simulation 18.6%, Sandbox 18.4%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features a quirky, humorous tone and deep management mechanics that mirror the lighthearted spirit of classic tycoon games.

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 33%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 15.8%, Building 14.5%, City Builder 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the most detailed animal management and park construction experience available for fans of complex simulation.

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 30%, Sandbox 20.6%, Building 17%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: A charming management sim that focuses on park layout and guest satisfaction, capturing the same 'cozy' tycoon feel.

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 24.8%, Simulation 17.8%, Building 16.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, City Builder 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: The premier modern city-builder that emphasizes infrastructure management and complex urban planning.

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 33%, Simulation 14.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Building 14.1%, Strategy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Refines the management and building mechanics of its predecessor with a fun, academic-themed twist.

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 23.1%, Sandbox 15.6%, Classic 14.5% ★, Building 12.6%, Simulation 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic isometric city-builder that defined the genre and shares the same nostalgic aesthetic as the early RCT games.

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 29.9%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 17.9%, Simulation 15%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep park management and building mechanics with a focus on balancing guest safety and animal needs.

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 56.4%, Simulation 26.7%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Distills the addictive 'tycoon' management loop into a compact, engaging experience about building a software 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 50.5%, Classic 16.2% ★, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%, Real-Time with Pause 4.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: A classic management simulation that shares the same era and strategic depth as the original RCT series.

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 27%, Sandbox 19.1%, Building 15.9%, Simulation 15.7%, Strategy 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features isometric building and management mechanics that feel very similar to the grid-based design of classic tycoon titles.

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

Why similar: Management 39.7%, Simulation 19.9%, Building 17.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric management game that focuses on the vertical building and maintenance of a complex structure.

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 29.8%, Sandbox 17.9%, Simulation 16.8%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern theme park builder that emphasizes creative coaster design and over-the-top management mechanics.

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 32.9%, Simulation 20.7%, Sandbox 13.7%, Building 10.7%, Strategy 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on logistics and management, appealing to fans of the transportation and infrastructure aspects of tycoon games.

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 35.7%, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 17.6%, Simulation 16.9%, Strategy 6.9%

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

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: Management 39.8%, Simulation 16.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Building 13%, Strategy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A deep management simulation that focuses on building a business empire from the ground up.

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 26.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, Building 17.8%, Simulation 17.2%, City Builder 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic open-source transportation management game that perfectly captures the retro isometric feel of 90s simulation games.

Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Why similar: Building 34.4%, Simulation 25.2%, Sandbox 20.6%, Strategy 6.5%, Funny 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the engineering and physics-based building aspects found in coaster design, offering a satisfying puzzle-like challenge.

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 30.6%, Simulation 18.4%, Sandbox 14.1%, Strategy 12.7%, City Builder 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with humorous management and political strategy, maintaining a lighthearted tone throughout.

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 46.9%, Simulation 29%, Sandbox 13.9%, Building 5.3%, Multiplayer 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic management experience focused on park building and animal care that fits perfectly in the tycoon genre.

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 56%, Simulation 18.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Resource Management 3.9%, Isometric 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modern management simulator that allows for deep control over business operations in a living city.

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 32.8%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 15%, Simulation 14.2%, City Builder 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features grid-based building and management mechanics that feel very similar to classic tycoon titles.

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 36.3%, Classic 19% ★, Simulation 18.8%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A focused management simulation that captures the 'start small, grow big' spirit of the classic tycoon genre.

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 37.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game focused on production chains and logistics, perfect for players who enjoy the economic side of tycoon games.

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 32.6%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 15.3%, Simulation 13.4%, Strategy 8.3%

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 35.8%, Classic 31% ★, Strategy 16.4%, City Builder 12.6%, Singleplayer 2.9%

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 29.3%, Simulation 16.6%, Classic 15.7% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Building 11.5%

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 24.6%, Simulation 18.7%, Sandbox 17%, Building 15.8%, City Builder 9.9%

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 28.3%, Simulation 14.9%, Building 14.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Strategy 7.9%

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: Classic 26.7% ★, Management 22%, Simulation 19.8%, Strategy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.6%

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 42.3%, Simulation 33.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Building 8.5%, Singleplayer 2.2%

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

Why similar: Simulation 38.3%, Sandbox 27%, Building 22%, Singleplayer 3.2%, Funny 2.6%

Mini Motorways is a strategy simulation game about designing the road map for a growing city. Build a traffic network, one road at a time, to create a bustling metropolis. Redesign your roads and place your motorways to get everyone where they need to go. How long can you keep the city moving?

Why similar: Management 35.3%, Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 15.5%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 4%

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 30.7%, Building 20%, Simulation 16.5%, Sandbox 15.6%, Strategy 7.8%

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 30.4%, Simulation 22.6%, Sandbox 18%, Building 17.1%, Strategy 7.8%

Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!

Why similar: Management 28%, Sandbox 17.5%, Building 14.3%, Simulation 13.6%, City Builder 5.8%

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: Management 21.5%, Simulation 17.7%, Sandbox 17.2%, Building 16.1%, Strategy 8.7%

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 30.6%, Simulation 19.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 10.8%

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 42.8%, Classic 30.6% ★, Strategy 13.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!

Why similar: Classic 45.8% ★, Strategy 21.2%, City Builder 18.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Isometric 3%

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 32%, Management 23.5%, Sandbox 15.8%, City Builder 14%, Strategy 8.7%

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 60.7%, Sandbox 35.9%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!

Why similar: Classic 41.7% ★, Simulation 17.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 12.3%, City Builder 11.9%

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 27.4%, Sandbox 20.2%, Building 15%, Classic 15% ★, Simulation 12.5%

Build up your headquarters from scratch and design your own masterpiece. In Rescue HQ you build, organize and manage a joint station for firefighters, police and ambulance. Manage your resources wisely and master challenging emergencies to keep your city safe! Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Management 27.2%, Simulation 15.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Building 12.8%, Strategy 8.1%

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: Classic 54.1% ★, Strategy 15.7%, Nostalgia 12.5% ★, Simulation 8.2%, Building 2.3%

Disco Simulator is a tycoon type game based on club management. Your task will be to set up the club from scratch, put up walls, arrange furniture, hire staff, plan events, invite artists, put on concerts. Create your own club!

Why similar: Management 32.6%, Simulation 17.4%, Sandbox 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Strategy 7.5%

The acclaimed bridge-building indie-hit is back! More levels, more features, more physics fun!

Why similar: Building 31.6%, Sandbox 26.1%, Simulation 23.3%, Strategy 8.2%, Great Soundtrack 2.9%

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

Why similar: Management 27.7%, Simulation 25.5%, Building 12.9%, Strategy 12.5%, Sandbox 11.5%

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: Simulation 23.8%, Sandbox 20.3%, Management 18%, Strategy 17.1%, City Builder 12.7%

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 43.4%, Simulation 17.6%, Strategy 15.5%, Classic 12.8% ★, Building 3.9%

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

Why similar: Simulation 46.4%, Strategy 22.6%, Building 14.1%, City Builder 9.1%, Resource Management 3.8%

42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.

Why similar: Classic 42.1% ★, Strategy 27.9%, City Builder 12.7%, Resource Management 5.5%, Multiplayer 4.8%

Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.

Why similar: Sandbox 29.6%, Simulation 24.4%, Building 22.7%, Management 6.4%, City Builder 5.8%