- #1 Airport CEO
97% matchVery Positive83% of 8,359 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Flight 20.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 11%, Management 10.3%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: This is the most direct alternative to SimAirport, offering a similar depth of airport infrastructure design and passenger flow management.
- #2 Sky Haven Tycoon - Airport Simulator
96% matchMixed58% of 1,368 reviews2022
Dev: Real Welders
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Build your own airport in Skyhaven! Live out your airplane tycoon and simulation game fantasies and make the best surroundings and strategy for both airline manager and passenger alike. Schedule flight plans, build terminals, landing strips and more and create an airport tycoon empire in Skyhaven.
Why similar: Flight 35.2%, Management 21.3%, Building 16.2%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a comprehensive airport management experience that focuses on the evolution of aviation technology and terminal design.
- #3 Project Highrise
96% matchVery Positive85% of 4,823 reviews2016
Dev: SomaSimPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Why similar: Management 24.9%, Building 22.8%, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 9.3%, Sandbox 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shares the grid-based building and management mechanics, focusing on the intricate balance of tenant needs and utility infrastructure.
- #4 Mad Tower Tycoon
95% matchMostly Positive78% of 445 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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: City Builder 21.4%, Economy 15.2%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: Like SimAirport, this game focuses on vertical building management and the logistical challenges of moving large crowds through a complex structure.
- #5 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
94% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 22.5%, Management 13.6%, Building 13%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 10.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the same passenger flow and crowd management mechanics found in SimAirport, set within a subway environment.
- #6 SimCasino
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 758 reviews2021
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 22.5%, Economy 14.1%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features similar sandbox building tools and management systems, focusing on the flow of customers through a large, complex facility.
- #7 Prison Architect
93% matchVery Positive85% of 76,934 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 15.7%, Building 13.8%, Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: The foundational grid-based building and prisoner management systems are mechanically very similar to the airport construction and passenger management in SimAirport.
- #8 Two Point Hospital
92% matchVery Positive92% of 35,001 reviews2018
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 35.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Why similar: Management 29.7%, Building 25.3%, Simulation 13.1%, City Builder 11.6%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly polished management experience that requires careful spatial planning and logistical optimization to keep operations running smoothly.
- #9 Another Brick in The Mall
91% matchVery Positive83% of 2,456 reviews2020
Dev: The Quadsphere
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: City Builder 19.5%, Management 18.1%, Building 15.8%, Economy 14%, Base Building 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim focuses on building and running a retail empire, requiring careful layout planning to maximize customer satisfaction and profit.
- #10 City Bus Manager
90% matchVery Positive91% of 2,878 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 39.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Economy 33.4%, Management 26.1%, Sandbox 14.7%, Simulation 11.7%, Strategy 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the logistics of public transportation, requiring players to manage routes and schedules in a way that mirrors airport ground operations.
- #11 Software Inc.
91% matchVery Positive94% of 7,850 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 46.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 26.7%, Management 21.4%, Building 20.7%, Sandbox 16.5%, Simulation 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep business management simulation that includes detailed office building construction and complex employee logistics.
- #12 Parkitect
89% matchVery Positive94% of 8,154 reviews2018
Dev: Texel Raptor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: City Builder 21.4%, Economy 20%, Building 16.5%, Management 15.4%, Sandbox 10.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines creative park building with the same type of logistical management and guest flow optimization essential to airport design.
- #13 Two Point Campus
89% matchVery Positive88% of 8,220 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: City Builder 24.7%, Management 20.2%, Building 17.3%, Sandbox 11.8%, Economy 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It expands on the management formula by requiring players to build and maintain complex educational facilities while managing student needs and traffic.
- #14 Rescue HQ - The Tycoon
88% matchMostly Positive79% of 932 reviews2019
Dev: stillalive studiosPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: City Builder 20.6%, Management 16.1%, Building 15.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: Players must manage a multi-department emergency facility, balancing building layout with the rapid deployment of resources.
- #15 Production Line : Car factory simulation
87% matchVery Positive82% of 3,484 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 17.4%, Economy 16.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 12.4%, City Builder 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the ultimate logistical challenge of designing an efficient factory floor, mirroring the optimization goals of an airport manager.
- #16 Captain of Industry
86% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Base Building 23.2%, Economy 16.9%, City Builder 16%, Management 11.6%, Building 11.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a complex base-building experience that emphasizes the automation of logistics and resource management.
- #17 Academia : School Simulator
86% matchVery Positive81% of 3,240 reviews2021
Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: City Builder 22.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Economy 14.9%, Management 13.4%, Building 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: It utilizes a similar grid-based construction and management style to simulate the daily operations and logistical needs of a school.
- #18 Transport Fever 2
85% matchVery Positive90% of 33,029 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 65.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 23.3%, Economy 15%, Management 14.8%, Flight 10.9%, Building 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for logistics management, focusing on the complex movement of goods and passengers across various transport networks.
- #19 Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder
84% matchMixed62% of 1,278 reviews2022
Dev: TeaForTwoPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your ideal ski resort. Keep skiers smiling with fresh pistes and fine facilities. Ski, build and chill in the wintry world of Snowtopia where everyone is welcome!
Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Building 12.6%, Economy 12.1%, Management 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the management of a large-scale facility, requiring careful planning of infrastructure to handle visitor traffic effectively.
- #20 Indoorlands
84% matchVery Positive81% of 279 reviews2022
Dev: Pixelsplit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: City Builder 21.8%, Building 19.2%, Management 18.8%, Sandbox 11.9%, Resource Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a management-heavy experience focused on building and optimizing the layout of an indoor theme park.
- #21 Megaquarium
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,794 reviews2018
Dev: Twice Circled
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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: Building 22.1%, Management 19.5%, Sandbox 18.7%, Economy 14.3%, Simulation 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It requires players to manage the logistics of a complex facility while balancing the needs of visitors and the maintenance of intricate life-support systems.
- #22 Rise of Industry
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 18.7%, Management 15.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep economic simulation that requires players to manage supply chains and logistics across a large map.
- #23 Startup Company
82% matchVery Positive81% of 6,224 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 30.9%, Economy 27%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: This management sim focuses on the growth of a business, requiring players to build out office spaces and manage employee productivity.
- #24 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
79% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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%, Base Building 14.9%, Economy 14.7%, Building 11.9%, Management 11%
Why You'll Like It: This is a highly detailed city-builder that features an incredibly deep logistics and supply chain management system.
- #25 Big Ambitions
78% matchVery Positive92% of 14,788 reviews2026
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 25.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Economy 36.1%, Management 34.2%, Sandbox 13.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Resource Management 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines business management with a focus on physical location and logistics, allowing for a deep simulation of running various enterprises.
- #26 Factory Town
81% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 21.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Sandbox 12.1%, Management 12%, Economy 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the automation of logistics and production, providing a satisfying puzzle-like experience for those who enjoy optimizing systems.
- #27 Airline Manager
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,348 reviews2021
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 37.7 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Why similar: Flight 44.8%, Economy 19.4%, Management 13%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a more macro-level look at the aviation industry, focusing on fleet management and economic strategy.
- #28 Planet Coaster
79% matchVery Positive91% of 72,226 reviews2016
Dev: Frontier Developments
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 22.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Building 23.2%, Management 17.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Economy 14.9%, City Builder 11.8%
Why You'll Like It: It offers unparalleled building tools for creating complex structures and managing the flow of large crowds through a park.
- #29 RimWorld
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 247,065 reviews2018
Dev: Ludeon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 59.4 hrsMean: 267.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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: Base Building 26.6%, City Builder 19.1%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 13.3%, Building 11.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more focused on colony survival, its deep management of individual needs and logistical tasks provides a similar sense of satisfaction to airport management.
- #30 Automation Empire
80% matchMixed66% of 2,646 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Base Building 19.2%, Economy 13.7%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on building massive, automated industrial networks, appealing to players who enjoy the logistical scale of SimAirport.
- #31 Terminal One
77% matchMixed67% of 97 reviews2025
Dev: Terminal Reality
Windows
Airport building and light business tycoon game. Build up an airport providing cargo, maintenance, and passenger service. Choose which upgrades to invest in, manage policies, organize finances, optimize layouts, and balance carbon emissions.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Flight 16.3%, Building 12.5%, Economy 11.9%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #32 Transport Fever
77% matchVery Positive83% of 10,857 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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: Flight 23.7%, City Builder 19.7%, Economy 14%, Building 11.6%, Management 10.4%
- #33 Jumbo Airport Story
76% matchVery Positive91% of 392 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.8 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Just imagine: your own world-famous airport! A game with sky-high levels of fun!
Why similar: Flight 30.7%, City Builder 22.1%, Building 7.7%, Simulation 6.4%, Strategy 6.4%
- #34 Ground of Aces
75% matchVery Positive86% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: Blindflug Studios AG
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Flight 14.7%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 10.4%, Economy 10.2%
- #35 Cities: Skylines II
75% matchMixed56% of 92,848 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.7 hrsMean: 77.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: City Builder 33.9%, Building 14.6%, Economy 13.6%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 11%
- #36 Battle Royale Tycoon
76% matchMixed69% of 516 reviews2019
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design and build arenas for your guests to fight in, keep them happy, your workers paid and make a profit!
Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Management 17.6%, Economy 15.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.2%
- #37 Parking World: Build & Manage
73% matchMixed66% of 183 reviews2025
Dev: Binary ImpactPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows
Build, manage, and expand your own lucrative parking enterprise in this management sim. Parking World puts the power to build your perfect parking garage at your fingertips while solving everybody else's parking problems in unique narrative scenarios or without any objectives in freeplay mode.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Economy 18.1%, Building 15.7%, Management 14.2%, Sandbox 11.8%
- #38 Citystate II
74% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,141 reviews2021
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
Why similar: City Builder 30.3%, Economy 20%, Building 14.5%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 10.7%
- #39 Fly Corp
71% matchVery Positive85% of 3,423 reviews2023
Dev: KishMish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Develop your own transport network in different regions and cities: open new routes, buy and upgrade new planes, and increase airport capacity!
Why similar: Flight 34.1%, Management 16.3%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.5%, Strategy 6.7%
- #40 Transport INC
72% matchMixed70% of 1,084 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
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 20.9%, Sandbox 18.7%, Management 16.2%, Building 15.3%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #41 Good Company
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 1,793 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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 16.4%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 15.3%, Building 13.1%, Management 12.3%
- #42 Hotel Magnate
70% matchMixed58% of 491 reviews2025
Dev: Arcade Oven
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: City Builder 19.8%, Economy 14.1%, Building 13.2%, Management 12.8%, Base Building 11.4%
- #43 Citystate
72% matchMostly Positive75% of 815 reviews2018
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Economy 15%, Building 11.6%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 7.9%
- #44 Cities XXL
74% matchMixed41% of 2,367 reviews2015
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 50.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
Why similar: City Builder 34.8%, Economy 17.3%, Building 15%, Management 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #45 Train Station Simulator
73% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 23.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.1%
- #46 Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
68% matchVery Positive89% of 1,358 reviews2025
Dev: Hammer & RavensPub: Shiro Unlimited
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build and expand your monastery, craft recipes and brew holy ales in this unique brewery tycoon. No pre-made recipes in Ale Abbey, oh no. It's a canvas for true beer alchemists. It's as simple as: brew, sip, repeat. Welcome to Ale Abbey!
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Economy 16.2%, Management 14.6%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 7.3%
- #47 Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 330 reviews2019
Dev: Jarrod Brown
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Design, build and manage a recreation center! Host fitness classes, build swimming pools, arcade & entertainment areas, build event rooms to host parties & much more. With endless customisation, Rec Center Tycoon goes much more in-depth than your average business management simulator.
Why similar: City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 13.7%, Economy 13.2%, Building 12.6%, Management 11.5%
- #48 AirportSim
70% matchMixed68% of 1,699 reviews2023
Dev: MS GAMESPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 76.2 hrs≥1hr: 80%
AirportSim is an Advanced Airport Ground Handling Simulator with true-to-life visuals and operations, licensed planes and vehicles, real airports and live weather conditions. Enjoy the many tasks alone or with friends, making this experience unforgettable.
Why similar: Flight 48.9%, Sandbox 21%, Management 20.2%, Simulation 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #49 Cities XL Platinum
73% matchMixed58% of 1,637 reviews2013
Dev: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
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: City Builder 50.1%, Simulation 11.5%, Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Strategy 5.8%
- #50 Hotel Architect
66% matchVery Positive94% of 2,389 reviews2026
Dev: Pathos InteractivePub: Wired Productions
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 17.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: City Builder 25%, Economy 17.1%, Building 15%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 12.6%
- #51 Mad Games Tycoon
69% matchVery Positive91% of 4,423 reviews2016
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 20.3 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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 20.5%, Economy 18.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 13.6%, Sandbox 10.5%
- #52 Blueprint Tycoon
70% matchVery Positive82% of 1,097 reviews2016
Dev: Endless Loop Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build your settlement, gather goods, ensure maximum efficiency and make a profit!
Why similar: Management 23.7%, City Builder 22.3%, Economy 15.5%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 8.4%
- #53 Little Big Workshop
69% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Management 16.7%, Economy 15.5%, Building 15.2%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 10.4%
- #54 Project Hospital
68% matchVery Positive89% of 9,400 reviews2018
Dev: Oxymoron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 24.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: City Builder 29%, Management 16.8%, Building 13.1%, Economy 12.6%, Sandbox 11.7%
- #55 Voxel Tycoon
69% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,793 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: City Builder 24%, Economy 18.9%, Building 15.6%, Sandbox 14.1%, Management 13.6%
- #56 The Tenants
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 7,782 reviews2022
Dev: EndGameLoop Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Become a landlord and deal with problematic tenants as you build your rental property empire. Decide how to react to annoyed neighbors or police interventions. Will you design your apartment for a group of gamer friends or an aspiring musician looking for a new home?
Why similar: City Builder 23.4%, Economy 16.5%, Management 14.4%, Building 13.7%, Base Building 12.4%
- #57 Cities: Skylines
67% matchVery Positive93% of 292,422 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 66.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 39.9%, Building 14.5%, Management 11.1%, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 8.9%
- #58 Subway Builder
66% matchMixed60% of 422 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
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 29.9%, Building 14.8%, Management 13.5%, Strategy 9.6%, Simulation 8%
- #59 Power to the People
67% matchVery Positive81% of 557 reviews2022
Dev: Rhombico GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 23.5%, Economy 18.8%, Management 15%, Building 14.9%, Base Building 11.3%
- #60 Arcade Tycoon ™ : Simulation Game
67% matchVery Positive82% of 569 reviews2021
Dev: Squidpunch StudiosPub: Vincent Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: City Builder 20.6%, Economy 15.2%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 12%, Management 12%