- #1 Chinese Rail SIm
97% matchMixed50% of 52 reviews2023
Dev: Lawliet
Windows
Build a railway network across China. Connect cities, run local and express passenger services, and balance fares, capacity and upkeep. Meet weekly goals in Challenge mode or shape your own network with unlimited funds in Sandbox.
Why similar: Trains 41.2% ★, Transportation 19.5% ★, Management 8.9%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #2 Simutrans
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 678 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.
Why similar: Trains 44.7% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Management 8.7%, Transportation 7.6% ★, Strategy 6.3%
- #3 Voxel Tycoon
96% 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: Trains 26.2% ★, Transportation 14.1% ★, Voxel 12.3% ★, Automation 7.5%, Economy 6.6%
- #4 Train Fever
95% matchMixed64% of 3,528 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
Why similar: Trains 49.1% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Management 8.7%, Transportation 8.3% ★, Economy 7.9%
- #5 Train World
94% matchMostly Positive74% of 99 reviews2023
Dev: Turn Point Games
Windows
Become a railroad pioneer in Train World - a railway simulator that spans centuries as you design, manage, and operate your own train network. Start at the dawn of railroad technology and evolve into a complex, modern railway company.
Why similar: Trains 35.7% ★, Transportation 15.8% ★, Economy 6.6%, Resource Management 6.5%, Simulation 6.5%
- #6 Nile Express
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Roland Mueller
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build the first railway network in Africa. Create profitable routes in Egypt, from Alexandria to Aswan. Deliver passengers and goods to the right destinations. Take care of your railway network and deal with accidents.
Why similar: Trains 36.4% ★, Transportation 18.4% ★, Management 7.7%, Automation 6.7%, Economy 6.6%
- #7 Metro Architect
93% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Northern21 Studio
Windows · Mac
In Metro Architect, you will design, expand, and optimize metro and subway networks in a metro simulator inspired by real-world transit systems. Build stations, manage trains, reduce congestion, and keep your city moving.
Why similar: Trains 34.4% ★, Transportation 19.1% ★, Management 7.8%, City Builder 7.4%, Economy 6.5%
- #8 Transport Fever 2
92% 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: Trains 32.2% ★, Transportation 19.5% ★, Management 8.8%, Simulation 7.9%, City Builder 7.5%
- #9 Stoplights
91% matchPositive90% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: Wicked Blobfish
Windows
Stoplights is a strategy simulation game about creating an efficient train network to support the growing needs of your cities. Make connections by building rails, control train routes with traffic signals to get essential resources where they need to be - in time.
Why similar: Trains 35.6% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Management 8.6%, Resource Management 8.5%, Strategy 7.2%
- #10 Railroad Engineer
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: SP Digital Arts Inc.
Windows
Build railroads, drive trains, collect resources, deliver goods, and grow cities.
Why similar: Trains 34.2% ★, Transportation 17.6% ★, Management 7.1%, Resource Management 7.1%, Economy 6.8%
- #11 Tiny Train Tycoon
90% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: 2D is enough
Windows
Build a toy railway from limited pieces, transport cargo, create supply chains, and help cities grow.
Why similar: Trains 36.9% ★, Transportation 17.2% ★, Automation 7.4%, Resource Management 6.9%, Economy 6.5%
- #12 Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flat Lab
Windows
Build a logistics empire in a grim cyberpunk world: lay tracks, optimize production and delivery chains, research technologies, and expand your influence. Corporations are the new gods, and the Market decides who survives.
Why similar: Trains 36.7% ★, Transportation 16.9% ★, Automation 7.7%, Management 6.5%, Simulation 6.2%
- #13 Metroplex
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Infinite Error Industries
Windows
Build a city. Connect a region. Create a metropolis. Lay roads and railways, shape land use, and watch millions of residents transform the map through housing, jobs, travel time, and congestion.
Why similar: Trains 29.9% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Simulation 8.8%, Management 7.6%
- #14 Cities in Motion
88% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,096 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Trains 29.3% ★, Transportation 16.8% ★, Simulation 16%, Management 12.8%, City Builder 7.6%
- #15 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
87% matchVery Positive86% of 682 reviews2015
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
Why similar: Trains 45.8% ★, Transportation 13.7% ★, Simulation 13.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 10%
- #16 DeckEleven's Railroads 2
86% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2023
Dev: DeckEleven
Windows · Linux
DeckEleven's Railroads 2 is a fun and addictive railroads building game. Like a true Tycoon, you are in charge of everything! Design and build the perfect railways network.
Why similar: Trains 33.6% ★, Transportation 15.5% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 12.1%, Economy 9.4%
- #17 OpenTTD
86% matchVery Positive95% of 17,021 reviews2021
Dev: OpenTTD
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Trains 32% ★, Transportation 16.8% ★, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.2%, Building 8%
- #18 A-Train 9 PRIME LINE
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ARTDINK
Windows
The ultimate edition of the city-building simulation game A-Train 9! As the president of a railway company, build the city of your dreams through city building and railway management. A-Train 9 PRIME LINE takes city building beyond evolution, delivering the ultimate city-building experience.
Why similar: Trains 34.9% ★, Transportation 17.9% ★, City Builder 9.4%, Simulation 8.5%, Management 6.2%
- #19 Steam & Heather
84% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flag Hippo Games
Windows
A cosy railway management builder set in 19th-century Scotland. Shape the land, lay track, connect industries, and watch towns grow as steam reshapes the Scottish landscape.
Why similar: Trains 33.6% ★, Transportation 16.7% ★, Management 8.6%, City Builder 8.1%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #20 Tunwick
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eldil
Windows
Build the roads. Haul the goods. Carry the people. In Tunwick, people drive the economy. They aren't just cargo with legs. Their hands make the goods, and their wages build the city that buys them.
Why similar: Transportation 25.9% ★, Trains 25.4% ★, Economy 10.3%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 9.2%
- #21 MiniTrans
83% matchMixed52% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: DD Metaverse
Windows
MiniTrans is a city building and traffic simulation game. Players independently build main cities and satellite cities, develop metropolitan areas and city clusters, and build various transportation facilities between urban areas to transport commuters to earn taxes.
Why similar: Trains 33.1% ★, Transportation 20% ★, City Builder 8.8%, Economy 7.8%, Management 7.2%
- #22 Iron Roads
82% matchPositive84% of 49 reviews2025
Dev: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Linux
Optimise and grow your railways in this challenging train management game. Instead of waiting for money to arrive, earn resource tokens by refining your network until your towns are thriving. Avoid queues, jams, or angry passengers to be recognised as the unsung train hero you know you are.
Why similar: Trains 36.5% ★, Transportation 16.5% ★, Management 8.3%, Economy 7.4%, Building 6.5%
- #23 Station to Station
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,964 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!
Why similar: Trains 30.8% ★, Voxel 16.1% ★, Transportation 13.3% ★, Management 6.2%, Cozy 5.9%
- #24 Transport Fever 3
80% matchMixed69% of 1,007 reviews2026
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Transport Fever 3, the ultimate transport tycoon returns, bigger, deeper, and more dynamic than ever. Build the routes that transform the world across land, sea, and sky using over a century of evolving transport options. Design and build your ideal transport network.
Why similar: Trains 30.8% ★, Transportation 20% ★, Management 8.6%, City Builder 8.2%, Economy 7.7%
- #25 Train Station Simulator
82% 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: Trains 51.5% ★, Management 12.2%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Economy 4.3%
- #26 Cargo Company
81% matchMixed58% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
Why similar: Trains 36.6% ★, Transportation 18.5% ★, Management 8.8%, Economy 8.7%, Simulation 7.3%
- #27 Metroland
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anglia Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a transport tycoon in 1900s London. Expand transport lines, housing, and businesses to fund your transport empire. Make use of urban planning to create communities that will use your services.
Why similar: Trains 28.5% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, City Builder 8.9%, Management 8.5%, Economy 8.1%
- #28 A-Train 9 V5.0 : Japan Train Simulator Ultimate Edition
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 38 reviews2024
Dev: ARTDINK
Windows
Build railroads. Construct your city. Master transport economics. A-Train 9 V5.0 Ultimate Edition is a realistic railroad management and urban development sandbox where every choice – from track layout to industry logistics – affects the prosperity of your metropolis.
Why similar: Trains 39.9% ★, Transportation 15.4% ★, Simulation 11.4%, City Builder 9.9%, Economy 8.3%
- #29 Transport Giant
79% matchMixed62% of 494 reviews2014
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 55%
It's the year 1850 - The world is changing. A new era of mass production and mass transportation has begun. For a smart businessman there are many opportunities. With a little money and good ideas you can establish a business empire.
Why similar: Trains 36.2% ★, Simulation 18%, Strategy 16.7%, Transportation 13.8% ★, Economy 8.8%
- #30 Subway Builder
76% 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: Trains 14.7% ★, Strategy 12.1%, City Builder 11.5%, Simulation 11%, Management 9.6%
- #31 Mighty Tiny Railways
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Mighty Tiny Games
Windows
Build a steam railway where the network you build determines how it operates. Deliver cargo and passengers on time, grow towns and industries, and optimize your network. Invite a friend to build together in online co-op.
Why similar: Trains 34.2% ★, Transportation 16.9% ★, Simulation 9.9%, Automation 9.7%, Management 9.3%
- #32 A-Train 8
79% matchMixed48% of 63 reviews2013
Dev: ARTDINKPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 23%
As the owner of a brand new railway company, you must manage train schedules, develop new railways, construct buildings, and manipulate the stock market on your quest to earn one trillion dollars.Have you ever wondered what it's like to manage a railway company, or how trains can impact the fate of an entire city?
Why similar: Trains 29.9% ★, Transportation 15.5% ★, Automobile Sim 8.6%, City Builder 8.3%, Economy 7.9%
- #33 Railway Empire
77% matchVery Positive83% of 9,734 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Trains 38.6% ★, Transportation 10.5% ★, Management 9.6%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 8.1%
- #34 Locomotive Works
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Federation Interactive
Windows
Build custom steam locomotives and deliver freight on a working railway. Your designs affect performance. Different jobs need different designs, and every choice has trade-offs. Balance power, size, range and cost to build anything from small yard shunters to heavy freight engines for steep climbs.
Why similar: Trains 42.8% ★, Transportation 17.4% ★, Simulation 9%, Building 6.9%, Resource Management 6.2%
- #35 RAILGRADE
73% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 35.2% ★, Resource Management 8.4%, Transportation 8.1% ★, Automation 8%, City Builder 6.8%
- #36 Bounty Train
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,739 reviews2017
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.
Why similar: Trains 55.2% ★, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 10.2%, Management 9.3%, Economy 7.8%
- #37 Tiny Rails
74% matchMostly Positive73% of 729 reviews2018
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Tiny Rails is a relaxing train management adventure. Travel across an immersive and meticulously crafted pixel world. Collect hundreds of beautiful cars, each with their own set of stats, to create your own unique multi-car masterpiece!
Why similar: Trains 41.7% ★, Transportation 18.8% ★, Resource Management 10.3%, Automobile Sim 5.9%, Management 5.3%
- #38 Red Trains
75% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Dialectic Games
Windows
Red Trains is a strategic train simulator and management game. Build tracks to connect industry and cities. Customize locomotive designs to optimize for particular goods and routes. Manage your political clout to avoid being removed from your post.
Why similar: Trains 36.5% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, Management 8.4%, Automation 7.5%, City Builder 7.3%
- #39 Toxic Trains
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Graphixela
Windows
Toxic Trains is a strategy simulation game about optimizing rail routes. Build tracks to transport passenger and freight trains to their destinations. Choose upgrades to modify the land and your network. Switch tracks to avoid collisions and spills. Can you keep the trains from exploding?
Why similar: Trains 34.5% ★, Transportation 14.9% ★, Strategy 13.7%, City Builder 9.6%, Simulation 8.8%
- #40 Sid Meier's Railroads!
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,481 reviews2007
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
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: Trains 60.6% ★, Management 11.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 6.5%
- #41 My Train Arrives
73% matchVery Positive87% of 99 reviews2019
Dev: Kochkin Dmitry
Windows
My Train Arrives is a railway construction simulation game. Build railroads, open new routes for trains. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of the game.
Why similar: Trains 34.3% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Simulation 8.9%, Strategy 8%, Management 6.9%
- #42 PicoTrains
72% matchPositive94% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Soundole
Windows
A retro-styled railway management strategy game!
Why similar: Trains 40.5% ★, Transportation 20.9% ★, Resource Management 8.8%, Management 8.2%, Strategy 7%
- #43 Daisy Trains
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rockwell Studios
Windows
Daisy Trains is a vibrant, 3D train puzzle game where you will build railways and manage trains to deliver colored cargo containers to their destinations. Daisy chain your routes together to connect every puzzle in the world to answer the ultimate question - where are all these containers going!?
Why similar: Trains 46% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, Cozy 7.9%, Management 7.7%, Building 7.2%
- #44 Model Railway Easily Christmas
72% matchMostly Positive70% of 60 reviews2020
Dev: Redbrick Studios Ltd
Windows
Model railway builder wit true 3D graphics. Place all the highly detailed objects on the snowy landscape and create exciting model railway layouts! Start your trains and enjoy the Christmas style decorated environment!
Why similar: Trains 46.7% ★, Transportation 20.2% ★, Simulation 17.6%, City Builder 7.9%, Building 7.6%
- #45 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
71% matchMostly Positive74% of 207 reviews2021
Dev: ARTDINKPub: KOMODO
Windows
In the world of A-Train, people gather around stations, gradually developing the surrounding town. What kind of railroad will you create? How will you develop the town? All these choices and more are yours to make.
Why similar: Trains 24.6% ★, Transportation 14.9% ★, City Builder 9.3%, Management 8.6%, Economy 8.4%
- #46 Your Train 2
71% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: MikuniRailwayGames
Windows · Mac
You can operate trains more and more with your own train schedule! Train routes all over Japan and Taiwan, with a total of more than 50 routes!
Why similar: Trains 43.5% ★, Transportation 19.5% ★, Automobile Sim 11.5%, Economy 7.4%, Simulation 7.3%
- #47 Railroad Corporation 2
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 427 reviews2026
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
The 20th century heralds the new age of electrification for the railroad, and a new opportunity to make your fortune. Build your corporation carefully, as you deploy modern electric and diesel locomotives, lay new tracks, transport goods and passengers, and stay ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Trains 38.5% ★, Transportation 15.5% ★, Economy 8%, Simulation 7.1%, Building 6.8%
- #48 Train Valley World
70% matchMixed70% of 302 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!
Why similar: Trains 31.6% ★, Transportation 20% ★, Resource Management 8.3%, Automation 7.5%, Management 6.6%
- #49 Traffic Architect
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Green Signal Games
Windows
Become the master of traffic with your expert infrastructure designs. Lay down streets, shape junctions, time traffic lights, design a public transport network, and watch the city come alive. It grows on its own, and every new building sends more trips onto the roads you built.
Why similar: Transportation 23.4% ★, Trains 22.1% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.7%
- #50 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 390 reviews2025
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Why similar: Trains 30% ★, Transportation 18.6% ★, Automation 9.2%, Management 7.9%, Building 6.5%
- #51 Train Metropolis
69% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Train Themed Idle Clicker. Build and manage your railway company, helping the city expand and thrive.
Why similar: Trains 41.6% ★, Transportation 10.4% ★, City Builder 10.1%, Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.9%
- #52 Rule the Rail!
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 30 reviews2020
Dev: Redbrick Studios Ltd
Windows
Fully functional model railway building game on your screen. Create and paint the landscape, place the tracks engines and wagons. Start the trains and create control sequences to direct them to the right tracks. Place houses, industrial buildings, lamp posts, plants, and all the little details to finish your model railroad on the screen.
Why similar: Trains 43.4% ★, Transportation 21.5% ★, Simulation 19.2%, City Builder 8.4%, Building 7.5%
- #53 Iron Village
68% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Chippy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.
Why similar: Trains 38.1% ★, Transportation 18.4% ★, City Builder 9.2%, Economy 8%, Building 7.4%
- #54 Transports
70% matchMixed66% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.
Why similar: Trains 31.1% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Management 8.6%, Economy 8%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #55 Train Reaction
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logic Breaker Studio
Windows
Train Reaction is a satisfying puzzle game about automating efficient train networks. Create the logic that powers signals and junctions in order to deliver cargo and avoid crashes. Optimize your solutions for efficiency and climb the global leader boards!
Why similar: Trains 46.3% ★, Transportation 23.3% ★, Automation 10.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 4.3%
- #56 Railway Empire 2
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,687 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 27.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Trains 32.9% ★, Transportation 17.6% ★, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Economy 7.3%
- #57 Factory Town 2: Paradise
64% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Trains 29.5% ★, Automation 10.5%, City Builder 9%, Economy 8.3%, Management 7.4%
- #58 Distributrains
65% matchPositive97% of 36 reviews2026
Dev: Oddwarg
Windows · Linux
A railroad simulation game with roguelike elements. Use resources wisely to expand your infrastructure and satisfy industries, contracts, citizens, and engines. Respond quickly to ever-changing circumstances and don't get kicked out of your office.
Why similar: Trains 48.8% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.6%, Management 7.4%, Economy 6.1%
- #59 Transport INC
67% 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: Trains 29.3% ★, Transportation 17.6% ★, Resource Management 8%, Management 7.7%, Economy 7.7%
- #60 Railroad Manager
66% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Ludetis UG (haftungsbeschr.)
Windows
Build tracks, drive trains, transport passengers and goods! Relaxed railway construction in retro style with a large campaign and countless missions and maps.
Why similar: Trains 48.4% ★, Transportation 23% ★, Automobile Sim 10.2%, Strategy 10%, Management 6.5%