- #1 Toxic Trains
97% 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 26.7% ★, Transportation 18.6% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Strategy 11.3%, Resource Management 7.9%
- #2 Steam & Heather
96% 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 27.5% ★, Transportation 22.1% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #3 Railroad Engineer
96% 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 29.3% ★, Transportation 24.4% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Management 8.6%, Resource Management 7.3%
- #4 Transport Fever 2
95% matchVery Positive90% of 31,979 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 66.0 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 28.3% ★, Transportation 27.3% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Management 10.8%, Simulation 6.7%
- #5 MiniTrans
94% matchMixed53% of 19 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 27.9% ★, Transportation 27.1% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Management 8.4%, Building 6.2%
- #6 Cargo Lines
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: splenbit
Windows · Linux
Build a bustling railway network and juggle cargo transport in real time. New stations appear, the flow of goods shifts constantly, deadlines loom, and trains collide if you don't keep your eyes on them. Keep your cool and master the chaos as orders pile up, and every second counts.
Why similar: Trains 30.9% ★, Transportation 26.5% ★, Management 8.7%, Building 6%, Strategy 5.1%
- #7 Steam To Electric
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Build and optimize your railway network in this elegant voxel rail tycoon. Transport passengers and goods, unlock crazy-but-real historical train inventions, and evolve from steam to electric. Easy to start, deep to master. From the creators of Station to Station and Town to City.
Why similar: Trains 35.1% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, Resource Management 9%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 7.3%
- #8 My Train Arrives
92% matchVery Positive86% of 96 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 28.5% ★, Transportation 24.5% ★, City Builder 9%, Management 8%, Simulation 7.1%
- #9 ROADS: Tangled in Traffic
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SamPub: Super Swine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
The city is strangled by its own explosive growth. Identify the chokepoints, invest in infrastructure, and redesign the network. One well-placed roundabout could nurse it back to life. Can you relieve the pressure and let prosperity flow as freely as the traffic?
Why similar: Transportation 32.5% ★, Management 13.2%, Simulation 9.8%, City Builder 9.8%, Strategy 8.5%
- #10 Iron Roads
90% 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 31.7% ★, Transportation 23.2% ★, Management 10.1%, City Builder 8.8%, Building 6.1%
- #11 Cities in Motion
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,087 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Trains 26% ★, Transportation 24.1% ★, Management 16.1%, Simulation 14%, City Builder 11.7%
- #12 Train World
89% 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 33.2% ★, Transportation 23.7% ★, Management 7.9%, Resource Management 7.2%, Strategy 6%
- #13 Metroland
89% 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: Transportation 28.2% ★, Trains 24.6% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 6.6%
- #14 Simutrans
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 664 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
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 43.3% ★, Management 11.8%, Transportation 11.1% ★, Simulation 10.3%, City Builder 6.8%
- #15 Transport Fever 3
87% matchNo user 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: Transportation 28.3% ★, Trains 26.8% ★, City Builder 12.6%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 6.1%
- #16 Tiny Train Tycoon
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 2D is enough
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a toy railway from limited pieces, launch trains, and solve logistical challenges. Tackle economic puzzles or relax in sandbox mode — the choice is yours.
Why similar: Trains 33.7% ★, Transportation 25.7% ★, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%, Building 6.2%
- #17 Model Railway Easily Christmas
86% 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 39.5% ★, Transportation 27.6% ★, Simulation 14.4%, City Builder 11.5%, Building 7%
- #18 Metro Manager LA
84% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Ben Wesorick
Windows
Metro Manager LA is a strategy simulation game about connecting communities throughout Los Angeles. Manage maintenance, security, wait time, and train capacity as you attempt to keep the riders of Los Angeles happy.
Why similar: Transportation 34.1% ★, Trains 17.1% ★, Management 10.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Building 5.8%
- #19 Wild West Steam Loco
85% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Redbrick Studios Ltd
Windows
Fully functional model railway building game in Wild West style. Create and paint the landscape, place the tracks, steam engines and wagons. Start the trains and create control sequences to direct them to the right tracks.
Why similar: Trains 35.3% ★, Transportation 28.2% ★, Simulation 15.1%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 6.6%
- #20 Train Fever
84% matchMixed64% of 3,525 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.8 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 46.6% ★, Transportation 12.7% ★, Management 11.6%, Simulation 8.8%, City Builder 7.7%
- #21 Soko Loco Deluxe
83% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Soko Loco Deluxe is a cute train tycoon! 🚂🧱🎁💎 Transport resources, develop towns and build a giant monument! Choo-choo!
Why similar: Trains 34.6% ★, Transportation 27.8% ★, City Builder 11.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 9.6%
- #22 Rule the Rail!
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 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 36.4% ★, Transportation 29.1% ★, Simulation 15.6%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 6.8%
- #23 Shunt & Haul: Rail Logistics
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: M4 Games
Windows
Shunt & Haul: Rail Logistics is a railway game focused on shunting, freight transport, and logistics work on the tracks. Take on the role of a train driver and railway operator, operate locomotives, assemble trains, transport freight wagons, and complete tasks on sidings, stations, and railway lines
Why similar: Trains 36.5% ★, Transportation 28.7% ★, Management 7.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 5.8%
- #24 Cities in Motion 2
82% matchMixed58% of 2,500 reviews2013
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Why similar: Transportation 37.3% ★, Management 13.8%, Trains 13% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Simulation 11.3%
- #25 Mini Metro
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,603 reviews2015
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?
Why similar: Trains 39.5% ★, Transportation 15.5% ★, Management 9.9%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.9%
- #26 PicoTrains
79% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: Soundole
Windows
A retro-styled railway management strategy game!
Why similar: Trains 34.8% ★, Transportation 28.9% ★, Management 9.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Strategy 6.3%
- #27 Train Valley
80% matchVery Positive90% of 3,436 reviews2015
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
Why similar: Trains 27.4% ★, Transportation 22.2% ★, Resource Management 11.2%, Management 8.1%, Building 4.9%
- #28 Train Maze Master
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Cat Toast Paradox Studio
Windows
Navigate steam trains through mazes of train track! Challenge your brain to solve intricate maze puzzles. Train Maze Master is your ticket to vintage steam locomotives galore and train track maze heaven!
Why similar: Trains 38.7% ★, Transportation 26.3% ★, Management 11.8%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.6%
- #29 Voxel Tycoon
78% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,774 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.1 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 30.1% ★, Transportation 28.2% ★, Management 10.6%, Resource Management 8%, City Builder 6%
- #30 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
79% matchVery Positive87% of 667 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 42.8% ★, Transportation 20.1% ★, Management 13.1%, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 11.5%
- #31 Cargo Company
77% matchMixed58% of 72 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 33.3% ★, Transportation 27.2% ★, Management 11.2%, City Builder 10.4%, Simulation 6.4%
- #32 Nile Express
77% 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 34.9% ★, Transportation 28.4% ★, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 6%, Building 5.9%
- #33 OpenTTD
76% matchVery Positive95% of 16,779 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 29.6% ★, Transportation 25.1% ★, Management 10.6%, City Builder 8.7%, Building 8%
- #34 DeckEleven's Railroads 2
76% matchPositive81% of 31 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 30.8% ★, Transportation 22.9% ★, Simulation 12.5%, Strategy 12%, Management 9.8%
- #35 Speed Rivals - Model Trains
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BabelGames
Windows
Build your dream railway. Lay tracks, design stations, decorate every detail — then put your network to the test delivering cargo and passengers across maps you created yourself.
Why similar: Trains 28.9% ★, Transportation 24% ★, City Builder 10.3%, Management 8.7%, Building 5.5%
- #36 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 204 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 21.1% ★, Transportation 20.7% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 8.6%
- #37 Train Reaction
74% 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 39.5% ★, Transportation 32% ★, Strategy 8.9%, Puzzle 6.5%, Logic 4.5%
- #38 Iron Village
73% matchVery Positive89% of 65 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 32.9% ★, Transportation 25.6% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Management 8.9%, Building 6.9%
- #39 Train Metropolis
73% match7 user reviews86% of 7 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 35.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Transportation 14.5% ★, Management 9.9%, Strategy 6.8%
- #40 Mini Motorways
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,124 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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: Transportation 27.3% ★, Management 14.2%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 9.3%, City Builder 7.8%
- #41 LOGistICAL 3
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Sacada
Windows
LOGistICAL 3 is a strategy puzzle game where you transport cargo to complete towns across countries and states. Each city is a unique puzzle, with some easy and others challenging. Plan your routes, upgrade industries, and tackle roadblocks to conquer the map!
Why similar: Trains 21.1% ★, Transportation 17.6% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Management 8.3%
- #42 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
72% matchVery Positive81% of 1,753 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 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: Trains 25.2% ★, Transportation 18.3% ★, City Builder 13.4%, Management 12.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #43 Tiny Rails
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 706 reviews2018
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.7 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 37.6% ★, Transportation 27.4% ★, Resource Management 11.1%, Management 6.7%, Strategy 4.8%
- #44 Transporter
71% matchMixed49% of 53 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Mirror Studio
Windows
Modern transport sim game combining realistic simulation with indie game style, old-school grid environment, newest features, and modern transport options. Transport a wide variety of cargo and passengers over road, rail, and water, and create your own transport company!
Why similar: Transportation 37.7% ★, Trains 22.1% ★, Management 13.1%, Strategy 8.2%, Simulation 6.8%
- #45 Transports
72% 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 27.3% ★, Transportation 25.9% ★, Management 10.5%, City Builder 8.3%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #46 Cargo Protocol: Cyberpunk Trains
70% matchNo user reviews2026
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 35.8% ★, Transportation 26.6% ★, Management 8.9%, City Builder 6.4%, Strategy 6.1%
- #47 Neuron Connection
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Falls Wood Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Step into a microscopic world where neurons float and pulse. Connect synapses, guide neurotransmitters, and shape the flow of the network. Watch neurotransmitters travel along the paths, circuits light up, and the neural world softly hum to life under your connections.
Why similar: Transportation 38% ★, Resource Management 12.7%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 12.3%, Management 12.2%
- #48 Train Station Simulator
71% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 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 48.2% ★, Management 16%, Simulation 9.5%, Strategy 9.3%, City Builder 5.1%
- #49 Mars Rapid Transit
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Engineer a fast and efficient train network on Mars. Build a thriving business and grow a dynamic economy in this Transport and Economy Management game.
Why similar: Trains 30.5% ★, Transportation 25.9% ★, City Builder 11.3%, Resource Management 9.2%, Management 9.1%
- #50 Railway Company Owner
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Favour Toys B.V.
Windows
Railroad Tycoon is a puzzle train simulator video game. build a railway city bigger and more complex than anyone could ever imagine. Build your city into the biggest railroad city in the world.
Why similar: Trains 27.3% ★, Transportation 20.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 12.4%
- #51 Times of Progress
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pressing Thumbs Games
Windows · Linux
Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Why similar: Trains 26.6% ★, Transportation 17.4% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Management 8.1%
- #52 Locomotive Works
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Federation Interactive
Windows
Design your own steam locomotives, then haul freight across a working railway where performance matters. Choose components, earn money, and prove your builds on heavy loads, steep grades and paying jobs.
Why similar: Trains 39.9% ★, Transportation 26.1% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Management 8.1%, Resource Management 7%
- #53 Transport Fever
68% matchVery Positive83% of 10,827 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.6 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: Trains 28.2% ★, Transportation 24.1% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Management 9.3%, Building 5.9%
- #54 Package Rush
67% matchPositive90% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: Campfire Studio
Windows · Mac
Package Rush is a strategy game about planning a delivery route system in a fast-growing city. Build and modify routes to get all packages on time. How long can you keep delivering?
Why similar: Transportation 34% ★, Management 14.9%, Resource Management 9.9%, Strategy 7.8%, Simulation 7.8%
- #55 Railway Routes
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Rising Moon Games
Windows
Guide trains, build tracks, and solve relaxing grid-based railway puzzles. Plan the perfect route across 100+ handcrafted levels and watch your railway come to life.
Why similar: Trains 36.9% ★, Transportation 23.9% ★, Logic 9.1%, Puzzle 5.9%, Building 5.8%
- #56 A-Train PC Classic
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 151 reviews2016
Dev: ARTDINKPub: STUDIOARTDINK
Windows
As president of a train company, lead city growth to make your transport business prosper. The retro style, square grid map, and complete tutorials are easy on the newcomer, but veterans will find a challenge with advanced resource management, research, and the passage of time.
Why similar: Trains 24.2% ★, Transportation 22.7% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Management 10.4%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #57 Railway Empire 2
66% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,601 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 91%
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 29.4% ★, Transportation 25.5% ★, Management 9.7%, City Builder 9.6%, Resource Management 8.2%
- #58 Railway Empire
67% matchVery Positive83% of 9,677 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 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 36.6% ★, Transportation 16.2% ★, Management 12.8%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 7.5%
- #59 Station Master RPG
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Telegraph Studios
Windows
Play the role of the station master at a railway station in rural Japan and cope with the ever-increasing flow of passengers in this RPG management simulation! Use the station's funds to upgrade the station and design it to your liking!
Why similar: Trains 34.4% ★, Transportation 26.6% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Management 9.5%, Building 6%
- #60 Train Valley World
66% matchMixed70% of 292 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.6 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: Transportation 29.5% ★, Trains 28.8% ★, City Builder 9.9%, Resource Management 9.1%, Management 8.4%