- #1 Mashinky
97% matchVery Positive85% of 2,799 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 36.9 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
Why similar: Trains 21.3% ★, Transportation 17.1% ★, Moddable 8.4%, Economy 8.2%, Level Editor 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It shares a very similar aesthetic and core focus on building rail networks to drive economic growth and city development.
- #2 Transport Fever 2
96% 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 21.5% ★, Transportation 21.2% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Economy 7.8%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive train-based logistics game, offering deep management of transport lines and supply chains over multiple eras.
- #3 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
96% matchVery Positive91% of 26,420 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 71.8 hrs≥1hr: 77%
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 17.9%, Moddable 12.1%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 9.9%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly deep simulation of city-building and complex industrial supply chains that require meticulous planning.
- #4 Rail Route
95% matchVery Positive89% of 2,523 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 117.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Trains 25.7% ★, Transportation 20.9% ★, City Builder 13.6%, Economy 10%, Building 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses purely on the logic and dispatching side of train networks, perfect for players who love the signaling and routing aspects of Sweet Transit.
- #5 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,125 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.9 hrsMean: 84.1 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: Resource Management 15.8%, Base Building 15.3%, Economy 13.5%, City Builder 11.8%, Management 9%
Why You'll Like It: A complex industrial management game that requires you to build supply chains and logistics networks to keep your colony running.
- #6 RAILGRADE
94% matchVery Positive85% of 1,228 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 24.4% ★, Moddable 12.7%, City Builder 11.6%, Transportation 8.6% ★, Economy 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Combines train-based resource management with a mission-based structure that emphasizes building efficient delivery routes.
- #7 Factorio
93% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 231,662 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 45.0 hrsMean: 191.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Base Building 18.7%, Trains 15.7% ★, Resource Management 14.9%, Moddable 10.5%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for automation and supply chain management, challenging players to build massive, efficient production lines.
- #8 Voxel Tycoon
92% 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 23.4% ★, Transportation 22.4% ★, Economy 9.2%, Moddable 8.5%, Management 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: Features a voxel-based world where you must manage complex logistics, mining, and transport networks to build a successful economy.
- #9 Railway Empire 2
91% 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 23.9% ★, Transportation 21.2% ★, City Builder 10.9%, Economy 9.2%, Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the historical development of rail networks and the economic management required to connect growing cities.
- #10 Satisfactory
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 274,659 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 32.8 hrsMean: 111.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Base Building 33.8%, Building 21%, Resource Management 20.3%, Sandbox 15.8%, Simulation 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person perspective on industrial automation and logistics, focusing on building massive, efficient factories.
- #11 Factory Town
91% matchVery Positive91% of 4,454 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 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 12.6%, Trains 12.2% ★, Transportation 12% ★, Base Building 9.1%, Resource Management 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Blends village management with automation, requiring you to build transport networks to move goods between production buildings.
- #12 InfraSpace
90% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,928 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 19.4% ★, Trains 14.6% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Moddable 9.9%, Economy 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that places a heavy emphasis on traffic management and logistics to keep your industrial production moving.
- #13 OpenTTD
89% 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 20.1% ★, Transportation 17.4% ★, Economy 9.9%, Building 8.6%, City Builder 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: The classic open-source inspiration for modern transport games, offering unparalleled depth in rail network design and logistics.
- #14 Dyson Sphere Program
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,085 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Base Building 21%, City Builder 16%, Building 15.4%, Resource Management 14.6%, Management 11.7%
Why You'll Like It: Scales the logistics and supply chain challenge to a galactic level, requiring complex transport networks to move resources between planets.
- #15 Rise of Industry
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,178 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 14.9%, Economy 12.5%, Management 10.4%, Trains 10.3% ★, Transportation 10.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: A strategic management game that focuses on the production and distribution of goods across a growing industrial landscape.
- #16 NIMBY Rails
86% matchVery Positive90% of 2,255 reviews2021
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Why similar: Transportation 27.1% ★, Trains 17.1% ★, City Builder 11.8%, Economy 11.4%, Management 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers a highly realistic approach to railway planning and management, allowing for detailed control over your transit network.
- #17 Train Fever
86% 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 36.9% ★, Transportation 10.3% ★, Economy 10.1%, Management 8.5%, City Builder 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: The original title that established the core mechanics of the Transport Fever series, focusing on evolving transport technology.
- #18 Railway Empire
85% 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 30.3% ★, Transportation 13.7% ★, Economy 11%, Management 9.9%, City Builder 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the sequel, offering a solid foundation in historical rail management and economic strategy.
- #19 shapez
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,623 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Base Building 17.2%, Resource Management 15.6%, Moddable 14.6%, Sandbox 12.9%, Management 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, pure automation game that strips away the city-building to focus entirely on the logic of supply chain flow.
- #20 Automation Empire
84% matchMixed66% of 2,639 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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: Trains 15.8% ★, Base Building 13.2%, Economy 11.2%, City Builder 10.3%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building massive, multi-layered industrial automation systems that rely on complex transport networks.
- #21 Kubifaktorium
83% matchVery Positive81% of 796 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Trains 24.5% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Economy 10.5%, Moddable 9.8%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with automation, requiring you to set up supply chains to support your settlers.
- #22 Mini Settlers
81% matchVery Positive81% of 720 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Transportation 19.4% ★, Trains 17.6% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 9.4%, Management 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist take on the colony-building and automation genre that focuses on efficient resource routing.
- #23 Train Valley 2
82% matchVery Positive90% of 3,123 reviews2019
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Build bigger and more complex railway networks than ever before! Building on the success of the original, you’ll get more of what you loved about the original and then some. With increasingly difficult and complex challenges from local industries, the Valley has never felt so vast! ALL ABOARD!
Why similar: Trains 40.8% ★, Level Editor 21.3%, Building 12.8%, Management 12.1%, Simulation 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-focused train game that challenges you to manage complex track layouts and delivery schedules under pressure.
- #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 32.2% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Trains 10.9% ★, Management 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the logistics of public transport within a city, requiring careful planning of routes and schedules.
- #25 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
80% 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 17.2% ★, Transportation 12.7% ★, City Builder 12.7%, Management 7.8%, Isometric 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of transit stations, requiring you to optimize the flow of commuters through your infrastructure.
- #26 Transport INC
81% matchMixed70% of 1,079 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.4 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 22.2% ★, Transportation 22.1% ★, Economy 10%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A management game that challenges you to build a global transport empire across various modes of transit.
- #27 Train Valley World
79% 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 22.7% ★, Trains 21.7% ★, City Builder 10.3%, Level Editor 9.8%, Economy 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A modern take on the train puzzle genre that incorporates more sandbox elements and logistics management.
- #28 Cities: Skylines
78% matchVery Positive93% of 290,162 reviews2015
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 65.5 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 32.2%, Moddable 13.2%, Building 11.5%, Management 9%, Economy 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: While broader in scope, it offers deep tools for managing the logistics and traffic flow of a massive city.
- #29 Simutrans
79% 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 32.7% ★, Transportation 8.6% ★, Management 8.3%, Economy 7.8%, City Builder 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: A classic, highly detailed transport simulation that emphasizes the complexity of logistics and economic management.
- #30 STATIONflow
78% matchVery Positive86% of 502 reviews2020
Dev: DMM GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Why similar: Trains 22% ★, Transportation 10.6% ★, City Builder 10%, Base Building 7.7%, Level Editor 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the flow and management of people through complex transport hubs, emphasizing layout and efficiency.
- #31 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
76% matchMostly Positive78% of 365 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 26.8% ★, Transportation 22.6% ★, Economy 9.5%, Building 8%, Procedural Generation 7.3%
- #32 Transport Fever
77% 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 20.3% ★, Transportation 17.7% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Economy 8.5%, Building 6.8%
- #33 Airport CEO
75% matchVery Positive83% of 8,268 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 26.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 16.2% ★, Moddable 15.7%, City Builder 9.8%, Resource Management 8.3%, Economy 8%
- #34 Cities: Skylines II
75% matchMixed55% of 90,178 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 73.8 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 24.2%, Transportation 12% ★, Building 10.3%, Economy 9.9%, Moddable 9.6%
- #35 Station to Station
74% matchVery Positive89% of 1,920 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 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 31.3% ★, Transportation 22.4% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Procedural Generation 8.4%, Management 8.2%
- #36 Plan B: Terraform
72% matchVery Positive91% of 3,542 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Trains 24.7% ★, Transportation 24.4% ★, Resource Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #37 Cities in Motion
77% 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 22.1% ★, Transportation 21% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Management 12.8%, Simulation 10.2%
- #38 Train World
74% 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 27.3% ★, Transportation 19.9% ★, Economy 8.8%, Sandbox 7.2%, City Builder 6.3%
- #39 Railroad Corporation 2
72% matchMostly Positive71% of 385 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 26.8% ★, Transportation 17.9% ★, City Builder 10%, Economy 9.7%, Building 8.2%
- #40 Train Yard Builder
73% matchMixed69% of 124 reviews2024
Dev: GameFormatic S.A.Pub: Frozen Way
Windows
Enter the world of Train Yard Builder and customize your railway to your heart's content. Work with different models of trains and wagons, control them the way you want, and use modeler tools to unleash your creativity.
Why similar: Trains 27.1% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 9.6%, Building 8.7%, Base Building 8.4%
- #41 Train Station Simulator
76% 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 39.7% ★, Management 12.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6%, City Builder 5.8%
- #42 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
71% matchMostly Positive75% of 274 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Trains 22.7% ★, City Builder 14.2%, Moddable 11.5%, Economy 9.9%, Building 7.8%
- #43 Islands & Trains
70% matchVery Positive91% of 575 reviews2025
Dev: Akos MakovicsPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.
Why similar: Trains 33.2% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Level Editor 13%, Building 10.5%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
- #44 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
73% 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: Transportation 15% ★, Trains 14.9% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 8.8%, Building 7.5%
- #45 Iron Village
69% 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 25.8% ★, Transportation 20.5% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.6%
- #46 Transports
73% 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 19.5% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, Moddable 9.3%, Economy 8.6%, City Builder 8.3%
- #47 Production Line : Car factory simulation
70% matchVery Positive82% of 3,474 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 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 13.2%, Economy 12.5%, Building 9.2%, City Builder 8.9%, Moddable 8.8%
- #48 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
71% 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 41.1% ★, Transportation 19.7% ★, Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Economy 8.6%
- #49 Power to the People
70% matchVery Positive81% of 553 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 16.7%, Economy 13.7%, Management 10.8%, Building 10.5%, Isometric 10.1%
- #50 A-Train PC Classic
71% 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 17.1% ★, Transportation 16.4% ★, City Builder 14%, Economy 8.8%, Building 7.8%
- #51 Citystate II
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,124 reviews2021
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 25.8%, Economy 17.5%, Building 12.2%, Management 11.1%, Transportation 10.2% ★
- #52 City Painter
66% matchVery Positive97% of 58 reviews2026
Dev: Blunix Games
Windows
Advanced city simulator with minimalist "Paint" graphics. Build complex intersections, edit traffic rules, and solve traffic jams without melting your PC.
Why similar: Transportation 22.7% ★, City Builder 22%, Sandbox 10%, Moddable 9.2%, Simulation 8.4%
- #53 Mini Motorways
66% 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 32.3% ★, Management 15.3%, City Builder 12.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Building 9.7%
- #54 Train Valley
69% 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 30.7% ★, Transportation 25.5% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.5%
- #55 Mini Metro
67% 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 45.8% ★, Transportation 18.4% ★, Management 10.7%, Strategy 9%, Simulation 6.8%
- #56 Silicon City
68% matchMixed68% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: Polycorne
Windows · Mac · Linux
Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.
Why similar: Transportation 16.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Moddable 12.4%, Level Editor 10.7%, Economy 9.1%
- #57 Transport Tycoon Deluxe
67% matchMixed53% of 53 reviews2026
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
Why similar: Trains 39.7% ★, City Builder 17.9%, Economy 9.6%, Building 9.2%, Isometric 6.7%
- #58 Urbek City Builder
66% matchVery Positive90% of 1,880 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Why similar: City Builder 22.9%, Economy 13.6%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.5%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #59 Citadelum
65% matchVery Positive84% of 1,038 reviews2024
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
Why similar: Moddable 21%, City Builder 15.1%, Level Editor 13%, Economy 9.1%, Building 8.3%
- #60 shapez 2 - Factory
62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,749 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Transportation 25.4% ★, Moddable 15.8%, Management 12.1%, Building 10.3%, Base Building 10%