- #1 Metropolis
97% match9 user reviews11% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Studio by the Bay
Windows
Metropolis - The Ultimate City Simulator. In a game of construction, politics and real estate, build and manage your city to become the most liveable city in the world.
Why similar: City Builder 30.2%, Simulation 26.3%, Strategy 25.5%, Management 18%
- #2 Frack the World
96% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: Beef Cat
Windows
Frack the World is a lite-management game where players run a hydrofracking company, balancing the challenges of generating oil while addressing environmental concerns.
Why similar: City Builder 26.8%, Simulation 21%, Strategy 18.4%, Time Management 15.1%, Management 8%
- #3 Assembly Line 2
95% matchMixed66% of 69 reviews2024
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
In Assembly Line 2, you take charge of your factory, where strategic organization is key. Create intricate production lines, unlocking a plethora of blueprints to craft advanced resources. Fine-tune and upgrade machines for optimal efficiency and elevating your empire to new heights.
Why similar: Automation 38.7%, Simulation 19%, Strategy 16.7%, Management 16.2%, Capitalism 6.9%
- #4 ARCWATT: Power Empire
95% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: CODEUM GAMES
Windows
Plan, power, and protect a city that runs on the grid you build. Place producers, balance demand, survive storms and surges.
Why similar: City Builder 24.4%, Simulation 18.8%, Strategy 16.7%, Strategy RPG 16.4%, Automation 16%
- #5 Atlantis Fantasy: Reborn
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dive into Atlantis Fantasy: Reborn! Rebuild an Atlantean capital amid coral and ancient magic. Manage resources, explore the abyss, and revive a sunken kingdom in this unique marine city builder. The legend awaits you beneath the waves.
Why similar: City Builder 27.2%, Simulation 21.7%, Strategy 19.1%, Time Management 16%, 2.5D 13.5%
- #6 Market Hours
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: ACB Studios LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow a trading firm from your apartment to a global institution. Hire traders and engineers, research new strategies, negotiate with your competitors, optimize your infrastructure, and build the most successful proprietary trading firm on Wall Street!
Why similar: City Builder 24%, Simulation 18.5%, Strategy 16.2%, Time Management 11.5%, Automation 11.3%
- #7 Subway Builder
93% 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 28.8%, Strategy 18.5%, Simulation 17.1%, Management 14.2%, Automation 13.5%
- #8 Legacy Looper
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tomlan Game Studios Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
An incremental, text-based strategy looper game where you defeat monsters, level up your attributes and use gold to purchase helpful items - a huge game with 88 achievements, multiple layers of content and countless accolades to acquire!
Why similar: Automation 24.8%, Time Management 16.5%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 11.7%
- #9 Islandustry
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 30.4%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Management 11.6%, Simulation 11.1%
- #10 Car Factory Tycoon
90% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Jomica
Windows · Mac
Build cars step-by-step in a factory sim. Design vehicles, build your garage layout, hire and train workers, manage parking inventory, and sell cars through customer orders or walk-in buyers as you expand your operation.
Why similar: Automation 34%, Simulation 22.1%, Management 22%, Strategy 19.2%, 2D 1.9%
- #11 Emergency Crew 2 Global Warming
91% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: GameOn ProductionPub: 8floor
Windows
Hurricanes are raging in Sunland! Once again, Stephen Shepard leads an Emergency Crew to help people in their hour of need and get to the bottom of what's going on.
Why similar: Simulation 23.6%, Strategy 20.9%, Time Management 17.2%, 2.5D 12.8%, Management 9.1%
- #12 模拟经营我的大学 Be president of a university
89% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: 9mi
Windows
Simulate to be the president of a university, run a start-up university, and strive to make it a world famous university.
Why similar: City Builder 28.7%, Simulation 25.5%, Management 18.6%, Time Management 12.4%, Strategy 7.5%
- #13 Nuclear Engineer Tycoon
88% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Alex Sk Game Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build a nuclear power plant and manage reactors, generators, and turbines, producing energy to keep the city lit and prevent reactor explosions. Earn resources, research nuclear technologies, build larger and more modern reactors, refine uranium, and create a nuclear energy empire.
Why similar: City Builder 28.2%, Strategy 21.7%, Simulation 20.5%, Automation 17.4%, Management 9.9%
- #14 Automatica
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Strawberry Dev
Windows
Automatica is a 2D automation and management game inspired by titles like Factorio and Shapez, but with a twist on the traditional conveyor belt system. Connecting buildings is now as easy as dragging them inside each other
Why similar: Automation 39.1%, Management 18.7%, Simulation 13.2%, Abstract 11.1%, Strategy 6.2%
- #15 We Need More Steam!
86% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
We Need More Steam! is about strategizing and creating as much electricity as possible for a town's people always demanding more!
Why similar: Automation 35.9%, Strategy 22%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 13.3%, Puzzle 5%
- #16 Children of the Nile: Alexandria
87% matchVery Positive84% of 169 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Children of the Nile: Alexandria is an addition to the base Children of the Nile game, adding a new mini-campaign focused on the rise of the city of Alexandria. Using the unique city-building dynamics of Children of the Nile, you will carve out a new dynasty to rule all of Egypt, and build the greatest city of the ancient world!
Why similar: City Builder 42%, Simulation 26.3%, Strategy 19.2%, Management 12.5%
- #17 Build-a-lot: On Vacation
85% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Hipsoft
Windows
Vacation towns are looking to upgrade their local attractions and your skills are needed! Can you get the gondola working at the ski resort? Will the fairgrounds get constructed in time for the festival? Find out in Build-a-lot: On Vacation!
Why similar: Simulation 28.5%, Strategy 25.1%, Time Management 18.7%, Management 12.9%, Puzzle 8.4%
- #18 Seasteader
86% matchMixed48% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Cosy Goat
Windows
Seasteader is a city building and management strategy game that allows you to develop and rule over your own seastead, a floating community.
Why similar: Simulation 27.5%, Strategy 26.6%, City Builder 26.3%, Management 13.4%, Resource Management 4.2%
- #19 ReFactory
84% matchMostly Positive78% of 92 reviews2022
Dev: AIVIK LLCPub: BIVAK LLC
Windows
Build, explore, fight! ReFactory is a 2D strategy game with a focus on construction and logistics where you build an automated mega-factory on an alien planet.
Why similar: Automation 28.5%, Simulation 19.7%, Strategy 19.6%, City Builder 16.9%, Management 11.7%
- #20 Lost Artifacts The Ghost of Florence
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: 8floor ltd
Windows
Reveal the mystery of the Ghost of Florence, uncover the conspiracy, and save da Vinci’s inventions!
Why similar: Strategy 20.5%, Time Management 18%, 2.5D 15.3%, 1980s 10.1%, Alternate History 9.6%
- #21 Pixel Airport Tycoon
82% match8 user reviews95% of 18 reviews2026
Dev: PAT-Studios
Windows
Build your own airport from the ground up! Construct terminals, runways, and refueling stations, manage baggage handling and catering, research new technologies, and expand your grounds. Become the most successful airport manager – tile by tile!
Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Simulation 27.2%, Strategy 23.9%, Management 11.3%, 2D 3.5%
- #22 City Life 2008
83% matchVery Positive81% of 255 reviews2008
Dev: Monte CristoPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Construct the city of the 21st Century with City Life! City Life 2008 Edition is a next-generation City Builder. Its 3D game engine provides a level of detail and animation unprecedented in the City Builder genre, with total freedom of construction.
Why similar: City Builder 44.5%, Simulation 28.7%, Strategy 26.8%
- #23 Little Big Workshop
82% 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: Simulation 24.9%, Automation 23.9%, Strategy 20.9%, Management 18.3%, City Builder 6.8%
- #24 Equilibrium Co
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andrija Lazarevic
Windows · Mac
Manage offices, stores, hubs, imports/exports and complex supply chains to keep entire cities thriving in Equilibrium Co. Expand industry networks, research upgrades and balance ever-changing and evolving markets using a modern, professional Saas-style dashboard.
Why similar: Automation 23.7%, City Builder 22%, Time Management 16.8%, Capitalism 9.1%, Management 9.1%
- #25 MegaFactory Tycoon
81% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows · Mac
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Automation 36.9%, Simulation 22.8%, Management 12.2%, City Builder 8.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #26 Bake It Tight
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cabbi Games
Windows · Mac
A cookie factory automation puzzle where new orders force you to rework a running factory. Combine dough colors, shapes, and toppings, share limited machines and modules across production lines, and split or merge rails. One expired order ends the run. How long can you keep the ovens running?
Why similar: Automation 32.3%, Time Management 13.3%, Management 13.2%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 8%
- #27 Prodix
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tyler CritchlowPub: Brody Critchlow
Windows · Mac · Linux
Prodix is a 2D isometric factory automation game, where the goal is to import, export, and automate your production of many different materials and items; while also managing company relationships through contracts.
Why similar: Automation 42.3%, Simulation 21.8%, Management 17.8%, Time Management 8.3%, Resource Management 3.9%
- #28 Transport Tycoon Deluxe
78% matchMixed57% of 60 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: Automation 22.6%, City Builder 21.9%, Time Management 14.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 8.8%
- #29 Flowline
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Ashley Goad
Windows
Don't build more — make it flow. An idle factory game where one station always limits your line. Find it, feed it, and watch the bottleneck jump somewhere new. Secretly a real manufacturing simulation — with none of the math in your face.
Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Automation 30.7%, Simulation 23.4%, Strategy 6.8%, Resource Management 3.7%
- #30 Food Facility
77% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Lemo-Logic Studios
Windows
Food Facility is a 2D factory automation game where you design and build complex production lines to create delicious food, sell your goods, and grow your business empire!
Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, Automation 29.8%, Simulation 21.8%, Management 15.5%, Indie 2.3%
- #31 Capital Simulator
79% matchMixed62% of 52 reviews2020
Dev: chenjd
Windows · Mac
A game that simulates the use of capital to build a complex industrial chain, stock investment and business challenges
Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Simulation 22.8%, Strategy 19.9%, Management 17.2%, Capitalism 7.4%
- #32 Rejuvan
77% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Papergod
Windows
Build, make money, create, repeat. Rejuvan is a game about making the most efficient factories on your own little island. Use everything you can think of to maximize profits and keep the narrative on track. Keep in mind that, at certain money thresholds, your experience may unexpectedly change.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, City Builder 23%, Time Management 16.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 11.5%
- #33 Kutha Stroom Rush
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Radiant Deer
Windows · Linux
An electric-grid simulator game. Plan, build, and maintain your growing city's electric needs. Keep all of your electric grid users satisfied, watch your existing grid infrastructure, and build out to serve new users.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Simulation 23%, Strategy 15.6%, Management 12.4%, Abstract 10.1%
- #34 Airport City Transport Manager
75% matchMostly Negative38% of 55 reviews2026
Dev: Game Insight UAB
Windows
Tired of repetitive farm sims and basic plane games? Put your farm on hold. Start building a tiny town and transform it into a massive megapolis with a world-class modern airport! We constantly update the game to ensure you are always engaged—both on the ground and in the air.
Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Time Management 19.3%, Management 13.8%, Capitalism 12.5%, Strategy 12.4%
- #35 NationForge
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Automation 30%, City Builder 29.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 14.3%, Management 5.1%
- #36 Ethics Empire
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Nullgrid Studios
Windows
Become the richest business owner in this strategy-based simulator, choose your playstyle trying to balance ethics and profits in this chaotic low poly world. Will you keep your ethical businesses thriving or will you let it all crumble down for a quick buck?
Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Strategy 24.3%, Simulation 21.9%, Management 17.6%, Capitalism 8.4%
- #37 A Dreaming Ladybug
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: LilyCompany
Windows · Mac
Shape your garden. Shape your luck. Use flowers and filters to guide ladybugs and change their colors and numbers, then hit the slots in the black moon. Cash out before your ecosystem collapses, or risk it all for a bigger payout. Unlock permanent upgrades and grow a greater garden.
Why similar: Automation 39.8%, Management 22.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 13.6%, Resource Management 6.3%
- #38 Twas The Night
74% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Mayham Games
Windows
Build and manage Santa's North Pole mega-workshop in this festive city builder where workshops produce toys for the world's children. Spend Christmas Spirit to create new holiday traditions and upgrade your workshops, but lose your spirit and you'll cease to exist.
Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Simulation 23.4%, Management 17.5%, Strategy 13.6%, Time Management 8.2%
- #39 City Masterplan
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 1:1 Studio
Windows
Break the grid and build a true 1:1 scale metropolis. City Masterplan is a realistic city builder where traffic, citizens, and economy form a fully simulated system. Design complex road networks freely, manage real congestion, and shape a city through the decisions you make.
Why similar: City Builder 31%, Simulation 21.8%, Strategy 19.5%, Automation 15.1%, Management 9.9%
- #40 Tycoon City: New York
75% matchMixed43% of 290 reviews2008
Dev: Deep Red Games Ltd.Pub: Atari
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Here's your chance to make it big in the Big Apple... New York City, the city that never sleeps! Go for broke building your own Manhattan empire, creating and customizing over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a media conglomerate, open a lucrative Broadway theater - the choices are endless.
Why similar: Simulation 38.2%, City Builder 37.5%, Management 24.4%
- #41 Genterra
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: The Bunker Studios
Windows
Humanity needs out. Genterra Corporation requires an Architect. From a remote terminal on Earth, deploy automated factories across four planets, each with its own resources, to build the rescue rocket. ARIA will guide you. Productivity is mandatory.
Why similar: Automation 34.2%, Simulation 25.7%, Strategy 22.7%, Management 10.3%, 2D 3.7%
- #42 Tile Cities 2
71% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: yevhen8
Windows
City-building experience reimagined as a simple relaxing puzzle game bringing the original Tile Cities to a new level
Why similar: City Builder 29.4%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 23.6%, Management 9.6%, Puzzle 8.1%
- #43 FACTORY I
71% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Studio H.D
Windows
FACTORY I is a minimalist automation simulator designed to deliver the pure joy of factory building through a clean, clutter-free UI. Strip away the visual noise, design flawless production lines, and challenge the limits of infinite efficiency.
Why similar: Automation 31.5%, City Builder 19.7%, Management 12.5%, Time Management 10.3%, Simulation 10%
- #44 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 50.4%, Simulation 25.5%, Management 12.3%, Strategy 11.7%
- #45 the Cellarer
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quiescent Works
Windows
Build a medieval monastery and master deep logistics, a transport network to optimize and intricate production chains. Optimize every cart, every path and every building as your monastery prospers.
Why similar: Automation 33.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Management 13.9%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 11.9%
- #46 Community Inc
72% matchMostly Negative40% of 199 reviews2017
Dev: T4 InteractivePub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As a new Manager, build a happy community and trade with other races... for profit. Yes, that's right, we need their happiness so we can power up our portals. The Lings, your workers, will obey you and help you with your village. But beware, they can cause a lot of problems too.
Why similar: City Builder 34.5%, Simulation 32.5%, Strategy 29.6%, Indie 3.3%
- #47 Endless Engine
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wizard Hat Studio
Windows
A roguelike where you build a factory — not a character.
Why similar: Automation 36.1%, Time Management 18.5%, Simulation 18.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Management 6.2%
- #48 Terraform Co: Factory and City
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: City Builder 26.9%, Simulation 19.6%, Automation 19.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Management 7.5%
- #49 uFactory
67% matchMixed69% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Lucid Silence Games
Windows · Linux
uFactory is the ultimate in finely-tuned and customizable logistics challenges. Navigate the complexities of manufacturing processes inspired by real industrial methods, but do it your way.
Why similar: Automation 27.3%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 22.2%, Management 11.7%, Logic 6%
- #50 Mini Estate
68% match8 user reviews38% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Lava Entertainment
Windows
A minimalist game about building skyscrapers.
Why similar: Strategy 27.6%, Simulation 26%, City Builder 22.3%, Management 17.8%, Resource Management 3.9%
- #51 Metropixia
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CasualPixel
Windows · Mac
Build and manage your city in this strategic city builder. Optimize resources, place buildings efficiently, and recruit architects to maximize your city's growth.
Why similar: City Builder 34.2%, Time Management 19.6%, Simulation 14.3%, Strategy 13.3%, Management 13%
- #52 Automate It: Factory Puzzle
67% matchMostly Positive71% of 80 reviews2025
Dev: South Blue MoonPub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Automate It is a factory-building puzzle game that challenges players to find clever solutions within size, power, and time constraints. Design, build, and share your own puzzles with other players. If you want to build it - choose Automate It.
Why similar: Automation 34.6%, Simulation 18.3%, Strategy 17%, Time Management 12.4%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #53 Stardustry
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CherryBit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the new manager of Stardustry, the pinnacle of resource extraction and production in outer space! Mine ores, process them and create complex resources in this chill industry simulator set in space.
Why similar: City Builder 32%, Strategy 23.7%, Simulation 22.5%, Management 8.4%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #54 Forebearers
69% matchMixed47% of 110 reviews2019
Dev: Sandspire Interactive
Windows
This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.
Why similar: City Builder 52%, Strategy 23%, Simulation 22.5%, Indie 2.5%
- #55 Argonaut Agency: The Bronze Plague
67% match3 user reviews0% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: 8floor ltd
Windows
Stop the spread of bronze and save the world from plague.
Why similar: Simulation 23.3%, Strategy 21.6%, Time Management 18.7%, 2.5D 14.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
- #56 Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
69% matchVery Positive85% of 472 reviews2008
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
Why similar: City Builder 45.7%, Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 17.5%, Management 14.5%, Resource Management 2%
- #57 Assembly Line 2 Mobile Version
67% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Olympus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and optimize your assembly line to make the most money possible!
Why similar: Automation 36.8%, Strategy 25.1%, Simulation 20.5%, Management 9.5%, 2D 4.1%
- #58 Smart Factory Tycoon: Beginnings
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 506 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 20%
This is a free version of Smart Factory Tycoon, a game inspired by Little Big Workshop introducing the first productions. Smart Factory Tycoon is a tycoon management game where you design your dream factory with robots, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: Management 20.5%, City Builder 19%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 15.5%, Automation 12.4%