- #1 Transport Fever 2
97% matchVery Positive91% of 31,208 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 65.7 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 36.2% ★, Transportation 11.4% ★, Management 10.2%, Economy 9.5%, Simulation 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive successor to Train Fever, offering significantly improved mechanics, graphics, and a more robust transport simulation experience.
- #2 Transport Fever
96% matchVery Positive83% of 10,800 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.9 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 35.5% ★, Economy 10.9%, Transportation 9.9% ★, Management 8.7%, City Builder 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: As the direct predecessor, it shares the exact core DNA of building transport lines to foster city growth over different historical eras.
- #3 Mashinky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,785 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 37.1 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 41.2% ★, Economy 11.6%, Transportation 10.6% ★, Management 9.9%, Simulation 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It combines realistic train management with a unique board-game-like aesthetic and deep economic progression systems.
- #4 Railway Empire
95% matchVery Positive83% of 9,620 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 42.8% ★, Economy 11.3%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 8.6%, Transportation 6.2% ★
Why You'll Like It: It captures the classic tycoon spirit with a strong focus on building rail infrastructure and competing against rival companies.
- #5 Railway Empire 2
94% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,521 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 26.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
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 38.4% ★, Transportation 10.9% ★, Economy 10.7%, Management 9.5%, City Builder 7.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly polished experience focused on building expansive rail networks and managing complex train logistics across historical landscapes.
- #6 Sweet Transit
94% matchMixed68% of 1,227 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Why similar: Trains 36.8% ★, Economy 10.4%, Transportation 10.3% ★, Management 8.6%, City Builder 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where the entire economy is driven by train networks, perfectly mirroring the core loop of Train Fever.
- #7 Railroad Tycoon 3
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,237 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
Why similar: Trains 56.4% ★, Management 21.8%, Economy 7.4%, Strategy 5.9%, Simulation 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A legendary classic that defined the genre, focusing on stock markets, rail construction, and economic dominance.
- #8 Voxel Tycoon
92% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,743 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Voxel Tycoon — a management sim set in the infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods on 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 39.4% ★, Transportation 12.1% ★, Economy 11.3%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on automation and transport management within a procedurally generated world, emphasizing efficient supply chain logistics.
- #9 OpenTTD
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 16,373 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 35.3% ★, Economy 12.6%, Transportation 9.8% ★, Management 9.4%, Simulation 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard of transport simulation, offering unparalleled depth in logistics, signaling, and network management.
- #10 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
91% matchVery Positive91% of 25,183 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 73.0 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: Economy 18.3%, City Builder 16%, Management 15.1%, Simulation 11.2%, Sandbox 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep and complex logistics simulation where you must manage every aspect of a functioning economy and transport system.
- #11 Rail Route
89% matchVery Positive89% of 2,461 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 111.4 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 37.4% ★, Economy 13%, Management 10.6%, Transportation 9% ★, City Builder 8.7%
Why You'll Like It: A specialized game that focuses on the intricate logic of signaling, dispatching, and managing complex train traffic flows.
- #12 Cities in Motion 2
90% matchMixed58% of 2,494 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: Trains 18.3% ★, Transportation 17.3% ★, Simulation 15.6%, Management 14.4%, City Builder 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to urban public transport management, requiring precise planning of bus, tram, and metro lines to serve growing cities.
- #13 Sid Meier's Railroads!
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,402 reviews2007
Dev: Firaxis GamesPub: 2K
Windows · Mac
Median: 48 minMean: 9.1 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 61.6% ★, Economy 12.2%, Management 11.9%, Simulation 6.3%, Strategy 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a more accessible and stylized approach to building rail empires with a focus on fun and strategic network design.
- #14 Simutrans
88% matchMostly Positive76% of 652 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.8 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 47.4% ★, Simulation 11%, Management 9.8%, Economy 8.4%, City Builder 4.3%
Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play, open-source simulation that offers deep, complex transport management mechanics for dedicated fans.
- #15 Station to Station
86% matchVery Positive89% of 1,833 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 48%
‘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 48.6% ★, Transportation 11.3% ★, Management 10.3%, Simulation 8.2%, City Builder 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy, minimalist take on train logistics that focuses on connecting industries and cities through beautiful, simplified rail networks.
- #16 Cities in Motion
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,080 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 32% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Management 14.7%, Transportation 9.6% ★, Economy 9%
Why You'll Like It: The original title in the series provides a challenging look at managing public transportation infrastructure in a growing urban environment.
- #17 Train Station Simulator
86% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 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 54.4% ★, Management 13.4%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 5.8%, Economy 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: It narrows the scope to managing the internal operations of a train station, providing a different but related management challenge.
- #18 Rise of Industry
85% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 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: Trains 20.8% ★, Economy 18.5%, Management 16.7%, City Builder 12.5%, Simulation 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: While broader in scope, it excels at the logistics and supply chain management that makes transport games so rewarding.
- #19 Train Valley 2
84% matchVery Positive90% of 3,066 reviews2019
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 52.7% ★, Transportation 12.4% ★, Management 12.1%, Simulation 8.2%, Building 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends puzzle-solving with train management, requiring players to build efficient tracks while managing resource delivery under time pressure.
- #20 Transport INC
84% matchMixed70% of 1,070 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 38.7% ★, Economy 12.7%, Transportation 12.4% ★, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 8%
Why You'll Like It: A global transport management game that tasks you with building a fleet of vehicles to dominate the world's transportation market.
- #21 Captain of Industry
82% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 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: Economy 26.3%, Management 19.4%, Simulation 15.1%, City Builder 12.3%, Strategy 9%
Why You'll Like It: This game features complex production chains and logistics management that will appeal to players who enjoy the infrastructure-building aspect of Train Fever.
- #22 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
83% matchVery Positive87% of 655 reviews2015
Dev: Chris SawyerPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
Why similar: Trains 51.2% ★, Simulation 14.3%, Management 11.1%, Transportation 7.9% ★, Economy 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Created by the developer of Transport Tycoon, this game remains a classic for its pure focus on transport network expansion.
- #23 Industry Giant 2
82% matchVery Positive86% of 998 reviews2015
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Economic booms, stock market crashes, oil crises, upswings, triumphs... Now you can become the greatest power in industry!
Why similar: Simulation 29.9%, Economy 29.6%, Management 20.8%, Strategy 19.7%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the broader economic side of transport, where managing production chains and delivery routes is essential for success.
- #24 RAILGRADE
80% matchVery Positive85% of 1,194 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.6 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 42.6% ★, Economy 9.9%, City Builder 8.4%, Management 8.1%, Simulation 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the industrial side of rail transport, tasking players with optimizing resource delivery in a sci-fi setting.
- #25 Railroads Online
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,879 reviews2024
Dev: Stefan KelnbergerPub: astragon Entertainment
Windows
Median: 11.6 hrsMean: 67.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
Why similar: Trains 56.5% ★, Economy 13.3%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7.2%, Building 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an immersive, physics-based approach to building and operating steam trains in an open-world environment.
- #26 Bounty Train
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 1,710 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 56.8% ★, Simulation 10.6%, Economy 10.2%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It adds a narrative and survival layer to train management, focusing on the dangers of operating a locomotive in the Wild West.
- #27 Train Simulator Classic
81% matchMostly Positive71% of 29,028 reviews2015
Dev: Dovetail GamesPub: Dovetail Games - Trains
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 44.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The ultimate railway hobby for more than 15 years! From historic steam locomotives to modern high-speed and heavy freight trains, and routes around the world, Train Simulator Classic is the simulation made by railfans for railfans.
Why similar: Trains 75.2% ★, Simulation 14.7%, Transportation 1.9% ★, Moddable 1.8% ★, Sandbox 1.5%
Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the realistic driving and operation of trains, perfect for those who want to experience the machines themselves.
- #28 NIMBY Rails
79% matchVery Positive90% of 2,203 reviews2021
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 40.3 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: Trains 28.2% ★, Transportation 14.1% ★, Economy 13.5%, Management 10.9%, City Builder 8%
Why You'll Like It: A highly realistic rail planning simulator that allows for massive, real-world scale network construction and management.
- #29 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
78% matchMostly Positive79% of 331 reviews2025
Dev: Andriy 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 42.1% ★, Transportation 11.4% ★, Economy 10.9%, Management 8.4%, Simulation 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A relaxing take on the genre that prioritizes automation and cozy aesthetics over strict economic competition.
- #30 Derail Valley
76% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 8,827 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 13.5 hrsMean: 36.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Trains 56.6% ★, Transportation 13.1% ★, Economy 10.1%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 4.9%
- #31 Train Valley
77% matchVery Positive90% of 3,405 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 52.1% ★, Transportation 13.9% ★, Management 11.5%, Simulation 7.9%, Building 5.6%
- #32 Train Life: A Railway Simulator
77% matchMixed63% of 1,628 reviews2022
Dev: SimteractPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 79%
For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.
Why similar: Trains 44.9% ★, Transportation 13.7% ★, Management 12.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Economy 9.8%
- #33 InfraSpace
75% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 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: Trains 29.7% ★, Transportation 12.7% ★, Economy 12.1%, City Builder 10.8%, Management 9.3%
- #34 Transport Giant
78% matchMixed61% of 483 reviews2014
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 14.7 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 41.1% ★, Simulation 19.4%, Economy 12.6%, Strategy 11.1%, Transportation 8.3% ★
- #35 Railroad Corporation 2
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 351 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 42.8% ★, Economy 11.2%, Transportation 9.2% ★, Simulation 7.5%, City Builder 6.6%
- #36 Train World
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 95 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 43.2% ★, Transportation 10.1% ★, Economy 10.1%, Management 7.6%, Simulation 7.4%
- #37 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,740 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 34.5% ★, Management 12.4%, City Builder 10.5%, Transportation 8.2% ★, Economy 8.1%
- #38 Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019
74% matchMostly Positive77% of 2,663 reviews2019
Dev: N3V Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 48.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Much more than just a train driving simulator. Build, drive and operate the railroad of your dreams with Trainz Railroad Simulator 2019.
Why similar: Trains 66.1% ★, Simulation 19%, Sandbox 5.4%, Building 4.7%, Open World 3.4%
- #39 Railroad Pioneer
76% matchMixed61% of 262 reviews2014
Dev: Kritzelkratz 3000Pub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Be a pioneer and build the most famous transcontinental railroad tracks in the United States of America throughout the 19th century.
Why similar: Trains 59% ★, Simulation 21.1%, Strategy 12.2%, Management 7.6%
- #40 Train Valley World
72% matchMostly Positive72% of 275 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 41.3% ★, Transportation 13.9% ★, Economy 10.2%, Management 8.9%, City Builder 8.1%
- #41 Cities: Skylines II
72% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 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 20.7%, Economy 15%, Management 13.4%, Simulation 13.4%, Sandbox 8.5%
- #42 Railroad Corporation
73% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,474 reviews2019
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Relive the pioneering spirit of the Golden Age of Steam by establishing your own railroad empire across 19th century North America. Bring settlements together, produce and trade goods and develop new technologies to stay ahead of the competition. Want more? RAILROAD CORPORATION 2 Out Now!
Why similar: Trains 43.8% ★, Management 10.4%, Economy 9.6%, Transportation 9.4% ★, Simulation 6.7%
- #43 Railroader
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,279 reviews2023
Dev: Giraffe Lab LLC
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 74.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!
Why similar: Trains 55.6% ★, Transportation 15.1% ★, Economy 12%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 4.7%
- #44 Tracks - The Train Set Game
71% matchVery Positive94% of 1,507 reviews2019
Dev: Whoop GroupPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.
Why similar: Trains 56.2% ★, Simulation 11.4%, Sandbox 9.7%, City Builder 7.9%, Building 7.5%
- #45 Train Mechanic Simulator 2017
73% matchMixed67% of 815 reviews2017
Dev: Si7 StudioPub: Atomic Jelly
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Take your opportunity as real Train Mechanic. Find locomotives around game world that needs your help and repair them in one of 3 workshops localized in huge 25 km2 open world. You will be face all types of damages in all genres of trains: Diesel, Electric and even Old-School Steam units.
Why similar: Trains 55.6% ★, Simulation 10.3%, Management 7.5%, Building 6.6%, Sandbox 5.3%
- #46 Rolling Line
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,446 reviews2018
Dev: Gaugepunk Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 66%
Build your own model railway tracks and scenery or explore pre-made maps, including 1000s of player-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop! Play solo and in multiplayer, both in virtual reality and on PC!
Why similar: Trains 50.7% ★, Transportation 11.7% ★, Simulation 7.7%, Sandbox 7.1%, Moddable 6.8% ★
- #47 Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,368 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.
Why similar: Trains 59.2% ★, Management 17%, Economy 8.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6%
- #48 Train Sim World® 4
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,970 reviews2023
Dev: Dovetail GamesPub: Dovetail Games - TSW
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 51.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Feel the power of simulation in your hands. Experience immense velocity and express unrivalled creativity with Train Sim World 4! Expand your rail hobby and discover the raw emotion of driving a diverse array of iconic routes and trains. From training center to mountain pass, this is your journey.
Why similar: Trains 71.3% ★, Transportation 12.7% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Open World 2.4%, Sandbox 2.2%
- #49 Train Sim World® 2020
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 6,995 reviews2017
Dev: Dovetail GamesPub: Dovetail Games - TSW
Windows
Median: 11.2 hrsMean: 105.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Train Sim World is an immersive first-person simulator perfect for everyone, with complete in-cab interactivity, accurate detail on locos, real-world routes and hours of gameplay. Take to the rails with the brand-new Train Sim World 2020 Edition and find everything you need to master new skills.
Why similar: Trains 74.8% ★, Simulation 14.4%, Open World 3.7%, Building 3.6%, Casual 1.2%
- #50 Mini Metro
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,391 reviews2015
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 57.7% ★, Management 10.8%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8%, Transportation 7.4% ★
- #51 Automation Empire
70% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 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 28.2% ★, Economy 14.6%, Simulation 13.5%, Management 11.8%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #52 Train Frontier Classic
70% matchVery Positive88% of 238 reviews2017
Dev: Team Train Frontier
Windows
Train Frontier Classic is a stylized landscape building and multiplayer train riding sandbox, inspired by the fun of model railroad building. Fill a scene with miles of scale track, hundreds of props, and a personal train car setup -- then go online to share and ride your creation with friends!
Why similar: Trains 74.6% ★, Simulation 12.7%, Transportation 2.9% ★, City Builder 2.7%, Sandbox 2.2%
- #53 STATIONflow
69% matchVery Positive86% of 495 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 45.2% ★, Management 10.7%, Economy 9.8%, City Builder 8.5%, Transportation 7% ★
- #54 Train Yard Builder
68% 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 46.1% ★, Economy 11.9%, City Builder 10.1%, Management 9.8%, Simulation 7.2%
- #55 Factory Town
67% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Trains 26.7% ★, Management 12.5%, City Builder 11.4%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 8.5%
- #56 Iron Village
66% 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 42.6% ★, Economy 11.2%, Transportation 10.9% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Management 8.5%
- #57 Trainz Railroad Simulator 2022
67% matchMostly Positive76% of 1,087 reviews2022
Dev: N3V Games
Windows · Mac
Drive, Explore, Operate and Create the railroad of your dreams - and now you can collaborate in real time with Multiplayer Surveyor! TRS22 showcases a range of high quality routes, sessions and trains to drive, plus all the scenery you need to make your own masterpiece.
Why similar: Trains 55.8% ★, Transportation 12% ★, Simulation 9.4%, Sandbox 7.5%, Building 4.8%
- #58 My Train Arrives
68% matchVery Positive86% of 95 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 41.4% ★, Transportation 11.7% ★, Simulation 10.1%, Management 8.7%, Economy 8.4%
- #59 City Bus Manager
64% matchVery Positive91% of 2,686 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Economy 30.1%, Management 25.4%, Simulation 19.8%, Sandbox 9.3%, Strategy 7.3%
- #60 SimAirport
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,012 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build & Manage Your Airport. An International Hub or a Regional Masterpiece -- it's up to you. Buy more land to scale out, or escalators to scale up with MULTIPLE FLOORS. You're in full control in this modern business management tycoon!
Why similar: Economy 22.8%, Management 18.8%, City Builder 17.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%