- #1 Transport Fever 2
97% matchVery Positive90% of 32,451 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: Transportation 26.4% ★, Trains 23% ★, Economy 9.5%, Management 9.5%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive modern transportation management game that allows you to build complex networks across land, sea, and air.
- #2 Transport Fever
96% matchVery Positive83% of 10,841 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: Transportation 23.3% ★, Trains 23.2% ★, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 10.9%, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the sequel, it offers a similar deep simulation experience focused on historical transport evolution.
- #3 Railway Empire
96% matchVery Positive83% of 9,710 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 26.3% ★, Transportation 13.7% ★, Real-Time 11.5% ★, Economy 10.9%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: A classic in the genre, it focuses on the strategic expansion of rail lines and economic dominance during the industrial age.
- #4 Railway Empire 2
95% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,651 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Transportation 24.2% ★, Trains 23.8% ★, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 10%, Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a polished and visually impressive experience centered on building and managing a sprawling rail network.
- #5 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
94% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Grand Strategy 19.5% ★, Economy 17.8%, Management 13.7%, Building 13%, Sandbox 12.2%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers an incredibly deep and realistic economic simulation that requires managing complex logistics and supply chains.
- #6 Mashinky
94% matchVery Positive85% of 2,814 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 36.7 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 25.2% ★, Transportation 23.2% ★, Economy 11.1%, Sandbox 10.6%, Management 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game combines realistic train management with a unique blend of modern graphics and classic transport tycoon gameplay.
- #7 Rail Route
93% matchVery Positive88% of 2,604 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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 21.3% ★, Transportation 19.9% ★, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 9%, Time Management 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the logic and signaling aspects of rail management, perfect for those who enjoy the technical side of transit.
- #8 Fly Corp
92% matchVery Positive85% of 3,391 reviews2023
Dev: KishMish Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Develop your own transport network in different regions and cities: open new routes, buy and upgrade new planes, and increase airport capacity!
Why similar: Transportation 32.3% ★, Time Management 12.2%, Sandbox 12.1%, Management 10.9%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the global scale of Transport INC by focusing specifically on managing airline routes and passenger demand across the world.
- #9 Voxel Tycoon
91% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,786 reviews2021
Dev: Voxel Tycoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 15.3 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: Transportation 25.1% ★, Trains 22.8% ★, Economy 10.3%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It features a beautiful voxel aesthetic combined with complex logistics and resource management mechanics.
- #10 OpenTTD
91% matchVery Positive95% of 16,941 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 21.9% ★, Transportation 21.8% ★, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for open-source transport simulation, offering unparalleled depth in logistics and network design.
- #11 Sweet Transit
90% matchMixed68% of 1,268 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 22.2% ★, Transportation 22.1% ★, Economy 9.8%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder where the entire economy is driven by rail-based transportation networks.
- #12 Airport CEO
89% matchVery Positive83% of 8,330 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 21.4% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Resource Management 10.6%, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus to managing the logistics and infrastructure of a busy airport, a key component of global transport.
- #13 RAILGRADE
89% matchVery Positive85% of 1,255 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 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 22.2% ★, Real-Time 17.7% ★, Transportation 9% ★, Economy 8.1%, Automation 8%
Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes the puzzle-like nature of optimizing resource transport in a futuristic industrial setting.
- #14 Rise of Industry
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 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: Economy 17.2%, Management 14.4%, Transportation 13.8% ★, Trains 12.3% ★, Resource Management 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This game provides a deep look at the production and distribution side of logistics, requiring efficient transport to succeed.
- #15 Cities in Motion 2
88% 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 37.9% ★, Management 12.9%, Trains 11.2% ★, Sandbox 10.6%, Simulation 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses specifically on the challenges of urban public transportation management, including buses, trams, and subways.
- #16 Delivery INC
86% matchMixed70% of 273 reviews2023
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Delivery INC is a fast-paced time management game where you’ll be challenged with quick decision making and planning. Build a fleet of vehicles and drivers. Make deliveries before the customer’s patience runs out. Put your logic and delivery skills to the test in any real-world city.
Why similar: Transportation 31.1% ★, Sandbox 13.8%, Management 11%, Economy 8.6%, Modern 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the micro-management of a delivery company, requiring efficient routing and fleet management.
- #17 NIMBY Rails
86% matchVery Positive90% of 2,300 reviews2021
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
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 29.3% ★, Trains 16.4% ★, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a highly realistic and detailed approach to planning rail networks on real-world map data.
- #18 Captain of Industry
84% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 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: Automation 19.9%, Resource Management 16.4%, Economy 14.7%, Transportation 10% ★, Management 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends logistics, resource management, and base building into a challenging and rewarding simulation.
- #19 City Bus Manager
84% matchVery Positive91% of 2,842 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 21.7%, Management 17%, Grand Strategy 13.4% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Time Management 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a granular look at managing a bus company, from route planning to vehicle maintenance.
- #20 Railroad Corporation 2
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 417 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 25.8% ★, Transportation 19.8% ★, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.1%, Realistic 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A modern take on historical railroad management that emphasizes realistic building and economic strategy.
- #21 Train Fever
85% matchMixed64% of 3,527 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
Why similar: Trains 38.8% ★, Transportation 12.5% ★, Economy 12.2%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: The game that started the series, offering a foundational experience in transport management and economic strategy.
- #22 Factorio
82% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 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: Automation 25%, Sandbox 17.3%, Resource Management 16.7%, Trains 15.9% ★, Management 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: While more automation-focused, it is the ultimate test of logistics, requiring massive transport networks to keep a factory running.
- #23 Production Line : Car factory simulation
82% matchVery Positive82% of 3,483 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 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 16.5%, Economy 15.4%, Automation 12.7%, Sandbox 12.2%, Building 10.6%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the internal logistics of a factory, emphasizing the flow of parts and efficiency.
- #24 Mini Metro
81% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 16,721 reviews2015
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 19.2 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 36.2% ★, Transportation 16.8% ★, Minimalist 12.3%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: A minimalist but highly challenging game about designing efficient subway layouts for growing cities.
- #25 Train Valley 2
81% matchVery Positive90% of 3,155 reviews2019
Dev: Alexey DavydovPub: Flazm
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 14.4 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 41% ★, Management 14.1%, Building 13.8%, Minimalist 12.1%, Strategy 6.3%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-oriented take on train management that requires quick thinking and efficient track layout planning.
- #26 InfraSpace
79% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,954 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
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 23.3% ★, Trains 15.2% ★, Economy 9.8%, Automation 9.5%, Sandbox 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city builder that places a heavy emphasis on managing complex transportation networks to support a growing colony.
- #27 Big Ambitions
78% matchVery Positive93% of 13,452 reviews2023
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.0 hrsMean: 25.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
Why similar: Economy 27.3%, Management 25.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Time Management 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a broader management experience where logistics and supply chain management are critical to business success.
- #28 Worldwide Rush
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 568 reviews2025
Dev: Memel Games
Windows
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Why similar: Transportation 31.9% ★, Economy 14.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Management 9.5%, Resource Management 8%
- #29 Software Inc.
78% matchVery Positive94% of 7,806 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.0 hrsMean: 46.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.
Why similar: Economy 19.5%, Sandbox 16.2%, Management 15.6%, Building 13.6%, Time Management 12.3%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on software, it requires complex management of office logistics, staffing, and project pipelines.
- #30 Automation Empire
79% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
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: Automation 16.6%, Trains 14.9% ★, Sandbox 13.7%, Economy 12.1%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building massive, interconnected transport networks to move resources across a vast industrial landscape.
- #31 Train Station Simulator
80% matchMixed57% of 256 reviews2017
Dev: Appliks Apps Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Train Station Simulator is a station builder and manager game. Create and maintain your dream station! Ride the rails and operate your ultimate grand central empire!
Why similar: Trains 39.6% ★, Management 14.2%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 6.6%, Economy 6.5%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a single hub, requiring efficient passenger flow and infrastructure planning.
- #32 Train Valley World
76% matchMostly Positive70% of 297 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.1 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 24.1% ★, Trains 20.1% ★, Sandbox 8.2%, Economy 7.8%, Time Management 7.5%
- #33 Cities in Motion
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,089 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Transportation 25% ★, Trains 23% ★, Management 15.3%, Simulation 10.5%, Economy 10.2%
- #34 Startup Company
75% matchVery Positive81% of 6,219 reviews2020
Dev: Hovgaard Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game where you’re the CEO of a new company. Your job is to build your very own website and compete against the largest tech giants on the planet!
Why similar: Management 29.9%, Economy 26%, Sandbox 10.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 8%
- #35 Mini Motorways
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 24,364 reviews2021
Dev: Dinosaur Polo Club
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 16.7 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 32.6% ★, Management 15.6%, Minimalist 12%, Strategy 10.2%, Building 8.9%
- #36 Simutrans
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 675 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 35.2% ★, Transportation 10.6% ★, Management 10.4%, Economy 9.6%, Sandbox 9%
- #37 Railroad Corporation
75% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,496 reviews2019
Dev: Corbie GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.0 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 22.4% ★, Transportation 17.3% ★, Real-Time 9.9% ★, Management 7.8%, Economy 7.7%
- #38 Train Life: A Railway Simulator
74% matchMixed63% of 1,693 reviews2022
Dev: SimteractPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.7 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: Transportation 29.3% ★, Trains 26.6% ★, Realistic 12.6%, Management 10.4%, Economy 9.1%
- #39 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 23.9% ★, Transportation 20% ★, Sandbox 10.5%, Economy 8.8%, Management 6.2%
- #40 Plan B: Terraform
70% matchVery Positive91% of 3,595 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 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: Transportation 24.1% ★, Trains 21.2% ★, Automation 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #41 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
73% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 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 21.8% ★, Transportation 18.6% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Management 11.5%, Building 9.8%
- #42 Railroad Tycoon 3
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,263 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 12.0 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 43.4% ★, Management 25%, Economy 9.3%, Strategy 7.4%, Sandbox 3.8%
- #43 Train Valley
71% matchVery Positive90% of 3,454 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 26.3% ★, Transportation 25% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Time Management 8.5%, Management 8.4%
- #44 Airline Manager
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,307 reviews2021
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 36.4 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Why similar: Transportation 38% ★, Economy 16.4%, Management 11%, Real-Time 10.8% ★, Simulation 7.6%
- #45 Transport Tycoon Deluxe
70% matchMixed54% of 56 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 36.9% ★, Time Management 12.7%, Automation 11.1%, Economy 10.2%, Building 9.1%
- #46 Subway Builder
69% matchMixed57% of 360 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: Management 12.2%, Building 12%, Trains 11.7% ★, Transportation 10.6% ★, Resource Management 10.2%
- #47 Factory Town
69% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 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: Transportation 16% ★, Trains 14.1% ★, Automation 13.2%, Sandbox 13%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #48 Transport Giant
72% matchMixed62% of 490 reviews2014
Dev: Fancy Bytes, ReactorPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 14.9 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 30.1% ★, Transportation 21.9% ★, Economy 14.5%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 12.6%
- #49 Transporter
71% matchMixed47% of 55 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 35.9% ★, Trains 17.9% ★, Management 11.5%, Economy 6.9%, Strategy 5.8%
- #50 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: Transportation 25.1% ★, Trains 22.5% ★, Economy 11.4%, Management 9.4%, Building 7.7%
- #51 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 383 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 22.4% ★, Transportation 21.7% ★, Sandbox 9.5%, Economy 9.1%, Automation 9.1%
- #52 SimAirport
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 4,044 reviews2020
Dev: LVGameDev LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 21.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 21.2%, Sandbox 18.6%, Management 16.2%, Building 15.1%, Resource Management 8%
- #53 Mini Airways - ATC simulator
67% matchVery Positive92% of 1,569 reviews2024
Dev: CCC GamesPub: Erabit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Mini Airways is a real-time management game where you play the role of an air traffic controller. Clear your aircraft to takeoff & land, direct them to the destination...and most of all don't let them crash!! London, Tokyo, Shanghai... Test your ATC skills in distinctive maps around the globe!
Why similar: Transportation 31.6% ★, Time Management 12.8%, Sandbox 10.4%, Management 9.7%, Modern 9.3%
- #54 Cargo Company
70% matchMixed58% of 73 reviews2022
Dev: Ambiera
Windows
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
Why similar: Trains 26.9% ★, Transportation 25.8% ★, Economy 12.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Management 9.8%
- #55 AirlineSim
67% matchMostly Positive80% of 109 reviews2024
Dev: simulogics
Windows
Manage and grow your own virtual airline in this business simulation. Plan operations by acquiring aircraft and scheduling flights. Monitor finances using realistic tools as you cooperate and compete with other players on a real-time market and turn your company into a flourishing business.
Why similar: Transportation 28.6% ★, Economy 16.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Management 12.1%, Realistic 11.7%
- #56 Industry Idle
66% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,484 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 27.8 hrs≥1hr: 61%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Transportation 24.6% ★, Automation 12.6%, Economy 11%, Resource Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.4%
- #57 Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
68% matchVery Positive87% of 677 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 38.1% ★, Transportation 21.7% ★, Management 12.6%, Economy 9.5%, Simulation 9.5%
- #58 Puffin Planes
64% matchVery Positive95% of 354 reviews2024
Dev: CATINRAIN LLC
Windows
A casual airline management game set on Earth and Mars. Supports singleplayer and Steam co-op.
Why similar: Transportation 33.2% ★, Economy 14.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Time Management 13.2%, Management 10%
- #59 Mini Settlers
63% matchVery Positive81% of 742 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 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 18.3% ★, Real-Time 15.7% ★, Trains 14.5% ★, Automation 9.4%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #60 A-Train PC Classic
67% 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: Transportation 19.4% ★, Trains 17.6% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Economy 10.4%, Building 8.6%