Games Like Tropico 5

El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.

Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Economy 10.5%, Politics 9.9% ★, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: As the direct successor, it refines the series' signature political and city-building mechanics with improved graphics and expanded island management.

The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.

Why similar: City Builder 49.5%, Strategy 11.3%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 6.2%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Widely considered the peak of the series, it offers a deep political simulation experience with a charming, satirical atmosphere.

Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.

Why similar: City Builder 47.3%, Strategy 12%, Economy 10.2%, Simulation 7.4%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game provides an incredibly deep economic and supply-chain management experience set during the Industrial Revolution.

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 56.6%, Simulation 9.5%, Sandbox 8.3%, Strategy 8.1%, Economy 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for modern city-building, offering unparalleled freedom in urban design and infrastructure management.

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 38.2%, Economy 11.9%, Strategy 11.8%, Sandbox 11.3%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly complex and realistic simulation of a planned economy and city-building that will appeal to fans of deep management mechanics.

Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 51.4%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 10.2%, Management 6.7%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic entry in the series that excels at balancing trade, production, and city growth in a historical setting.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: City Builder 59%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 9.1%, Sandbox 7.7%, Economy 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: A focused colony-sim that emphasizes resource management and survival, stripping away the politics for a pure management challenge.

Paradox Development Studio invites you to build your ideal society in the tumult of the exciting and transformative 19th century. Balance the competing interests in your society and earn your place in the sun in Victoria 3, one of the most anticipated games in Paradox’s history.

Why similar: Politics 23.5% ★, Economy 17.8%, Strategy 14%, Sandbox 10.5%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that focuses heavily on the political and economic simulation of nations, mirroring the political depth found in Tropico.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 58.5%, Strategy 15%, Resource Management 9.1%, Economy 5.1%, Simulation 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines city-building with intense political decision-making and survival management under extreme pressure.

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: City Builder 22.6%, Strategy 21.3%, Economy 15.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Management 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the economic management and infrastructure expansion aspects of Tropico through the lens of a growing railroad network.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Economy 12.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends organic city-building with tactical strategy, focusing on the growth and management of a medieval settlement.

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 37.5%, Economy 15%, Strategy 13.3%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A pure economic management game that tasks you with building complex production chains and managing supply and demand.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: City Builder 38.9%, Sandbox 17.7%, Strategy 16.1%, Simulation 11.9%, Management 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: While more focused on individual colonists, its deep management systems and emergent storytelling provide a similar sense of building and maintaining a society.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: City Builder 35.8%, Sandbox 14.1%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Economy 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that requires careful planning and resource allocation to maintain order in a complex facility.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 53.2%, Strategy 10%, Sandbox 8.3%, Simulation 8.1%, Economy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A grid-less city-builder that emphasizes organic growth and the management of a medieval society.

The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!

Why similar: Economy 24.6%, Strategy 16.8%, Politics 15% ★, Simulation 14.2%, Sandbox 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the political and social maneuvering of a dynasty, closely matching the dynastic progression themes of Tropico 5.

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: City Builder 36%, Economy 11.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique roguelite city-builder that requires constant adaptation and efficient resource management under harsh conditions.

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.

Why similar: City Builder 40.9%, Economy 14%, Sandbox 13.4%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that remains a benchmark for urban planning and regional economic simulation.

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

Why similar: City Builder 33.6%, Economy 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A management game that mirrors the political and criminal underbelly themes of Tropico while focusing on building a logistics empire.

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: City Builder 57.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 8.5%, Simulation 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A creative city-builder that introduces unique water-management and vertical-building mechanics to the genre.

The Caribbean, in the turbulent 17th Century. The mighty kingdoms of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands fight over the colonies. And there you are, a young sea captain whose only goal is to become the most powerful man in the New World.

Why similar: Strategy 32.4%, Economy 23.8%, Simulation 18.2%, Management 11.5%, City Builder 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A trade-focused simulation set in the Caribbean that shares the colonial era theme and economic management focus of Tropico.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 59.2%, Strategy 14.8%, Simulation 8.1%, Sandbox 6.1%, Economy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic city-builder that focuses on survival, resource management, and protecting your citizens from environmental threats.

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: City Builder 38.1%, Economy 14.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 10.2%, Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An intense economic strategy game that focuses on market manipulation and resource competition on Mars.

IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?

Why similar: City Builder 54.4%, Strategy 14.9%, Economy 8.5%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based colony management game that forces you to balance resource scarcity with the morale and political stability of your crew.

Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Strategy 19.5%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Sandbox 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that emphasizes trade, production, and the expansion of a medieval economic empire.

Constructor Plus is the definitive building simulation for the modern day tycoon. Build your dream town full of crackpot undesirables, businesses, and quirky tenants whilst fending off your rivals in the eagerly awaited sequel to Constructor HD. With almost 3 times more content, building just got bigger!

Why similar: City Builder 49.1%, Strategy 26.8%, Simulation 19.6%, Comedy 3.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous management game where you build a city while dealing with rival developers and unruly tenants.

Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.

Why similar: City Builder 42.4%, Strategy 12.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Economy 9.7%, Simulation 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A realistic city-builder that focuses on the intricacies of 18th-century village life and local economic production.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: City Builder 41.8%, Economy 13%, Strategy 12.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Simulation 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A unique city-builder that requires managing multiple small settlements on cliffs while balancing trade and resource sustainability.

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 39%, Strategy 12.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Economy 10.4%, Simulation 9.1%

Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power! Are you a kind and generous leader? A corrupt and ruthless tyrant ruling with an iron fist?

Why similar: City Builder 41.2%, Strategy 13.3%, Politics 12.5% ★, Simulation 11.5%, Sandbox 6.6%

You are a merchant in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages when the Hanseatic League was flourishing. Your goal is to rise to the most successful and influential member of the Hanse, ultimately being elected Elderman, leader of the trading league.

Why similar: Strategy 37.7%, Economy 24.1%, Resource Management 14.2%, Simulation 13.1%, Management 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A historical trading simulation that focuses on building a merchant empire and navigating the political landscape of the Hanseatic League.

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: Strategy 39.2%, City Builder 19%, RTS 12.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.2%

TROPICO RELOADED is the ultimate game compilation for hobby-dictators and those dreaming of their own Caribbean island. Tropico combines real-time strategy and simulation elements with a healthy dose of political intrigue and Caribbean flair to create a unique and critically acclaimed game experience.

Why similar: City Builder 53%, Strategy 14.3%, Simulation 12.4%, Sandbox 6.6%, Management 6.1%

Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.

Why similar: City Builder 51.6%, Strategy 17%, Economy 7.3%, Simulation 6.9%, Resource Management 3.7%

In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.

Why similar: City Builder 50.4%, Strategy 15%, Economy 9.6%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 4.3%

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 38.5%, Politics 18.7% ★, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9%, Economy 8.5%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: City Builder 62.7%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 6.4%, Sandbox 6.4%, Economy 4.7%

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 48.7%, Simulation 10.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Economy 9.5%, Strategy 7.5%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: City Builder 54.4%, Strategy 8.9%, Economy 8.7%, Management 6.4%, Multiplayer 5.6%

In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

Why similar: Simulation 29.1%, Management 27.3%, Strategy 18.6%, Economy 15.4%, Sandbox 6.1%

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.

Why similar: Sandbox 22.1%, Simulation 21.9%, Management 17.1%, Strategy 13.3%, City Builder 9.9%

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: City Builder 38.6%, Economy 13.4%, Sandbox 13.1%, Strategy 11%, Simulation 8%

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 41%, Economy 13.3%, Politics 12.5% ★, Sandbox 9.7%, Simulation 8.2%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 58.5%, Strategy 12.9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Simulation 6.4%, Resource Management 4.1%

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 58.6%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 9.4%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 4.9%

Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

Why similar: Strategy 51.1%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Historical 10.6%, Economy 10.3%, Simulation 5.5%

For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Economy 16.5%, Strategy 15.2%, Politics 13.1% ★, Simulation 11.7%

Carefully guide your nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization, to finally become a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century. Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding...

Why similar: Politics 28.3% ★, Strategy 20.4%, Economy 15.6%, Simulation 8.9%, Sandbox 8%

Planet Coaster® - the future of coaster park simulation games has arrived! Surprise, delight and thrill incredible crowds as you build your coaster park empire - let your imagination run wild, and share your success with the world.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Sandbox 17.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.4%

Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.

Why similar: City Builder 42%, Strategy 27.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Multiplayer 6.2%, RTS 5.1%

Rule your land and dominate the world with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. Write a new history of the world and build an empire for the ages.

Why similar: Strategy 21.1%, Economy 20.2%, Sandbox 18.7%, Simulation 15.3%, Historical 8.7%

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: City Builder 29.8%, Economy 17.3%, Strategy 15.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Simulation 12.2%

Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.

Why similar: City Builder 50.1%, Economy 12.2%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.8%, Sandbox 9%

Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?

Why similar: City Builder 37.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13.3%, Economy 11.4%

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: City Builder 35.7%, Simulation 17.5%, Strategy 16.3%, Sandbox 10.2%, Management 9.4%

Experience the classic gameplay of 1503 A.D.: The New World, optimized for current computers with resolutions up to 4K.

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 12%, Economy 10.1%, RTS 5.2%

Rediscover the classic gameplay of 1701 A.D. and its expansion The Sunken Dragon in Anno® 1701 History Edition.

Why similar: City Builder 45.1%, Strategy 15%, Simulation 11.7%, Economy 10%, RTS 5.1%

Use war, trade or diplomacy to satisfy your grandest ambitions and dominate five centuries of history in the newest version of Europa Universalis, Paradox Interactive's flagship historical grand strategy game.

Why similar: Strategy 24.9%, Economy 20.2%, Resource Management 17.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Multiplayer 11.4%