Games Like Tropico 6

Return to the remote island nation of Tropico and expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing new challenges including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, as well as cooperative and competitive MULTIPLAYER.

Why similar: City Builder 46.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Economy 10.7%, Simulation 8.4%, Sandbox 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The immediate predecessor offers the same humorous El Presidente fantasy, island construction, elections, factions, trade, and era-spanning development.

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 52.1%, Management 11.8%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 8%, Economy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its campaign-driven island management, political edicts, faction approval, and irreverent dictatorship theme make it one of the closest alternatives.

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 43.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Management 11.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Economy 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This earlier entry establishes the series’ core loop of building a Caribbean economy while keeping political factions and foreign powers satisfied.

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 54.6%, Strategy 12%, Management 11.5%, Simulation 10.8%, Economy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combining the first two Tropico games, it provides the original political island-city-builder formula with a more classic management feel.

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 49.7%, Economy 16%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs detailed production chains, trade routes, population classes, and attractive city building in a similarly accessible historical strategy package.

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 32.2%, Political Sim 17.9% ★, Economy 15.5%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes designing a city while directly shaping its tax policy, social programs, ideology, economic system, and political outcomes.

Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...

Why similar: Political Sim 32.1% ★, Economy 18.6%, Management 13.4%, Diplomacy 11.7% ★, Strategy 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Although less focused on buildings, its deep policy simulation and voter-group balancing capture Tropico’s governance and approval-management side.

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 34.7%, Economy 15.9%, Management 11.1%, Diplomacy 9.1% ★, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers far more demanding but rewarding planned-economy city building where production, infrastructure, citizens, and state priorities all interlock.

Urban Empire is a ‘City Ruler’, pioneering a new breed of strategy game that combines city builder features with political scheming and adds profound social and historical events into the mix, creating a whole new gameplay experience.

Why similar: City Builder 32.2%, Political Sim 24.2% ★, Economy 13.4%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This city builder centers on governing through political parties, social issues, laws, and competing interest groups rather than construction alone.

Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.

Why similar: City Builder 30.5%, Economy 24%, Strategy 15.7%, Management 13.7%, Simulation 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its Caribbean setting, colonial trade networks, town development, and competition between imperial powers strongly complement Tropico’s banana-republic economy.

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: Political Sim 22.5% ★, City Builder 17.1%, Economy 15.1%, Diplomacy 8.9% ★, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This grand strategy game expands Tropico’s politics, trade, industry, interest groups, and social reform systems to the national scale.

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 38.6%, Economy 15.4%, Strategy 10.2%, Sandbox 8.2%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its Roman provincial city building and economy-focused expansion offer another polished Anno-style route to managing settlements and trade.

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

Why similar: City Builder 41.7%, Strategy 11.5%, Political Sim 10.8% ★, Management 9.9%, Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlement growth, trade, citizen needs, production networks, and island expansion make it a superb historical counterpart to Tropico.

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 53.2%, Strategy 14.2%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 6.1%, Management 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This futuristic Anno retains the satisfying island logistics and factional development of the series while adding ecological and technological choices.

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 50.3%, Economy 14.2%, Strategy 12.1%, Management 7.8%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides streamlined large-scale city construction, global supply chains, and attractive economic planning for players who enjoy Tropico’s building loop.

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 30.6%, Management 12.6%, Economy 11.3%, Sandbox 9.5%, Strategy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its systems-driven construction and management require balancing security, budgets, staffing, prisoner needs, and ethically fraught policy decisions.

Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.

Why similar: Management 29.3%, Simulation 18.1%, City Builder 16.8%, Building 13.8%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its lighthearted presentation, building customization, staff management, and satisfaction balancing echo Tropico’s approachable management-game charm.

Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.

Why similar: City Builder 34%, Management 19%, Strategy 9.7%, Building 8.9%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a growing university through construction, staffing, finances, and student happiness delivers a similarly comic management sandbox.

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 59.4%, Strategy 12.4%, Economy 7.6%, Management 7.2%, Building 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its city management is harsher and more survival-driven, but its laws, public discontent, and morally charged leadership decisions fit Tropico’s political appeal.

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 34.5%, Economy 20.6%, Management 16.1%, Strategy 10%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a clean, strategic economic sandbox about building supply chains, connecting cities, and expanding an industrial business empire.

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: Management 17.3%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 15.4%, Building 12.3%, Simulation 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers highly expressive construction alongside guest needs, staff, finances, and park operations, ideal for the creative side of Tropico.

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 52.1%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.1%, Strategy 6.8%, Multiplayer 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer-capable city building, resource logistics, population growth, and flexible settlement planning suit players wanting a broader communal sandbox.

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 52.1%, Economy 11%, Management 8.6%, Strategy 7.9%, Simulation 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: This organic medieval city builder focuses on growing settlements through production, trade, citizen needs, and flexible construction rather than rigid grids.

At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!

Why similar: Economy 27.2%, Management 21%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Tropico’s comedic tone and Kalypso-style management sensibility, letting you build and run an evil underground empire alongside RTS battles.

The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.

Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Sandbox 9.8%, Simulation 8.9%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This humorous dungeon-management sequel offers more polished base building and villainous leadership for players drawn to Tropico’s playful authoritarian tone.

Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.

Why similar: City Builder 24.1%, Management 18.4%, Building 13.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Building and operating a tourist attraction while managing finances, guests, staff, safety, and crises provides a polished themed-management alternative.

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 31%, Economy 16.2%, Diplomacy 11.9% ★, Management 11.4%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It combines attractive organic town building with regional trade, resource extraction, production chains, and the responsibilities of local rule.

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 31.5%, Economy 15.5%, Diplomacy 11.6% ★, Management 11.5%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlement-building loop combines production-chain optimization, citizen needs, factional species demands, and repeated strategic adaptation.

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: City Builder 29.8%, Economy 18%, Management 13.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: This transport-management game focuses on growing an economy through infrastructure, trade connections, urban demand, and competitive expansion.

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 45.8%, Economy 13.4%, Management 10.5%, Simulation 8.3%, Sandbox 7.7%

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 52.4%, Economy 10.1%, Management 9.9%, Simulation 7.5%, Building 7.1%

A satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind! Construct your base, train your minions, defend your operations from the Forces of Justice, and achieve global domination!

Why similar: Strategy 28.9%, Management 25%, Simulation 16.7%, Building 15.5%, Sandbox 10.8%

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 35.3%, Political Sim 20.2% ★, Economy 11.5%, Strategy 8%, Simulation 7%

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 33.3%, Economy 15.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Simulation 10.3%, Strategy 9.8%

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: City Builder 31.8%, Political Sim 19.5% ★, Economy 15.8%, Diplomacy 12.7% ★, Strategy 8%

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 20.8%, Economy 20.7%, Management 17.7%, Strategy 15.9%, Simulation 10.9%

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: City Builder 33.7%, Economy 16.1%, Management 11.6%, Strategy 8.7%, Diplomacy 8% ★

Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

Why similar: Political Sim 38.4% ★, Strategy 22.8%, Economy 11.7%, Simulation 11.4%, Management 9.3%

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

Why similar: City Builder 59.9%, Strategy 14.1%, Political Sim 11.5% ★, Management 6.7%, Simulation 4.9%

Rewrite history by shaping a civilization as unique as you are. Combine 60 cultures from the Ancient Era to the Modern Age to lead your empire to victory. Build thriving cities, outsmart rivals in epic battles, spread your influence and leave your mark on HUMANKIND™.

Why similar: City Builder 49.2%, Strategy 23.5%, Management 11.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Simulation 3.5%

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 51.1%, Strategy 23.1%, Simulation 17.3%, Building 7.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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: City Builder 36.6%, Economy 18.8%, Management 13.4%, Sandbox 8.7%, Strategy 7.8%

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 44%, Economy 15.9%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 7.1%

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 57.7%, Simulation 12.7%, Management 8.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Sandbox 6.5%

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 58.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Management 6%, Economy 6%

Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.

Why similar: City Builder 40%, Political Sim 26.4% ★, Management 11.2%, Strategy 7.7%, Building 6.9%

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 35.3%, Economy 17.9%, Management 12.5%, Sandbox 9%, Strategy 8.1%

Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.

Why similar: City Builder 31.3%, Political Sim 17.9% ★, Economy 13.2%, Management 10.6%, Sandbox 7%

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 65.7%, Strategy 10%, Economy 7.2%, Simulation 5.7%, Sandbox 5.3%

Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.

Why similar: City Builder 45.2%, Strategy 19.2%, Simulation 14.7%, Economy 10.4%, Building 5%

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

Why similar: City Builder 36.9%, Economy 13.2%, Management 11.3%, Strategy 9.7%, Simulation 9.2%

Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.

Why similar: City Builder 27.6%, Economy 20.6%, Management 16.9%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 7.3%

Step into the shoes of a hotel owner as you design, build, and manage grand hotels around the world. Juggle demanding guests, frantic logistics, and plenty of unexpected surprises in Hotel Architect; the ultimate hotel construction and tycoon management game!

Why similar: City Builder 32.6%, Economy 16.2%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.5%, Building 7.3%

The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.

Why similar: City Builder 41.6%, Economy 15.9%, Management 12.5%, Diplomacy 9.1% ★, Building 7.6%

Manage Hell. Manipulate the Overworld. Build the resurrection business of your dreams! In Sintopia, you’re tasked with managing the bureaucratic administration of Hell: “re-educate” the sinful, generate profit, play god and expand your hellish empire. All part of a day’s work at Hell Incorporated.

Why similar: City Builder 40.3%, Management 17.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Simulation 8.7%, Building 8.6%

Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!

Why similar: Strategy 18.4%, Management 17.9%, Economy 17.7%, Simulation 16.8%, City Builder 10.7%

A unique and deeply engaging political/military strategic simulation from the creator of Plague Inc. Balance competing civilian and military priorities and deal with a deadly insurgency in order to stabilise a war-torn country.

Why similar: Economy 22.9%, Diplomacy 16.9% ★, Management 15.6%, Strategy 11.4%, Sandbox 10.7%

Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Management 18.4%, Economy 14.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Simulation 9.2%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Management 26.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Simulation 13.9%, Building 13.3%, City Builder 12.7%