- #1 Truck City
97% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Transportation 15.7% ★, City Builder 11.7%, Mining 11% ★, Colony Sim 10.8%, Automation 9.8%
- #2 Odd Realm
96% matchVery Positive85% of 996 reviews2024
Dev: Unknown Origin Games Inc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Forge a new kingdom in a land recovering from the Fracture. Which of the surviving races will you lead to rebuild, explore, and conquer the unknown? The dwindling yet immortal Ancients? The bold and resourceful Humans? The life stealing Ardyn? Or the secretive Gwdir who shape living groves?
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.6%, Mining 12.4% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%, Automation 8.1%
- #3 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
96% matchVery Positive81% of 1,748 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 14.7% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Transportation 12% ★, Isometric 9.2%, Management 7.7%
- #4 Logistik
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dysnomia
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build, schedule, and optimize your rail network, with every track reshaping the world. Balance fuel costs, adapt to the terrain, and fulfill demands. Elevate Trains to the ultimate means of transport!
Why similar: Trains 16% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, Transportation 13.3% ★, Capitalism 8.9%, Automation 8.6%
- #5 Factory Town
94% matchVery Positive91% of 4,433 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.2 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: Colony Sim 15.2%, Automation 11.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Base Building 10.2%, Transportation 9.9% ★
- #6 Mini Settlers: Prologue
94% matchVery Positive89% of 803 reviews2024
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Mini Settlers: Prologue is a free version of Mini Settlers. In this minimalist 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: Colony Sim 17.5%, Transportation 13.6% ★, Automation 10.9%, Trains 10.4% ★, City Builder 10.4%
- #7 Times of Progress
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pressing Thumbs Games
Windows · Linux
Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Why similar: Trains 16.8% ★, Transportation 13.3% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Base Building 7.7%
- #8 Factory Town 2: Paradise
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Trains 15.1% ★, Colony Sim 13.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Automation 11.7%, Base Building 9.2%
- #9 Cargo Company
91% matchMixed58% of 72 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 20.7% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Economy 9.4%, Management 7.5%
- #10 Metroland
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Anglia Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become a transport tycoon in 1900s London. Expand transport lines, housing, and businesses to fund your transport empire. Make use of urban planning to create communities that will use your services.
Why similar: Transportation 20.7% ★, Trains 16.1% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Capitalism 11.3%, Economy 8.8%
- #11 Iron Roads
90% matchPositive85% of 48 reviews2025
Dev: Cowleyfornia Studios
Windows · Linux
Optimise and grow your railways in this challenging train management game. Instead of waiting for money to arrive, earn resource tokens by refining your network until your towns are thriving. Avoid queues, jams, or angry passengers to be recognised as the unsung train hero you know you are.
Why similar: Trains 21.1% ★, Transportation 17.4% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Economy 8.2%
- #12 Infindustry
89% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Transportation 15.9% ★, Mining 13.9% ★, Automation 12.6%, City Builder 11.1%, Base Building 10.7%
- #13 Arc of Icarus
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 13B Productions
Windows
Build and lead your colony on a lost ringworld, where deadly conditions await on both sides while the world keeps turning! Progress through technological evolution, survive cultural revolution, and govern with a wise and steady hand!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Sandbox 8.6%, Management 7.6%, Base Building 7.5%
- #14 Train Valley World
88% matchMostly Positive71% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
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 19.8% ★, Trains 17.3% ★, City Builder 9.9%, Automation 8.9%, Capitalism 8.9%
- #15 Wild West Pioneers
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.7%, City Builder 13.8%, Transportation 11.8% ★, Mining 11% ★, Sandbox 8.4%
- #16 Rise of Industry
87% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,169 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: City Builder 14.7%, Economy 11.4%, Management 9.8%, Transportation 9% ★, Trains 8.4% ★
- #17 Sweet Transit
86% matchMixed68% of 1,248 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.5 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 17% ★, Transportation 16.1% ★, City Builder 11.2%, Isometric 7.3%, Economy 7.3%
- #18 Ranchbound
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Eldersong Games
Windows
Grow your ranch, raise cattle, lead cowboys, and trade with settlers in a new real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Why similar: Western 19.9% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Colony Sim 10.7%, Base Building 8.7%, Economy 8.6%
- #19 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 233 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Build a living city on rails in this steampunk fantasy train-city builder. Manage multiracial colonies with thousands of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, manage the economy, and create logistics as you explore distant regions to ensure the prosperity of your Empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, Trains 16.4% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Automation 8.7%, Base Building 8.1%
- #20 Moose Miners
84% matchMixed69% of 521 reviews2024
Dev: Lingon Studios
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 145.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Why similar: Mining 15.3% ★, Colony Sim 14.6%, Trains 13.9% ★, Capitalism 9.4%, Automation 9%
- #21 Country Architect
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: purple_mimosaPub: Tribesylvania Studios
Windows · Linux
Can you build an entire country? An infrastructure and economy management sim. Lead a nation to prosperity by strategically placing towns and factories. Choose between bidding teams to build connections, while paying attention to citizen feedback on Social Bird to avoid civil unrest.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 15.8%, Transportation 12.8% ★, Sandbox 9.6%, Economy 6.8%
- #22 Fosoria
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decoy Duck
Windows
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 9.6%, Management 8.7%, Isometric 7.2%
- #23 Oxygen: First Breath
82% matchVery Positive89% of 1,654 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.3%, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 13%, Survival 8.5%, Economy 8.4%
- #24 Space Architect
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 288 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Mining 11.2% ★, Automation 10.9%, Base Building 10.6%, Sandbox 7.4%
- #25 Captain of Industry
81% matchVery Positive90% of 10,894 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 84.6 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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 18.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Economy 9.5%
- #26 Mars Rapid Transit
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crystalline Green Ltd.
Windows
Engineer a fast and efficient train network on Mars. Build a thriving business and grow a dynamic economy in this Transport and Economy Management game.
Why similar: Trains 19.7% ★, Transportation 18.7% ★, Colony Sim 13.8%, City Builder 12.2%, Capitalism 7.9%
- #27 Railway Empire 2
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,561 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 26.6 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: Western 18.5% ★, Trains 18.3% ★, Transportation 17.9% ★, City Builder 10%, Economy 7.9%
- #28 Mini Settlers
78% matchVery Positive84% of 652 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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: Colony Sim 16.2%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Trains 11.6% ★, City Builder 10.6%, Automation 10.4%
- #29 Frostliner
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Nathan Gane
Windows · Linux
The moon shattered. The world froze. Take command of a nomadic train city hurtling through a war-ravaged frozen wasteland. In this survival city builder on rails, gather survivors, scavenge resources, and do whatever it takes to keep the engine running and stay ahead of the frost.
Why similar: Trains 19.8% ★, City Builder 13.9%, Colony Sim 13.8%, Transportation 12.9% ★, Base Building 6.9%
- #30 Railroad Corporation 2
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 370 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 22% ★, Western 19.8% ★, Transportation 16.2% ★, City Builder 9.8%, Economy 8.8%
- #31 Spaceflight Factory
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Transportation 16.2% ★, City Builder 12%, Automation 11.2%, Base Building 9.5%
- #32 Beyond These Stars
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.5%, City Builder 14.1%, Base Building 11.2%, Automation 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #33 Casino Resort Tower
76% matchVery Positive94% of 127 reviews2023
Dev: Cyperk Software
Windows · Mac
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.5%, Transportation 14.1% ★, Capitalism 10.8%, Base Building 9.7%, Economy 9.2%
- #34 InfraSpace
76% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,907 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: Transportation 17.9% ★, City Builder 13%, Trains 12.2% ★, Automation 10.6%, Economy 7.7%
- #35 Plan B: Terraform
73% matchVery Positive91% of 3,512 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 17.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.5%, Trains 16.1% ★, Automation 11.4%, Base Building 8.2%
- #36 Epic Trains 4
74% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Andrew Rowe
Windows · Linux
Run a transportation empire with planes, trains, automobiles and ships. Become a transportation tycoon. No generative AI.
Why similar: Trains 18% ★, Transportation 17.2% ★, Capitalism 12.3%, Isometric 9.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #37 Prison Architect
75% matchVery Positive89% of 73,349 reviews2015
Dev: Introversion SoftwarePub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 30.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 13.7%, Base Building 11.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Capitalism 8.3%
- #38 Seeds of Resilience
75% matchMixed70% of 367 reviews2019
Dev: Subtle GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 10.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Economy 9.1%
- #39 Founders' Fortune
74% matchVery Positive80% of 2,181 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.8%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 7.4%, Survival 6.4%
- #40 Lost Heaven Station
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 12.7%, Trains 11.7% ★, Sandbox 9.6%
- #41 Steam & Stones
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AnvilWorks
Windows · Mac · Linux
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.1%, Trains 19% ★, City Builder 11.9%, Mining 11.5% ★, Automation 11.3%
- #42 Farmman
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rossoft Interactive
Windows · Mac
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, City Builder 17.5%, Sandbox 10.8%, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.3%
- #43 Kubifaktorium
72% matchVery Positive81% of 795 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.2%, Trains 17.6% ★, City Builder 13.7%, Automation 12.2%, Base Building 8.5%
- #44 Steam & Heather
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Flag Hippo Games
Windows
A cosy railway management builder set in 19th-century Scotland. Shape the land, lay track, connect industries, and watch towns grow as steam reshapes the Scottish landscape.
Why similar: Trains 21.5% ★, Transportation 19.4% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Economy 8.7%, Management 8.3%
- #45 After the Collapse
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Procedural Generation 8.7%
- #46 1849
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 383 reviews2014
Dev: SomaSim
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Why similar: Western 30.1% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Economy 8.7%, Management 7.8%, Sandbox 7.1%
- #47 Galaxy Scavengers
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18%, Base Building 16.8%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 10.6%, Resource Management 9.4%
- #48 Settletopia
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 9.6%, Procedural Generation 7.9%
- #49 Settlements Rising
69% matchVery Positive81% of 426 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 9%, Resource Management 8.3%, Sandbox 6.9%
- #50 Automation Empire
71% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 19.3 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: Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Trains 10.5% ★, Mining 10.2% ★, Sandbox 9.3%
- #51 Transport Fever 3
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Urban Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Transport Fever 3, the ultimate transport tycoon returns, bigger, deeper, and more dynamic than ever. Build the routes that transform the world across land, sea, and sky using over a century of evolving transport options. Design and build your ideal transport network.
Why similar: Transportation 23% ★, Trains 19.4% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 9.5%, Management 8.1%
- #52 Train Kingdom
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MYJIKA INC.
Windows
This is a railway history simulation game.Set in the United States of the 19th century. Get a railroad network that connects cities in the pioneering America. Use locomotives to carry supplies, passengers, and get money through trade. Complete various quests and gain fame.
Why similar: Western 20.8% ★, Trains 20.5% ★, Transportation 18.9% ★, Colony Sim 12.1%, Economy 8.7%
- #53 Architect of Ruin
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dead Money LLCPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Linux
Architect of Ruin is a completely hand drawn sword and sorcery colony simulation game. Farm, hunt, build, and survive as you rebuild an ancient temple under the gaze of a vengeful god.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 11.3%, Automation 9%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #54 MicroTown
68% matchVery Positive95% of 475 reviews2019
Dev: Snowy Ash Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Build and manage your own settlement! A relaxing village construction and management simulator.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.6%, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 11.7%, Economy 9.2%, Sandbox 9%
- #55 Islandustry
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 16.2%, Base Building 13.5%, City Builder 13.1%, Sandbox 11%, Management 7.4%
- #56 Wall World Strategy
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Mining 13.9% ★, City Builder 12.5%, Base Building 10.5%, Economy 8.7%
- #57 Transports
69% matchMixed65% 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 19.9% ★, Trains 18.7% ★, City Builder 9.6%, Economy 9.3%, Management 7.8%
- #58 Train World
66% matchMostly Positive74% of 96 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 24.6% ★, Transportation 19.6% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Economy 8.8%, Automation 7.7%
- #59 Depraved
68% matchMixed61% of 1,240 reviews2019
Dev: Evil Bite
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Depraved is a city builder game with survival aspects, settled in the Wild West. Build towns and establish important outposts to supply your residents with food and other raw materials. Resist the seasons, dangerous animals, and bandits and conquer the Wild West.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20%, Western 17.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 9.1%
- #60 Mad Tower Tycoon
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 441 reviews2020
Dev: Eggcode
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Design your own skyscraper with more than 100 Floors. Rent offices, apartments or shops and build a financially lucrative skyscraper. Build cinemas, bars or a theater to satisfy your visitors and create an effective transport system with elevators and stairs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, Transportation 14.7% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Economy 9.3%, Sandbox 8.7%