- #1 Factory Town
97% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 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: Automation 16.8%, City Builder 12.6%, Transportation 12.4% ★, Trains 12.3% ★, Crafting 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: It combines resource management, automation, and transport logistics in a charming, grid-based world.
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 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 29.5%, Economy 13.8%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 9.5%, Transportation 9% ★
Why You'll Like It: You must build complex production chains and manage raw materials to sustain a sprawling industrial colony.
- #3 Transport Fever 2
96% matchVery Positive90% of 33,029 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.1 hrsMean: 65.2 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 23.9% ★, Trains 23.4% ★, City Builder 12.9%, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: It offers deep logistics and transportation mechanics focused on connecting cities and industries with vast transit networks.
- #4 Mashinky
95% matchVery Positive85% of 2,823 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 36.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
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 29.4% ★, Transportation 24.1% ★, Economy 12.2%, Sandbox 10%, Management 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: This tycoon game challenges you to build a transport empire while evolving your network through different historical eras.
- #5 Sweet Transit
94% matchMixed67% of 1,278 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 24.7% ★, Transportation 21.9% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Economy 10.3%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A dedicated city-builder and transport sim where the entire economy relies on the efficiency of your railway system.
- #6 RAILGRADE
94% matchVery Positive85% of 1,278 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 24.6% ★, Automation 12.8%, City Builder 11.3%, Transportation 9.6% ★, Economy 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It challenges your resource-routing and train-management skills in a stylized campaign focused on economic recovery.
- #7 InfraSpace
93% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,968 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.3 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 19.8% ★, Trains 14.5% ★, Automation 13.4%, City Builder 12.8%, Economy 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: You build a futuristic sci-fi city while carefully designing its intricate road networks and traffic simulation.
- #8 Station to Station
92% matchVery Positive89% of 1,964 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 47%
‘Station to Station’ is a minimalist & relaxing game about building railway connections. Grab your conductor’s hat and bring the voxel-art world to life through the magic of trains!
Why similar: Trains 21% ★, Transportation 15.3% ★, Voxel 15.2% ★, Cozy 8.5%, City Builder 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: A cozy minimalist puzzle game centered around building voxel-based railway connections and revitalizing landscapes.
- #9 Factorio
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 235,209 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.9 hrsMean: 193.9 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 31.5%, Trains 13.7% ★, Sandbox 11.9%, Crafting 11.4%, City Builder 7%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential automation game where you build massive, self-sustaining factories and defend against alien threats.
- #10 Plan B: Terraform
91% matchVery Positive91% of 3,674 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.1 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 22.5% ★, Trains 22.3% ★, Automation 16.7%, Sandbox 8.6%, Crafting 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: You must build global supply chains and manage planetary resources to transform a barren world into a habitable home.
- #11 Dyson Sphere Program
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,831 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 76.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 32.8%, Building 14.9%, City Builder 13%, Sandbox 11.4%, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: You construct massive interstellar supply chains and automated factories across multiple star systems.
- #12 Kubifaktorium
90% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
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: Trains 19.3% ★, Automation 14.1%, City Builder 12.4%, Voxel 11.1% ★, Economy 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony management game where you automate crafting and resource collection using clever logistics.
- #13 Satisfactory
88% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 280,086 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 35.7%, Crafting 18.3%, Building 15.9%, Sandbox 13.6%, Open World 12%
Why You'll Like It: It translates the joy of first-person factory building and automated resource transport into a vast alien open world.
- #14 Railway Empire 2
89% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,687 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 27.4 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: Trains 22.9% ★, Transportation 20.6% ★, City Builder 10.2%, Economy 9.4%, Sandbox 7.7%
Why You'll Like It: It delivers a polished railroad tycoon experience with expansive network building and historical train management.
- #15 Timberborn
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,938 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.1 hrsMean: 44.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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 22%, Voxel 21.4% ★, Automation 17.5%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A city-builder featuring ingenious vertical building mechanics and water physics managed by clever beavers.
- #16 Train Valley World
86% matchMixed70% of 302 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.0 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 24.4% ★, Trains 22.8% ★, Automation 12.5%, City Builder 10.8%, Economy 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-strategy game about managing complex railway routing and logistics under tight time constraints.
- #17 Automation Empire
87% matchMixed66% of 2,646 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 22.4%, Trains 13.8% ★, Economy 10.6%, Sandbox 10.2%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: It tasks you with creating sprawling, multi-tiered industrial networks to harvest and process subterranean resources.
- #18 NIMBY Rails
86% matchVery Positive90% of 2,323 reviews2021
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 40.5 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 25.8% ★, Trains 16.2% ★, Economy 11.4%, City Builder 10.8%, Building 8.9%
Why You'll Like It: An ultra-realistic sandbox management game dedicated to designing massive, complex real-world railway networks.
- #19 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
83% matchVery Positive91% of 27,451 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.7 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: City Builder 25%, Economy 17.5%, Building 14.8%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%
Why You'll Like It: An intensely deep economic and transport simulation where every single resource must be realistically hauled and processed.
- #20 Transport Fever
85% matchVery Positive83% of 10,857 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Why similar: Trains 21.5% ★, Transportation 19.2% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Economy 9.8%, Building 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The classic transport tycoon experience focused on establishing profitable passenger and freight networks.
- #21 Rail Route
84% matchVery Positive88% of 2,635 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 115.0 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 21.2% ★, Transportation 17.6% ★, Automation 12.7%, City Builder 11.1%, Economy 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: Inspired by real-world dispatching, you build and automate a bustling railway signaling network.
- #22 Little Big Workshop
82% matchVery Positive84% of 3,399 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, Building 13.7%, Management 13.7%, Economy 13.4%, Sandbox 9.3%
Why You'll Like It: You manage a bustling miniature factory floor, optimizing production lines and worker workflows to turn a profit.
- #23 Railway Empire
82% matchVery Positive83% of 9,734 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.4 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 29.6% ★, Transportation 13.6% ★, Economy 11.5%, Management 9.9%, Building 8.3%
Why You'll Like It: A strategic railroad management game set in historical America with competing corporate titans.
- #24 Town to City
77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 7,135 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Build an idyllic 19th century Mediterranean town and help it flourish into a prosperous city. Freely place and customise each element to create the perfect home for your growing population in this cozy city builder from the creators of Station to Station.
Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Voxel 18.7% ★, Cozy 10.9%, Building 10.3%, Economy 9.7%
- #25 Train Life: A Railway Simulator
81% matchMixed63% of 1,695 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: Trains 29.5% ★, Transportation 28.9% ★, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.5%, Open World 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It lets you experience the operations of running an entire railway company from the perspective of an engineer and manager.
- #26 Software Inc.
80% matchVery Positive94% of 7,850 reviews2015
Dev: Coredumping
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 46.3 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 20.8%, Automation 18.5%, Building 16.9%, Management 15.8%, Sandbox 14.8%
Why You'll Like It: You build and manage a tech corporation, designing office layouts, automation systems, and software products.
- #27 Simutrans
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 678 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%
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 36.1% ★, Transportation 10.3% ★, Management 9.4%, Economy 9.3%, Building 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A classic freeware transport simulation focusing heavily on realistic passenger and cargo routing economics.
- #28 Anno 1800
79% matchVery Positive81% of 32,498 reviews2019
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 40.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
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 43.6%, Economy 21.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Sandbox 8.5%, Simulation 5.7%
Why You'll Like It: A massive city-builder featuring incredibly detailed, multi-tier supply chains and complex trade route management.
- #29 Factory Town 2: Paradise
77% matchVery Positive91% of 171 reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
A Town Builder + Factory Sim where you fully automate a tropical village and feed a giant volcano. Use conveyor belts, trains, boats, zip lines, pipes, water wheels and more to produce massive amounts of items and keep everyone happy!
Why similar: Trains 17.8% ★, Automation 14.6%, City Builder 12.8%, Economy 9.2%, Crafting 8.7%
- #30 Parkitect
78% matchVery Positive94% of 8,154 reviews2018
Dev: Texel Raptor
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks! Bringing back the best of classic theme park games with many new features and content on top. Now supports online co-op with up to 8 players!
Why similar: Economy 19.4%, City Builder 18.6%, Building 16.6%, Management 14.1%, Sandbox 12.1%
Why You'll Like It: A delightful theme park management sim with deep underground logistics and supply chain considerations.
- #31 Big Pharma
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,939 reviews2015
Dev: Twice CircledPub: Positech Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
What if you had it in your power to rid the world of disease, to improve the lives of millions, to ease suffering and cure the sick… and earn a tidy profit? As the head of your own Pharmaceutical Conglomerate you have this power resting in your hands. Will you use it for good?
Why similar: Automation 25.5%, Management 20.8%, Economy 17.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10%
Why You'll Like It: A management and factory puzzle game where you run a pharmaceutical company and optimize production lines.
- #32 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 390 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: Transportation 20.5% ★, Trains 19.7% ★, Automation 13.8%, Cozy 8.7%, Building 8.5%
- #33 Voxel Eras
75% matchVery Positive94% of 54 reviews2025
Dev: Destiny Hailstorm
Windows · Linux
Voxel Eras is a game about collecting, crafting, and automating within an infinite 3D voxel world. Taking your humble workshop made with your own two fists through eras of technology. Design, build, and evolve your operations, all in the name of progress.
Why similar: Voxel 20.2% ★, Automation 19.5%, Sandbox 12.3%, Building 11.9%, Crafting 11.7%
- #34 Iron Village
74% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Chippy Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, and grow the railway into a powerhouse.
Why similar: Trains 24.6% ★, Transportation 20% ★, City Builder 14.1%, Building 9.6%, Economy 9.5%
- #35 Sandustry
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 5,238 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Why similar: Automation 27.8%, Crafting 17.6%, Sandbox 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Open World 10.8%
- #36 Incremental Factory
74% matchMixed67% of 249 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Craft and automate an industrial empire from scratch! Experience a strategic game teeming with challenges as you manage resources, overcome hurdles, and optimize production chains. Are you ready to conquer the challenges of Incremental Factory? Your journey starts here... The Factory Must Grow!
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Trains 18.4% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #37 Urbek City Builder
73% matchVery Positive89% of 1,999 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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: Voxel 21.4% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Economy 13.5%, Building 13.5%, Sandbox 11.6%
- #38 Train Fever
76% matchMixed64% of 3,528 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 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 38.1% ★, Economy 11.3%, Transportation 10.8% ★, Management 9.1%, City Builder 8.7%
- #39 Derail Valley
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,839 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Drive massive trains and build your career in a vast open railway network. For both PC and VR.
Why similar: Trains 38.9% ★, Transportation 28.6% ★, Economy 10.1%, Sandbox 8%, Open World 7%
- #40 MineMogul
70% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,475 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Automation 29.8%, Building 16.2%, Crafting 14.1%, Sandbox 12.6%, Management 11.5%
- #41 Belts of Iron
71% matchVery Positive87% of 52 reviews2026
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows
Explore, automate, and fight in this new open world factory automation game. Build factories connected by miles of conveyor belts. Manage power and fluid networks. Explore procedurally generated worlds filled with resources to harvest and hostile creatures to defeat. Play solo or online with friends
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Trains 18.2% ★, City Builder 13%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 8.8%
- #42 Train Station Simulator
75% 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 46.5% ★, Management 14.8%, Economy 7.2%, Strategy 7%, City Builder 6.7%
- #43 Transport INC
73% matchMixed70% of 1,084 reviews2020
Dev: DIGIFOXPub: Games Operators
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Become the manager of the largest transport corporation ever! Create new planes, bus, trains and truck connections. Optimize them to ever-changing demands and adapt to unexpected events. Beat the competition. Connect cities all around the real world map!
Why similar: Transportation 23% ★, Trains 22.6% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Economy 11%, Automation 9.8%
- #44 FOUNDRY
71% matchVery Positive81% of 3,960 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Voxel 23.8% ★, Automation 21.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Building 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%
- #45 Train World
72% 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 25.3% ★, Transportation 18.8% ★, Sandbox 8.9%, Economy 8.7%, Automation 8.4%
- #46 Revive & Prosper
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 81 reviews2023
Dev: Mystiqular
Windows
A complex but not difficult voxel automation game with belts, trains, teleports, and even catapults for transport. Achieve efficiency through smart water control. Play with or without enemies. Produce materials and fuel for a spaceship. Deal with the toxic side effects. Can you Revive & Prosper?
Why similar: Voxel 19.5% ★, Transportation 17.8% ★, Automation 16.8%, Building 10.8%, Sandbox 10.3%
- #47 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
71% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.0 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 21.6% ★, Transportation 16.4% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Building 10.7%, Management 10.1%
- #48 FluxWerks
68% matchVery Positive91% of 69 reviews2026
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Every block of this planet is real, including fluids! Dig it, flood it, process it. FluxWerks is a factory automation game on a fully destructible voxel world with physical fluid and heat simulation. Dig anywhere, automate everything, and survey a world that was supposed to be empty.
Why similar: Automation 17.7%, Transportation 17.5% ★, Voxel 13.3% ★, City Builder 13%, Building 9.7%
- #49 Modulus: Factory Automation
67% matchVery Positive91% of 869 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Build, automate, & optimize production lines across sky islands with real spatial constraints. Every production line is an open-ended puzzle: which operators to use, how to route your belts and how to fit your factory into the landscape. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 21.1%, City Builder 14.5%, Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.2%, Management 10%
- #50 Tracks - The Train Set Game
69% matchVery Positive94% of 1,553 reviews2019
Dev: Whoop GroupPub: Excalibur Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.
Why similar: Trains 34.3% ★, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 14%, City Builder 11.5%, Crafting 8%
- #51 Rise of Industry
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,197 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 17.4%, Economy 15.9%, Management 12.6%, Transportation 12.1% ★, Trains 12% ★
- #52 Mini Settlers
67% matchVery Positive81% of 755 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 19.5% ★, Trains 17.4% ★, Automation 16.6%, City Builder 13.1%, Sandbox 8.7%
- #53 Islands & Trains
66% matchVery Positive90% of 596 reviews2025
Dev: Akos MakovicsPub: Future Friends Games
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 1.5 hrs≥1hr: 33%
Craft tiny railway dioramas in a stress-free island sandbox. No rules or timers - just design, build, and enjoy.
Why similar: Trains 33.5% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 12.3%, Cozy 8.8%
- #54 Soko Loco Deluxe
69% matchVery Positive81% of 98 reviews2019
Dev: Sokpop Collective
Windows · Mac
Soko Loco Deluxe is a cute train tycoon! 🚂🧱🎁💎 Transport resources, develop towns and build a giant monument! Choo-choo!
Why similar: Trains 33.3% ★, Transportation 27.9% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 6.1%
- #55 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 207 reviews2021
Dev: ARTDINKPub: KOMODO
Windows
In the world of A-Train, people gather around stations, gradually developing the surrounding town. What kind of railroad will you create? How will you develop the town? All these choices and more are yours to make.
Why similar: Transportation 17.5% ★, Trains 17.2% ★, City Builder 15.3%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10%
- #56 City Bus Manager
65% matchVery Positive91% of 2,878 reviews2024
Dev: PeDePe GbRPub: Aerosoft GmbH
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 39.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
Why similar: Economy 30.6%, Management 22.6%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 9.2%, Transportation 9.1% ★
- #57 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
65% matchMostly Positive71% of 320 reviews2026
Dev: SoulAge23Pub: Crytivo
Windows
Hardcore city-building sim in a fantasy steampunk world. Manage multi-racial colonies with hundreds of autonomous citizens, balance their needs, grow the economy, build logistics, and travel a vast world carrying out the Emperor’s orders.
Why similar: Trains 24.6% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Automation 13.5%, Economy 11.5%, Building 9.8%
- #58 Airport CEO
66% matchVery Positive83% of 8,359 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 21.8% ★, Automation 16.1%, City Builder 12.8%, Economy 11.4%, Building 10.9%
- #59 Transporter
67% matchMixed46% of 56 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 37% ★, Trains 20.8% ★, Management 11.9%, Economy 7.5%, Building 7%