- #1 Transport Fever 2
97% matchVery Positive90% of 32,451 reviews2019
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 15.7 hrsMean: 66.0 hrs≥1hr: 84%
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
Why similar: Transportation 26.1% ★, Trains 23.7% ★, Management 9.3%, Economy 8.5%, City Builder 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive modern transportation management game, offering deep train network simulation and logistics that mirror the core goals of Voxel Tycoon.
- #2 Captain of Industry
96% matchVery Positive90% of 11,469 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 84.9 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Resource Management 14.2%, Economy 13.6%, Transportation 10.2% ★, Management 10%
Why You'll Like It: It offers an incredibly detailed approach to factory automation and resource management on a massive, island-wide scale.
- #3 Mashinky
96% matchVery Positive85% of 2,814 reviews2018
Dev: Jan Zelený
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 36.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Mashinky is a transport strategy game about trains. The goal is to create your own transport empire on a procedurally generated map. It’s a unique blend of realistic graphics combined with an isometric construction mode and board game-like rules.
Why similar: Trains 27.3% ★, Transportation 24.2% ★, Economy 10.5%, Management 9.1%, Moddable 7.1% ★
Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly blends train network management with a unique board-game-inspired aesthetic and deep economic simulation.
- #4 Factorio
95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 233,774 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 192.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Trains 14.8% ★, Resource Management 12.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: As the gold standard for automation and supply chain management, it provides the complex logistical challenges that fans of Voxel Tycoon's factory systems will love.
- #5 Sweet Transit
94% matchMixed68% of 1,268 reviews2024
Dev: Ernestas NorvaišasPub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Why similar: Trains 23.4% ★, Transportation 22.4% ★, Economy 9%, Moddable 8.6% ★, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: This city-builder focuses heavily on rail-based transportation and logistics, making it a natural successor for those who enjoy Voxel Tycoon's train mechanics.
- #6 Rail Route
94% matchVery Positive88% of 2,604 reviews2024
Dev: Bitrich.info
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 113.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
In Rail Route, you will design, construct, upgrade, and automate your railway network in one of the many maps based on real-life cities worldwide. Dispatch the trains to make the traffic flow and the network grow!
Why similar: Trains 24.8% ★, Transportation 22.3% ★, Automation 9.8%, Economy 9.6%, Management 7.6%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the intricate logic of train dispatching and network optimization, providing a satisfying puzzle-like experience for logistics enthusiasts.
- #7 Factory Town
93% matchVery Positive91% of 4,475 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 14.0 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Transportation 14.3% ★, Trains 13.1% ★, Automation 11.8%, Management 8.5%, Resource Management 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It simplifies the automation process into a charming, grid-based world that feels very similar to the approachable yet deep nature of Voxel Tycoon.
- #8 Satisfactory
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 278,339 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 112.6 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 28.9%, Crafting 16.3%, Resource Management 14.6%, Building 13.7%, Sandbox 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: It brings the automation and logistics of Voxel Tycoon into a beautiful first-person 3D environment, emphasizing verticality and complex factory layouts.
- #9 InfraSpace
92% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,954 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.2 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 22.2% ★, Trains 15% ★, Automation 9.1%, Economy 8.4%, City Builder 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines city-building with a heavy emphasis on managing traffic and supply chain logistics in a futuristic setting.
- #10 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 91,542 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.0 hrsMean: 75.8 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 26.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Management 13.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 9.4%
Why You'll Like It: This game scales the logistics and automation concepts to an interstellar level, requiring massive supply chain management across multiple planets.
- #11 Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
89% matchVery Positive91% of 27,069 reviews2024
Dev: 3DivisionPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 71.3 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Economy 17.1%, Management 14.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Building 11%
Why You'll Like It: It is perhaps the most complex and realistic logistics and city-building simulation available, perfect for players who want deep control over every resource.
- #12 Railway Empire 2
90% matchMostly Positive73% of 2,651 reviews2023
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 26.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Why similar: Trains 24.1% ★, Transportation 23.6% ★, Economy 9.2%, Management 8.2%, Resource Management 6%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a polished experience focused on building historical rail networks and managing complex economic routes.
- #13 NIMBY Rails
89% matchVery Positive90% of 2,300 reviews2021
Dev: Weird and Wry
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 39.8 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Why similar: Transportation 30.1% ★, Trains 17.5% ★, Economy 11.4%, Management 9.3%, Building 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an incredibly detailed, real-world map-based approach to designing and managing massive rail transit networks.
- #14 OpenTTD
87% matchVery Positive95% of 16,941 reviews2021
Dev: OpenTTD
Windows · Mac · Linux
OpenTTD is a business simulation game in which players earn money by transporting passengers and cargo via road, rail, water, and air. It is an open-source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
Why similar: Trains 22.8% ★, Transportation 21.9% ★, Economy 11.2%, Management 8.4%, Building 8%
Why You'll Like It: The classic inspiration for the genre, it remains the benchmark for transportation management and complex network building.
- #15 Transport Fever
88% matchVery Positive83% of 10,841 reviews2016
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 47.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Why similar: Trains 23.1% ★, Transportation 22.3% ★, Economy 9.7%, Management 7.9%, City Builder 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: The predecessor to the modern standard, it still holds up as a fantastic transportation management simulation with a focus on historical progression.
- #16 RAILGRADE
86% matchVery Positive85% of 1,255 reviews2023
Dev: Minakata Dynamics
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Why similar: Trains 24.9% ★, Transportation 9.7% ★, Automation 8.7%, Moddable 8.5% ★, Economy 7.9%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on using trains to solve industrial logistics problems in a stylized, mission-based format that rewards efficiency.
- #17 Derail Valley
85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 9,700 reviews2019
Dev: Altfuture
Windows
Median: 13.9 hrsMean: 36.7 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% ★, Transportation 30.3% ★, Economy 9.1%, Resource Management 6.1%, Sandbox 5.3%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly immersive, first-person simulation of operating trains, focusing on the mechanical and logistical side of rail transport.
- #18 Automation Empire
86% matchMixed66% of 2,643 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 19.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 16.9%, Trains 15.8% ★, Economy 11.2%, Management 9.1%, Resource Management 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: It allows players to build vast, multi-modal logistics networks using trains, drones, and trucks to automate resource processing.
- #19 shapez
84% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 15,812 reviews2020
Dev: Tobias SpringerPub: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Why similar: Automation 22.4%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 11.2%, Sandbox 11.1%
Why You'll Like It: This game strips automation down to its core logic, providing a pure, satisfying experience of building efficient production lines.
- #20 Train Valley World
84% matchMostly Positive70% of 297 reviews2024
Dev: FlazmPub: tinyBuild
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!
Why similar: Transportation 27.5% ★, Trains 23.8% ★, Automation 8.6%, Economy 8%, Management 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It combines train network management with puzzle-solving elements in a vibrant, accessible package.
- #21 Plan B: Terraform
82% matchVery Positive91% of 3,595 reviews2025
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Terraform a lifeless rock into a lush and habitable world. Build trucks, trains, and sprawling factories on an enormous hexagonal planet. Grow its population to millions. Enjoy a dynamic simulation of atmosphere, temperature, water, and forests.
Why similar: Transportation 26.1% ★, Trains 23.8% ★, Automation 11.8%, Resource Management 8.1%, Management 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the logistics of terraforming a planet, requiring massive transportation networks to move resources across the surface.
- #22 Airport CEO
82% matchVery Positive83% of 8,330 reviews2021
Dev: Apog Labs
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Build and manage an international airport!
Why similar: Transportation 22.1% ★, Moddable 12.7% ★, Management 10.1%, Automation 9.9%, Economy 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: It applies the same management and logistics principles found in Voxel Tycoon to the complex operation of an international airport.
- #23 Rise of Industry
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,193 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: Economy 15.5%, Management 14.3%, Transportation 13.9% ★, Trains 12.8% ★, City Builder 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes the economic and management side of industrial production, requiring players to balance supply and demand across a growing map.
- #24 Station to Station
81% matchVery Positive89% of 1,951 reviews2023
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Prismatika
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 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 27% ★, Transportation 21.4% ★, Voxel 16.5% ★, Management 7.8%, Automation 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It uses a voxel-based art style to create a relaxing, puzzle-focused experience centered on connecting train stations.
- #25 Timberborn
78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 41,163 reviews2026
Dev: Mechanistry
Windows · Mac
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 44.1 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: Voxel 22.9% ★, Automation 14.6%, City Builder 14.4%, Management 12.2%, Building 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: While focused on beavers, the game features complex water management and resource logistics that require careful planning and engineering.
- #26 Urbek City Builder
80% matchVery Positive89% of 1,977 reviews2022
Dev: FridusPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 10.2 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 20.5% ★, Economy 14.2%, Management 13.4%, City Builder 12.3%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a unique, grid-based city-building experience where resource management is tied directly to the growth of different neighborhood types.
- #27 Production Line : Car factory simulation
81% matchVery Positive82% of 3,483 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Management 18.5%, Economy 15.8%, Automation 14.5%, Resource Management 9.5%, Building 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep dive into the specific logistics of running a car manufacturing plant, focusing on efficiency and bottleneck management.
- #28 Autonauts
78% matchVery Positive90% of 4,956 reviews2019
Dev: DenkiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
In Autonauts you must build, create, and automate. Start by establishing a colony, crafting bots and teaching them via Scratch-style programming to build an ever evolving autonomous paradise of agriculture, industry and enlightenment.
Why similar: Automation 30.6%, Crafting 11.7%, Resource Management 10.7%, Management 10.7%, Building 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: It introduces a unique programming-based automation system that is both charming and deeply rewarding for logistics fans.
- #29 Town to City
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,015 reviews2026
Dev: Galaxy GrovePub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
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: Voxel 23% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 13.1%, Management 11%, Building 10.5%
- #30 Kubifaktorium
77% matchVery Positive81% of 800 reviews2021
Dev: Neomateria Games GmbH
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.6 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 22.5% ★, Voxel 10.9% ★, Automation 10.9%, Economy 9.6%, Management 7.9%
- #31 Train Station Simulator
79% 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 47.1% ★, Management 16%, Simulation 7.1%, Economy 6.8%, Strategy 6.1%
Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the micro-management of train stations, providing a different perspective on the transportation networks seen in Voxel Tycoon.
- #32 Factory Town 2: Paradise
75% matchVery Positive91% of 151 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 21.6% ★, Automation 11.6%, Economy 10.3%, City Builder 8%, Management 7.8%
- #33 Transports
79% matchMixed66% of 107 reviews2018
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Transports is a transportation business simulation game. Build your business empire by building transportation routes for trucks, trains, ships and planes to transport goods between industrial buildings and cities.
Why similar: Transportation 24% ★, Trains 22.4% ★, Economy 9.9%, Management 8.9%, Moddable 7% ★
Why You'll Like It: It is a straightforward, classic-style transportation management game that focuses on connecting industries and cities.
- #34 Railway Empire
76% matchVery Positive83% of 9,710 reviews2018
Dev: Gaming Minds StudiosPub: Kalypso Media
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Why similar: Trains 31% ★, Transportation 15.5% ★, Economy 11.2%, Management 11.2%, Building 6.1%
- #35 Simutrans
77% matchMostly Positive76% of 675 reviews2016
Dev: The Simutrans Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.
Why similar: Trains 36.4% ★, Transportation 10.6% ★, Management 10.2%, Economy 8.7%, Simulation 6.7%
- #36 Super Loco World - Cozy Train Automation
73% matchMostly Positive77% of 383 reviews2025
Dev: Andrii BychkovskyiPub: Curve Games
Windows
Effortlessly build and automate intricate railroads and deliver goods to meet the demands of a dynamic world! Make clever use of signals and signposts to avoid traffic jams, and watch your villages blossom into bustling towns in this cozy take on the train tycoon genre.
Why similar: Trains 25.6% ★, Transportation 23.9% ★, Automation 10%, Economy 9%, Management 7.1%
- #37 Train Fever
76% matchMixed64% of 3,527 reviews2014
Dev: Urban GamesPub: Good Shepherd Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 29.6 hrs≥1hr: 66%
It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
Why similar: Trains 39.5% ★, Transportation 12.2% ★, Economy 10.8%, Management 10.1%, Simulation 5.7%
- #38 Transport INC
75% 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 25.1% ★, Trains 22.8% ★, Economy 10.3%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 7.7%
- #39 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,769 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: Trains 22.8% ★, Transportation 18.8% ★, Management 11.4%, City Builder 8.7%, Building 7.8%
- #40 Train Life: A Railway Simulator
73% matchMixed63% of 1,693 reviews2022
Dev: SimteractPub: Nacon
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 79%
For the first time in railroad simulation, play as both the driver and company director! Take the controls of your locomotives and grow your railway empire by negotiating deals and developing your network.
Why similar: Transportation 32.5% ★, Trains 30.6% ★, Management 11.5%, Economy 9.2%, Simulation 5.7%
- #41 Train World
73% 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 27.1% ★, Transportation 21.8% ★, Economy 8.7%, Management 6.7%, Sandbox 6.5%
- #42 Worldwide Rush
71% matchMostly Positive79% of 568 reviews2025
Dev: Memel Games
Windows
Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
Why similar: Transportation 40.8% ★, Economy 16.6%, Management 12%, Sandbox 9%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #43 Iron Village
71% matchVery Positive91% of 75 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 28.6% ★, Transportation 25.1% ★, Economy 10.3%, City Builder 8.5%, Management 8%
- #44 Incremental Factory
72% matchMixed68% of 247 reviews2024
Dev: Significant Steak
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 7.8 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: Trains 20.5% ★, Automation 16.6%, Resource Management 11.3%, Economy 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%
- #45 Little Big Workshop
72% matchVery Positive84% of 3,391 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
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: Management 16.2%, Economy 13.7%, Automation 12.8%, Resource Management 11%, Simulation 10.8%
- #46 Voxel Eras
70% 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 20.3% ★, Automation 15.4%, Moddable 12.6% ★, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 10%
- #47 Modulus: Factory Automation
67% matchVery Positive91% of 846 reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 14.7 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 17.9%, Management 13.8%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 9.9%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #48 shapez 2 - Factory
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 15,091 reviews2026
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Transportation 27.7% ★, Automation 15.7%, Management 13.1%, Moddable 10.1% ★, Building 8.3%
- #49 Revive & Prosper
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 80 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: Transportation 19.7% ★, Voxel 16.7% ★, Moddable 12% ★, Automation 11.3%, Building 7.7%
- #50 FOUNDRY
68% matchVery Positive81% of 3,918 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 48.4 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 23.9% ★, Automation 16.7%, Resource Management 11.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.8%
- #51 MineMogul
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,237 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 12.3 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 22.5%, Management 14.5%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.1%
- #52 Steel Artery: Train City Builder
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 317 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 26.1% ★, Economy 11.3%, Automation 9.5%, Management 8.8%, Moddable 8.6% ★
- #53 Railroad Tycoon 3
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,263 reviews2007
Dev: PopTopPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Railroad Tycoon 3 features 25 scenarios challenging players to recreate magnificent feats of railroading history from around the world. Players can lay track (including tunnels and overpasses), pick from over 40 locomotives from early steams to modern bullets, choose to haul over 35 types of cargo in a dynamic economy, and participate in...
Why similar: Trains 47.5% ★, Management 26%, Economy 8.9%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 3.3%
- #54 Transporter
70% matchMixed47% of 55 reviews2023
Dev: Shattered Mirror Studio
Windows
Modern transport sim game combining realistic simulation with indie game style, old-school grid environment, newest features, and modern transport options. Transport a wide variety of cargo and passengers over road, rail, and water, and create your own transport company!
Why similar: Transportation 40.5% ★, Trains 21% ★, Management 12.8%, Economy 7%, Strategy 5.2%
- #55 Subway Builder
67% matchMixed57% of 360 reviews2026
Dev: Colin MillerPub: Borough Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs. Craft the subway system your city deserves.
Why similar: City Builder 11.8%, Trains 11.6% ★, Management 11.6%, Transportation 10.1% ★, Building 9.1%
- #56 Sandustry
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,449 reviews2026
Dev: Lantto GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.9 hrsMean: 12.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21.6%, Crafting 15.2%, Building 14.2%, Sandbox 14.1%, Resource Management 13.5%
- #57 Mini Settlers
66% matchVery Positive81% of 742 reviews2025
Dev: Knight Owl GamesPub: Goblinz Publishing
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Mini Settlers is a minimalistic city builder! Settle islands, construct cities, and design efficient logistic networks to fulfill your buildings' needs and fuel population growth to adventure into new worlds.
Why similar: Transportation 23.9% ★, Trains 19.7% ★, Automation 12.4%, Management 9.3%, City Builder 7.7%
- #58 A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 205 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 20.7% ★, Trains 18.8% ★, Economy 10.9%, Management 9.4%, City Builder 8.6%
- #59 Railroader
65% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,545 reviews2023
Dev: Giraffe Lab LLC
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 78.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You and your fellow railroaders are the lifeblood of your railroad, just like it is the lifeblood of the communities it serves. Switch cars at industries. Keep people moving while running local passenger trains. Run trains with a purpose in transition era Appalachia – in Railroader!
Why similar: Trains 36.8% ★, Transportation 34.3% ★, Economy 10.8%, Sandbox 5%, Open World 4.7%
- #60 Cities: Skylines II
67% matchMixed56% of 91,808 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.6 hrsMean: 76.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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: Transportation 16.5% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Economy 12.4%, Management 11.3%, Building 10.5%