Games Like Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

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: Base Building 19.2%, City Builder 14.4%, Economy 13.6%, Resource Management 12.8%, Colony Sim 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its deep extraction, refining, manufacturing, vehicle-routing, and waste-management systems offer similarly demanding industrial planning.

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

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This historically grounded city builder closely matches the deliberate pace, local production chains, seasonal labor, and practical settlement planning of Soviet Republic.

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 41.4%, Economy 16.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 6.8%, Resource Management 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It combines elaborate multi-tier production chains, trade routes, workforce needs, and expanding urban districts into a polished economic city builder.

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: City Builder 23.6%, Economy 13.5%, Management 13%, Moddable 9.6%, Building 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed vehicle lines and supply networks make it an excellent match for players who enjoy designing the transport backbone of a growing economy.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.4%, Diplomacy 9.8% ★, City Builder 9.2%, 4X 8.8% ★, Moddable 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its hands-on organic town construction, workforce assignment, resource chains, and regional trade reward careful settlement planning.

Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.

Why similar: City Builder 31.5%, Building 12.3%, Economy 11.3%, Moddable 9.4%, Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a modern large-scale city simulation focused on zoning, infrastructure, services, traffic flow, and an interconnected urban economy.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.5%, Diplomacy 12.9% ★, Historical 10.3%, Economy 9.7%, City Builder 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although more map-driven than a construction game, its population simulation, industrialization, trade, politics, and planned economic development strongly suit state-management fans.

Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.

Why similar: City Builder 13.7%, Grand Strategy 13.7%, 4X 11.7% ★, Colony Sim 11.3%, Moddable 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: This exceptionally deep city-state simulator emphasizes population classes, industry, logistics, taxation, trade, and the consequences of governing at scale.

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

Why similar: City Builder 34.7%, Economy 15.9%, Management 11.1%, Diplomacy 9.1% ★, Strategy 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a politically charged planned economy, public services, trade, infrastructure, and citizen factions gives it a lighter but thematically fitting state-builder feel.

Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.

Why similar: City Builder 15.6%, 4X 12.6% ★, Colony Sim 10.7%, Building 10%, Historical 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Balancing labor, housing, food, storage, disease, defenses, and increasingly complex production gives it a similarly grounded management challenge.

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Diplomacy 14.7% ★, Economy 8.3%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building a dense modern metropolis whose residents, commercial districts, factories, logistics, and utilities must all work together.

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

Why similar: City Builder 33.3%, Economy 8.6%, Colony Sim 8.3%, Building 7.4%, Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its resource-based medieval towns depend on carefully placed workplaces, evolving trade, public needs, and organically expanding neighborhoods.

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 25.3%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Building 9.8%, Management 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed production chains, district logistics, water engineering, and workforce management provide a dense systems-building experience despite the beaver setting.

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

Why similar: City Builder 32.8%, Colony Sim 25.9%, Survival 6.8%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic austere settlement builder where every worker, seasonal stockpile, production building, and trade decision matters.

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

Why similar: City Builder 33.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 10.4%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic builder demands close control of labor, supplies, farming, contamination, education, and settlement logistics.

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: City Builder 17.6%, Moddable 13.4%, Economy 10.7%, Alternate History 10%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its railway-centered economy asks you to connect extraction, factories, towns, and worker needs through carefully designed transport systems.

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

Why similar: City Builder 39.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Survival 11.9%, Strategy 9.8%, Base Building 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It shifts the focus toward city-scale laws, districts, resources, social tensions, and political factions while retaining difficult civic management.

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

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Economy 14.4%, Building 14%, Management 12%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes economic specialization, resource dependencies, education, neighborhood planning, and city growth without relying on conventional money systems.

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

Why similar: City Builder 25.1%, Colony Sim 17.5%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.1%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its broad production web, worker allocation, trade, public services, and environmental pressures make it a strong traditional city-builder alternative.

Voxel Tycoon is a management sim set in an infinite voxel world. Mine resources and process them into goods in your custom factories. Set up supply chains and passenger routes with a huge fleet of trains, trucks, and buses, and turn small towns into prosperous megacities with a thriving economy!

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Economy 17.5%, Building 14.8%, Management 12.4%, Sandbox 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It pairs factory supply chains with customizable rail and truck networks, making efficient movement of goods the core of expansion.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.5%, Diplomacy 9.6% ★, City Builder 9.4%, 4X 8.5% ★, Colony Sim 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its settlement-building loops feature meaningful resource chains, worker assignment, services, and trade, though in shorter roguelite runs.

Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.

Why similar: City Builder 32.7%, Economy 19.2%, Building 14.3%, Management 12%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends city construction with taxation, laws, demographics, budgets, ideology, and macroeconomic policy decisions.

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: City Builder 17.3%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Economy 8.5%, Management 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its accessible but substantial conveyor, rail, truck, and worker-driven production networks reward clean long-term industrial layouts.

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: City Builder 28.5%, Economy 18.2%, Building 15.3%, Management 12.8%, Sandbox 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: While narrower in scope, its intricate rail-network automation is ideal for players who especially enjoy optimizing Soviet Republic's train logistics.

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: Base Building 24%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 10.1%, City Builder 9.8%, Moddable 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It trades civic simulation for extraordinarily deep factory automation, resource processing, rail logistics, and system optimization.

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 23.6%, Economy 17.2%, Management 14.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Resource Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Building regional industrial supply chains, warehouses, transport links, and city markets captures the economic-planning side of the seed game.

The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.3%, City Builder 10.2%, Diplomacy 8.3% ★, Colony Sim 7.6%, 4X 7.5% ★

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: Economy 17.1%, City Builder 16.4%, Building 15.9%, Management 11.4%, Moddable 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This enduring transport-management sandbox is built around constructing profitable and efficient passenger and cargo networks across an evolving economy.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.6%, City Builder 9.7%, Diplomacy 9% ★, Colony Sim 8.2%, 4X 8% ★

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

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 8.6%, Resource Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a closed, labor-dependent industrial colony with strict resource logistics and population needs creates intense systems-management pressure.

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.9%, City Builder 10.9%, Colony Sim 8%, Historical 7.3%, Diplomacy 7.2% ★

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.6%, City Builder 9.6%, Diplomacy 9.2% ★, 4X 8.2% ★, Colony Sim 8.1%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 6.9%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This compact colony simulator centers on keeping workers alive through careful life-support infrastructure, mining, manufacturing, storage, and supply planning.

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

Why similar: City Builder 27.4%, Economy 13.3%, Historical 12.3%, Building 10.9%, Sandbox 8.7%

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

Why similar: City Builder 24.9%, Colony Sim 17.3%, Historical 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Building 10.4%

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 16%, Moddable 8.5%, Economy 7.3%, Base Building 6.9%

Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!

Why similar: City Builder 22.7%, Economy 14.4%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.4%, Sandbox 9.1%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.3%, Diplomacy 9.2% ★, City Builder 8.9%, 4X 7.9% ★, Colony Sim 7.3%

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: Economy 16.5%, Management 14.7%, City Builder 13.6%, Historical 12.2%, Building 11.7%

Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 17.5%, City Builder 17.1%, Alternate History 11.5%, Historical 10.1%, Building 8.4%

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

Why similar: City Builder 29.8%, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Economy 8.7%, Management 8.1%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Moddable 18.1%, City Builder 15.1%, Economy 10.7%, Building 10%, Base Building 9.8%

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

Why similar: City Builder 17.9%, Colony Sim 13%, 4X 11.6% ★, Base Building 7.8%, Economy 7.6%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 19.4%, Historical 13.5%, Economy 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.9%, Building 10.2%

Build an industrial empire from scratch in Industry Giant 4.0. Produce goods, build up your industries, construct transportation networks, plan production, manage finances, and navigate global events. Become the next business tycoon and write history!

Why similar: City Builder 25.2%, Economy 16%, Management 14.3%, Building 12.2%, Resource Management 10.1%

Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Economy 14.1%, Historical 13.6%, Management 11.1%, Building 10.7%

Crisis in the Kremlin is a global real-time political strategy about the Socialist world in its final decade. Shape the fate of the world as you manage economy, foreign relations, and domestic policy. Engage with countries across the globe, using diplomacy or even proxy wars to expand your reach.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 22.3%, Diplomacy 15.8% ★, Historical 15.7%, Alternate History 15.3%, Economy 13.3%

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: City Builder 22.1%, Moddable 12.7%, Economy 12.2%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 10.3%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 10.2%, City Builder 9.1%, Diplomacy 8.3% ★, 4X 7.8% ★, Colony Sim 7.6%

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: Economy 17.1%, Moddable 15.1%, Historical 13.9%, Management 13.3%, Sandbox 10.7%

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 18.2%, Diplomacy 14.2% ★, 4X 12.8% ★, Historical 11.3%, Moddable 10.1%

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: City Builder 17.1%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Economy 10.2%, Moddable 10.2%, Base Building 9.6%

Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.

Why similar: City Builder 15.3%, Colony Sim 13.7%, Moddable 12.8%, Historical 10.7%, Base Building 10.5%

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: Grand Strategy 15.9%, Diplomacy 14.4% ★, 4X 13.7% ★, Moddable 10.1%, Historical 9.6%

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: Economy 17.6%, City Builder 17%, Management 14.6%, Simulation 11.6%, Sandbox 7.8%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Diplomacy 15.7% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Colony Sim 12.9%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.8%

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 22.6%, Economy 11.8%, Historical 10%, Building 9.8%, Moddable 9.6%

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: City Builder 19.2%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 7.4%, Building 7.3%

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: Base Building 18.3%, City Builder 13.3%, Economy 12.7%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.3%