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%, City Builder 14.1%, Economy 13.5%, Colony Sim 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its entire appeal is designing sprawling industrial supply chains, balancing resource extraction with manufacturing, and scaling an economy through meticulous logistics 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 18.9%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Historical 10.9%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Workers & Resources, it is a grounded historical city-builder with detailed production, labor, housing, and citizen-needs simulation rather than a purely decorative sandbox.

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 41.3%, Economy 16.7%, Strategy 9.1%, Simulation 6.9%, Resource Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's satisfaction of building interdependent production chains, managing workforce tiers, and optimizing a large economic machine.

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 23.8%, Economy 14%, Management 13.8%, Building 9%, Moddable 8.6% ★

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Workers & Resources is building efficient freight and passenger infrastructure to support industry and urban growth, this is one of the best fits on Steam.

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 17.2% ★, City Builder 15.8%, Historical 10.9%, Base Building 10.3%, Colony Sim 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on realistic settlement layout, regional production, labor assignment, and historical atmosphere makes it a strong alternative for players who enjoy grounded management.

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 18.1%, Moddable 12.2% ★, Economy 11.3%, Base Building 10%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends settlement building with rail-centered logistics and production chains, making transportation planning central to the health of your economy.

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: Grand Strategy 13.9% ★, Colony Sim 13.9%, City Builder 13.7%, 4X 10.3% ★, Moddable 8.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly grand feeling of managing a growing state with deep population simulation, supply networks, and large-scale economic expansion.

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 20.5%, Colony Sim 18.7%, Diplomacy 12.6% ★, Economy 8.5%, Building 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Unlike lighter city builders, it leans hard into resource chains, trade flow, and industrial throughput as the foundation of urban growth.

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 15.5%, Colony Sim 13.1%, 4X 11% ★, Building 10.2%, Historical 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on realistic town growth, labor distribution, supply management, and citizen welfare in a way that will resonate with players who like demanding builders.

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 23.5%, Economy 17.6%, Management 14.7%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It is all about linking extraction, manufacturing, and distribution into profitable industrial networks, echoing the seed game's economy-first mindset.

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 34.9%, Economy 16.4%, Management 11.7%, Strategy 9%, Diplomacy 7.9% ★

Why You'll Like It: While lighter in logistics detail, it similarly combines centralized economic planning, citizen management, infrastructure, and political control over a developing nation.

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 31.4%, Colony Sim 30.2%, Strategy 6.1%, Survival 5.8%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same tension of carefully balancing labor, housing, resources, and long-term planning in a serious simulation-heavy settlement builder.

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 24.2%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Building 11.3%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 7%

Why You'll Like It: Its appeal comes from managing a growing town through layered production chains, worker allocation, and expanding civic infrastructure.

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: Economy 17.1%, Management 14.4%, City Builder 13.6%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: This is a great match if you love the seed game's freight optimization, as it revolves around automated transport lines feeding an expanding industrial economy.

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 22.4%, Economy 12.7%, Moddable 11.4% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It scratches the same itch of building a city whose success depends on efficient industrial inputs, road logistics, and tightly planned supply chains.

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%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Economy 8.7%, Building 7.4%, Management 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a more organic medieval take on settlement management, with meaningful production planning, zoning, and labor flow rather than pure decoration.

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%, Colony Sim 16.7%, Base Building 13.4%, Management 8.7%, Economy 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its city growth is powered by increasingly intricate production and delivery systems, making it a strong pick for players who enjoy economy-driven building.

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 28.8%, Colony Sim 19%, Base Building 12%, Economy 8.6%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It combines town expansion, trade, workforce management, and layered resource chains in a way that feels familiar despite a lighter presentation.

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 22.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, Historical 12.7%, Economy 12.1%, Moddable 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: It lacks direct city-building, but its deep simulation of population, industry, trade, and state-led economic development makes it a natural fit for players who love macro-planning.

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 17.9%, City Builder 16.6%, Building 16.3%, Management 12.2%, Moddable 10.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: Though more transport-focused than civic, it delivers the same joy of designing complex logistics networks that drive regional economic development.

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 18.1%, Historical 14.3%, Management 14.3%, Moddable 13.7% ★, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: It mixes transport tycoon logistics with industrial supply flow, rewarding the same kind of careful network planning that Workers & Resources players often enjoy.

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 22.5%, Economy 12%, Colony Sim 10.8%, Historical 9.9%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This historical city-builder emphasizes tightly interconnected production chains and service planning in a way that feels close to the seed game's systems-first design.

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 11% ★, City Builder 10%, Colony Sim 9.8%, Diplomacy 8.3% ★, 4X 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Although run-based and roguelite, it still emphasizes supply chains, workforce allocation, and settlement optimization in a way that can appeal to systems-focused city-builder fans.

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 24.6%, Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Building 9.6%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Behind its charming theme is a surprisingly systems-heavy builder about industry, resource flow, terrain engineering, and long-term infrastructure planning.

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 32.4%, Base Building 12.5%, Colony Sim 12.5%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a harsher survival-oriented builder, but it similarly asks you to stabilize a settlement through careful logistics, production, and citizen support.

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 14.5%, Historical 13.7%, Management 11.7%, Building 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is a narrower recommendation for players most interested in the transport-and-industry side, with rail networks acting as the backbone of economic expansion.

Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.

Why similar: Colony Sim 19.8%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is far less structured as a city-builder, but its unmatched citizen simulation and emergent economy appeal to players who want deep systemic management.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 28.6%, Colony Sim 20.6%, Resource Management 9.2%, Survival 8.2%, Building 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the seed game's pressure-heavy governance feel by forcing you to balance infrastructure, labor, and social stability under strict resource constraints.

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 11.2% ★, City Builder 10.3%, Colony Sim 9.5%, Diplomacy 7.6% ★, 4X 7.1% ★

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 11% ★, Colony Sim 10.1%, City Builder 9.9%, Diplomacy 8% ★, 4X 7.3% ★

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 9.2%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed industrial planning, production chains, and colony logistics make it a good sci-fi alternative for players who prioritize the economic side of Workers & Resources.

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 31.9%, Building 12.8%, Economy 11.8%, Management 9.8%, Moddable 8.4% ★

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 11.5% ★, Colony Sim 10.6%, City Builder 10.2%, 4X 7.8% ★, Historical 7%

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 14.8%, Building 14.3%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.5%

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 13.6%, Historical 12.3%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 7.9%

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 11.6% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Colony Sim 9.9%, Historical 7.3%, Base Building 7.1%

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 10.6% ★, Colony Sim 9.5%, City Builder 9.3%, Diplomacy 7.3% ★, 4X 7% ★

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: Colony Sim 19.2%, City Builder 19.2%, Moddable 7.4% ★, Economy 7.4%, Base Building 6.9%

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 23.9%, Colony Sim 20.2%, Historical 11.3%, Base Building 11%, Building 10.1%

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 32.5%, Economy 19.7%, Building 14.4%, Management 12.6%, Sandbox 8.1%

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 10.7% ★, Colony Sim 9.1%, City Builder 9.1%, Diplomacy 8.2% ★, 4X 7% ★

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 16.9%, Management 15.3%, City Builder 13.5%, Historical 12.1%, Building 11.8%

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 23.1%, Economy 15.1%, Building 12.5%, Management 11.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 18.9%, Colony Sim 14.2%, Historical 13.2%, Economy 12.4%, Building 10.1%

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 18% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Historical 10.3%, Alternate History 9.9%, Building 8.7%

Build and manage an international airport!

Why similar: Moddable 16.4% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Economy 11.2%, Management 10.5%, Building 10.3%

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 16.5%, Management 15%, Building 12.4%, Resource Management 9.5%

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 23.3% ★, Historical 16.4%, Economy 14.2%, Diplomacy 14.1% ★, Alternate History 13.4%

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 17.8%, Colony Sim 15.7%, 4X 10.1% ★, Base Building 7.9%, Economy 7.8%

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: Colony Sim 17%, City Builder 16.8%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Moddable 8.9% ★

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

Why similar: Grand Strategy 16.8% ★, Diplomacy 13.5% ★, 4X 12.7% ★, Historical 10.5%, Economy 9.6%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: City Builder 19.5%, Colony Sim 18.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Building 9.5%, Economy 9.2%

Create a 21st century micro-nation and experiment with economic and political ideals. Futuristic skyscrapers or spreading slums, the Nation relies on your economic and city planning skills.

Why similar: City Builder 35.6%, Economy 14.7%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%

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: Colony Sim 15.8%, City Builder 15.2%, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Base Building 10.1%, Historical 9.9%

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 18.2%, City Builder 17%, Management 15.4%, Simulation 11.8%, Building 7.9%

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: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 14%, Economy 7.1%, Building 7.1%

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 18.6%, City Builder 13.3%, Economy 13%, Building 11.9%, Management 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: Colony Sim 16.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Moddable 11.2% ★, Historical 10.6%, Base Building 10.5%

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 15.7%, Economy 14.7%, Base Building 11.8%, City Builder 11.7%, Building 11.4%