Games like Planet Zoo
by Frontier Developments
Build a world for wildlife in Planet Zoo. From the developers of Planet Coaster and Zoo Tycoon comes the ultimate zoo sim. Construct detailed habitats, manage your zoo, and meet authentic living animals who think, feel and explore the world you create around them.
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-33%$40.19Jurassic World Evolution 3
Oct 21 · Frontier Developments
Both: Sandbox · City Builder · Management
Build your own Jurassic World. Nurture generations of dinosaurs with the series debut of juveniles, create and manage sprawling prehistoric parks around the globe, and let your imagination roar with powerful new creative options.
SimulationDinosaursStrategySandboxCity BuilderSequelManagementActionResource ManagementEconomy👍 11,412
$34.99Timberborn
Mar 12 · Mechanistry
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
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.
City BuilderColony SimVoxelSandboxAutomationBuildingNatureManagementBase BuildingSurvival👍 38,783
$19.99Hotel Magnate
Sep 23 · Arcade Oven
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
Have you ever wanted to design and manage your own hotel, rundown motel, or elegant resort? With a ridiculous amount of customization tools to wield, a host of facilities to build, and a wide variety of guests to impress, Hotel Magnate has it all. Let your inner hotel manager shine!
ManagementSimulationBuildingSandboxResource ManagementRelaxingCity BuilderEconomyBase BuildingCasual👍 419
$34.99Solargene
Jan 19 · Alexander Semenov
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Management
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Colony SimBase BuildingCity BuilderSpace SimResource ManagementSandboxManagementBuildingEconomyStrategy👍 777
$24.99Industry Giant 4.0
Oct 17 · Don VS Dodo
Both: Management · City Builder · Economy
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!
ManagementStrategySimulationCity BuilderResource ManagementEconomyAutomationModernBuildingRealistic👍 506
$25.99Big Ambitions
Aug 28 · Hovgaard Games
Both: Management · Economy · Sandbox
Big Ambitions is a revolutionary role-playing business sim. Go from nothing to the biggest entrepreneur in New York by opening small businesses or slowly building huge corporations any way you like.
ManagementEconomySimulationCapitalismLife SimSandboxSingleplayerResource ManagementTime ManagementInventory Management👍 14,060
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!
SimulationCity BuilderBuildingRelaxingEconomyManagementResource ManagementInventory ManagementStory RichLogic👍 543
-20%$22.39Go-Go Town!
Jul 16 · Prideful Sloth
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Step into the role of a hands-on mayor and build your town from the ground up. Plan neighborhoods, automate logistics, and grow your community—all while juggling workers, infrastructure, and day-to-day chaos to create your dream town. Play solo for total control, or bring friends for co-op mayhem.
SimulationCity BuilderDecoratingLife SimBuildingManagementSandboxFunnyFishingIndie👍 2,476
$29.99Whiskerwood
Nov 6 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
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.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingColony SimGrand StrategyManagementBuildingHistoricalSandbox👍 3,278
-25%$29.99Corsair Cove
Jul 31 · Limbic Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
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!
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyManagementHistoricalBuildingEconomySandbox👍 3,065
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
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.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093
-35%$20.79The Crust
10 days ago · VEOM Studio
Both: Sandbox · City Builder · Building
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Base BuildingSpaceAutomationColony SimResource ManagementSandboxStrategyCity BuilderBuildingManagement👍 3,556
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Share some of the same DNA, but further from the original.
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Management · City Builder · Sandbox
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.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: Building · City Builder · Economy
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.
BuildingCity BuilderStrategyResource ManagementMedievalAgricultureEconomyHistorical4XColony Sim👍 24,456
$14.99Junkyard Builder
Apr 8 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Management · Sandbox · Economy
In Junkyard Builder, you’re the proud owner of a once-forgotten junkyard, now brimming with endless potential. Dive into the satisfying world of restoration, recycling, and raw hustle as you transform trash into treasure and rise to become the ruler of the junk empire!
SimulationManagementFirst-PersonCasualLife SimFamily FriendlyImmersive SimRelaxingSandboxEconomy👍 223
$14.99House Builder 2: Casual Construction
Oct 22 · FreeMind S.A.
Both: Building · Sandbox · Economy
In House Builder 2, you build your dream structures in a vibrant, open-world low-poly environment! Purchase materials for your work, load them up, and head off to diverse tasks in the ultimate building adventure!
CasualBuildingSandboxDesign & IllustrationSingleplayerIndiePhysicsEconomyEducation3D👍 101
$19.99MegaFactory Titan
Jun 2 · Q Switched Productions, LLC
Both: Building · City Builder · Management
A factory-building game. Survive a harsh climate, strip mine an infinite world, and build a sprawling factory, then trade or go to war with Colonists, Governments, Pirates, Rebels, and more!
BuildingAutomationResource ManagementBase BuildingProcedural GenerationMiningCity BuilderManagementCapitalismEconomy👍 150
$24.99Space Haven
May 13 · Bugbyte Ltd.
Both: Management · Sandbox · Building
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Colony SimBase BuildingSurvivalStrategySpaceManagementSandboxSimulationBuildingSci-fi👍 10,267
-30%$17.49Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Feb 27 · Quite OK Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
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?
StrategyCity BuilderResource ManagementColony SimBuildingReal-Time with PauseBase BuildingManagementSimulationImmersive Sim👍 1,425
-30%$8.39Creator Chronicles
6 days ago · Origin Studio
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
A game within a game. In this entirely new kind of simulation RPG, become a guild master, develop your town, recruit guild members, and conquer dungeons. Every decision you make becomes your own chronicle.
City BuilderManagementCRPGPixel GraphicsTop-DownMultiple EndingsBuildingEconomyCraftingRPG👍 501
$12.99Island Market Simulator
Sep 3 · Zentium Studio
Both: Management · Economy · Building
Team up with your friends and build a thriving trade empire in this CO-OP strategy and economy simulation set on a lively island. Begin with a small market, share tasks, manage production chains, raise livestock, and dominate the economy together through changing seasons and dynamic festivals!
SimulationOnline Co-OpManagementCasualMultiplayerLife SimStrategyEconomyBuildingSingleplayer👍 171
$19.99Eden Crafters
May 7 · Osaris Games
Both: Sandbox · Building
Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
AutomationOpen World Survival CraftBase BuildingCraftingSandboxOpen WorldOnline Co-OpBuildingSurvivalAdventure👍 2,515
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
Both: City Builder · Sandbox · Building
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$24.99News Tower
Nov 18 · Sparrow Night
Both: Management · Sandbox · Economy
Develop your newspaper and become New York’s new media mogul! In this tycoon, build and manage your newspaper from printer to toilet. Create your editorial line and lead your journalists through unique 1930's stories and dig out the latest scoops!
ManagementSimulationStrategySandboxIndieResource Management2DEconomyBuildingTime Management👍 4,316
$29.99Heart of the Machine
Mar 6 · Arcen Games
Both: City Builder · Management · Building
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.
StrategySimulationGrand StrategyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementHistoricalBuildingSandboxColony Sim👍 2,011
-15%$16.99TCG Card Shop Simulator
6 days ago · OPNeon Games
Both: Management · Economy
Open your own local game store. Stock shelves with the latest booster packs, or crack them and collect the cards for yourself. Set your own prices, hire staff, host events, and expand your card shop.
SimulationManagementEconomySingleplayerCollectathonTrading Card GameCapitalismCard GameShop KeeperTrading👍 47,485
$24.99Flotsam
Dec 4 · Pajama Llama Games
Both: City Builder · Sandbox
Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.
Base BuildingColony SimCity BuilderSandboxResource ManagementAutomationSurvivalOpen WorldFarming SimReal-Time with Pause👍 4,309
$24.99Anymaker
2 days ago · Geometa
Both: Sandbox · Building · Realistic
Embark on your creative journey of vehicle design, as you create and operate vehicles to survive this dangerous open world. Anymaker is a detailed and technical vehicle builder and survival game. Design your chassis, build your engine, connect components, and travel into the unknown.
Early AccessSandboxSimulationOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingFirst-PersonRealisticCo-opDriving👍 115
$19.99The Last Starship
Feb 3 · Introversion Software
Both: Sandbox · Building
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
StrategySandboxSpaceSimulationSingleplayerBase BuildingSci-fiSpace SimBuildingMining👍 1,625
$29.99shapez 2 - Factory
Apr 23 · tobspr Games
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
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.
AutomationManagementBuildingStrategyFuturisticSimulationPuzzleSandboxCraftingBase Building👍 13,868
$28.99Scrap Mechanic
Jul 24 · Axolot Games
Both: Building · Sandbox
Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!
BuildingSandboxMultiplayerSurvivalOpen WorldPhysicsCraftingBase BuildingCo-opAdventure👍 109,480
$29.99Palworld
Jul 9 · Pocketpair
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Open WorldSurvivalCreature CollectorMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpCraftingIndieCo-opAdventure👍 412,343
-10%$4.49Gridmax
2 days ago · Dream Gears
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Base BuildingSurvivalManagementColony SimBuildingCraftingSandboxAutomationSimulation2D
$14.99Sandustry
Aug 13 · Lantto Games
Both: Sandbox · Building
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.
SandboxCraftingAutomationOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftBuildingExplorationSurvivalAdventureSimulation👍 4,847
$15.99Explorers of Esmar
Apr 14 · Tipri Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Economy
Welcome to Explorers of Esmar! Build your settlement, master complex production chains. Claim the riches to explore and conquer the new island continent of Esmar!
Early AccessReal Time TacticsCity BuilderBuildingEconomyManagementMedievalMilitaryBase BuildingPvP
-40%$1.79Construction Company Tycoon
2 days ago · KokoGames
Both: Sandbox · Building · Management
Build your own construction company from the ground up! Take on contracts, hire workers, buy powerful equipment, manage your finances, and grow from a small contractor into a construction empire.
StrategySimulationCasualSandbox2DBuildingRelaxingManagementChoices MatterSingleplayer
$19.99The Front
Oct 30 · Samar Studio
Both: Building · Sandbox
The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.
Open World Survival CraftMultiplayerSurvivalCraftingBase BuildingBuildingOpen WorldTower DefenseSandboxShooter👍 9,553
-20%$4.79Cat Isle
Jul 20 · domkegames, pixelduckoo
Both: City Builder · Building · Management
Catch a train to Cat Isle! In this cozy pixel art management game, build restaurants, expand and decorate the town. Figure out your cats needs as they dine, shop, explore and turn the island into their purfect home.
Shop KeeperColony SimCity BuilderBuildingManagementTrainsStrategy2DCuteCozy👍 168
$12.99Clothing Store Simulator
Nov 28 · Kiki Games
Both: Management · Economy
Are you ready to shape fashion world? Make a brand deal, order products, fill the aisles, dress the mannequins and start selling. Dresses, shirts, coats, pants, nightwear, underwear, shoes and more are waiting for you.
SimulationManagementEconomyLife SimSingleplayerTradingImmersive SimCapitalismResource ManagementInventory Management👍 1,120
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management · Sandbox · Building
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
$34.99Pioneers of Pagonia
Dec 11 · Envision Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Management
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
StrategyResource ManagementColony SimOnline Co-OpFantasyBase BuildingCity BuilderManagementProcedural GenerationPvE👍 4,794
$19.99Mars First Logistics
Sep 25 · Shape Shop
Both: Building · Sandbox
Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!
StylizedMarsCo-op3DBuildingSandboxPhysicsPuzzleTransportationRobots👍 3,498
-30%$20.99Desynced
Mar 5 · Stage Games Inc.
Both: Sandbox · City Builder
Desynced is a sci-fi strategy game with fully customizable units and behaviors. Gather, build, research, and explore the unknown. Alone or with friends, unveil the mystery of an AI on the edge of self-awareness and uncover the hidden truth in this blend of strategy, automation, and exploration.
StrategyAutomationProgrammingBase BuildingSandboxCity BuilderRTSSci-fiMultiplayerSimulation👍 1,880
-50%$14.99Airborne Empire
Apr 17 · The Wandering Band LLC
Both: City Builder · Sandbox
Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!
City BuilderOpen WorldRPGExplorationResource ManagementCasualColony SimFamily FriendlyStrategySandbox👍 855
$13.49Gamestonk Simulator
May 21 · simsum
Both: Management · Economy
Relive the golden age of old-school video game stores! Sell hit games, deliver orders, trade and collect retros, hire staff, decorate and grow your store to be the best in town! Disclaimer: some game title parodies might crack you up!
SimulationManagementRogueliteCollectathonLife SimEconomyImmersive SimCapitalismRoguelikeIndie👍 106
-15%$12.74Biovoid
2 days ago · Dzedou
Both: Sandbox · Nature · Building
Biovoid is a creature-building roguelike game where you slay hordes of hostile aliens. Combine a variety of cells and mutations to create game-breaking builds and evolve from a fragile hatchling to a deadly predator.
Action RoguelikeSimulationSandboxNatureSurvivalProcedural GenerationBuildingPerma DeathDifficultAliens
$29.99Pax Dei
Oct 16 · Mainframe Industries
Both: Sandbox
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
MMORPGSandboxOpen WorldMedievalCraftingBase BuildingRPGExplorationPvPPvE👍 7,166
$17.99Farlands
Jul 16 · JanduSoft, Eric Rodríguez
Both: Building
Congratulations, you’ve bought your own planet! An agrarian rock at the edge of the galaxy that, for some reason, was practically being given away for free. So the time has come to leave your hectic, stressful life in an overcrowded metropolis for a more rural and rewarding life.
Farming SimBuildingCraftingAgricultureExplorationLife SimEarly AccessCuteIndieFishing👍 1,628
$7.99Terraspace
Dec 31 · Black Apple
Both: City Builder · Sandbox
The game "Terraspace" offers you a unique experience of planet settlement and terraforming — creating conditions for life on unsuitable planets. This will require you to build the necessary structures to populate the planet.
AdventureCity BuilderSpace SimSandboxColony Sim3DStylizedColorfulFuturisticSurvival
$19.99Summa Expeditionis
May 6 · Lobico Games
Both: Management · Building · Sandbox
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Colony SimBase BuildingManagementSimulationBuildingSandboxRomeExplorationCraftingStrategy👍 306
FreeBrixonia
3 days ago · FaintVeil Games
Both: Sandbox · Building · Economy
A cozy multiplayer building sandbox where every world is shared and persistent. Place and break blocks, farm crops, fish, craft gear, and decorate your space alongside other players. No combat, no death penalty, just building at your own pace.
Side Scroller2D PlatformerSandboxBuildingCasualSimulationCraftingAgricultureMassively MultiplayerEconomy
$15.99Mon Bazou
Dec 18 · Santa Goat
Both: Sandbox · Building
Build your crappy vehicle into a race car, install the parts yourself. Make money by cutting wood, racing at night or delivering pizza. Maybe you want to manage a sugar shack or build yourself a big garage?
Automobile SimDrivingSandboxLife SimRacingChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationBuildingOpen WorldFirst-Person👍 19,936
$49.99House Flipper Remastered Collection
Jun 4 · Frozen Way
Both: Building · Sandbox · Economy
Guess who's back – and shinier than ever! House Flipper Remastered Collection lets you become a one-person renovation crew. Clean, build, decorate, and sell for profit! Now with better graphics, voice acting, all expansions in one toolbox, and some more heartfelt addition. It’s flipping time!
SimulationDesign & IllustrationDecoratingCleaningBuildingCasualSandboxImmersive SimEconomy3D👍 856
