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by Independent Arts Software
It's off the rails! In Rail World, you establish your own railroad empire. Plan your own track network, transport passengers and goods, and meet a cast of quirky characters in this exceptional city building game. Download Rail World now!
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$29.99RAILGRADE
Oct 13 · Minakata Dynamics
Both: Trains · Resource Management · City Builder
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!
TrainsStrategySimulationResource ManagementAutomationCity BuilderModdableBuildingManagementEconomy👍 1,207
-90%$3.99Transport Fever 2
Dec 11 · Urban Games
Both: Trains · City Builder · Building
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!
SimulationStrategyManagementTransportationTrainsCity BuilderEconomySandboxBuildingSingleplayer👍 26,749
$24.99Rail Route
Feb 22 · Bitrich.info
Both: Trains · City Builder · Building
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!
Time ManagementTrainsImmersive SimAutomationReal Time TacticsEducationPuzzleCity BuilderBuildingSimulation👍 2,403
$49.99Railway Empire 2
May 25 · Gaming Minds Studios
Both: Trains · Resource Management · Building
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.
SimulationStrategyTrainsManagementTransportationSandboxEconomyResource ManagementBuildingExploration👍 1,967
$29.99Transport Fever
Nov 8 · Urban Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Trains
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!
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$29.99Railroads Online
Dec 5 · Stefan Kelnberger
Both: Trains · Building
Build your dream railroad across a huge open world! You can build tracks and stations, drive detailed locomotives, and transport goods to earn money and experience. Play exciting Online Multiplayer sessions with your friends or create your very own sandbox!
TrainsMultiplayerOnline Co-OpOpen WorldBuildingAutomobile SimPhysicsSandboxDrivingImmersive Sim👍 5,409
$19.99Tracks - The Train Set Game
Nov 14 · Whoop Group
Both: Building · Trains · City Builder
Jump into the ultimate toy sandbox and build the train set of your dreams! Create colourful railway systems, decorate beautiful towns, transport commuting passengers, and even ride your train in first-person.
SimulationSandboxBuildingTrainsOpen WorldIndieCraftingCity BuilderFirst-PersonFunny👍 1,212
$24.99Voxel Tycoon
Apr 15 · Voxel Tycoon
Both: Building · Trains · City Builder
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!
Early AccessSandboxAutomationBuildingCraftingEconomyManagementTrainsTransportationCity Builder👍 1,557
$29.99Railway Empire
Jan 26 · Gaming Minds Studios
Both: Trains · Building
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.
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$19.99Train Fever
Sep 4 · Urban Games
Both: Trains · City Builder
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.
SimulationTrainsManagementStrategyEconomyIndieSandboxCity BuilderSingleplayerCasual👍 2,765
$12.99Train Sim World® 2020
Mar 16 · Dovetail Games
Both: Trains · Building
Train Sim World is an immersive first-person simulator perfect for everyone, with complete in-cab interactivity, accurate detail on locos, real-world routes and hours of gameplay. Take to the rails with the brand-new Train Sim World 2020 Edition and find everything you need to master new skills.
SimulationTrainsRealisticDrivingOpen WorldSingleplayerRelaxingCasualActionBuilding👍 5,914
$9.99Train Valley
Sep 16 · Alexey Davydov, Sergey Dvoynikov, Timofey Shargorodskiy, Flazm
Both: Resource Management · Trains
Build railways, manage traffic and stay accident-free. Play in Europe, America, Japan and USSR in 1830-2020. Complete the story mode from the Gold Rush of 1849 to the first manned spaceflight, and then explore the random mode. Management. Construction. Trains. Welcome to Train Valley!
Replay ValueResource ManagementIndie3DTrainsCasualPuzzleStrategySimulationRelaxing👍 2,621
$24.99Industry Giant 4.0
Oct 17 · Don VS Dodo
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
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
$19.99NIMBY Rails
Jan 26 · Weird and Wry
Both: Building · City Builder
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
TransportationSimulationManagementEconomyBuildingSandboxOpen WorldSingleplayerCity Builder2D👍 2,229
-80%$3.99Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
Oct 6 · SquarePlay Games
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
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.
ManagementCity BuilderBuildingStrategySimulationSandboxIsometricIndieResource ManagementSingleplayer👍 1,701
$29.99Train Simulator Classic
Sep 17 · Dovetail Games
Both: Trains · Building
The ultimate railway hobby for more than 15 years! From historic steam locomotives to modern high-speed and heavy freight trains, and routes around the world, Train Simulator Classic is the simulation made by railfans for railfans.
SimulationTrainsSingleplayerRealisticDrivingRelaxingCasualOpen WorldModdableBuilding👍 19,462
$10.99Real estate tycoon
Aug 5 · Double Eggs
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
"Illusory life: urban real estate tycoon" is a simulated business role-playing game with urban theme. We try to restore the game world like a novel of urban face slapping, and give the players a "capitalist" identity.(We are a very poor studio, so English translation will be launched in the future)
City BuilderSimulationBuildingCapitalismEconomyModernResource ManagementIndieCasualStrategy👍 418
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Building
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.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 64,269
$19.99RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Complete Edition
Sep 24 · Frontier Developments, Aspyr (Mac)
Both: Building · City Builder · Resource Management
Build the park of a lifetime and rediscover the critically acclaimed rollercoaster simulation bestseller. Feel the thrill of a genre-defining classic, complete with two huge expansion packs.
ManagementStrategyBuildingSimulationCity BuilderCasualSandboxFamily FriendlyResource Management3D👍 2,637
$29.99Rise of Industry
May 2 · Dapper Penguin Studios
Both: City Builder · Resource Management · Building
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.
ManagementStrategyEconomySimulationCity BuilderResource ManagementIndieBase BuildingTradingBuilding👍 3,123
OpenTTD
Apr 1 · OpenTTD
Both: Building · Trains · Resource Management
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.
SimulationBuildingEconomySandboxManagementTrainsTransportationMultiplayerResource ManagementCity Builder
$14.99Power to the People
Feb 8 · Rhombico Games
Both: Building · Resource Management · City Builder
Build and maintain a power grid for a constantly growing population, while fighting off all kinds of disasters in this thrilling resource management experience. It's time for you to give "Power to the People"! Do you have what it takes to keep the lights on?
ManagementEconomyBuildingResource ManagementCity BuilderSimulationIsometricReal-Time with PauseStrategyProcedural Generation👍 472
$19.99Train Life: A Railway Simulator
Aug 25 · Simteract
Both: Trains
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.
SimulationFamily FriendlyRealisticOpen WorldSingleplayerAtmosphericManagementTransportationTrainsCasual👍 1,451
-85%$2.84Urbek City Builder
Jul 13 · Fridus
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource 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.
City BuilderBuildingManagementSimulationStrategySandboxResource ManagementEconomyVoxelSingleplayer👍 1,832
-40%$13.79City Tales - Medieval Era
Jan 29 · Irregular Shapes
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
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
Trainz: A New Era
May 14 · N3V Games
Both: Trains · Building
Our "Platinum Edition" bundle provides fantastic value for new or existing customers. Expand your Trainz collection with a huge range of additional routes, sessions, locos and rolling stock, all at 75% off the regular pricing.
SimulationTrainsDrivingOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingRealisticSandboxSingleplayer👍 2,229
-75%$2.49Sid Meier's Railroads!
May 4 · Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac)
Both: Trains · Building
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
TrainsStrategyManagementEconomySimulationSingleplayerMultiplayerReal-Time with PauseBuildingClassic👍 2,625
-75%$2.49Railroad Tycoon 3
May 4 · PopTop
Both: Trains · Building
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...
ManagementStrategyTrainsSimulationEconomySingleplayerReal-Time with PauseClassicBuildingSandbox👍 1,128
$9.99Bounty Train
May 16 · Corbie Games
Both: Trains · Building
Explore the dangerous life, the accurate historic events and contemporary inventions of the North American/US 19th century. Acquire one of the most legendary steam machines and transform it into a fortress on rails.
SimulationStrategyTrainsManagementBuildingEconomyIndieWesternHistoricalSingleplayer👍 1,325
$24.99Chinese Frontiers
Jun 19 · SolidGames
Both: Building · City Builder · Resource Management
Become a master builder in medieval China. Construct iconic landmarks brick by brick in first person, while managing villagers, production chains, and a growing settlement at your own pace.
BuildingCraftingMedievalBase BuildingCity BuilderSingleplayerFirst-PersonSandboxSimulationResource Management👍 514
$44.99Planet Zoo
Nov 5 · Frontier Developments
Both: Building · City Builder
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.
ManagementZooSimulationBuildingSandboxNatureCity BuilderEconomySingleplayerRealistic👍 81,203
-75%$6.24Airborne Kingdom
Mar 7 · The Wandering Band LLC
Both: City Builder · Building · Resource Management
The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.
City BuilderBase BuildingExplorationBuildingSingleplayerResource ManagementSandboxRelaxingSteampunkStrategy👍 2,105



