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183 games like BS Sim City · 1991 – 2026
DR Studios · Windows
Here's your chance to make it big in the Big Apple... New York City, the city that never sleeps! Go for broke building your own Manhattan empire, creating and customising over 100 types of major businesses: run a hot nightclub, oversee a me
73 rating3 listsOften paired
3Division Entertainment · Windows
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Construct your own republic and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower!
95 rating2 lists68 h main storyOften paired
Xbox console exclusive
Frontier Developments · Android, Windows, Xbox
The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur. The key to any park is building a large amount and diverse
83 rating1 list15 h main storyOften paired
Tilted Mill Entertainment · Windows
Featuring an all-new, revolutionary feature set, SimCity Societies allows players to create their own kinds of cities, shape their cultures, societal behaviors and environments. Build an artistic city, an Orwellian city, futuristic city, gr
66 rating2 lists
Windows
Step into the chaotic 24/7 lifestyle of a hotel owner as you design and build grand hotels across the globe. Juggle the increasingly elaborate demands of disorderly guests, logistical nightmares and unexpected obstacles in Hotel Architect,
80 rating1 list23 h main storyOften paired
Monte Cristo · Windows
Cities XL is a simulation game in which players can build their own cities on realistic 3D maps. Players are challenged to create the right combination of social services, employment, activities, and job opportunities for the cities' citize
70 rating1 list
Windows
Starpeace is a massive multiplayer online city building game developed by Oceanus.
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Nikita Online · Windows
Freight Tycoon is an economic simulation game which challenges players’ management skills. It puts one into the shoes of an owner of a cargo transportation company. One has to evaluate the profitability of contracts, contact customers, and
50 rating1 list
PopTop Software · Windows, macOS
A fully realised 3D gaming world scaling from eye in the sky views of entire continents down to incredibly detailed close-ups of beautifully modelled locomotives, buildings and landscapes. As well as the 25 challenging scenarios to recreate
83 rating2 lists
Virtual Playground · Windows
Prison Tycoon 2 builds on the basics of the first game, adding new game-play options.
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InterActive Vision · Windows
The third installment of the Airport Tycoon series changes it up. Build your terminals your way, advance further than before with new aircraft as time goes on, and easier building techniques.
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PopTop Software · Windows, macOS
A fully realised 3D gaming world scaling from eye in the sky views of entire continents down to incredibly detailed close-ups of beautifully modelled locomotives, buildings and landscapes. As well as the 25 challenging scenarios to recreate
83 rating1 list26 h main story
Xbox console exclusive
Blue Fang Games · Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One +1
Zoo Tycoon is a business simulation developed by Blue Fang Games and released by Microsoft Game Studios. It is a tycoon game in which the player must run a zoo and try to make a profit. Although first released for Microsoft Windows and Maci
74 rating5 lists
Linux, Windows, macOS
Cities in Motion 2 (CIM2) is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. Cities in Motion 2 introduces new fea
70 rating3 lists32 h main story
Sega console exclusive
Vivarium Inc. · 3DO, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Sega Saturn +2
Welcome to the building simulation game SimTower, which offers the chance to build and manage all the complex, interconnected operations of a modern skycraper. You build your empire from nothing and become the engineer and general manager o
63 rating5 lists
b-alive · Windows
A decade after the best-selling Airline Tycoon comes the long awaited sequel to the legendary tongue-in-cheek economic simulation that puts players in the role of CEO of an international airline! Airline Tycoon 2 will challenge players to r
20 rating1 list25 h main story
Urban Games · Linux, PS5, Windows +2
Transport Fever 3, the ultimate transport tycoon returns, bigger, deeper, and more dynamic than ever. Build the routes that transform the world across land, sea, and sky using over a century of evolving transport options. Design and build y
1 list20 h main story
Linux, Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 +7
Cities: Skylines is a single-player city-building simulation game. Players manage all aspects of a growing city including zoning residential, commercial, and industrial areas, constructing infrastructure such as roads, public transit, and u
78 rating19 lists16 h main story
DR Studios · Mobile, Windows
Build your fortune in a living, breathing Monopoly City(TM). Create a top property business and battle against your opponents to become the richest and biggest property tycoon around! Create multiple businesses in Monopoly City, from a humb
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Windows
Hard Time is Money Build a profitable privately run prison from the ground up. Every wall, every fence, every decision is yours. Start small and forge your reputation as a first rate warden. Grow your facility to SuperMax capabilitie
40 rating1 list
Xbox console exclusiveFrontier Developments · Windows, Xbox
The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur. The key to any park is building a large amount and diverse
83 rating3 lists
Firaxis Games · Windows, macOS
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! comes home to its original creator, the le
76 rating4 lists15 h main story
Frog City Software · Windows, macOS
As a feared Pirate King, you have to keep both your buccaneers and prisoners under control and send your ships on the prowl for treasury. Apart from an entirely new setting, the official sequel to the original Tropico offers gameplay improv
78 rating3 lists
Windows
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader,
77 rating1 list24 h main story
Camshaft Software · Windows
Make your dream cars a reality with Automation’s unparalleled car and engine design tools. Gain a competitive edge through smart engineering and business decisions to help you build an automotive empire. Will you become an industry leader,
77 rating1 list
Windows
Builders Of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!
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Windows
Explore a vast and detailed world and build a Transportation Empire!
67 rating3 lists24 h main story
Texel Raptor · Linux, Windows, macOS
Parkitect is a business simulation game that charges you with the construction and management of theme parks.
82 rating4 lists52 h main story
Windows
Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is opti
62 rating1 list19 h main story
Firemint Pty · Android, iOS
SimCity Deluxe was a mobile entry in the long-running city building franchise, based on the earlier SimCity 3000 for PC and Mac.
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Blue Fang Games · Windows, macOS
Zoo Tycoon is a business simulation developed by Blue Fang Games and released by Microsoft Game Studios. It is a tycoon game in which the player must run a zoo and try to make a profit. Although first released for Microsoft Windows and Maci
74 rating2 lists
Windows
The goal of Hoyle Casino Empire is to create a thriving casino. There are two modes in the game; Empire Mode and Sandbox Mode. Empire Mode sends the player to one of eight casinos starting with a small one and working up to the biggest casi
80 rating1 list
Iceflake Studios · PS5, Windows, Xbox Series
Create and manage your own city without restrictions. Offering a deep simulation and a living economy, Cities: Skylines II will challenge your decision-making skills and allow you to build the cities of your dreams. Get ready for a new epic
73 rating2 lists28 h main story
PlayStation console exclusive
Bullfrog Productions · MS-DOS, PS3, Windows
Theme Hospital is a business simulation game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997, in which the player designs and operates a hospital. Like most of Bullfrog's games, Theme Hospital is permeated by an e
86 rating1 list8 h main story
SomaSim · Android, Switch, PS4 +4
Project Highrise is a Tower Building Business Management Simulator. Managing your sky-scraping empire will be no easy task – growth will require a mastery of the various interlocking systems that are required for each type of establishment
74 rating3 lists10 h main story
Brace Yourself Games · Windows
Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with the other Great Houses of Titan for resources, territory, and power. Do battle with ships, technology, influence, or the sheer productive power of your factories. Stake your claim to the Indu
60 rating1 list25 h main story
Nintendo console exclusive
Nvizzio Creations · Switch, Windows
RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures brings the RollerCoaster series into the next generation - combining classic RTC gameplay with the modernized user experience from the mobile game RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch. The game also has unique features
74 rating2 lists
Linux, Windows, macOS
This game was released in 2012 on Steam through Steam Greenlight while still in its beta. The developers decided to abandon its development in 2014, leaving the game in an unfinished state but available for purchase. "The game brings a fre
40 rating1 list16 h main story
Tilted Mill Entertainment · Windows
Create an empire by providing for your people, and make your mark on history. From hunter-gatherers to immortal civilization. Watch your people go about their daily lives; make the right decisions and help them, and society, move forward. L
70 rating3 lists
AmigaOS, Linux, Windows +1
Lincity is a free and open-source software construction and management simulation game, which puts the player in control of managing a city's socio-economy, similar in concept to SimCity. The player can develop a city by buying appropriate
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Rainbow Arts · Amiga, MS-DOS
Mad TV is a television station management simulation computer game produced in 1991 by Rainbow Arts. It is loosely based on Mad Magazine, and the game's introduction animation features the magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, smiling on a t
84 rating3 lists6 h main story
Software 2000 · Amiga, Linux, MS-DOS +2
Your goal in Pizza Tycoon is to build an empire of pizza parlors while dealing with competing restaurants, crooked police officers, or even ruthless gangsters! The object of the game is to control a minimum of five percent of the market sha
73 rating1 list31 h main story
ValuSoft · Windows
Crack that Whip! Take reigns of a privately run prison. You are responsible for the care, custody, and control of individuals who have been arrested. Begin with a low security prison and build it up to a SuperMax. From construction to d
30 rating1 list
Chris Sawyer Productions · Android, MS-DOS, iOS +5
Released on PC in 1994. Developed by Chris Sawyer, and coded in X86 Assembly language, it was among the first in the relatively new 'tycoon' genre of games - simulations of business empires that the player founded, grew and took full contro
88 rating3 lists23 h main story
Mucky Foot Productions · Windows
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepte
90 rating3 lists17 h main story
Dapper Penguin Studios · Linux, Windows, macOS
Rise of Industry is a strategic tycoon game that puts you in the shoes of an early 20th-century industrialist. Build and manage your growing empire in a living, breathing, and procedurally generated world that is constantly evolving and ada
65 rating6 lists19 h main story
Blue Byte Mainz · Windows
Anno 2070 is a city-building and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements. It is the 5th game of the Anno series. It was released on 17 November 2011, and was co-developed by the German studios Related Designs and Ubisoft
75 rating6 lists25 h main story