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Colossal Order · 2015 · 92 % positive of 275,770

24 games that play like Cities: Skylines and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Cities: Skylines II, Cities XXL and NewCity.

Player tags

  • City Builder
  • Simulation
  • Building
  • Management
  • Strategy
  • Sandbox
  • Singleplayer
  • Moddable

At a glance

What games like Cities: Skylines have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Cities: Skylines: City Builder (23 of 24), Simulation (23) and Building (20).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2026, 18 of them after Cities: Skylines (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Mini Motorways (96 % positive of 21,432).
  • 11 games both play and look like Cities: Skylines, among them Cities: Skylines II, Cities XXL and NewCity.

By gameplay

Plays like Cities: Skylines

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Mini Motorways96 % positive of 21,432Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  2. Cities in Motion77 % positive of 1,067Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  3. Urbek City Builder90 % positive of 1,573Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  4. Citalis50 % positive of 226Shared: Simulation · Casual
  5. SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited85 % positive of 567Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Strategy
  6. Go-Go Town!93 % positive of 1,828Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  7. Constructor Plus88 % positive of 435Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  8. Urban Empire33 % positive of 2,454Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Management
  9. Settlement Survival86 % positive of 7,280Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  10. LakeSide70 % positive of 174Shared: City Builder · Building · Management
  11. Mini Settlers88 % positive of 470Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building
  12. Project Highrise84 % positive of 4,569Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Building

By look

Looks like Cities: Skylines

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Transport Fever 290 % positive of 27,627
  2. Urbek City Builder90 % positive of 1,573
  3. Industry Empire34 % positive of 238
  4. KAISERPUNK69 % positive of 460
  5. Industry Giant 4.051 % positive of 363
  6. Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic91 % positive of 22,175
  7. OpenTTD96 % positive of 14,394
  8. City Bus Manager91 % positive of 2,307
  9. Surviving Mars84 % positive of 26,570
  10. RAILGRADE84 % positive of 987
  11. TheoTown94 % positive of 3,309
  12. Captain of Industry94 % positive of 7,154

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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