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Games like Steel Artery: Train City Builder
SoulAge23 · 2026 · Windows
Steam: 71 % positive of 328 reviews, as of Oct 18
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.
24 games that play like Steel Artery: Train City Builder and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Transport Fever 2, TheoTown and Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™.
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Plays and looks like Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Transport Fever 2
90 % positive of 27,627
TheoTown
94 % positive of 3,309
Chris Sawyer's Locomotion™
86 % positive of 615
Railway Empire
82 % positive of 9,416
Transport Fever
83 % positive of 10,722
Anno 1800
81 % positive of 25,091
Factory Town
90 % positive of 4,321
Cities: Skylines
92 % positive of 275,770
RAILGRADE
84 % positive of 987
Rail Route
89 % positive of 2,159
Train Fever
64 % positive of 3,502
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
91 % positive of 22,175
More matches
- RimWorld97 % positive of 210,517
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- Lethis - Path of Progress68 % positive of 1,186
- Voxel Tycoon79 % positive of 1,679
- Stonehearth75 % positive of 12,729
- Kingdoms Reborn90 % positive of 9,113
- Foundation85 % positive of 20,132
- NIMBY Rails89 % positive of 2,014
By look
Looks like Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,517
Dwarf Fortress
94 % positive of 28,579
Terraria
97 % positive of 1,409,473
Factorio
97 % positive of 215,209
Airships: Conquer the Skies
95 % positive of 5,947
Learning Factory
86 % positive of 451
Necesse
93 % positive of 17,071
Risk of Rain Returns
90 % positive of 27,823
Timberborn
95 % positive of 31,678
Risk of Rain (2013)
93 % positive of 29,626
Stardeus
87 % positive of 1,343
Songs of Syx
96 % positive of 5,822
More matches
- Caves of Qud95 % positive of 10,410
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- Clanfolk91 % positive of 3,108
- Farlanders93 % positive of 524
- Ark of Charon79 % positive of 344
- Modulus: Factory Automation91 % positive of 885
- Sandustry97 % positive of 5,686
- Loop Hero92 % positive of 34,659
- From Glory To Goo95 % positive of 902
- Shortest Trip to Earth77 % positive of 1,390
- Ratopia87 % positive of 3,795
At a glance
What games like Steel Artery: Train City Builder have in common
- They came out between 2014 and 2026, none of them after Steel Artery: Train City Builder (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: RimWorld (97 % positive of 210,517).
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.