Games like PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines
Looking for games like both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines? Below are 24 Steam games ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender for players who enjoy both titles. Each pick is scored by combining collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries — players who own PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines also tend to own these — with content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, plus review-mined vibe embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when genre labels differ. No Steam login required.
Best matches for fans of both games
Ranked by collaborative filtering, genre overlap, and review-mined vibes — the same signals that power imho.run.
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PAYDAY 3
Top pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and Adventure with both games.
PAYDAY 3 is the ultimate co-op FPS crime fantasy. Choose between stealth or loud playstyles, customize your character, and get ready to pull off the perfect heist.
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PAYDAY™ The Heist
Second pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action with both games.
Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
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Crime Boss: Rockay City
Third pick for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action with both games.
Crime Boss: Rockay City is a 1-4 player co-op FPS heist game with enjoyable stealth and epic killing spree combat. Featuring a solo roguelike campaign that combines FPS and strategy elements with the most hilariously cheesy voice acting that make you laugh.
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Anno 117: Pax Romana
Ranked #4 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Simulation with both games.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
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Anno 1800
Ranked #5 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Simulation with both games.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Prison Architect
Ranked #6 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
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Cities: Skylines II
Ranked #7 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Simulation with both games.
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.
SimulationSteam ↗ - 8
RimWorld
Ranked #8 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
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Crime Simulator
Ranked #9 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?
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Planet Coaster 2
Ranked #10 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Simulation with both games.
Build and customise thrilling roller coasters and incredible water slides, manage the ultimate theme park experience, and share your epic creations. Are you ready to ride the wave?
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Risk of Rain 2
Ranked #11 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
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Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Ranked #12 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy with both games.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
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Planet Zoo
Ranked #13 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Simulation with both games.
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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GTFO
Ranked #14 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action with both games.
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
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Satisfactory
Ranked #15 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
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Left 4 Dead 2
Ranked #16 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action with both games.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Arma 3
Ranked #17 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and Strategy with both games.
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.
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Dying Light
Ranked #18 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
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Dwarf Fortress
Ranked #19 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
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Borderlands 2
Ranked #20 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and RPG with both games.
The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
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Ready or Not
Ranked #21 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and Indie with both games.
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
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Escape from Tarkov
Ranked #22 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action and Simulation with both games.
Escape from Tarkov is the original extraction FPS where every raid is a gamble with death. Prep your raid, bleed, endure and fight through ruthless PMC players and Scavs, gain tactical advantage and cling to your loot — only extraction decides if you live or lose it all.
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Banished
Ranked #23 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Strategy and Indie with both games.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Back 4 Blood
Ranked #24 for fans of both PAYDAY 2 and Cities: Skylines. Shares Action with both games.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.