Games like Smart City Plan
If Smart City Plan is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cities: Skylines, Tropico 4 and Planet Zoo — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its modernized retro aesthetic, chill and peaceful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Smart City Plan: Smart City Plan is a modern old-school style city builder game: Plan zones, roads, public transport like trains, trams, buses, subways and even the hypertube. Set taxes and policies and implement smart city technologies.
Players who liked Smart City Plan also play
Steam players who put hours into Smart City Plan also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Smart City Plan.
Top pick for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
The world is changing and Tropico is moving with the times - geographical powers rise and fall and the world market is dominated by new players with new demands and offers - and you, as El Presidente, face a whole new set of challenges.
Planet Zoo
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Smart City Plan.
Third-strongest match for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
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.
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 3: Platinum
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Smart City Plan.
Ranked #4 for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum combines the excitement of rollercoasters with the fun of a great strategy simulation. RCT3 Platinum combines the roller coaster theme park fun of the Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 with included expansion packs Soaked! and Wild! Now enjoy more options than ever.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
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!
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Planet Coaster 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Smart City Plan.
Ranked #8 for Smart City Plan fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
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?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Smart City Plan at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smart City Plan.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smart City Plan.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smart City Plan.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Smart City Plan.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Smart City Plan on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Smart City Plan.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Ambiera
Other recommendable Steam games by Ambiera, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Business Magnate
WHY THIS
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Smart City Plan. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Business Magnate is a tycoon business simulation game where you can create all types of businesses: Cars, rockets, phones, tanks, trucks, airplanes, computers, and ships. Design, produce, market and sell them. You can even run multiple companies at the same time.
Government Simulator
WHY THIS
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Smart City Plan. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Government Simulator is a is a simple economic and political simulation game based on real-world data. Take control of a whole country, like the USA, Germany, France, Russia, or Austria. Change laws, taxes and budgets based on real world statistics and data, and see what happens.
PostCollapse
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Smart City Plan.
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Smart City Plan. Shares Simulation with Smart City Plan.
PostCollapse is a survival simulation game set after the collapse of civilization. Gather items from the ruins, construct tools, grow your own food, go fishing and hunting. Single player only. No Zombies.
Cargo Company
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Smart City Plan.
Another title from Ambiera, the studio behind Smart City Plan. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
Cargo Company is a transport simulation tycoon game where you make money by transporting passengers, wood, steel, goods, cars, tanks and more - using trains, trucks, busses, and even rockets between planets.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
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!
Planet Coaster 2
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Smart City Plan.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Smart City Plan.
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?
Frequently asked about Smart City Plan
- How much does Smart City Plan cost?
- Smart City Plan is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Smart City Plan?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Smart City Plan are Cities: Skylines, Tropico 4, Planet Zoo.
- Who developed Smart City Plan?
- Smart City Plan was developed by Ambiera.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Smart City Plan.
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