Games like Silicon City
If Silicon City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tropico 7, Blueprint: EV and Citystate II — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and nostalgic. 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 Silicon City: Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.
Players who liked Silicon City also play
Steam players who put hours into Silicon City 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.
Tropico 7
WHY THIS
Top pick for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Silicon City.
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
Blueprint: EV
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
Blueprint: EV is a single- and multiplayer strategy game about founding an electric vehicle company and running it through six fiscal years. Make three founding decisions, then guide pricing, production, R&D, and finance across 24 quarters of real P&L against three rival companies.
Citystate II
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Silicon City.
Third-strongest match for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Silicon City.
Create your own Nation, build cities and bring prosperity to your people. Citystate II is a unique city-builder featuring realistic economics and complex political options. Slums or skyscrapers, experiment and bring about your vision of the ideal society.
NIMBY Rails
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Silicon City.
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Democracy 4
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon City.
Ranked #5 for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Microlandia
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Silicon City.
Ranked #6 for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Silicon City.
Brutally honest city builder. Become the mayor of a thriving new town and manage construction, policies, taxes, incident response and more, through an elaborate socioeconomic simulation that draws on real-world data.
Megacity Builder
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Silicon City.
Ranked #7 for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
A city builder that has all the bells and whistles you know and love with one twist. In Megacity Builder you build a whole nation not just a city. Pass laws at the national level. Build cities like in classic city builders while producing resources to feed your massive capital.
Train Valley World
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Silicon City.
Ranked #8 for Silicon City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
Train Valley World is an engrossing transport tycoon inspired by the genre classics. Build and manage efficient railroads across the globe, create sophisticated logistics chains, design your own levels, and become a business mogul – solo or in multiplayer!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Silicon City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Silicon City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Silicon City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon City.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Silicon City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Silicon City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon City.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Silicon City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Silicon City.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Silicon City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
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.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Silicon City.
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 Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
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 Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
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...
Meteor 60 Seconds!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Silicon City.
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game that simulates your life if there were a meteor heading towards Earth and you had 60 seconds to live. Do anything you want to do with your last 60 seconds, even if it's illegal! What about planting an apple tree?
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Silicon City.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Silicon City.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Frequently asked about Silicon City
- Does Silicon City run on Steam Deck?
- Silicon City is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Silicon City cost?
- Silicon City is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Silicon City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Silicon City are Tropico 7, Blueprint: EV, Citystate II.
- Who developed Silicon City?
- Silicon City was developed by Polycorne.
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 Silicon City.
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