Games like Advancity
If Advancity is your kind of game, the closest matches are Prison Architect, Captain of Industry and Automation Empire — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Advancity: Run an empire in this simple and enjoyable city builder strategy management game. Build, research, train, battle, upgrade, expand, and sail, all while managing your citizens and resources. Advancity focuses on fun and progression.
Players who liked Advancity also play
Steam players who put hours into Advancity 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.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Top pick for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Automation Empire
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Good Company
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Advancity.
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
STATIONflow
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Advancity fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Advancity.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Advancity at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advancity.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advancity.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Advancity.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Advancity on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with Advancity.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Advancity.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advancity.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Advancity.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Advancity.
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 Indie and Simulation with Advancity.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Advancity.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Advancity.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Other recommendable Steam games by Tbjbu2 Originals, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Ricko's Island
WHY THIS
Another title from Tbjbu2 Originals, the studio behind Advancity. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
Ricko's Island is a collectathon platformer with controls that are actually fun. Travel between 10 islands, master the movement controls, complete platforming challenges, and possess enemies. If you are a fan of mastering movement controls in platformers, this is the game for you!
Karagon (Survival Robot Riding FPS)
WHY THIS
Another title from Tbjbu2 Originals, the studio behind Advancity. Shares Action and Strategy with Advancity.
Survive, shoot, construct, and ride killer elemental robots. Craft equipment, explore multi-floor buildings, build and farm, uncover schematics, and progress through technology tiers. Alone or with friends in this brutal post apocalyptic open world survival robot riding crafting shooter game!
Beach Friends
WHY THIS
Another title from Tbjbu2 Originals, the studio behind Advancity. Shares Action and Indie with Advancity.
It's basically like summer vacation but you don't have to physically go to the beach! Hang out with friends, or strangers - with voice chat. Build sand castles. Ruin sand castles. Sell ice cream. Eat ice cream. Surf. Play volleyball with bad physics. Everything is interactable (not really, you wish)
Frequently asked about Advancity
- How much does Advancity cost?
- Advancity is listed on Steam at 5.24 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Advancity?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Advancity are Prison Architect, Captain of Industry, Automation Empire.
- Who developed Advancity?
- Advancity was developed by Tbjbu2 Originals.
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