Games like Skid Cities
Below are 11 hand-picked alternatives to Skid Cities for fans of strategy, early access, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Skid Cities also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Skid Cities: A Cyberpunk City Building Game. Define the city of a twisted, dark, utopian, or dystopian future. Build it in the sky, underground, on the ground. Navigate evil corporations, the Yakuza, android revolts, and unrest. Or embrace them - your choice.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Anno 2070™
Top pick for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
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Anno 2205™
Second-strongest match for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
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Lethis - Path of Progress
Third-strongest match for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
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STATIONflow
Ranked #4 for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
STATIONflow is a game about controlling the flow of thousands of passengers by building and managing an efficient underground train station.
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Jurassic World Evolution 2
Ranked #5 for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
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Jurassic World Evolution
Ranked #6 for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
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Surviving Mars
Ranked #7 for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Ranked #8 for Skid Cities fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
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Lethis - Path of Progress
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.
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Jurassic World Evolution 2
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Jurassic World Evolution 2 is the much-anticipated sequel to Frontier’s highly successful Jurassic World Evolution. This bold new era in the Jurassic World Evolution game franchise builds upon the ground-breaking and immersive 2018 management simulation.
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Jurassic World Evolution
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Skid Cities.
Place yourself at the heart of the Jurassic franchise and build your own Jurassic World. Bioengineer dinosaurs that think, feel and react intelligently to the world around them and face threats posed by espionage, breakouts and devastating tropical storms in an uncertain world where life always finds a way.
Frequently asked about Skid Cities
- How much does Skid Cities cost?
- Skid Cities is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Skid Cities?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Skid Cities are Anno 2070™, Anno 2205™, Lethis - Path of Progress.
- Who developed Skid Cities?
- Skid Cities was developed by Vittorio Banfi.
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 Skid Cities.
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