Games like City Bus Manager
If City Bus Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hardware Tycoon, My Business and Tokyo Train 4 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and relaxing. 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 City Bus Manager: Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data. Buy buses, maintain them, take care of your staff and lead your bus company to become the #1 in town!
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Hardware Tycoon
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Top pick for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
From 1986 to 2026, design and engineer the world's most advanced CPUs. Run your own fabs or manufacture for rivals. Research groundbreaking tech, manage your team, buy and build offices, and dominate the market through decades of cutthroat competition. Become the ultimate hardware tycoon.
My Business
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Second-strongest match for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
My Business is the first realistic game in which you have to become a business shark.
Tokyo Train 4
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
"Tokyo Train 4" is now available! Beat the evening rush hour!
Dacan Express: Logistic manager
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Ranked #4 for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
Welcome to Dacan Express! Build, manage, and expand your own logistics empire in this solo-developed management game. Hire staff, negotiate contracts, and keep your couriers on the move. 👉 Please Wishlist the game on Steam!
Car Tycoon
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Ranked #5 for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
Welcome to "Car Tycoon", running your car company, hire employees to develop and produce cars, sell your cars, and become the best car company!
Luck City - monopoly
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Ranked #6 for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
Climb the ranks from worker to tycoon, build monopolies, hire assistants, and compete in fast-paced economic battles. Develop your strategy and become the king of Luck City!
Market Simulator: Miami Beach
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Ranked #7 for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
Build your supermarket empire in Miami Beach! Start in a tent, drive to pick up wholesale cargo, and physically stock shelves. Survive the street economy, use your family to gather extra cash, and expand to two stores in this realistic business management and life sim.
Car Manufacture
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Shares a relaxing mood with City Bus Manager.
Ranked #8 for City Bus Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
Car Manufacture is an automotive tycoon game. Start in the beginning of the XX century and create thriving business. Build cars, manage people, expand your plant and research new technology. Make tons of money and stay on top.
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Cities in Motion
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Shares a contemplative mood with City Bus Manager.
Reviewers of City Bus Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with City Bus Manager.
Reviewers of City Bus Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
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.
RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Triple Thrill Pack
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with City Bus Manager.
Reviewers of City Bus Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
This compilation includes the entire RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 series, with the original game as well as the Time Twister and Wacky Worlds expansions.
NIMBY Rails
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Shares a relaxing mood with City Bus Manager.
Reviewers of City Bus Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below City Bus Manager at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~72% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~44% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~72% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Casual with City Bus Manager.
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!
Kerbal Space Program
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Priced ~44% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~72% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
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.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~72% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Casual with City Bus Manager.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
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Priced ~56% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
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.
FTL: Faster Than Light
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Priced ~44% under City Bus Manager on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with City Bus Manager.
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?
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with City Bus Manager.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with City Bus Manager.
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 City Bus Manager.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with City Bus Manager.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
The Lab
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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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with City Bus Manager.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
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Frequently asked about City Bus Manager
- Does City Bus Manager run on Steam Deck?
- City Bus Manager 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 City Bus Manager cost?
- City Bus Manager is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to City Bus Manager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside City Bus Manager are Hardware Tycoon, My Business, Tokyo Train 4.
- Who developed City Bus Manager?
- City Bus Manager was developed by PeDePe GbR and published by Aerosoft GmbH.
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 City Bus Manager.
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