Games like Highrise City
If Highrise City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Citystate II, Foundation and Endzone 2 — 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 Highrise City: Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.
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Citystate II
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Highrise City.
Top pick for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise 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.
Foundation
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Highrise City.
Second-strongest match for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Highrise City.
Third-strongest match for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Noble Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Highrise City.
Ranked #4 for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
Noble Legacy is a medieval city-builder in which you rule the lands as a Noble. Build your kingdom, manage your people, defend your realm, and master a deep economy, alone or with friends in co-op, every decision is yours. What kind of ruler will you be?
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Highrise City.
Ranked #5 for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
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.
Imagine Earth
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Highrise City.
Ranked #6 for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Build your own global colonies on distant worlds. Manage energy and resource supplies and produce goods for space trade. Form economic and diplomatic alliances or take over competing corporations. Conduct research to protect your colonists from disasters and avoid a climate crisis.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Highrise City.
Ranked #7 for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Highrise City.
Ranked #8 for Highrise City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
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.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Highrise City.
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes the bestselling SimCity 4 and the all-new SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack. Create the most massive region of cities ever, with a farming town, bedroom community, high-tech commercial center, and industrial backbone.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
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.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Highrise City.
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
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.
Cities XXL
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Highrise City.
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
Design, build, and manage the world’s largest and most diverse cities in Cities XXL. Bigger and better than ever before with a more powerful game engine and new interface, become the mayor of your very own sprawling metropolis.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
El Presidente is back! Prove yourself once again as a feared dictator or peace-loving statesman on the island state of Tropico and shape the fate of your very own banana republic through four distinctive eras.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Highrise City.
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Highrise City.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Cities: Skylines II
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Highrise City.
Reviewers of Highrise City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Highrise City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Highrise 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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Highrise City.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Highrise City.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Highrise City.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Highrise City.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Highrise City on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Highrise 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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
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?
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
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 Highrise 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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Highrise City.
『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.
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Frequently asked about Highrise City
- Does Highrise City work on Steam Deck?
- Highrise City is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Highrise City cost?
- Highrise City is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Highrise City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Highrise City are Citystate II, Foundation, Endzone 2.
- Who developed Highrise City?
- Highrise City was developed by Fourexo Entertainment and published by Deck13.
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 Highrise City.
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