Games like Cities in Motion 2
If Cities in Motion 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cities in Motion, Railway Empire 2 and Railway Empire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its campaigns offer structured challenges, pricing system fluctuates unpredictably and challenging. 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 Cities in Motion 2: Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Players who liked Cities in Motion 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Cities in Motion 2 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.
Cities in Motion
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Top pick for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Second-strongest match for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Railway Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Third-strongest match for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
In Railway Empire, you will create an elaborate and wide-ranging rail network, purchase over 40 different trains modelled in extraordinary detail, and buy or build railway stations, maintenance buildings, factories and tourist attractions to keep your travel network ahead of the competition.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Ranked #5 for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Ranked #6 for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Junxions
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Answer your true calling as a traffic engineer in Junxions! Featuring comprehensive simulation, construction, and management tools, use careful planning to build roadways, railways, and walkways, and the complex interactions between them.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cities in Motion 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cities in Motion 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cities in Motion 2.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cities in Motion 2.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cities in Motion 2.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Cities in Motion 2 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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.
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 Cities in Motion 2.
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?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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.
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!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cities in Motion 2.
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 Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cities in Motion 2.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Strategy with Cities in Motion 2.
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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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Colossal Order
Other recommendable Steam games by Colossal Order, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Another title from Colossal Order, the studio behind Cities in Motion 2. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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: Skylines II
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Another title from Colossal Order, the studio behind Cities in Motion 2. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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.
Cities in Motion
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Another title from Colossal Order, the studio behind Cities in Motion 2. Shares Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
Don the coat of a clever entrepreneur, take over a small railway company in the early 1800s and turn your steam engines into the workhorses of the economy. Grow your company into the largest railway company of the continent and outsmart your competitors.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
The classic transport simulation genre has a new gold standard with Transport Fever 2. Discover a whole new world by navigating transport routes through land, water and air. May progress and prosperity find their way!
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Cities in Motion 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Cities in Motion 2.
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!
Frequently asked about Cities in Motion 2
- Does Cities in Motion 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Cities in Motion 2 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 Cities in Motion 2 cost?
- Cities in Motion 2 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cities in Motion 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cities in Motion 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Cities in Motion 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cities in Motion 2 are Cities in Motion, Railway Empire 2, Railway Empire.
- Who developed Cities in Motion 2?
- Cities in Motion 2 was developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive.
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