Games like Cities XL Platinum
If Cities XL Platinum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cities XXL, Banished and Cities: Skylines — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its design cities without micromanagement, challenging and nostalgic. 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Cities XL Platinum 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 XXL
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Top pick for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Second-strongest match for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Third-strongest match for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Ranked #5 for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Ranked #6 for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Anno 2070™
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Ranked #7 for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage.
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Ranked #8 for Cities XL Platinum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
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SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Reviewers of Cities XL Platinum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Cities: Skylines
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Reviewers of Cities XL Platinum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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 Cities XL Platinum.
Reviewers of Cities XL Platinum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
SimCity™ 3000 Unlimited
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cities XL Platinum.
Reviewers of Cities XL Platinum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
SimCity 3000 Unlimited brings you the classic strategy gaming of SimCity 3000 with all-new scenarios that open up a whole world of city planning and building possibilities! The thrills of the classic SimCity 3000 are here again!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cities XL Platinum at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Cities XL Platinum on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
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.
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 XL Platinum.
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.
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.
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.
The Sims™ 4
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Cities XL Platinum.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Frequently asked about Cities XL Platinum
- Does Cities XL Platinum run on Steam Deck?
- Cities XL Platinum 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 XL Platinum cost?
- Cities XL Platinum is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cities XL Platinum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cities XL Platinum are Cities XXL, Banished, Cities: Skylines.
- Who developed Cities XL Platinum?
- Cities XL Platinum was developed by Focus Entertainment.
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