Games like Shipping Manager
If Shipping Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cyber Prison Management, Settle and Battle: New Empires and Colonial Winds — 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 Shipping Manager: Create and manage your own shipping empire. Control every aspect from route creation to marketing to staff handling and beat other managers to top the leaderboards.
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Steam players who put hours into Shipping Manager 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.
Cyber Prison Management
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Top pick for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
You are tasked with managing 8 prisoners in a flying space prison for 30 days with your camera system. You’ll need to manage the stock market, hostile ships, and keep prisoners in line. Or play as one of the prisoners, hiding and trying to escape. But be careful - danger is always around the corner.
Settle and Battle: New Empires
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Second-strongest match for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
A homage to classic real-time strategy games. Gather resources, build an empire, and command powerful armies to conquer the world. Lead six unique tribes, expand your territory, and engage in epic battles with hundreds of units on screen. Dominate in 18 missions and procedurally generated maps!
Colonial Winds
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Third-strongest match for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.
Dacan Express: Logistic manager
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Ranked #4 for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping 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!
Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
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Shares fleet management, ship customization and a tense mood with Shipping Manager.
Ranked #5 for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Shipping Manager.
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Corsair Cove
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Ranked #6 for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Flooded
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Shares resource management and a tense mood with Shipping Manager.
Ranked #7 for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Flooded is a reversed city-builder, in which you need to optimize your production on an island that shrinks over time. Gather enough resources to flee to safety, while the surrounding world is getting flooded.
Space Drilling Station
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Ranked #8 for Shipping Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
In Space Drilling Station, manage a drilling station on a distant planet. Build a multi-level vertical structure to produce and manage your resources and staff, in order to dominate the competition!
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Railroad Manager
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Reviewers of Shipping Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Shipping Manager.
Build tracks, drive trains, transport passengers and goods! Relaxed railway construction in retro style with a large campaign and countless missions and maps.
Euro Truck Simulator
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Shares route planning, time management and a relaxing mood with Shipping Manager.
Reviewers of Shipping Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Shipping Manager.
The original Euro Truck Simulator - the game which has become the classic of the genre and is still relevant today. The first truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haul trucks!
Port of Call
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Shares a contemplative mood with Shipping Manager.
Reviewers of Shipping Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.
Airline Manager
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Shares a stressful mood with Shipping Manager.
Reviewers of Shipping Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Free To Play with Shipping Manager.
Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Ports Of Call Deluxe 3D 2024
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Shares career mode, ship customization, management and a relaxing mood with Shipping Manager.
Reviewers of Shipping Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Ports of Call Deluxe 2024 in 3D Version of the The classic trade- and shippingsimulation. Create your own Shiptrading company and also lern how to navigate. Multiple Players and stereo. created by Rolf-Dieter Klein and Martin Ulrich starting with the classic Amiga Version.
Farm Manager
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Shares time management, upgrade system, management and a stressful mood with Shipping Manager.
Reviewers of Shipping Manager cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Create and manage your own farm. Strategize, expand, plant, grow and harvest the lands and breed prize-worthy animals in this immersive farm management game. Farm Manager is among the most realistic of the strategy genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Trophy Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Tiny Rails
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Shares a tense mood with Shipping Manager.
Another title from Trophy Games, the studio behind Shipping Manager. Shares Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Tiny Rails is a relaxing train management adventure. Travel across an immersive and meticulously crafted pixel world. Collect hundreds of beautiful cars, each with their own set of stats, to create your own unique multi-car masterpiece!
Futuball - Future Football Manager Game
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Shares a challenging mood with Shipping Manager.
Another title from Trophy Games, the studio behind Shipping Manager. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Clone the best football stars and manage your dream team.
Airline Manager
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Shipping Manager.
Another title from Trophy Games, the studio behind Shipping Manager. Shares Simulation and Free To Play with Shipping Manager.
Create and manage your own airline. Create both passenger and cargo routes all over the world while you upgrade and expand your fleet of airplanes and airports. Airline Manager is among the most realistic of its genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Farm Manager
WHY THIS
Shares time management, upgrade system, management and a stressful mood with Shipping Manager.
Another title from Trophy Games, the studio behind Shipping Manager. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Create and manage your own farm. Strategize, expand, plant, grow and harvest the lands and breed prize-worthy animals in this immersive farm management game. Farm Manager is among the most realistic of the strategy genre - so prove yourself and beat your friends and other real life managers.
Transit King Tycoon
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Shares fleet management, economy management, tycoon and a relaxing mood with Shipping Manager.
Another title from Trophy Games, the studio behind Shipping Manager. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Shipping Manager.
Build a thriving trucking empire as the manager of a growing logistics company in this exciting tycoon game. Manage a diverse fleet of trucks, semi-trucks, buses, and even ships as you transport goods and expand your empire!
Frequently asked about Shipping Manager
- Does Shipping Manager run on Steam Deck?
- Shipping 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.
- Is Shipping Manager free to play?
- Yes — Shipping Manager is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Shipping Manager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shipping Manager are Cyber Prison Management, Settle and Battle: New Empires, Colonial Winds.
- Who developed Shipping Manager?
- Shipping Manager was developed by Trophy Games.
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