Games like Rise of Industry 2
If Rise of Industry 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Turmoil, Angel Investor Simulator™ and Rise of Industry — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its actively supported by developers, atmospheric 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 Rise of Industry 2: Navigate the competitive industrial landscape of vibrant 1980's USA! Make strategic manufacturing decisions, optimize production chains, acquire technologies, and expand your global business network with key contacts. Opportunities await those savvy enough to capitalize on them!
Players who liked Rise of Industry 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Rise of Industry 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.
Turmoil
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Angel Investor Simulator™
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Invest into promising startups. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.
Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Third-strongest match for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Ranked #4 for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 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.
Let Them Trade
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
Moose Miners
WHY THIS
Shares automation, resource management and a contemplative mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Ranked #6 for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Take control of a mining operation run by moose. They mine and sell the gems. You need to decide where to spend the profits. Hire more miners and upgrade their gear. Buy new rails and minecarts to get deeper into the mine. The deeper you get the more valuable gems you will find.
Hundred Days - Winemaking Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Ranked #7 for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Winemaking could be your best adventure. Make the best wine interacting with soil and nature and take your winery to the top. Your beautiful journey into the winemaking tradition starts now.
Mad Games Tycoon 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Ranked #8 for Rise of Industry 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Start your own game development studio in 1976. Build your own offices, production facilities and server rooms. Develop the games of your dreams and produce the next next-gen console. Rise from a small garage company to a huge corporation.
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Rise of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Tropico 4
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Rise of Industry 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
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.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Tropico 6
WHY THIS
Shares economy management and an atmospheric mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Reviewers of Rise of Industry 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rise of Industry 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry 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.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
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?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~71% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Rise of Industry 2.
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.
Schedule I
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Priced ~43% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Rise of Industry 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry 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 Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry 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 and Indie with Rise of Industry 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 Indie and Simulation with Rise of Industry 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!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 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.
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Project Highrise
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind Rise of Industry 2. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
City of Gangsters
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind Rise of Industry 2. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Rise of Industry 2.
In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.
1849
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Rise of Industry 2.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind Rise of Industry 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Rise of Industry 2.
1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive.
Frequently asked about Rise of Industry 2
- Does Rise of Industry 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Rise of Industry 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 Rise of Industry 2 cost?
- Rise of Industry 2 is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rise of Industry 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rise of Industry 2 are Turmoil, Angel Investor Simulator™, Rise of Industry.
- Who developed Rise of Industry 2?
- Rise of Industry 2 was developed by SomaSim and published by Kasedo Games.
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