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Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines.
- $49.99 (Price checked Nov 3)
- 2023
Games like Cities: Skylines
- 24 games
- Updated Oct 4, 2026
Players who liked Cities: Skylines also play
The closest matches to Cities: Skylines: Cities: Skylines II, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Anno 1800, Frostpunk, and RimWorld. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
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Rank 02Why this
Shares traffic simulation with Cities: Skylines.
- $19.99 (Price checked Nov 3)
- Deck Playable
- 2010
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Frostpunk
Why this: Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines.
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RimWorld
Why this: Same immersive mood as Cities: Skylines.
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Why this: Same challenging mood as Cities: Skylines.
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The full ranked list: top 24 games like Cities: Skylines
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Shares economy simulation and resource management with Cities: Skylines.
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- Released: 2015
- Developer: Colossal Order
- Price: $29.99checked Nov 3
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 93% of 99,307 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Simulation
- Metacritic 85
- Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Players highlight
- Deep public transport systems
- Endless creative freedom with terrain
- Modding community extends longevity
- Challenging
- Contemplative
- Immersive
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Why this: Same immersive mood as Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Same relaxing mood as Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Shares resource management with Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Shares terrain editing with Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Shares economy simulation with Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Same relaxing mood as Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Same immersive mood as Cities: Skylines.
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Why this: Also City Builder and Economy, like Cities: Skylines.
About Cities: Skylines
The closest matches to Cities: Skylines: Cities: Skylines II, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Anno 1800, Frostpunk, and RimWorld. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Cities: Skylines is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cities: Skylines II, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition and Anno 1800 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and immersive, and single out its city planning and economy simulation. 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.
Cities: Skylines is a city-building strategy and simulation game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive, released in 2015 at a price of $8.99 USD. The game features city-planning, economy-simulation, public-transportation systems, resource-management, and terrain-editing mechanics alongside robust mod-support. Players describe the experience as challenging, contemplative, immersive, and relaxing, with deep-public-transport-systems and satisfying-city-growth-and-rebuilding as major draws. Reviewers highlight endless-creative-freedom-with-terrain and the traffic-simulation-feels-realistic, while the modding-community-extends-longevity significantly. The game holds a 93% positive rating from 99,307 Steam reviews and is playable on Steam Deck.
About Cities: Skylines: 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.
Is Cities: Skylines worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 93% of 99,307 Steam reviews are positive.
- Last 30 days: 78% positive across 787 new reviews, 15 points below its all-time score.
- Price: $29.99 (checked Nov 8).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 57 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 139 h before turning negative, so complaints are about the long run, not the first hours.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Deep public transport systems
- Endless creative freedom with terrain
- Modding community extends longevity
- Satisfying city growth and rebuilding
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“At around $120 worth of DLC, This game is a waste of money, you pay $40 for it to be followed by a paywall on every single major update, this game is from 2015 yet they are charging these mad prices, no thanks.”
“Cities: Skylines isn’t a city builder, it’s a wallet drainer. The base game is just a demo for the €436.35 of DLCs they’ve carved out and sold separately.”
People who play it also play: Cities: Skylines II, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Anno 1800
Frequently asked about Cities: Skylines
Can I run it?
Does Cities: Skylines run on Steam Deck?
Cities: Skylines 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: Skylines cost?
Cities: Skylines is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cities: Skylines?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cities: Skylines are Cities: Skylines II, SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition, Anno 1800.
Who developed Cities: Skylines?
Cities: Skylines was developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive.