Games like Times of Progress
If Times of Progress is your kind of game, the closest matches are Railway Empire 2, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation and Factory Town — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Times of Progress: Times of Progress is a City Builder set during the Industrial Revolution. Build industries to extract natural resources. Produce goods to satisfy the population. Manage transportation routes by train and ship. Expand on procedurally generated maps and trade with nearby cities.
Players who liked Times of Progress also play
Steam players who put hours into Times of Progress 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.
Railway Empire 2
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Top pick for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Second-strongest match for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Factory Town
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Third-strongest match for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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!
A-Train PC Classic
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Ranked #4 for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Times of Progress.
As president of a train company, lead city growth to make your transport business prosper. The retro style, square grid map, and complete tutorials are easy on the newcomer, but veterans will find a challenge with advanced resource management, research, and the passage of time.
Sweet Transit
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Ranked #5 for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Railway Empire
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Ranked #6 for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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
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Ranked #7 for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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!
Against the Storm
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Ranked #8 for Times of Progress fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
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 Times of Progress.
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
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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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Times of Progress.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Times of Progress.
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!
one night, hot springs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Times of Progress.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Times of Progress.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Times of Progress.
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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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
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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.
Factory Town
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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!
Sweet Transit
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
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!
Against the Storm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Times of Progress.
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Frequently asked about Times of Progress
- What games are most similar to Times of Progress?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Times of Progress are Railway Empire 2, Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation, Factory Town.
- Who developed Times of Progress?
- Times of Progress was developed by Pressing Thumbs Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Times of Progress.
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