Games like Citystate Metropolis
If Citystate Metropolis is your kind of game, the closest matches are NIMBY Rails, Transport Fever 2 and Transport Fever — 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.
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Steam players who put hours into Citystate Metropolis 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.
NIMBY Rails
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Top pick for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Early Access with Citystate Metropolis.
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Transport Fever 2
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Second-strongest match for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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!
Transport Fever
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Third-strongest match for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Transport Fever is a railroad-focused tycoon game. Players start in 1850 and build up a thriving transport company. As an emerging transport tycoon, the player constructs stations, airports, harbors and makes money by connecting areas requiring transport services. Build up your own Empire!
Captain of Industry
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Ranked #4 for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Cities: Skylines II
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Ranked #5 for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Railway Empire 2
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Ranked #6 for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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.
Railway Empire
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Ranked #7 for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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.
RAILGRADE
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Ranked #8 for Citystate Metropolis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Citystate Metropolis.
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!
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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.
Transport Fever 2
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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!
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
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.
RAILGRADE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citystate Metropolis.
RAILGRADE is the train RTS game! Construct dense vertical railroads, build cities, construct vast factory chains with train automation! Restore an off world colony's economy all in the intense story driven campaign or relaxing sandbox mode!
Frequently asked about Citystate Metropolis
- What games are most similar to Citystate Metropolis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citystate Metropolis are NIMBY Rails, Transport Fever 2, Transport Fever.
- Who developed Citystate Metropolis?
- Citystate Metropolis was developed by Andy Sztark.
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 Citystate Metropolis.
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