Games like PicoTrains
If PicoTrains is your kind of game, the closest matches are Train Metropolis, Tiny Train Tycoon and Empire Builder — 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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Players who liked PicoTrains also play
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Train Metropolis
WHY THIS
Top pick for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with PicoTrains.
Train Themed Idle Clicker. Build and manage your railway company, helping the city expand and thrive.
Tiny Train Tycoon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PicoTrains.
Build a toy railway from limited pieces, launch trains, and solve logistical challenges. Tackle economic puzzles or relax in sandbox mode — the choice is yours.
Empire Builder
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with PicoTrains.
Empire Builder train game boardgames brought to the digital world. Starting with Empire Builder - Europe as the base game, we will release each of the games in this series for all to enjoy.
Vibe Train
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PicoTrains.
A cozy, casual train-themed desktop idle game. Explore the world by rail. Equip a variety of train cars, and grow crops, haul cargo, trade goods, and carry passengers along the way.
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with PicoTrains.
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
Ranked #6 for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with PicoTrains.
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
Ranked #7 for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with PicoTrains.
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!
Junxions
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for PicoTrains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with PicoTrains.
Answer your true calling as a traffic engineer in Junxions! Featuring comprehensive simulation, construction, and management tools, use careful planning to build roadways, railways, and walkways, and the complex interactions between them.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below PicoTrains at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PicoTrains.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PicoTrains.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PicoTrains.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with PicoTrains.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Indie with PicoTrains.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Casual with PicoTrains.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under PicoTrains on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with PicoTrains.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PicoTrains.
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?
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PicoTrains.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PicoTrains.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PicoTrains.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with PicoTrains.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PicoTrains.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with PicoTrains.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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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
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with PicoTrains.
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 with PicoTrains.
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 with PicoTrains.
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 PicoTrains
- How much does PicoTrains cost?
- PicoTrains is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to PicoTrains?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside PicoTrains are Train Metropolis, Tiny Train Tycoon, Empire Builder.
- Who developed PicoTrains?
- PicoTrains was developed by Soundole.
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 PicoTrains.
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