Games like 1849
If 1849 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Railway Empire 2, Anno 117: Pax Romana and Anno 1800 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its casual yet engaging loop, compact maps prevent overwhelm 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 1849: 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.
Players who liked 1849 also play
Steam players who put hours into 1849 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
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with 1849.
Top pick for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
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.
Anno 117: Pax Romana
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with 1849.
Second-strongest match for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with 1849.
Third-strongest match for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with 1849.
Ranked #4 for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Ground of Aces
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with 1849.
Ranked #5 for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!
Celestial Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with 1849.
Ranked #6 for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with 1849.
Ranked #7 for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Nebuchadnezzar
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with 1849.
Ranked #8 for 1849 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
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Project Highrise
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with 1849.
Reviewers of 1849 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
Run Zeus Run
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 1849.
Reviewers of 1849 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with 1849.
"Run Zeus Run" is an endless runner with modern mechanics of a platformer, dynamic music, incremental challenge needing patience, focus and bit of strategy. Try to get the highest score, the highest amount of coins, the highest monster kills and play until you are the best Zeus in the world.
Zeus Begins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 1849 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with 1849.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
Pharaoh™: A New Era
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with 1849.
Reviewers of 1849 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Мухосранск | Russian City Sim
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 1849 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
The atmosphere of the nuclear wasteland.
Hot Cleopatra
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 1849 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with 1849.
The scorching sun of the desert pleasantly warms the skin, and the air is filled with the aroma of flowers growing near the palace. The mistress of seas, sands, and hearts is ready to travel the Nile.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 1849 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1849.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1849.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with 1849.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 1849 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 1849.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
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 1849.
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 1849.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 1849.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 1849.
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.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with 1849.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
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Other recommendable Steam games by SomaSim, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Project Highrise
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with 1849.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind 1849. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...
City of Gangsters
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 1849.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind 1849. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 1849.
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.
Rise of Industry 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with 1849.
Another title from SomaSim, the studio behind 1849. Shares Strategy and Indie with 1849.
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!
Frequently asked about 1849
- Does 1849 run on Steam Deck?
- 1849 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 1849 cost?
- 1849 is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to 1849?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 1849 are Railway Empire 2, Anno 117: Pax Romana, Anno 1800.
- Who developed 1849?
- 1849 was developed by SomaSim.
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