Games like Train Fever
If Train Fever is your kind of game, the closest matches are Transport Fever, Transport Fever 2 and Cities in Motion — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its build realistic rail networks, manage competing industries and master steep grade engineering. 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 →Train Fever is a 2014 simulation game developed by Urban Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. Set in the industrial era of 1850, the game tasks players with establishing and managing a transport company, building railways, stations, and vehicle routes to fulfill urban needs. The core gameplay centers on logistics management and industry chain optimization, where players must navigate competitive industrial environments and master realistic track engineering including steep grade challenges and collision physics. Players describe the experience as contemplative and nostalgic, with a retro atmosphere fitting its historical setting. Priced at $19.99, the game offers a massive and challenging simulation loop, though its 57% positive rating from 1267 Steam reviews indicates a mixed reception among players.
About Train Fever: It’s the year 1850, and there are great times ahead! Establish a transport company and be its manager. Build infrastructure such as railways and stations, purchase transportation vehicles and manage lines. Fulfill the people’s needs and watch cities evolve dynamically.
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Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Train Fever.
Top pick for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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!
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
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!
Cities in Motion
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Train Fever.
Third-strongest match for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Railway Empire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Train Fever.
Ranked #4 for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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.
Cities in Motion 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Ranked #5 for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Junxions
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Ranked #7 for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Ranked #8 for Train Fever fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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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Transport Fever
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Train Fever.
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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!
Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Train Fever.
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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.
Sid Meier's Railroads!
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Sid Meier's Railroads! marks the return of the watershed title in simulation/strategy gaming that launched the popular "tycoon" genre, and inspired a new generation of games. Sid Meier's Railroads!
Railroad Tycoon II Platinum
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Train Fever.
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.
Railway Empire 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and Casual with Train Fever.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe challenges you to become the ultimate Transport Tycoon by creating a transit empire. Build a network of trains, trucks, ships, planes, and more to grow your business, make money, and fend off rivals in this 1995 building sim from Chris Sawyer.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Reviewers of Train Fever cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Train Fever at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Train Fever on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Train Fever on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Train Fever.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Train Fever on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Train Fever on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Train Fever.
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 ~60% under Train Fever on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Train Fever.
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?
Kerbal Space Program
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Train Fever on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Train Fever.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Train Fever.
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 Train Fever.
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 Train Fever.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Train Fever.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Transport Fever 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Train Fever.
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
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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
Shares a contemplative mood with Train Fever.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Train Fever.
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 Train Fever
- How much does Train Fever cost?
- Train Fever is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Train Fever?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Train Fever are Transport Fever, Transport Fever 2, Cities in Motion.
- Who developed Train Fever?
- Train Fever was developed by Urban Games and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
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